1. Introduction
HTC Sensation White XL has just landed at our editorial desk. One of the latest smartphone from HTC smartphone offers a sensation with the Xtra Large screens as the name is of 4.7 inches. As a driving force Sensation XL Scorpion 1.5 GHz processor relies on single-core processor and 768 MB of RAM. In addition Beats Audio technology has been implanted into the Sensation XL is in the sales package also get a special headset artificial Beats.
Main specifications of HTC Senstion XL
S-LCD screen 4.7 inch, 800 x 480 pixels
Scorpion 1.5 GHz processor single-core
Android OS 2.3.5 Gingerbread
HTC Sense UI 3.5
768 MB RAM
8 MP camera, dual LED flash
Internal memory of 16 GB
Beats Audio
Battery 1600 mAh
2. Desain and Body
HTC Sensation bongsor XL has a design for the use of a large enough screen that is 4.7 inches. But despite looking great thanks to the use of white Sensation XL still look trendy and luxurious.
The front view is quite simple and without physical buttons at all. At the top there is an ear piece speaker, HTC logo at the top middle, a light sensor and front camera 1.3 megapixel resolution in the upper right pjok. At the bottom of the screen are four touch softkey buttons (home, menu, back, search). The front view is dominated by white color.
Rear view shows the hallmark of HTC. Silver-colored aluminum body. At the top center there is a resolution of 8 MP camera, dual LED flash support and a speaker out hole elongated shape. There is a HTC logo in the center of the body and a logo at the bottom center of the Beats. Dominated the overall look behind the silver and white colors.
At the top there is a hole 3.5mm audio and a power button / lock. On the left side there is a micro USB port and on the right side are the volume up / down. On the down side there is only a button to open the battery cover.
HTC Sensation XL size is quite big and quite heavy which is about 162.5 grams. But still comfortable to use. But open the battery cover is quite strange and a bit difficult.
3. Between Home
Sensation XL uses interface Sense HTC 3.5 on 4.7-inch screen 800 x 480 pixels. Although the screen is used only type SLCD but the colors are quite bright, although still present in the other display technologies. Besides the large screen size unfortunately not matched by a high resolution screen as well, so sometimes at a given screen looks less sharp.
On this page there are lockscreen standard information such as time, date, battery, connections, etc.. And there are also four pieces of shortcut icons that you can customize according to your choice. This shortcut allows you to enter your choice of applications easier and faster directly on the position of the phone is locked.
Home page screen consists of 7 pages which you can customize with wallpapers and various shortcuts or widgets. As with other HTC phones that use HTC Sense UI, the phone also provides several scenes such as HTC, Social, Work, Play and Travel. Every scene of this arrangement will provide the layout and widget applications that vary according to the theme. In addition, there is a choice of skins such as HTC, Sky Blue and Burgundy.
On page application app drawer is divided in the formation of 4 rows x 4 columns composed by an abjadnya. App drawer is dominated by a black background. At the bottom there are 3 different categories that will facilitate the search application. All categories are divided into apps (all apps), Frequent (often used applications), and Downloaded (contains a list of third-party application that is downloaded).
On the notifications page is divided into two parts, namely notifications itself while displaying recent apps and quick setting for fast access to the connectivity menu, settings and memory information. To show the recent apps can also be done by holding the home button.
4.Input Text
As in other Android phones, text input on mobile phone uses a virtual full QWERTY keyboard. The difference is the keyboard layout on different HTC phones on other mobile phones. HTC Keyboard has a special layout design and there are 4-way navigation key for ease of use. There are three text input methods, namely: Thai keyboard, Touch and Vietnamese IME input. To touch keyboard input, there are three types to choose from, among others: Standart, Phone and Compact.
5.Contact
Menu contact / people are similar to other HTC Android phones. Can store a variety of other details besides the name and phone no. Contact You can import from other accounts such as Facebook. Contact menu screen is divided into 3 categories: All, Groups and Call History.
6.Messaging
SMS on Android mobile phone standard, using the Threaded view. To change your SMS to MMS multimedia file mmenambahkan enough in the message to be sent.
Also this phone is also equipped with Gmail feature complete with push notification capability, and multi account. In addition you can also add email accounts other than Gmail.
7. camera
Just like its predecessor, Sensation XL is also not equipped with a camera button, so access to the camera application by selecting the application must be the camera and take pictures with just a touch screen only. But thanks to HTC Sense UI interface 3.5 Access to the camera application makes it easy even in the position of the screen is locked, you simply pull the existing camera shortcut icon into the circle (as we have seen in the interface).
The camera on the Sensation XL is using touch technology to focus and comes with a fairly complete arrangements. In the settings are self-timer, scenes, image adjustments, white balance, ISO, resolution, review duration, wide screen, geo-tag photos, auto enhance, auto focus, face detection, shutter sound, grid, auto upload and reset to default .
In addition to the camera has been equipped with the effects which you can choose the Distortion, vignette, depth of field, vintage, vintage warm, cold vintage, grayscale, sepia, Negative, Solarize, Posterize, Aqua.
The catch is 8 MP camera of this phone is quite good in an indoor or outdoor use. The camera can capture images with a fairly bright, natural and sharp.
Video Camera
Video recorder featured more modest than the camera, among other effects, image adjustment, white balance and stereo recording for audio. Stereo recording allows the recording left and right are different, to create surround effects. For video recording you can light a flash. When recording video you can do to focus by touching objects that want to focus on the screen (touch to focus).
Video recordings of 8 MP camera capable of delivering 720p HD-quality recording with mp4 format. The result was quite satisfactory. Light captured by the camera is very fitting and appropriate that looks natural. In addition microphonenya pretty good recordings, the recorded sound is very powerful and clear.
8. Music Player
The music player into one of the flagship features of this phone actionable because it was instilled Beats Audio technology complete with headset iBeats. As the sound produced Sensation XE is not too much different in character and is still a punch and Beats Audio high. The effect of the Beats Audio will only work when you plug in a headset iBeats course, when using the loudspeaker of this effect will not work. And if you use other headsets will have another effect, namely HTC Enhancer. If using a loudspeaker sounds quite ordinary and less poweeerfull.
The music player is equipped with album art. The music player is not innate but a full customization of HTC Gingerbread. Categories are: Artist, Albums, Playlist, Songs, and Genres. As always if you play music in the bar looks notification (only on-pause, there is no next or previous button).
9.Gallery
Gallery on the HTC Sensation XL performed with the same look with other HTC Android phones. Photos and video displayed in a gallery with all categorized folders with animated stacks of pictures. Rendering an image when the pinch and zoom is also smooth. You can do some editing like crop, effects, and rotate. Slideshow option is also available on this mobile gallery.
Video Player
Video player there is no special menu, so you must access it through the gallery. The video player can play multiple video formats like avi, mp4 and xvid. Mp4 720p quality video can be played smoothly. Unfortunately the video does not play mkv format and require third-party applications to play it. Watching video on this phone is quite normal, there is no thrill of the wah. Although the screen is large but less sharp and bright, so the video image is displayed is mediocre at best.
10.Browser
Sensation XL has a screen size of 4.7 inches, so when doing web browsing more convenient because the images and text appear quite large and very often do not have to zoom in to. Flash player also has embedded into the web browser of this mobile phone so you can play the video directly from the web without the need to go through Youtube application. Total pages that can be opened simultaneously only wrote as many as six pages.
11. Connectivity
GSM / HSDPA
WiFi 802.11 b / g / n
Bluetooth v3.0 A2DP
GPS with A-GPS
Micro USB 2.0
Disease and death grip on Sesantion XE Sensation Sensation is absent in XL. We mengujicobanya via WiFi Analyzer application.
Congenital 12.Aplikasi
Adobe Reader
Application to read files with PDF format.
Flashlight
An LED flashlight that relies on light as a means of illumination.
Mirror
Applications rely on the camera to look in the mirror front.
Polaris Office
Application to open and edit documents such as Word, Excel and Slideshow.
Stocks
To see the movement of international stocks.
Teeter
Game congenital HTC phones that have become the hallmark of long ago.
13.Benchmarking
Quadrant Standard: 2038 points
Neocore: 58.6 FPS
Linpack: 49 664 MFLOPS / 1.69 seconds
Multitouch Tester: 5 touch
14. Battery Hold
Powered by 1.5 GHz processor single-core, Sensation XL is equipped with a capacity of 1600 mAh battery. Use of this we felt quite right to offset the consumption of resources spent by the processor and the screen is large enough. When the review of this phone is only connected to WiFi and a pretty intense with the use of these phones as much as 40% baterasi drain in 8 hours. For normal use we feel will last a minimum of 16-20 hours.
Note: relative resistance based on the use of each, and other factors such as location, room temperature, the number of applications being run and more.
Pros:
Teknlogi Beats Audio
Headset iBeats
Good camera
HTC Sense Interface
Disadvantages:
Price is too expensive
The screen is sharp
Multimedia in addition to music, so the standard
