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hey guys it's Brian a minimun from pocketnow.com in this video we're going to cover the hardware in a detail of the HTC Sensation which is HD C's top-of-the-line flagship phone for 2011 let's get to it now this particular version is the European version of the HTC Sensation it's coming to the US as the t-mobile Sensation 4G this happens to be the Vodafone version which actually will work on t-mobile interestingly enough it has the band's necessary to do 3G on t-mobile but it's not really doing the 4g HSPA+ that you'll be able to get if you buy the t-mobile version in the US and it'll be at a cheaper price in the US right now if you want to import this device it'll cost you about 750 bucks you can get it from Negri electronics dot-com expensive yes but that's the price to pay if you want to get something early although we're only about two weeks or even less from the release of the Sensation 4G in the US and it's already starting to roll out on carriers across the globe so a lot to talk about here this is the first Qualcomm Snapdragon dual-core processor shipping on a phone 1.2 gigahertz just like we get on the samsung galaxy s 2 although the Galaxy S 2 is running with the Exynos Samsung processor we're going to do a full comparison of both the galaxy s 2 and the HTC Sensation in an upcoming video it's very interesting how different they are and yet how they're they're very similar in terms of being very high-end very fast devices besides the 1.2 gigahertz processor we have 768 megabytes of RAM the same amount of RAM that we got in the previous high-end HTC phone the Desire HD which also came out as the inspire 4G and several other variants around the world so 768 megabytes of RAM which is definitely plenty of space there we've got a front-facing VGA camera here and in 8 megapixel camera on the back capable of recording 1080p video content we'll have some video samples coming up soon as a preview this thing takes great video and also takes great photos it's got a screen that is 4.3 inches that seems to be the size for these high-end although because it is qHD resolution which is 960 by 540 across it's got a 16 by 9 aspect ratio like your HDTV what that means is that you get a more true to life better aspect ratio when you're watching movies and looking at photos it also means that the screen is taller then you've got on other 4.3 inch Q or WVGA display is like the Desire HD or the galaxy s2 so that kind of means that you get the same effect that you'll get on a device with a bigger screen a little bit more reaching towards the top if we line up the bottoms of these phones it's kind of hard to do here but you can see that the sensation extends a little bit beyond where you go with a regular 4.3 inch WVGA display it's really interesting to see what HTC has done with the qHD display text is super sharp and they've really modified the key applications like mail and contacts and calendar to take advantage of all the pixels the mail application on the HTC Sensation is killer it's the best we've ever seen it takes full advantage of all of those pixels on the screen to make it really nice the screen type is super LCD we found this to be the case on the Desire HD it's a great screen technology it doesn't provide as much contrast as Super AMOLED or Super AMOLED plus that we get from Samsung but it's very very good and we're gonna do a comparison in an upcoming video what's a walk around the device a little bit let's go up here to the top so we've got the same HTC look-and-feel here generation after generation HTC has been doing phones that look about the same which is not so bad if you have something good stick with it and people are recognizing that that HTC look and it's good for the HTC brand so again we've got this speaker grille with kind of a chrome look there's also an LED notification light and there is the front-facing camera up here on the top we've got the power standby button and the 3.5 millimeter headphone jack we've got a curved display here and by curved I mean on the edges on all four edges it kind of tilts outward a little bit and that just gives it kind of a high-quality unique feel something you really get on other Android phones it really doesn't impact usability that much just look score and it feels kind of cool we've got these four capacitive buttons along the bottom just as with most of these HTC phones the buttons do not rotate they are static over here on the side we've got the volume up and down rocker we've got the micro USB port here for syncing and charging on the bottom we've got the microphone hole on the battery release we're gonna go behind the battery cover in a sex there's some interesting things going on there nothing on the right side and then we've got this really unique tricolor design here on the sensation so we've got three different colors the top and the bottom parts feel kind of soft touch plastic this is kind of slick and smooth very strange design element here on the back again the 8 megapixel camera can shoot in 1080p video 1080p video got the dual LED flash and the speaker we've got a lot of these little dots what are those dots well let's take off the back battery cover to help explain what the dots are for so to take it off you just pop your fingernail in here and this is really really weird so it kind of separates like that and the case actually wraps all around the device so you kind of get to see the inner workings of the phone which is sort of cool but as you can see with just two days of use I'm getting some Pocket lint around the speaker and around the camera lens which is kind of kind of annoying and if you look at the other side of this you can see that the there's there's no piece of plastic covering the camera lens so presumably after a long period of time you're gonna need to blow this out with compressed air to keep everything clean but anyway up here you can excuse all of that pocket when you get the speaker camera the the LED indicator kind of hard to see but this is really weird because you just get to see every aspect of the phone and if we kind of turn over and look at where those holes are they all correspond to these metal parts which is part of the antenna system so it's a function they are functional holes they're not microphones or anything like that they're just part of the way the phone is designed so this back battery covers kind of flexible it's plastic a lot of plastic used on this is used on this phone but the enhance feel the build quality is is very very good back here we've got the hots palpable micro SD card it comes with an 8 gigabyte card you've got the SIM card here and the battery and you can also see the other stuff back here just really cool to spend some time and tilt it around to get it back on pretty easy just put it in headfirst you just saw the light blink snap it down and there you go so that was a look at the hardware on the HTC Sensation in hand it feels great on paper it sounds great with really high specs for this high-end device what's really important of course is how it feels day-to-day how the web browsing speed compares to other phones with the battery life is like what the Sense 3.0 interface does for the user experience HTC has really done a ton with this device probably more so than any other device in their history to make the interface interesting and unique to make it easy to launch applications right here from your lockscreen all of the major applications have been redone to make them take advantage of a qHD resolution and there's just a lot of visual elements of Sense 3.0 that make using the phone really enjoyable we've got a lot more coming up be sure you subscribe to our channel so you can know when the next videos are up for the HTC Sensation if you like this video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching that's it for now