Review
HTC Sensation XL is the 3rd smartphone in the Sensation series by HTC after HTC Sensation and HTC Sensation XE. The smartphone weighs only 163 grams and is just 9.9 mm in thickness, so Sensation XL slides inside your pocket with no hassle. HTC Sensation XL was previously known as HTC Runnymede.
Specifications
HTC Sensation XL has a massive 4.7 inch touchscreen which gives the phone a tablet cum smartphone design. The display is Super LCD with a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. The Sentaion XL comes running on Android 2.3 OS Gingerbread with HTC Sense user interface latched on top of it. HTC Sensation XL is powered by a 1.5 GHz processor associated with 768MB RAM. There is 16GB of onboard storage, which is sufficient for storing music and videos. The smartphone also comes with a special set of Beats Dr Dre headphones.
Advantages
1) 1.5 GHZ processor.
2) 4.7 inch Super LCD display.
3) 16GB of onboard storage.
Disadvantages
1) No MicroSD card support.
2) Android 2.3 OS is going to become obsolete with the arrival of Android 4.0 OS soon.
Comparison
HTC Sensation XL deals are available on major networks in UK like Vodafone, O2, Virgin, Three, T-Mobile and Orange. Free gifts like PS3, LCD TV, LED TV etc and incentives like free minutes, unlimited texts etc are also on offer with HTC Sensation XL deals provided by various mobile phone retailers.
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General
- 2G Network: GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
- 3G Network: HSDPA 850 / 900 / 2100
- Announced: 2011, October
Size
- Dimensions: 132.5 x 70.7 x 9.9 mm
- Weight: 162.5 g
Display
- Type: S-LCD capacitive touchscreen, 16M colors
- Size: 480 x 800 pixels, 4.7 inches (~199 ppi pixel density)
- HTC Sense UI 3.5
- Accelerometer sensor for UI auto-rotate
- Proximity sensor for auto turn-off
- Multi-touch input method
- Gyroscope sensor
- Touch-sensitive controls
Sound
- Alert types: Vibration, MP3, WAV ringtones
- Loudspeaker: Yes
- 3.5mm jack: Yes
Memory
- Phonebook: Practically unlimited entries and fields, Photocall
- Call records: Practically unlimited
- Internal: 16 GB storage, 768 MB RAM
- Card slot: No
Data
- GPRS: Class 12 (4+1/3+2/2+3/1+4 slots), 32 - 48 kbps
- EDGE: Class 12
- 3G: HSDPA, 14.4 Mbps; HSUPA, 5.76 Mbps
- WLAN: Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, DLNA, Wi-Fi hotspot
- Bluetooth: Yes, v3.0 with A2DP
- Infrared port: No
- USB: Yes, microUSB v2.0
Camera
- Primary: 8 MP, 3264x2448 pixels, autofocus, dual-LED flash
- Features: Geo-tagging
- Video: Yes, 720p
- Secondary: Yes, 1.3 MP
Features
- OS: Android OS, v2.3 (Gingerbread)
- CPU: 1.5 GHz Scorpion processor, Adreno 205 GPU, Qualcomm MSM8255 chipset
- Messaging: SMS (threaded view), MMS, Email, Push Email
- Browser: WAP 2.0/xHTML, HTML
- Radio: Stereo FM radio with RDS
- Games: Yes
- Colors: Black, White
- GPS: Yes, with A-GPS support
- Java: Yes, via Java MIDP emulator
- Beats Audio
- Beats headset
- Digital compass
- Active noise cancellation with dedicated mic
- MP4/H.263/H.264/WMV player
- MP3/eAAC+/WMA/WAV player
- Google Search, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, Calendar, Google Talk
- Facebook and Twitter integration
- Document viewer/editor
- Adobe Flash support
- Voice memo/dial/commands
- Predictive text input
Battery
- Standard battery, Li-Ion 1600 mAh
- Stand-by: Up to 360 h (2G) / Up to 460 h (3G)
- Talk time: Up to 11 h 50 min (2G) / Up to 6 h 50 min (3G)