HTC Sensation XL

Specifications

Design

The HTC Sensation XL measures 132.5 x 70.7 x 9.9 mm, not considerably bigger than handsets with 4.3-inch screens. It weighs 162.5 grams, some 14.5 grams heavier than the HTC Sensation. It has a 4.7-inch display; there's a front-facing 1.3 MP video-call camera, a proximity sensor and an ambient light sensor alongside a charging/notification LED that remains invisible when it is off at the upper bezel of the display and there are four capacitive touch keys for the Menu, Option, Back and Search functions at the lower bezel of the display.

The back of the device was made almost entirely of aluminium; there is an 8 MP camera lens sitting between a dual LED flash combo and a loudspeaker at the back. On the side frame; there is a microUSB port at the left side, there is a volume rocker at the right side; there is a 3.5 mm audio jack, a secondary microphone for active noise cancellation and a power/lock button at the top and there is a microphone at the bottom. The back panel is removable; however, the device doesn't have a microSD card slot for memory expansion.

Hardware

The HTC Sensation XL features Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8255 SoC with 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Scorpion CPU, 768 MB RAM, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, FM radio, Bluetooth 3.0, GPS, and 16 GB of internal storage. The device also features a standard array of sensors including a digital compass, proximity sensor, gyroscope, accelerometer and ambient light sensor. It has a 4.7 inch S-LCD display with 480x800 pixels (WVGA) resolution, 16:10 aspect ratio, 199 ppi pixel density and Gorilla Glass protective glass. It has an 8 MP rear camera with 28 mm focal length, 3264x2448 pixels resolution and f/2.2 aperture. The rear camera is coupled with dual LED flash and capable of 720p video recording at 30 fps. It also has a 1.3 MP front-facing camera.

Battery

The HTC Sensation XL is powered by a 1600 mAh Li-Ion removable battery, which can last 40 hours when subjected to general usage. The battery life was substantial during 3G calls – nine hours and thirty minutes, longer than the advertised six hours and fifty minutes. The Sensation XL lasts for around five hours and twenty minutes during web browsing with Wi-Fi, and around six hours and ten minutes when watching videos.

Software

The HTC Sensation XL features the Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread mobile operating system with the HTC Sense 3.5 user interface. Like its elder sibling, HTC Sensation XE, the Sensation XL was the second phone produced by HTC to have integrated Beats Audio sound enhancer. On May 29, 2012, HTC Sensation XL received an upgrade to Android 4.0.3 Ice Cream Sandwich and HTC Sense 3.6 user interface.

References

Works cited

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