Today we are going to have another comparison of the two Android beasts on the wild. They are the Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC’s newly added to the Sensation range, the Sensation XL. Which phone is going to come out as the winner for today’s comparison? Obviously, the stronger will win the battle, but which one? Is it the Samsung’s phone or HTC’s phone?
As so many people already know, HTC has offered their fans three options of their Sensation’s phone range and the last member of the group is the Sensation XL. This device seems to raise the stake at the Android smartphone battle by developing the multimedia features that is including the highlighted ‘Beats’ audio enhancement.
In the meantime, the Sensation XL’s competitor, Samsung Galaxy S2 has gained popularity through the specifications it offered to the future users.
So, what are we waiting for? Let’s start the comparison between HTC Sensation XL and Samsung Galaxy S2.
1. Form and Build comparison between HTC Sensation Xl and Samsung Galaxy S2
For the first round, we are going to compare both Android phones form and build.
Samsung Galaxy S2 is measured at 125.3×66.1×8.5mm and 116g of weight. Actually, this phone is quite comfortable to be handled as the device is pretty slim and has a feather-like of weight thanks to the plastic construction of it. However, the users of this phone might feel like having a toy on their palm’s hand due to the plastic material it is made of.
On the contrary with the competitor, HTC Sensation XL that comes with 132.5×70.7×9.9mm of measurement, and 162.5g of weight offers its future users an experience to hold the device that is blessed with nice blend of materials, solid build quality and decent measurement. Through those build specifications; the users will feel more premium touch on the device’s construction.
For the form and build comparison, there is no doubt that the HTC Sensation XL that offers more premium touch than the competitor comes out as the winner.
2. CPU comparison between HTC Sensation Xl and Samsung Galaxy S2
If we talked about phone’s performance, it means we are going to discuss about the device’s CPU. This round is pretty essential to the final result as the higher CPU specification; the better performance will be shown by the device.
HTC Sensation XL is powered by a single-core 1.5GHz Scorpion CPU and Adreno 205 GPU for graphical support. With this kind of specifications, the device is believed to be able to play the latest games and HD content. Apart from those CPU specifications, the device also brings the user up 16GB of storage and 768MB RAM too. It gives the users a plenty space to keep their files or favorite music to be enjoyed during the trip.
In the meantime, Samsung Galaxy S2 tries to raise the stake with offering nice performance from a dual core 1.2GHz ARM Cortex-A9 CPU and Mali-400MP GPU. By having this kind of CPU specification, the users have been promised for a satisfactory of running a hard task. To support the processor’s work, Galaxy S2 has been blessed with a 1GB of RAM. There are two options of Galaxy S2’s onboard storage offered by Samsung; they are the 16 and 32GB.
Either Samsung Galaxy S2 or the HTC Sensation XL are supporting for an external storage up to 32GB.
The winner for the CPU comparison is Samsung Galaxy S2.
3. Display comparison between Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation XL
Here it is, the section where the South Korean manufacturer rarely lost, the display battle. For this section, Samsung Galaxy S2 offers a 4.3-inch Super AMOLED Plus with a resolution of 480×800, pixel density of 217ppi and Gorilla Glass. The display shows its quality through the responsiveness. So, the Galaxy S2 through its screen has just sent another message to its competitor.
Meanwhile, the HTC Sensation XL tries to defense with offering the future users a 4.7-inch Super-LCD with 480×800 pixels of screen resolution and 199ppi of pixel density. If we compare this screen with the Galaxy S2’s, it will be looked average though it is reportedly so responsive.
In the third round of comparison where we compare the screen of both devices, we can see that HTC Sensation has to make admission that the Galaxy S2’s screen is better. The winner for the screen comparison is Samsung Galaxy S2.
4. Camera comparison between Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation XL
To those who use a smartphone to capture a picture frequently, a powerful camera seems to be a feature that is considered to be a must-feature on their device.
Considering to the statement above, Samsung Galaxy S2 offers its future users an 8-megapixel primary camera features autofocus, touch-focus, geo-tagging, face & smile detection and image stabilisation, plus an LED flash and 1080P video capture. The camera reportedly shows a solid performance despite there is lacking on a hardware shutter button.
Samsung Galaxy S2 also supports for an ability to be used for video chatting through its 2 megapixel of secondary camera that is reportedly working quite well.
As for the camera battle, the Sensation XL relies on the 8-megapixel autofocus primary camera that is supported with some features like Geo-tagging, dual-LED flash and 720P video capture. Just like the competitor, HTC Sensation XL also offers an option for capturing images from its 1.3 megapixel secondary camera.
Compared to the Samsung phone’s camera, the Sensation XL’s camera has fewer features to be offered for optimizing the captured image and this is the way how the Galaxy S2 won the camera battle over the HTC’s phone.
5. Software comparison between Samsung Galaxy S2 and HTC Sensation XL
There is no battle if we compare the operating system run on both devices as they run on the same Google’s Android 2.3.4. So let’s find the winner of software comparison with comparing their custom UIs.
HTC Sensation XL, just like the other HTC’s manufactured devices, has been blessed with the manufacturer’s Sense User Interface. As so many HTC fans know, the Sense UI is a custom overlay which has almost single-handedly raised Android’s profile since it was first released.
As for the features, the Sense UI offers some additions including icons, widgets, apps and social networking integration. There is also a support for better sound quality through ‘Beats’ audio. But, even though the new support for enhancing the sound quality has been added to the Sensation XL through ‘Beats’, it still cannot beat the iPod so far.
As for the comparison, Samsung Galaxy S2 has been blessed with Samsung’s TouchWiz UI version 4.0. Up to know, it still not compare to Sense, but Samsung will do more to develop their User Interface.
Samsung TouchWiz UI offers custom widgets, icons and eye-candy and other features such as KIES Air app that is very useful to access your device over Wi-Fi, without need for cables and hassles. The highlighted feature that is offered by the device is Samsung’s ‘hubs’. Through this feature the device users will enjoy integration with their social networking, exclusive games and books and newspapers.
Compared to the TouchWiz UI of Samsung, the HTC’s Sense UI seems more interesting and is resulted to the Sensation XL’s victory.
6. Final Result
As we can see the result from five sections of comparison, the Samsung’s phone comes out as the winner. But, the device doesn’t seal the victory easily as the competitor keep fighting to the end of the battle. Samsung Galaxy S2 has successfully won this comparison over the Sensation XL of HTC through its powerful specification of display and camera. Super AMOLED Plus once again proves to be the Samsung’s deadly weapon to defeat the challengers.
In the meantime, HTC Sensation XL has to admit that the competitor offers more than it does. Actually, the HTC’s phone is very close to the title with offering the future users a great UI and well balanced build, but it is failed to take over the tittle from the champ.
Once again, the final result goes to Samsung Galaxy S2. But it is nothing to the HTC fans as they might still think that the HTC Sensation XL is the winner of the comparison.
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