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hey guys its brand name in a min from pocketnow.com filming from the recording studio here really just some foam panels on the wall to help absorb the sound because we're about to unbox the HTC Sensation the HTC Sensation is HD C's top-of-the-line flagship phone for 2011 that means we're gonna see it on a lot of carriers and a lot of different versions it's the phone that people want from HTC it is their first dual-core phone it is their first qHD display on an HTC handset finally breaking away from the single core WVGA specs that we saw for many generations of devices now from HTC it's running the latest version of android version 2.3 and it's going right up against the galaxy s2 just released by samsung above the galaxy s2 in some ways is actually better than the sensation but in other ways not as good as the sensation we're gonna have a head-to-head and talk all about that in an upcoming video but first let's unbox the sensation let's get to it all right and let's do it now you know the drill here this is an unlocked phone high-end brand new zoom so it's going to be expensive you can get this right now from Negri electronics calm and it's gonna cost you about seven hundred and fifty dollars of course when it comes on to t-mobile in the US it'll be around two hundred two hundred and fifty dollars and of course around the world it will be offered at a subsidized price but if you want to get it right now you gotta pay so here it is HTC Sensation the design is very similar to all previous HTC devices they've settled on this same form factor sort of a slate like divide form factor with a curved display or a curved earpiece front-facing camera light sensor let's move around the box this is actually the vodafone version right now but if we turn it over to the back let's take a look at the bands here we got that AWS band and we'll zoom in and in order to get this to work on t-mobile's 3g network you need AWS and 2100 which we have right there which is very exciting whether this supports HSPA+ thus being able to get off the t-mobile 4G network remains to be seen we're gonna put in a SIM card in a minute and test that out here it is 1.2 gigahertz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor 768 megabytes of RAM which is interesting Samsung's going with a full gigabyte of RAM Motorola is going with a gigabyte of RAM for their high-end devices HTC is keeping it at just 768 it's a very thin device this is often another language 8 megapixel camera with 1080p video capture VGA front-facing camera alright let's actually open it up here alright here it goes HTC Sensation HTC's 2011 flagship device I already feel that it's very thin in hand it feels a lot lighter than the Desire HD which is of course HTC's 2010 flagship we're going to compare the two devices in a minute let's see if there's anything interesting in the Box these days there's usually not ok well that's enough let's take a look at the HTC Sensation here so I take off the sticker wow really cool backing here sort of a tricolor design so silver it looks to be sort of a gray and then some soft touch plastic here really interesting design we've got a volume rocker here what's really cool about the sensation is that it has a slightly curved glass display and it's very very tough to tell on camera but it just adds a nice little visual touch to it so let's take off the back battery cover and boot it up while we compare it to other devices and who knows how you get this thing off actually pretty easily so here we go comes off like so and we've got a battery which is probably fifteen hundred and sixty million powers if fifteen hundred and twenty milliamp hours we're gonna slide a t-mobile SIM card right into the SIM card slot and hopefully be able to tell if we can get HSPA+ connectivity and let's see how big the storage card is eight gigabytes class four here it's not bad there's about a gigabyte of ROM included so right out of the box you get about nine gigabytes of storage space not that impressive but certainly pretty good with the cover back on here wow really weird how this fits on totally different than any other HTC devices kind of gonna take some practice to get used to okay there we go and let's boot it up and while it's booting up let's take a look at how this device compares to its predecessor the Desire HD which of course the Specht very similarly has the same amount of RAM same size screen what's really different is the processor 1.2 gigahertz dual core here one gigahertz single core here and the amount of or the amount of pixels on the screen so 960 down by 540 across there's the photo phone logo and so you get a different aspect ratio as you can see here much more wide screen compared to the 800 down by 480 across well right off the bat it's really interesting to see HTC with this higher resolution display the the notification screen or bar up here is so much thinner because the pixels are smaller then we found on previous HTC devices and of course we get the newest version of HTC Sense HTC Sense 3.0 so men Changez this is the most dramatic overhaul to HTC sense since the beginning and here it is next to the galaxy s2 which we're going to compare both of these devices in a future video but has a little bit of a preview we've got a different CPU here more RAM this device is thinner but the the mains downside to the galaxy s2 compared to the sensation is that the screen resolution is lower so you get the kind of old-school now at this point in 2011 WVGA screen here and of course you get the full q HD resolution in the HTC Sensation so we ran skip that we finally we're getting here to the to the home screen on the HTC Sensation again this screen really pops it's a Super LCD display quite high resolution compared to previous generation HTC devices let's jump into the web real quick just want to see what happens in terms of Internet connectivity looks like a little bit of setup is required to get it to work hopefully it'll work seamlessly on t-mobile's network but we've got a lot more coming up we'll mess with it and talk about it we'll also post some first impressions on pocket now calm but it's thin it's light it feels less substantial than the desire HD which may be a good or bad thing depending on if you like a heavy device or not but it's gotten a lot of fit and finish especially with this really sweet curved display just a very smooth looking device HTC's high-end for 2011 is here the sensation we've got a ton more coming up talking about this device if you liked the video please give us a thumbs up and thanks for watching and stay tuned for more that's it for now you