My wife and I are both on T-Mobile and have been using G1 phones for the past couple years.\u00a0 They’ve been very good phones but are starting to show their age.\u00a0 A few months ago mine started to be hard to hear while talking…and just a couple weeks ago hers started having\u00a0 SIM card errors.\u00a0 I’d been tasked with finding our new phone but hadn’t seen the one that I really wanted (I wanted an EVO but wasn’t willing to drop T-Mobile for other reasons, mostly several people on the plan).<\/p>\n
On Thursday after I’d been putting it off for far too long, she decided to ‘just stop by’ to see what T-Mobile had.\u00a0 And of course what they had was the brand new HTC Sensation.\u00a0 Long story short…she walked out of there with two of ’em.<\/p>\n
Wow, it’s a beautiful phone!\u00a0 even though the form factor\/screen is significantly larger than the G1 it feels much smaller in my pocket because it is so thin!\u00a0 The screen is really gorgeous too.\u00a0 I’m at that stage where I need reading glasses some of the time<\/em>.\u00a0 With the G1 it was getting to be most of the time<\/em>.\u00a0 I don’t have to grab them so often with the Sensation because of the larger, sharper screen.\u00a0 The Sensation has some nice screen effects by default so it shows very nicely.<\/p>\n This is my first phone without a ‘real’ keyboard…it’s taking some getting used to.\u00a0 The default keyboard has some idiosyncrasies that make it a bit annoying to use, but you can install others and I’ll be trying out a few.\u00a0 The first two on my list are SwiftKey X (Amazon Android Marketplace) and Swype (It’s in beta still).\u00a0 The default Keyboard has a swype-like interface but I haven’t grown to like it yet.\u00a0 Stay tuned, I’ve only tried for a couple of days…<\/p>\n My first concern with the Sensation has been battery life.\u00a0 The sales person recommended we charge\/discharge completely for the first few days, then re-charge before restarting.\u00a0 Battery life was not impressing me in the least, but it was a weekend and I was using the phone heavily.\u00a0 I think if you’re going to use your phone all day every day you’ll want to buy a spare battery or you’ll need to plug in for at least part of the day.<\/p>\n I sure wish there were an option to have a bigger battery…I’d happily live with a lump in the back of the phone on those days where I wanted to use it heavily while away from power.<\/p>\n It takes a while to get used to a new phone and this one is no different.\u00a0 So far it’s a bit of a pain to actually answer the phone, Swype does some weird stuff when it interacts with Google’s auto-complete search.\u00a0 Also there are places where I wish for a more intuitive interface.\u00a0 I do feel like I’ll be much more used to it within a few days, though…it’s mostly quirks of using the On-Screen Keyboard and getting used to where Settings and Options are once I get into an application.<\/p>\n Review at Engadget: http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2011\/05\/27\/htc-sensation-review\/<\/p>\n So far I’m really liking my new Sensation.\u00a0 The keyboard is taking a while to get used to, battery life seems better as the days go by, but everything else is pretty nice.\u00a0 I’ll write again as I get used to this new phone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My wife and I are both on T-Mobile and have been using G1 phones for the past couple years.\u00a0 They’ve been very good phones but are starting to show their age.\u00a0 A few months ago mine started to be hard to hear while talking…and just a couple weeks ago hers started having\u00a0 SIM card errors.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":242,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Keyboard<\/h2>\n
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