Best Buy HTC Sensation XE With Beats Audio GSM Smartphone

HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audiocomes inbox with custom made Beats headsets, engineered to deliver extraordinary sound. The specially tuned software and user interface delivers the ultimate mobile audio experience we know you’ll appreciate. Featuring an aluminum unibody construction and designed with touches of red, the phone feels premium and looks beautiful inside and out. The handset gets running speed from its 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, Adreno 220 GPU, Qualcomm MSM 8260 Snapdragon that is powered with the Google Android v2.3.4 (Gingerbread) operating system. HTC Sensation XE is lighter in weight as only of 151 grams with 4.3 inches of Super LCD capacitive touch screen display to provide the resolution of 540 x 960 pixels. The 8.0 mega pixels of camera got dual LED flash with some more features like Auto Focus, digital Zoom, video recording of 1080p and resolution of 3264 x 2448 pixels.

Phone has internal memory of 4GB but only 1GB is available for user and memory can be expanded up to 32 GB with external microSD card slot.HTC has formally announced the refreshed version of their Sensation handset.  Called the Sensation XE with Beats Audio, it’s exactly the type of smart phone that we expected it would be.  Details include a dual-core 1.5GHz processor 768MB RAM,a 4.3-inch qHD display, an 8-megapixel camera (rear), and a VGA front-facing camera. The Sensation XE runs Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread with HTC Sense 3.0 over the top, and comes boxed with either 8GB or 16GB microSD cards.

We had some hands-on time with HTC's new European Android flagship a short while back, but it wasn't nearly enough to answer all our questions about how the 4.3-inch, 1.5GHz dual-core XE compares to the original 1.2GHz Sensation, or whether the implementation of Beats Audio was anything more than a cunning scheme cooked up between the manufacturer's marketeers and Dr. Dre's agent. Now, though, this phone has been our closest companion for long enough to reveal its true colors. They're red, primarily, but there's a whole rainbow of detail right after the break.

HTC Sensation

Key Features

2G Network    -           GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900

3G Network    -           HSDPA 900 / 2100

                        -           HSDPA 900 / 1700 / 2100

Announced      -           2011, September

Status              -           Available. Released 2011, October

Card slot         -           microSD, up to 32GB

Internal           -           4 GB (1 GB user available), 768 MB RAM

Bluetooth        -           Yes, v3.0 with A2DP

USB                -           Yes, microUSB (MHL) v2.0