HTC Sensation Z710E Unlocked GSM Android Smartphone with 8 MP Camera, Wi-Fi and GPS – No Warranty – Black
- 2G Network GSM 850/900/1800/1900 3G Network HSDPA 900/1700/ 2100
- DISPLAY Type S-LCD capacitive touch screen, 16M colors Size 540 x 960 pixels, 43 inches
- DATA GPRS Up to 114 kbps EDGE Up to 560 kbps 3G HSDPA 144 Mbps, HSUPA 576 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 80211 b/g/n, DLNA,
- CAMERA Primary 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
- OS Android OS, v23 (Gingerbread) CPU 12 GHz dual-core processor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260 Snapdragon
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate – Proximity sensor for auto turn-off – Gyro sensor – HTC Sense v30 UI
- CAMERA Primary 8 MP, 3264×2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash Features Geo-tagging, touch-focus, image stabilization, face detection, instant capture Video Yes, 1080p@30fps, stereo sound recording Secondary Yes, VGA
- DATA GPRS Up to 114 kbps EDGE Up to 560 kbps 3G HSDPA 144 Mbps, HSUPA 576 Mbps WLAN Wi-Fi 80211 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot Bluetooth Yes, v30 with A2DP Infrared port No USB Yes, microbus (MHL) v20
- DISPLAY Type S-LCD capacitive touch screen, 16M colors Size 540 x 960 pixels, 43 inches – Gorilla glass display – Multi-touch input method – Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate – Proximity sensor for auto turn-off – Gyro sensor – HTC Sense v30 UI
- Features Geo-tagging, touch-focus, image stabilization, face detection, instant capture Video Yes, 1080p@30fps,
- Gorilla glass display – Multi-touch input method – stereo sound recording Secondary Yes, VGA
- Wi-Fi hotspot Bluetooth Yes, v30 with A2DP Infrared port No USB Yes, microbus (MHL) v20
A multimedia superphone in the palm of your hand Want to be entertained like never before? On-demand movies look great with a stunning qHD display, and they sound crystal clear with Hi-Fi audio technology. The HTC Sensation also includes an immersive HTC Sense experience making this phone easy-to-use and a top entertainer. The premium design, complete with contoured glass edging, feels great in your hand. The HTC Sensation is a multimedia superphone. Premium design HTC Sensation features unibody aluminium construction for a premium look and solid feel. The glass is contoured along the entire edge of the screen. Not only does it feel great when you glide your finger over it, but it also protects your screen from grit and sand when it’s face down. The qHD display is true widescreen, so it serves up an uncompromised movie watching experience. Powerful performance HTC Sensation is powered by a blazing fast 1.2 GHz dual core processor. Apps start up instantly and switching between them is seamless. The dual core performance really comes to life when pushing your phone to its limits, like when you’re listening to music, downloading email in the background, and surfing the most visually rich websites all at the same time. Hollywood on the go with HTC Watch HTC Sensation brings you an unprecedented movie watching experience with HTC Watch, offering a full selection of Hollywood blockbusters. Just make your selection and start watching the show seconds into the download. HTC Watch also keeps tabs on your Internet connection and ensures you get an uninterrupted viewing experience. Features: Operating System Android with HTC Sense Dimensions 126.1mm (L) x 65.4mm (W) x 11.3mm (T) / 148g (Weight) Screen Size 4.3-inch Camera 8 Megapixel Memory Type microSDHC Card Manufacturers description: Instant Capture Camera: Remember that time you pressed the shutter button and had to wait while
List Price: $ 799.99
Price: $ 498.99
HTC Wildfire A3333 Unlocked Smartphone. International Version with 1 year warranty
- In the box: – HTC Wildfire – Stereo Headset – Battery – Home Charger – Data Cable (microUSB) – 2GB microSD card – Accessory booklet
- Operating System/Platform -AndroidTM 2.1 (Éclair) with HTC SenseTM
- Network -GSM: 850/900/1800/1900 MHz -HSDPA/WCDMA: 900/2100 MHz (Europe/Asia)
- CPU -528 MHZ Qualcomm MSM7225
- Display -240 x 320 pixels/3.2″ -Touch Sensitive(Capacitive) -TFT
HTC Wildfire helps you stay connected with those who are most important to you through HTC Sense, a user experience focused on putting people at the centre by making phones work in a more simple and natural way. You won’t miss out on the fun as HTC’s Friend Stream application seamlessly gathers and displays content from social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr into one organised stream of updates. HTC Wildfire enables you to stay up to date with your friends’ posts, comments, alerts and photos, wherever you are.
List Price: $ 241.96
Price: $ 241.96
LIKE A MOODY PORSCHE,
There’s a lot to love – fast multi-tasking, large screen, 7 home screens and the overall feel, but I’ve run into a few disappointments as well.
To be fair, most folks will only use this device for social networking, web browsing and casual photos. You will find some hiccups & occasional bugs. For those of you power users who actually make videos, download movies, run lots of apps at once and use the power that it has to multi-task, you will see Sensation shine. It’s almost better at high speeds.
DUAL-CORE MULTI-TASKING: Impressive. You can leave the browser open in the midst of playing a video, open Angry Birds, open music player, video player, Google Earth & pan about – all at once, then hop between these power-hungry apps with barely a hiccup. Hardcore multi-tasking will neither tax nor crash this device. Very impressive. The dual core doesn’t make the unit faster than a 1.2ghz single core. It simply allows it to maintain 1.2 ghz speeds on more than one task. Impressive, but don’t expect magic.
As for speed, HTC’s heavy Sense 3.0 user interface makes the phone less snappy than other dual core units. Not so much of a lag, just less snappy. Sense takes up 3 of the 4gbs of onboard memory. I run into more hiccups during everyday use, than when I’m doing heavy multi-tasking. However, Sense 3.0 is so glam, it makes *every* other phone look dated.
For the record, you can’t close an app w/in the app. You must open up still another app (task manager) to close them. A bit of an annoyance, but seeing as Sensation can handle quite a few, it’s no big deal… unless you’re shooting in 1080p. More on that below.
CAMERA: Mixed bag. Camera is good. Video recording is quite good & realistic in 720p. If you’re shooting yourself, however, the video camera is actually pretty bad. It takes a bit of luck & know-how to press the on-screen record button & have the camera focus on where you will stand. It’s almost worthless for recording yourself for YouTube. What’s more, Sensation can barely handle 1080p. You’ll surely have to close every other app to shoot in 1080p & reboot if you wish to watch it right after. Sensation is more at home w/ 720p HD.
The “stereo” recording is a joke. Of my five smartphones, this phone is the worst at recording sound. It plays back in quiet staccato – HD look, LD sound. I still use my non-HD phone for recording videos of myself. It’s like buying a Benz but having to tow an old Honda behind for reliability and the basics. Buying an HD device & still having to use a basic one just for decent sound? Really?
As for video editing, you can only trim. You can’t merge or overlay music/text like my ‘dated’ Symbian can. You’d think a high-end, 1080p recorder w/ ‘stereo’ sound would come w/ decent editing software. I feel ripped off. Android doesn’t offer any decent video editor apps either because Androids have issues of fragmentation. If you’d like an Android phone that trims, merges & overlays text, the Samsung Galaxy S2 does. No Android video editor is as robust as iPhone or even Symbian, though.
CONNECTIVITY: I haven’t had a problem with ‘death grip’. The Sensation manages to hold its WiFi connection no matter how I hold it. However, I cannot program the browser to open w/ WiFi. On my ‘dated’ Symbian, I hold ’0′, the browser opens, WiFi connects, page loads – one step. This is the kind of engineering I’d expect from a high-end device.
The phone cannot be programmed to automatically accept bluetooth files from my computer. If I bluetooth photos to Sensation from the next room, I must stop what I’m doing, go to the phone, scroll down & click to allow each file to transfer. My 4-year old Symbian can be programmed to automatically accept files w/o interruption. This ‘super phone’ requires more steps.
I live in one of T-Mobile’s 4G regions. The connection is strong and fast, even when downstairs. A pleasure.
Sensation used to allow me to upload directly to YouTube, then it changed its mind. I Googled the issue, and it’s a fairly common Android problem. This, along w/ poor sound recording, no video editing & problems trying to push on-screen record whilst having the camera focus on me, makes for a very disappointing experience for anyone making YouTube videos, or simply self-vids.
CALENDAR: A bit convoluted & requires a lot of steps, but offers many options. Synching with other calendars can be tricky because their alarms don’t always register.
SYNCH: Think twice before synching with your Gmail account. Android will add, not just your personal contacts, but *every*… single… person you’ve *ever* emailed, along with their photos, MSN, Facebook, Twitter & personal info. One, big, convoluted mess of folks I’ve emailed once years ago, old appointments, duplicate contacts. Android will have Google invading every corner of your life &…
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|An Absolute Beast!,
This phone is awesome! It has a 4.3 inch screen, which is gorgeous for watching video/TED talks/etc on, but it’s definitely not bulky. In fact, it’s even thinner than the iPhone 3G that I owned previous to this, even though it has a larger screen. It has an aluminum frame, so the phone definitely doesn’t feel cheap, like all plastic devices.
Battery life is pretty solid, depending on what you’re doing. For some reason, taking pictures and filming video really drains the battery, but for stuff like just browsing the web, battery life is great.
The screen is really great, qHD resolution. Like I mentioned earlier, great for watching video. The 16:9 display ratio means you can watch widescreen movies without pesky black bars taking up space. The screen is bright enough that you can use it in direct sunlight. The viewing angles on it are kind of so-so, but that only really matters if you are trying to share your phone with someone (and why would you want to share this beauty.)
Call quality is nice and crisp, very loud and clear. Definitely easier to hear calls on than my cousin’s iPhone.
The 4G speeds are blazing fast. Web pages definitely load faster than on my previous iPhone 3G and downloading apps is a snap.
The 8 megapixel camera takes great pictures, although a little blurrier than a dedicated camera. One big difference between this phone’s camera and my old iPhone’s camera is that this phone actually takes a picture when you want it to and not five seconds later! On some pictures that I took I had to adjust the color balance, but I imagine that you’ll need to do that on any camera that’s in a phone. The flash is pretty good, too, and not too bright where it looks harsh.
Video recording is gorgeous in 1080p, although it uses the battery pretty quickly. I mostly use it to take video of my cats, and it does an excellent job capturing a whole range of motion: jumping, pouncing, swiping, etc. Sound quality is decent, too.
Altogether, this phone is a beast, with a 4.3″ screen, qHD resolution, 4G, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. A HUGE upgrade from my iPhone 3G and I’m definitely happy with my purchase. Now, back to playing Angry Birds (and everything else I can throw at it)!
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|Awesome Phone,
This is an awesome phone! I did a lot or research before buying this phone, it was shipped and arrived on time and worked perfect right out of the box. I bought this phone because it was unlocked and had a 1 yr warranty, I live in Asia. I was looking at more expensive phones like the iphone4, Samsung Galaxy, Moto Droid but this phone had all the features but a much lower price. The only bad points I found in all the reviews was the quality of the screen, speed of the processor and short battery life. The screen is good enough, the processor is fast enough and yes the battery life is short 2-3 days but it depends how hard you use it. I found that turning it off at night gives me a extra day. The phone is easy to use and set up, the touch keys work great, gmail was a breeze, camera is good enough at 5 megapix and with flash too, love all the app’s and apple like features. The GPS was just Ok but the problem in Thailand is the poor coverage by Google, not the phone! The owners manuel is online because it’s 188 pages and you’ll need to keep that pdf file handy to learn all the great features this phone has. It’s my first HTC and I am impressed. This is a great phone with all the bells and whistles of the more expensive phones, well worth the price! Oh and one more thing, you’ll love the flashlight feature.
Update Aug 2011: One Year Later and I still love this phone, works perfect!!!
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|Awesome smartphone,
Awesome smartphone!!! really smart!!! Light, easy to use, great applications. ¿Cons? Battery runs out very fast so it’s a good idea to buy additional power plugs for the car/home/computers, so you can charge it wherever you are…
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|HTC Wildfire A33333 Very Much Satisfied,
I must say that I was surprised to have received the product in such short time and to have the product in such excellent condition. This is a new product but it was unlocked for international use. I used it overseas and it worked great. My only issue is the HTC Sync application does not work well with it.
But it is truly a smart phone, with the applications and widgets available to you make you feel prepared for anything. This is my first touch screen phone but I ‘m definitely getting used to it.
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