For those of you who know me pretty well, it should be no shock to hear that I bought a new phone. For the past several years I’ve undertaken a quest to find the perfect phone (for me, at least). Having just picked up the HTC Sensation 4G, I think I might have found the holy grail.
Although excited for the 15th to arrive so that I could pick up a Sensation at the T-Mobile store, the other night I learned that some Wal-Mart stores were selling their stock early. As much as I despise Wal-Mart, I was going to give them a pass for the 30 minutes it took for me to walk through their store, buy the phone, and quickly exit. I felt cheap and dirty afterward, but I had my phone.
Once home, I fired her up. Wow! This phone is fast! The high-res qHD screen is gorgeous and easy on the eyes. A few months ago I gave the Motorola Atrix 4G a spin and the qHD screen it had just plain sucked. Aside from the fantastic display, the dual-core processor and Sense 3.0 made the phone very snappy. Screen transitions, animations, video, and apps all seem to run at blazing speeds… very impressive.
The build quality of the phone is terrific, too. I’m digging the curved display and unibody back case. The phone is much thinner than I had expected. In fact, before seeing the phone I thought it was going to be nothing more than a rebranded HTC Thunderbolt. I was wrong. Thinner than the Thunderbolt, the Sensation feels good in the hand and is pretty light, although very solid. HTC definitely hit one out of the park.
Having given it a run for the past coupe of days, I’m very happy with my purchase. There’s one quirk with connectivity, as it seems sometimes to take a little while to establish a data connection to T-Mobile’s 4G network. I think this can be fixed with a simple software fix. Speaking of software, I’m eagerly awaiting an HTC update to unlock the bootloader. I’m happy with the stock ROM, but would love to root this thing and remove the bloatware.
All in all, however, a great phone that I’m sure will keep me happy until the next great thing comes around 
EDIT: Someone posted a fix to address the connectivity issues… smokin’!
