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HTC Sensation or Galaxy s2

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dyson

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So heres teh question of teh day,

I am debating on the Galaxy S2 or the HTC Sensation

The sensation will have a faster dual core, and slightly bigger screen,
also it will have a slightly better resolution
But the battery seems slightly weaker and it will be out of teh box with 2.2

I am sorta leaning twords the Htc Samsung has a tenancy to abandon their past items. IE teh Behold 2 and the Galaxy s


Also the Sensation will have a sooner US release date. Or at least that what I was told by Tmobile

Any opinions
Should I wait for the S2 or grab the HTC
 
I posted about this in another thread, this link is handy:
HTC Sensation vs. Samsung I9100 Galaxy S II - GSMArena.com

I think the SGS2 is faster as the Exynos is benchmarking well, plus it has more RAM and storage. The screens are effectively the same size, the SGS2 wins on image quality, the Sensation on resolution. Which is more important to you? It is quality for me but it is subjective. The SGS2 should have a better battery life, again the Exynos is encouraging (yet to see firm results) and the SGS2's display is very likely to be a lot kinder on the battery.

The other thread:
http://androidforums.com/samsung-galaxy-s2/320745-2-questions.html
 
dyson said:
The sensation will have a faster dual core, and slightly bigger screen,
also it will have a slightly better resolution

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Says who? There wasn't single benchmark that dual core snapdragon 8X60 is beating 1.2Ghz Exynos. The most recent benchmark from Engadget shows that Exynos is beating HTC Pyramid (Sensation) by 2X~3X in smartbench 2011.

We still don't know if qHD screen on Sensation is with pentile pixels or not. If it's pentile, its effective resolution is down to WVGA level and it will only hamper the graphic performance. Super AMOLED plus on SGSII will blow away HTC screen in contrast, saturation, viewing angle, sharpness.
 
dyson said:
I am debating on the Galaxy S2 or the HTC Sensation

I am sorta leaning twords the Htc Samsung has a tenancy to abandon their past items.

Should I wait for the S2 or grab the HTC
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I've owned several models of each brand. I'm very brand neutral, being such a smartphone addict :)

These are both really excellent phones as I'm sure you know.

Briefly, It's a myth that Samsung abandons theirs early. The facts are, the carriers (I use both Verizon & AT&T concurrently) play politics and expect Samsung to provide all updates for free, when they've already signed contacts promising to pay for updates if Samsung lowers their price on the phone.

So Samsung keeps their end up front. Later as updates arrive the carriers stall, ask for more bloatware etc. I know this from a high source within the industry.

HTC makes the carrier pay up front so updates go through sooner and they look better.

To your question, its so close in some respects its your call. On the other hand their are significant advantages to the SGS2.

Me? I'm buying one of each to compare.

Yet that said I know the Galaxy S2 will be my favorite due to the display which unfurnished benchmarks have already revealed will barely drain the battery compared to the Sensations display.

Contrary to most of what is posted about the Captivate, I've had great luck with mine. I bought it upon release, rooted and optimized it, and to this day its one of my fastest, reliable Androids running 2.3.2

This is a definite keeper, and a phone that often serves for weeks as my primary smartphone.

To HTC, although they all resemble one another, the quality just continues to improve. Pay close attention to battery ratings as for some reason they are not consistent and at times too small (HTC Inspire).

Good Luck!
 
Chances are the camera/video recording on the sensation will be mediocre as well, on top of the lesser LCD and the poorer battery. Why couldn't Samsung have the same build quality and ergonomics as HTC? That would be 3 vs 1 for me, so Samsung has the fewer flaws. But why can't I have it all????
 
Benchmarks aren't everything ... which is just as f***in' well for the Sensation!

I do wonder how much difference dual core makes anyway. Especially if Android 2.4 is adding dual core support, what is the deal with these Android 2.3 dual core devices? Evidently there is performance boosts, I had a play with the LG O2X and it was fast - so what is in 2.4?
 
Basically, we've got two cores in the CPU which can each handle a pipeline of threads. As I understand the 2.2/2.3 implementation, including OS services, etc., send tasks to the CPU, the OS then divides them across the cores. The level of sophistication in the branching logic can make a big difference, but in a simple implementation, the supervisor can just find the most available core and dispatch the task.

Since our OS is multitasking, there's a decent amount of concurrence, so while one core is being asked to manage rendering a web page, the other core can be handling another task.

The next advancement is when an app/service is broken down into smaller tasks, i.e., threads. So back to the browser, it could have one thread handling HTML parsing and another thread running parallel that's handling user input. I believe all the core apps for 2.4 (or whatever version is "optimized" for DC) will be re-written with this approach (also core services, etc.).

When you're coding for multiple threads, you can also optimize how the threads are dispatched, so there's logic to how they're allocated across cores. You might queue up several small threads for handling input, reading a port, etc., in the same pipeline, and make sure the heavy lifting thread (maybe the 3D rendering) is isolated into its own pipe.

FWIW, HTT (like in Intel desktop CPUs) allows virtualized cores from physical cores so you can have even more concurrent thread processing.
 
chocobosandwich said:
Chances are the camera/video recording on the sensation will be mediocre as well, on top of the lesser LCD and the poorer battery. Why couldn't Samsung have the same build quality and ergonomics as HTC? That would be 3 vs 1 for me, so Samsung has the fewer flaws. But why can't I have it all????
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There is no perfect smartphone, or laptop, or....

I will say this however, I've held a SGS2 and it's build quality exceeds my Galaxy S by a noticeable amount.

Samsung is taking an entirely new approach now, with a much more serious focus on grabbing some of the money that Apple leaves on the table....

That said, My HTC models do confirm what you are referencing and I must say I truly enjoy them as well.
 
Aatos.1 said:
There is no perfect smartphone, or laptop, or....

I will say this however, I've held a SGS2 and it's build quality exceeds my Galaxy S by a noticeable amount.

Samsung is taking an entirely new approach now, with a much more serious focus on grabbing some of the money that Apple leaves on the table....

That said, My HTC models do confirm what you are referencing and I must say I truly enjoy them as well.
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You shouldn't have said you touched an SGS2. Now I will have to pester you more. :p Okay, so that's three so far who have handled the thing. Lekky, spewy, and Aatos.

I could probably just pry open one of those 13mm HTC phones and shove the galaxy s ii into it. PERFECT FONE!
 
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