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hey guys it's Brenda minimun from pocketnow.com the HTC Sensation and the Samsung Galaxy s2 are two of the hottest Android smartphones of all time in this video we're going to compare them on specs hardware software benchmarks web browsing and a whole lot more so you can determine which of these super high-end phones are worth your hard earned cash let's get through the comparison now alright so let's get started talking about price the HTC Sensation is now shipping in Europe you can bring it in unlock to the US it will work on t-mobile for the unsubsidized price of seven hundred and fifty bucks it's a lot of money but it's coming to t-mobile in the US for around two hundred dollars it's also just going to ship on Vodafone plus a host of other carriers around the world at a lower subsidized price but again if you want to bring it into the US it's going to be expensive but it'll work on t-mobile if you want it a little bit early the Galaxy S 2 also is available in Europe right now selling for a little bit cheaper $700 if you import it to the US it'll work on AT&T now Samsung hasn't talked about availability in the US yet but some of our research has shown that AT&T Verizon and Sprint are going to get the galaxy s2 probably in quarter four in the October November December timeframe again that hasn't been confirmed but our guess is still the t-mobile will not get the galaxy s2 but all other carriers in the US and a lot of the carriers around the world will get the galaxy s2 just like they got the Galaxy S one or just the Galaxy S as it was called now let's talk about specifications the HTC Sensation ships with Qualcomm's brand new 1.2 gigahertz Snapdragon dual-core CPU this is the first time HTC a ship to dual-core CPU you also get 768 megabytes of RAM for multitasking you get a gigabyte of RAM plus 8 gigabytes of storage provided by the microSD card included in the box now the galaxy s2 is also Specht with a 1.2 gigahertz dual-core CPU this time it's the Samsung Exynos processor a little bit different there we get 1 gigabyte of RAM which is more than the sensations 768 and built-in storage is either 16 gigs or 32 gigs depending on which model you go for which is really cool because there's also a microSD slot in the galaxy s 2 so you can expand the storage really really high if you're looking for the utmost in the storage the galaxy s2 is the winner in that respect but other specs they're pretty similar except for the fact that the galaxy s2 has a little bit more RAM than does the sensation in terms of weight the sensation feels more substantial higher quality in the hand it's 148 grams it feels again more solid but the galaxy s2 is a lightweight 116 grams it's also super thin in fact it is the thinnest smartphone on the planet the sensations no slouch it's pretty thin as well around the eleven point five millimeter range whereas the Galaxy s2 is about 8.6 millimeters thick both of these devices feel very very thin there they're not very substantial in the pocket but if you're looking for the device that feels the most high-quality you definitely want to go with the sensation if that's important to you they're both running on the latest version of Android version 2.3 obviously no word if they're going to be upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich the hackers will probably get these devices up to speed when Ice Cream Sandwich gets released later this year because these are going to be very very very popular devices and popular devices have a very vibrant development community now let's talk about the hardware here both are slab devices you get some sharper edges on the samsung galaxy s 2 you get a nice little contoured glass here on the sensation just gives it a nice visual pizazz and you also get a hardware button on the Galaxy S 2 if you're somebody that likes the click enos the real feel of a hardware button you'll definitely enjoy the home button on the galaxy s 2 HTC went with capacitive buttons in fact most hdçç devices are the same they look about the same and you get that here with the HTC Sensation both have front-facing cameras higher spec here 2 megapixels versus VGA resolution which is not even a full megapixel a mega pixel equals mmm pixels if you multiply the resolution any amount we don't have to get into that the screen size on both of these are the same 4.3 inches diagonal but you get the higher resolution display on the sensation qHD 960 down to 540 across on the galaxy s2 you get 800 down by 480 across now contrast is still better on the galaxy s2 as we're going to see in a minute thanks to the Super AMOLED plus panel HTC gives you super LCD which is also quite good but it's not nearly as contrast E as what you get in the galaxy s2 flipping over to the back we can see both of these have an 8 megapixel camera both are capable of shooting in full 1080p 30 frames per second which is quite awesome both have a flash in terms of battery we've got a smaller battery on the sensation 15 20 milliamp hours and on the galaxy s 2 we have 16 30 milliamp hours both of these devices will get you through the day no problem if you're using it a lot which is great but you're gonna have to charge every day this has you know two two processors in here of course it's going to use a fair amount of juice there are the speakers they're both quite loud on both devices looking around the device got the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack both on top HTC puts the power standby button on the top Samsung puts it on the side another cool thing about the galaxy s 2 is that you can take the device out of standby either by this button or the button on the side so you get a little bit of versatility there it's really nice to not have to reach up to the standby button when you're using the Galaxy S 2 okay so let's get into some of the software here and talk more about how they compare we're gonna unlock both devices and you're going to notice right off the bat HTC gives you a functional lock screen we get the weather here and we can also quickly launch an application just by dragging the item into the circle galaxy is to really just plain all you get is the date at the time so we're gonna slide that off and I've got pictures of waterfalls up here so that I can show you sort of how the screens compare right off the bat you can see that the qHD resolution screen makes everything a little bit smaller that is because the pixels are smaller we have 256 pixels per inch on the sensation and we've got 217 pixels per inch on the galaxy s2 in practice this makes text a little bit sharper on the sensation again this is the first time we're singing qHD resolution from HTC also we get a 16 by 9 aspect ratio on the sensation and it's not exactly sixteen by nine on the galaxy s2 which means movies look more true to life in terms of their aspect ratio and the top and the bottom not getting cut off on the sensation okay so let's jump into a picture here and you're gonna see that although the sensation is a higher resolution display they're very very close in terms of image fidelity in fact contrast is is much greater much much greater on the galaxy s2 some people think that the Super AMOLED here is a little bit unnatural and and that makes sense but in terms of sheer contrast for most people the galaxy s2 has the clear crisper screen and will shrink this back and go to the home screens now we've got two entirely different interfaces to talk about here we've got TouchWiz on the samsung galaxy s2 and Sense 3.0 on the sensation look at TouchWiz so TouchWiz is comprised of multiple home screens and you can add and subtract which you cannot do on the sensation and we can swipe from screen to screen if we go into applications this is the Samsung UI for accessing your applications you have to go screen by screen like this but you can also go to ListView if you want to get a horizontal or vertically scrolling list I should say let's go back to grid view now to add widgets you tap and hold you get this cool little pop-up you tap on widgets and these are all of the widgets there of it available on the galaxy s2 they're pretty good but they're not nearly as good as what you get on HTC so HTC we get this carousel spinning home screen very beautiful visuals throughout the entire Sense UI I mean this is really high quality stuff you really just don't get that with the Samsung Galaxy S 2 heck the weather animations even have sounds to them I mean come on it's pretty good stuff and of course if you spin this really fast you got to go really fast they'll start to shrink in the background and well well who it's a it's a little animated feature not that big of a deal so here are the widgets on the galaxy s2 kind of simple stuff not simple on the sensation so I should go down here and we'll go to widgets and browse all HTC widgets he had real high quality HTC widgets I mean interactive widgets that can be a couple different sizes for example if we go to say the calendar widget here well this only has one style but some of these have a variety of different styles that you can switch through that's great but on the galaxy s2 you can actually resize widgets which is awesome so for example if we go to thank you weather widget tap and hold we get a little grid we can make it bigger and smaller you cannot resize widgets on the HTC Sensation this weather clock you can't resize it it can only be moved in one sort of way and in terms of the app tray on the HTC Sensation it's now / downloaded frequent and all applications so I really like the ability to be able to go to frequent apps so all of your most used apps sit right at the top on the galaxy s2 you kind of got to go over your apps right you can set these panels up and customize them but it's not as convenient as being able to jump right to your frequently used apps on the HTC Sensation alright and let's talk benchmarks the all-important so we're gonna jump into quadrant standard on both devices I already ran the benchmark here we got 3226 on the galaxy s2 really impressive pretty good to hear on the sensation 1959 the galaxy s2 obviously smokes the sensation in the quadrant test but that's only one benchmark so let's check out some other benchmarks like smart bench 2011 here the result in smart bench for the productivity index on the galaxy s2 3842 on the sensation 2795 Galaxy s2 also wins in the games index 2274 60 96 let's run one more benchmark Linpack ok here are the results a little bit better here on the HTC Sensation forty-six point two one five megaflops only forty five point three eight nine on the HTC on the samsung galaxy has two easy to get these mixed up sometimes so in terms of benchmarking powers the Samsung Galaxy S two wins most of the time but in terms of it seems sheer processing power which is what the Linpack Pro is measuring that this the HTC Sensation takes the cake now let's talk about web browsing the all-important web browsing speed test that's probably one of the best tests of the power of the phone especially when you're loading complex web pages its dive in to the internet here and we've got of course that page loaded both of these have the pinch out to see your your tab screen and here we are so we are going to go to pocket now on both of these so M okay here we go let's load them we're on the same Wi-Fi network here okay it looks about it's hi there the galaxy s2 might have been a little bit faster let's go to desktop version see which gets there faster we've got plugins turn to on-demand so that there is no sort of slow and is happening because of Flash content galaxy has to finish first sensation is done a little bit after that very smooth on both a little bit smoother on the galaxies to a little bit choppy actually on the sensation we're actually going to zoom in a little bit double tap to zoom in double tap to zoom in happens pretty fast on both let's take a look at text since we're dealing with a higher pixel density on the sensation text should be a little bit sharper it's very very tough to tell what you get on the galaxy s2 is blacker texts with better contrast but on the sensation if you get a magnifying glass where you have very very good eyes you're going to see that the pixels are smaller and thus more difficult to see maybe we can actually see this on the camera if we go closer in so if you take a look at that it's kind of hard to determine but text is a little bit sharper not by much on the sensation that on the galaxy s2 okay let's go to a really complex website with zoom out here we're gonna go to Engadget the long page so we're gonna go to end gadget here just gonna load the mobile version really quick it's going straight to the desktop view here on the the galaxy s2 terms of user now what I want here we go okay so loading and as its loading we can flick down the page you're going to see there's no checker boards which is great that is the same for the galaxy s2 a very very good web browsing scenario here and actually we're going to go to classic or actually let's go to HD and let's zoom in here get a little bit close to that button make it a big target and boom so both loading the HD version of Engadget again a very smooth scrolling even as it's loading on both thanks to these dual-core processors they really do a great job the Galaxy has to beat the sensation in loading this page so the screen rotation speed test real quick galaxy s2 is faster their Galaxy s2 is faster they're both do a great job a tree flowing the column so you can zoom in and it makes it look nice so we can zoom out but in terms of sheer speed it's really no contest the galaxy s2 is faster let's zoom in again a big target here and we're going to move it around and tap it at the same time see again which one goes faster galaxy s2 1 it keeps winning what's really nice about the sensation though is that to stop it you get a full-screen browsing experience whereas here on the galaxy s2 you always get the Android notification bar at the top but in terms of web browsing there's no question here the galaxy s2 takes the cake even with the higher resolution screen which should make for a kind of better browsing experience on the sensation both are very good galaxy s2 is they come it is extremely fast when it comes to browsing the web and so we've got to give the points to the Galaxy S 2 for that so these are two very different very high quality devices at the end of the day have their own strengths and weaknesses if you want the fastest thinnest lightest Android smartphone out there it's hard to beat the Samsung Galaxy S 2 but if you want the most horrifying the highest quality Android smartphone that also has a higher resolution display the HTC Sensation will make you happy at the end of the day these are both true winners it just matters what you value most in a smartphone if you liked this video please give us a thumbs up and thank you for watching that's it for now you