According to some experts, the HTC Sensation XE is the most powerful Android smartphone in the market today. What about the Samsung Galaxy Nexus that’s slowly taking the world by storm with its latest OS – Android Ice Cream Sandwich? Which do you think of these two phones with dual -core processors is a much better choice? In this article you will be reading about the features and specs of the mentioned devices and discover which one suit you best.
Display and Design
The HTC Sensation XE is offering a 4.3-inch S-LCD capacitive touchscreen display with 256ppi pixel density while the Galaxy Nexus comes in a bit bigger display of 4.7-inch Super AMOLED screen with higher 316ppi pixel density. HTC’s resolution is 540×960 pixels and Samsung’s is 720×1280 pixel, thus providing a truly high definition screen. These two phones have the same accelerometer, proximity as well as a gyro sensor with the last one responsible for improving the gaming experience since it’s able to detect the player’s moves and gestures.
The screen of the Sensation XE is protected from scratches with Corning Corilla Glass while the Galaxy Nexus handset is supported by oleophobic coating. Between the two smartphones, it’s the Sensation XE which is thicker, heavier, narrower and shorter. Both phones have capacitive touch screen displays, support multi touch input and they have up to 16M colors support too.
Operating System
In this arena, the winner is Samsung Galaxy Nexus with the newest Ice Cream Sandwich for the operating system-the first phone in the world to have this Android technology. The HTC Sensation XE on the other hand, runs on Android v 2.3.4 or the Gingerbread OS which, according to the manufacturer will be receiving the new Android OS update in soon. The HTC Sense has its own Sense UI which is specifically designed by the engineers of the company to provide excellent gesture support.
Hardware and Memory
Scorpion dual processor clocked at 1.5GHz supported by the Qualcomm MSM8260 Snapdragon chipset and GPI of Adreno 220-is the hardware specification for the Sensation XE. Meanwhile, the Galaxy Nexus is clocked at 1.2GHz dual core processor Cortex A9 which works perfectly with the TI OMAP 4460 chipset. Also, this smartphone uses an efficient PowerVR SGX540 GPU.
The built in memory for the Sensation XE is 4GB and from which, only 1GB is available to use. It’s just a good thing that memory expansion is an option of up to 32GB. The Nexus’ internal memory is fixed at 16GB.
Overall, the HTC Sensation XE smartphone will make a good choice for those who are searching for a device which offers an amazing multimedia experience like TV shows and movies to watch. The Galaxy Nexus will make a great choice for smartphone users who would like to try how cool the Ice Cream Sandwich OS is because it’s the only one in the world equipped with this latest Android technology.