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HTC's Sensation's battle it out as the Sensation XE takes on the Sensation XL

Here's another comparison for you to take your decisions........!

We compare HTC's new Sensation XL to the recently released Sensation XE. 

Form:-

HTC Sensation XL - 132.5x70.7x9.9mm, 162.5g
HTC Sensation XE - 126.1x65.4x11.3mm, 151g
We’re normally not a huge fan of HTC devices when it comes to visual design but in fairness the company seems to have pulled out all the stops on these two.
The overall shape is looking not quite as soft as HTC phones normally appear. There’s also a higher screen-to-bodywork space ratio going on which we approve of.
Both are very clean and minimalist which works well.
We couldn’t pick between the two: they both have their charms so we’re calling it a draw.
Winner - Draw
Display
For both devices HTC has opted for Sony’s S-LCD capacitive touchscreen technology which offers brighter visuals, more vivid colours and is kinder to battery-life.
The Sensation XE has a 4.3-inch screen with a resolution of 540x960 pixels, giving a pixel density of 256 pixels-per-inch (ppi).
The Sensation XL has the larger of the two displays at 4.7-inches. The resolution is a scratch lower at 480x800 pixels and correspondingly the pixel density is not as good as the Sensation XE’s at 199ppi.
Each handset comes loaded with the HTC Sense user interface along with accelerometer and gyroscope sensors for screen orientation. They also both feature multi-touch input and capacitive touch-sensitive buttons under the glass.
The Sensation XE wins this round by having a higher resolution and pixel density, so the images on-screen are going to be much more crisp.
Winner - HTC Sensation XE
Storage
With the Sensation XE the amount of onboard storage is oddly lacking when you consider the rest of the spec line-up is pretty good - the Sensation XE has 4GB of internal memory but only 1GB of this is user accessible.
However, with the Sensation XL HTC has upped its game and is offering much more in-built space to play with, a whole 16GB in fact.
Both phones have 768MB of RAM to give the processor a bit of a boost.
The Sensation XE has microSD card support up to 32GB but sadly card support has been neglected on the Sensation XL.
We have to side with the phone which brings more onboard storage space to the table, and that is the Sensation XL.
Winner - HTC Sensation XL

Processor
Both phones carry Qualcomm processors clocked at 1.5GHz running Snapdragon chipsets and fitted with Adreno graphics processing units (GPU).
However, they’re actually quite different setups when you get into the workings of each device.
The Sensation XL uses a single core Scorpion processor on the MSM8255 chipset and an Adreno 205 GPU.
The XE is much better equipped with a dual core processor on the MSM8260 chipset and a ramped-up Adreno 220 GPU.
When dealing with Android it pays to bring dual core and the XE is packing the right tools for the job here. We give the Sensation XE the victory this round.
Winner - HTC Sensation XE
Operating System
These are both Android handsets running 2.3 Gingerbread, the most recent smartphone build.
There’s not a lot we can say about Gingerbread that hasn’t been said before. It’s relatively stable and it’s slicker and more user-friendly than previous versions.Multitasking is also excellent.
There are a few areas we find lacking and Honeycomb for tablets has certainly shown the way to improve the system. We have high hopes for Ice Cream Sandwich to make waves in this regard when it hits in the next few months but until then Gingerbread is starting to look a little tired.
Winner - Draw
Camera
Each phone has an 8-megapixel primary camera at 3264x2448 pixels with autofocus, dual LED flash and geo-tagging.
The Sensation XL is capable of 720p video capture while the Sensation XE trumps it with 1080p capability, both support video calls.
The Sensation XE has some additional features including touch focus, image stabilisation, face detection, instant capture and stereo-sound recording for video.
The Sensation XL has a 1.3-megapixel secondary camera while the Sensation XE’s is only VGA.
Both are excellent camera setups but we think the Sensation XE has a more appealing feature line-up.
Winner - HTC Sensation XE
Final Thoughts
Both phones are decent offerings from HTC and it’s very difficult to choose a winner here.
The Sensation XE has a better set of specs in most areas. For instance, it has a much more powerful processor, a better camera and a sharper screen.
However, it is quite lacking when it comes to internal storage and this is a big blot on an otherwise great handset.
On the other end of things, the Sensation XL’s selling point is its larger screen size, but because you trade-off on picture quality it’s not really a compromise we’re in favour of.
For us the big draw of this phone is the storage space and even this is marred by the lack of a card slot.
Although good in their own right the processor spec, display and camera don’t come out well against the Sensation XE’s hardware.
Ultimately we’d pick the Sensation XE, but that low storage capacity sure does sting.
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Ok! I m confused,i wanted to buy a smart + phone. i have a budget of INR 35000/- and i wanna get the best value for my money, shall i go for Android or iOS,Blackberry or Symbian.

So, here's a small article which might help in your decisions.

 

• 4.7-inch (480 x 800 pixels) capacitive touch screen
• 9.9 mm thick and weighs 162.5 g
• 1.5 GHz processor
• Android 2.3 (Gingerbread)
• 8MP camera with F2.2 lens, dual LED flash and 720p HD video recording, 1.3MP front camera
• 768MB RAM,16 GB internal memory (12.64 GB usable)
• 3.5 mm stereo audio jack
• 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 3.0 with A2DP, DLNA and aGPS
• 1600 mAh

Following the Nexus Prime leak earlier today, here's a selection of Android Ice Cream Sandwich screenshots – enjoy!

Samsung Galaxy Note at a glance

• Form factor: phone/tablet crossbreed
• Dimensions: 146.9 x 83 x 9.7 mm
• Weight: 178g
• Display: 16M-color 5.3” Super AMOLED capacitive touchscreen of WXGA resolution (1280 x 800 pixels)
• OS: Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread, TouchWiz UI
• Chipset: 1.4 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, Mali-400MP GPU, 1GB of RAM, Exynos chipset
• Camera: 8 MP autofocus camera, 1080p video recording, LED flash, 2 MP front-facing camera
• Memory: 16/32 GB internal memory, expandable via a microSD card slot
• Connectivity: quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE and quad-band (850/900/1900/2100 MHz) UMTS with 21 Mbps HSDPA and 5.76 Mbps HSUPA support, dual-band Wi-Fi a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi direct, Assisted GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, microUSB connector
• Battery: 2,500mAh
• Misc: S Pen, Gyro sensor, accelerometer sensor for auto rotation, ambient light sensor, Adobe Flash Player 10.3 support, DivX/XviD support, TV-out (adapter required), optional GLONASS, optional NFC

Well, we've got our cargo pants on and we'll try and find room for the Samsung Galaxy Note. But first, we'll go over the hardware, join us on the next page.
This test unit was kindly provided by CT MIAMI, a Samsung distributor for Latin America. The Galaxy Note will be available at CT MIAMI for wholesale customers on October 24 for $699.

King-size interface

The Samsung Galaxy Note runs Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread with TouchWiz on top. Unsurprisingly, the interface looks a lot like that of the Galaxy S II only bigger.
The always-visible shortcuts at the bottom of the screen are now five (instead of four) and the main menu grid has been expanded to fit a 5x5 grid of icons (vs. 4x4 in the S II). It all makes sense: the extra space was there and they used it.


Other than that, the experience is the same as the phone-based TouchWiz. We won’t cover it in detail in this preview. We'll take a look at the S Pen related apps instead.

S Planner and S Memo

The regular TouchWiz Calendar gave way to the S Planner. It looks and behaves a lot like the vanilla app, but with some adjustments to accommodate the stylus and some general usability improvements.
The days of the month fit nicely on the huge screen and they are very easy to hit with the stylus. This will highlight the date and you'll see all events for that day in the scrollable area below.

The squares for each day are big enough to fit the first word of the title of up to two events. Subsequent events show up as "+1", "+2", etc. showing up in the upper right corner of the square.
When adding an event, you have three options: Quick add (just a quick text note), Add event (which lets you add anything from reminders and memo to photos and locations) and Add task, which handles your To-Do list (you can assign each task a priority, due date, group and so on).
The S Planner can seamlessly sync with multiple calendars.

The S Memo is very similar to the Memo app we're used to seeing in TouchWiz. The difference is that S Memo has extensive support for scribbling down notes and quick sketches using the S Pen.
The app opens upon an empty canvas (with a square grid like notepaper) and lets you draw with the S Pen, enter text with the keyboard, add images (which can be scaled for fit) and voice notes .
You can choose between a pen, a brush, a pencil and a marker, each of which leaves a slightly different mark. You can adjust the thickness and the color. Other tools that might come in handy are the eraser, Undo and Redo buttons a Lock button to prevent accidental edits and the Favorite button to mark important notes.

The S Memo app supports pinch zoom, so if you zoom in you have plenty of room to work with and then you can zoom out to get an overview. Panning around isn't very convenient as you have to manually enable pan mode and disable it after. Two finger panning or something would have been easier.
The S Memo lets you easily keep notes visible: you can put them on the homescreen as a widget, set them as lockscreen or homescreen wallpaper or even as a contact's photo to remind you next time you call (or get called by) that person.

Text input - handwriting or QWERTY

With the Samsung Galaxy Note you have two options for text entry – the on-screen QWERTY and the handwriting recognition keyboard.
The standard method, QWERTY, is probably our favorite. The Galaxy Note is sized exactly right for holding it with two hands in portrait orientation and typing with both thumbs.

Other apps (like S Memo) present you with a dedicated writing area at the bottom half of the screen.

Top-notch 8MP camera with FullHD video capture

It's no surprise that the Samsung Galaxy Note uses the same camera interface as the Galaxy S II - it probably uses the same camera module too.
The interface is one of the most comfortable ones we’ve seen - the left column can be customized with your choice of shortcuts, while the right column holds the essentials (still/video switch, shutter key and preview of the last snapped photo).

The Galaxy Note features a pretty full set of options - face, smile and blink detection, image stabilization, geo-tagging, scenes and more.
As for the image quality, it's very similar to that of the Galaxy S II but the software could use a bit more tuning (the Galaxy Note we're testing isn't a final retail unit). Still, noise levels are kept low and the amount of captured detail is very good.
We spotted some issues but we'll wait for the final version of the software before we pass our judgment. Still, the Samsung Galaxy Note is shaping up as one of the best 8MP cameraphones around.

Browser is a near tablet-like experience

The two key determining factors for browsing are screen size and resolution and the Samsung Galaxy Note excels at both - with a screen like that, it will put in a lot of hours of web browsing.
The UI follows the minimalist ethos of the vanilla Android browser but it has been slightly tweaked to make better use of the screen.
The URL bar at the top of the screen is flanked by the Back/Forward buttons on one side and the Tab and Bookmarks buttons on the other. Inside the URL bar itself are the RSS and Refresh buttons.
It sounds like it's going to get cramped with all these buttons, but they're all big and easy to hit. The Menu key reveals more options and also makes the URL bar visible (it auto-hides once you start panning around the page).
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