The HTC Sensation comes running the latest build of Android – 2.3 Gingerbread – as you’d expect from an all singing, all dancing, all conquering smartphone superhero. But it’s not just your average Gingerbread phone: beyond its dual core super powers and movie watching skills, it’s also one of the smartest mobiles on the market, thanks to HTC’s custom Sense 3.0 software. Read on and find out just why they call it Brainwave.
Hyper-intelligent lock screen
Let’s face it: you don’t just use your phone to phone people these days. You’re texting, emailing, browsing the web, gaming and app-ing away, and you don’t want to waste time getting to these crucial features. The HTC Sensation offers an ingenious solution: a lock screen that lets you attach various widgets and any app shortcuts, which you can simply drag down to instantly unlock the phone and launch the application in question. It’s a real time saver, and will rescue more time than you realise by cutting down on the number of prods you make every day.
Homescreen revolution
At a glance, HTC’s Sense overlay is as pretty and efficient as it ever was, but spend some time with it and you’ll notice the homescreens possess new powers – almost as though they’ve suffered the inevitable radioactive accident with handy side effects most superheroes have gone through. As well as beautiful new 3D transition effects, you can now swoop into a new homescreen carousel which lets you spin through each the seven pages of widgets and shortcuts on an infinite loop until you find the one you’re after. It’s astonishingly fast, and even more convenient.
Video creation and recreation
The HTC Sensation’s eight megapixel camera and dual core CPU mean it’s more than capable of shooting smooth full HD video, but where it beats similarly specced rivals is in video delivery. You can cut up and put together your clips so they scream when you share them on YouTube, and it’s the first mobile with the HTC Watch movie service on board. You can snap up movies for purchase and renting faster than Bruce Wayne can summon Alfred to the study, and watch them back on the Sensation’s widescreen qHD display.
Social networking telepathy
HTC Sense is an apt name considering the software’s main feature: the ability to tap into what your friends are thinking. Log into Facebook and Twitter just once and you can see what all your friends are saying online – the Sensation will even tell you if it’s the birthday of whoever’s calling you so you can congratulate them as soon as you answer. You can even add Friend Stream to the lock screen, so you can see what your friends are up to simply by pressing the phone’s power button.
Instant mapping
The HTC Sensation has been gifted with super speed – in fact, it’s so zippy that it doesn’t even wait around for a 3G connection. As a HTC Sense phone, it comes with HTC’s exclusive Locations service preloaded – it stores maps directly onboard the phone, so you won’t rack up data charges navigating, and your position appears immediately. It even fuses with the phone’s compass to show you what direction you’re facing. The HTC Sensation may not actually drive you there itself, but it’ll do just about everything else.
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