As we already know, new smartphones will always come out to the surface with bringing more excitements through their features and specifications. Recently, the South Korean phone manufacturer announced their new phone that is called with Galaxy Nexus. Let’s see how good this new phone if compared it with HTC’s enhanced Sensation XE. Read on this article to find the winner of the battle of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus and HTC Sensation XE.
Phone comparison between Galaxy Nexus and HTC Sensation XE
1. Form Comparison
HTC Sensation XE is measured at 126.1×65.4×11.3mm and 151g of weight. The device heritage the company’s typical design, rounded-off design which is also combined with lengthy proportions and stylish red accents that makes the device looked more beautiful. Compare to the competitor, the Sensation XE is looked bigger and thicker as it also has 16g heavier of weight.
In the meantime, the competitor, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus comes with an elongated design plus a combination of curve shaped on each corner. Apart from that, when compared to the HTC’s phone, the Galaxy Nexus seems to be more comfortable in the user’s hand due to it is designed curvier than the competitor. The Samsung made phone also offers thinner body than the Sensation XE, it is measured at only 8.9mm.
The result for this section goes to Galaxy Nexus as the Samsung made phone has succeed to perform more elegant appearance between the two combatants.
2. Display comparison
To those who always concern, here is the good news for you guys. Both Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus and HTC Sensation XE are equipped with large screens.
For this section, the HTC side trusts a 4.3-inch S-LCD capacitive touchscreen at a resolution of 540×960 pixels to be the Sensation XE’s screen. The pixel density of the device’s screen is quite high, measured at 256 pixels-per-inch (ppi). Regarding to the battery usage, Sony’s S-LCD technology is similar to Samsung’s Super Amoled, it has been blessed with an ability to save more energy and also to be a brighter display with richer colors.
The HTC Sensation XE’s display is supported by few features such as multi-touch, an accelerometer and gyro sensor to enable screen rotation.
Meanwhile, the opposite side comes to the surface with bigger screen than Sensation XE’s. It is a 4.6-inches display with resolution of 720×1280 pixels and then the resolution leads to the pixel density that is boasted to 316ppi.
Just like the competitor’s screen, the Super Amoled HD screen tech offers a more energy efficient and brighter display with richer colors. The curved glass that is attached on the capacitive screen of Galaxy Nexus has been covered with oleophobic to avoid fingerprints. Just like featured on competitor’s screen, the Super Amoled display of Galaxy Nexus also supports multi-touch input, accelerometer and gyro sensors.
Actually, this round is pretty tight as the two combatants offer beautiful display. But, due to the Google Nexus offers larger size display with high resolution and amazing pixel density, there is no doubt for this time that Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus comes out as the winner for the second time.
3. Storage comparison
To the device users who frequently keep a lot of files in their device, it is important to them to opt a device that supports more spaces through either the device’s internal storage or the external storage.
There will be two variants of Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus available on market; they are the 16GB version and the 32GB version. Both variants will also be supported with 1GB of RAM to maintain the performance.
Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus does not support for memory card, so the users will be stuck to the variant they have chosen.
On the contrary, HTC Sensation XE has been supported with what the competitor has missed. It has a card slot that can be used for external storage through microSD card support for up to 32 GB. As for the device’s in-built storage, it has 4GB of onboard storage but only a mere 1GB of this is user accessible. Apart from that, it also has been supported with RAM to help keep things running smoothly. But, compare to the Samsung made phone’s RAM, the Sensation XE only offers a smaller of RAM at 768MB.
For the storage comparison, both Sensation XE and Galaxy Nexus actually offer more or less the same amount of space, but to be honest, an onboard storage is much more stable and a bit faster too than the external storage.
So, for once more, the HTC Sensation XE has to admit that Galaxy Nexus offers more than it does.
4. Processor comparison
If we talked about the device performance when running task, we need to take our time for doing a research through the device’s specification as both the performance and specification are related tightly.
In order to win this section, HTC Sensation XE offers a dual core Qualcomm processor clocked at 1.5GHz on the MSM8260 Snapdragon chipset and an Adreno 220 graphics processing unit. Those specs seem to offer nice performance of the device.
In the meantime, Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus has been supported with quite powerful specifications such as ARM Cortex-A9 1.2GHz dual core processor but the chipset and GPU aren’t quite as cutting edge with the TI OMAP 4460 chipset and a PowerVR SGX540 GPU.
Actually, as a premium handset, Samsung’s made phone has offered quite good specifications. However, it is unfortunately being compared with the Sensation XE that offers better specifications of processor. So, this round has been won by HTC Sensation XE.
5. Operating System comparison
As for this round, actually both Galaxy Nexus and the Sensation XE are running the same Google’s operating system, Android OS. But the version of Android they run is different. When the HTC phone runs on Android 2.3 Gingerbread, the Galaxy Nexus is going to be released as well as introduce the new version of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
As so many Android fans have known, Android 2.3 Gingerbread can get along with dual core device just like it does with the Sensation XE. However, as an update normally offer to the device users, the Ice Cream Sandwich seems to offer more features than its predecessor. So, the Gingerbread can be said as the stepping stone to its successor.
The biggest lacking we can spot on the Gingerbread is despite offering better native web browser than the previous version, in term of terms of smooth scrolling and pinch zoom, was still a little on the slow side and also lacked any kind of tabbed browsing. Lucky to the Android fans as the developer has improved everything that lack on the previous version of Android with bringing the Android 4.0 to the surface.
However, though there is a gap between the Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, both of them still offer an efficient and fluid multi-tasking. Apart from that, thanks to some handy app-switching interface controls that makes the Ice Cream Sandwich becomes more user friendly.
So, due to there are some improvements have made by the developers in form of Ice Cream Sandwich, this round goes to Samsung.
6. Camera Comparison
Camera seems to be something that must be featured by the recently released phone and apart from that, to some future users, camera is included to their consideration when buying a new phone.
In this section, HTC Sensation XE tries to attract the future user’s attention by offering 8-megapixels of camera that boasts a resolution of 3264×2448 pixels. Apart from offering the main camera, it also has a VGA camera as secondary camera that can be used for video calling.
The camera of Sensation XE is also offering 1080p HD video capture ability with stereo sound record. As for the additions, the camera has been equipped with autofocus, touch focus, geo-tagging and dual LED flash as well as image stabilisation, face detection and instant capture.
As for the comparison, Galaxy Nexus unfortunately only offers a 5-megapixel primary at 2592×1936 pixels. There is also a support for video calling through its 1.3-megapixel secondary camera. The video capture ability of this camera is 1080p HD and in order to increase the picture quality, the manufacturer has decided to add some features like LED flash, autofocus, touch focus, face detection and geo-tagging.
The result for the camera comparison goes to HTC Sensation XE.
7. Final Result
As we can read on each section of comparison, the two combatants are able to beat each other. The Samsung’s Google Nexus impressed us with bringing better operating system, a better display and a snazzier design, but in the meantime, the Sensation XE offers a stronger processor, better camera and nice display.
So, it is the time for you to make a decision, which one you are going to buy?
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