Htc sensation xe what is in the box

An 8GB microSD card is included with the phone, and this should provide music lovers with enough space to carry around plenty of their favourite tracks. However, if you're looking to download HD movies via HTC Watch as well, it might be worth looking into a slightly larger capacity card. Although Android 4. Given the stature of the phone, we imagine it will be upgraded to Android 4. Because the Sensation XE is running Android 2. This introduces exclusive apps and widgets that you won't find on any other Android phone and feels as slick as ever.

Although we've already been teased with footage of Sense 3. There's an awful lot to like about Sense. For starters, it's easily the most attractive of all the available manufacturer-produced skins, offering cool 3D animations and other visual embellishments. Going beyond pure aesthetic charm, Sense also has some intuitive tricks up its sleeve. One of our favourites is the bank of quick setting options on the pull-down Android notification bar.

You can also view your running or recent applications from here, as well as monitor your phone's RAM to ensure it's running as smoothly as possible. Elsewhere, there's the Friends Stream widget, which pulls your Twitter and Facebook updates into one easy-to-digest flow of data. We're also complete suckers for the Weather and Clock widgets, which boast amazing context-sensitive animation and sound effects. Like the original Sensation, the XE is a reasonably attractive slab of technology, although it feels a little unassuming when compared to the drop-dead gorgeous engineering of the iPhone 4S.

The Beats branding certainly helps the XE to stand out from the crowd more than its predecessor, but we're still not totally convinced that this is a phone you'd sell your granny for on looks alone. The most obvious alterations from the original Sensation are the black and red colour scheme and the big, bold Beats logo on the rear of the device.

The camera lens also has a rather fetching metallic red ring around it, too. With its unibody casing and partially rubberised back panel, the Sensation XE feels solid and dependable. The way the back panel separates from the main body of the phone is also unique -- it actually encases almost all of the handset like a turtle's shell, protecting those delicate inner-workings. Thanks to the slight change in tech being used, the Sensation XE's weight has increased slightly from the g of the original model to g.

It's a barely noticeable difference, but a difference nonetheless. On the positive side, the 4. Surfing detailed websites is a joy, thanks to the pixels crammed into every inch, which is higher than the ppi on the Galaxy S2.

The actual display itself has a concave design, which protects it from scratches when placed face-down on a flat surface. The tempered glass is resistant to marks and uses capacitive technology for ultra-accurate input. If you're getting screen envy thanks to the forthcoming Galaxy Nexus -- which has a 4. It features an absolutely monstrous 4. Some of these have been commonplace on almost every device to come out of the Taiwanese manufacturer in the past few years, while others are new additions.

You can purchase many of these films outright, and watch them as many times as you wish from the comfort of your 4. Some films have rental options, which allow you to save a bit of cash but mean you can only watch them once. You can use it to find local shops, restaurants or attractions, as well as note down unique places as Footprints.

It also offers turn-by-turn satellite navigation, but there's a catch -- you have to purchase this feature. As great as the service is it downloads map packs to your phone so you can get directions even when you're out in the middle of nowhere with no Internet coverage , it's hard to justify the additional outlay when Google Navigation already does the job.

With its massive 4. In the hand is snuggles down nicely thanks to the curves that universally adorn it, with the tactile feeling of those plastic inserts providing a little more purchase so you're less likely to drop it. It's also nice and comfortable to make calls with and we found the calling quality to be good.

It now sports a dual-core 1. If it makes any real difference to the speed, it's difficult to call as we had little complaint with the performance of the original. The screen gives a good showing for itself with a resolution of x This makes it a touch sharper ppi than most average displays x you'll typically find on Android smartphones, but it'll soon to be unseated by the by the next wave of HD screens.

Such is the life of a phone that's already 6-months old at launch. It isn't the greatest display out there, it lacks some of the punch and wow factor that Samsung delivers with Super AMOLED displays, but it is bright and vibrant enough.

The size is also welcomed, giving you plenty of space for your fingers to play. The battery in the back is a mAh cell, which you can at least access and change, should you find the need to buy a spare. Battery performance is obviously one of the biggest problems with smartphones at the moment. This isn't the highest capacity battery around so some rivals, like the Motorola Atrix or devices with a more modest specification, will outperform it.

Getting through a busy working day with the Sensation XE is a struggle, so you'll need to ensure that a charger is never far from reach. Taking power saving measures will of course help sustain things, but the minor increase in battery capacity over the original doesn't yield a huge benefit.

It's a minor Android step over the 2. In reality you probably won't notice and the Sense version perhaps isn't as significant as the Android version. At the time, it was a great refinement of what Android offered, but as Android continues to strengthen it's core offering, we can't help feeling that the "less is more" mantra might be starting to ring true.

In some cases, like the slightly disjointed handling of streaming media, a cleaner solution can be found through the Android Market. We're also not impressed with HTC Locations, especially as it hijacks the locations in your calendar or contacts and doesn't offer anywhere near the search skill that Google Maps does.

Not huge problems, but niggles you shouldn't need to mess around with. With all that said, you get all the integration that HTC Sense brings and the widest array of widgets that you'll find anywhere. The UI works on the basic principle of letting you customise your seven homepages with whatever you want, be that weather widgets, bookmarks or apps. You get a range of integrated social services, pumping through in Friend Stream if you want them too , you get that great unlock screen that will let you customise what app you want to head directly to and you get a full offering of media features, including Watch, HTC's video rental offering.

Overall navigation is slick and fast, browser rendering is nice and slick and the keyboard is responsive, if a little cluttered. We also had no problems tackling the Flash video TV services we wanted.

If we're being picky, we'd say the finger tracking should be better on a high-end device like this, but over the experience is good. With its acquisition of Beats, HTC has picked up one of the hottest brands in headphones and thrown them into the box. If nothing else, it means you get a fantastic set of headphones, something that is extremely rare with mobile phones these days. Open the box and you'll find your red-cabled iBeats earphones, with a range of silicone tips to get the perfect fit for you and a nice pouch to keep them in.

Add to that the wealth of apps you can get from the Android Market and you have a pretty solid smartphone. We currently have a unit with us and we wanted to kick things off by sharing with you guys our unboxing and initial impressions.

Check it out below! I personally like how they designed the box. You have a sleeve printed with the glossy shot of the phone at the front and the product details at the back. Remove the box from the sleeve by pulling it out and you get a simple and elegant black box with the HTC logo. To open just flip the cover of the black box upwards.

The iBeats earphones is a genuine product from Beats Audio. It sells for around Php6, locally.