HTC Sensation XL is the ideal smartphone-tablet all in one, but why no dual-core?
The recently unveiled HTC Sensation XL is a bit of a weird handset. On the one hand, it sports a unibody enclosure and Beats Audio just like the HTC Sensation XE, but builds on this handset with a whopping 4.7-inch display and an even thinner body. Whilst all of this sounds like the perfect cross between the tablet and smartphone and an ample reason to just use this one device, it only sports a single-core 1.5GHz processor which whilst admittedly nippy, won’t be able to show the same performance as the smaller screened dual-core 1.5GHz Sensation XE or even original Sensation.
This downgrade in processor has been implemented to make way for the thinner design of the XL, however the Sensation and Sensation XE are pretty thin handsets anyway, and with the extra screen real estate the XL provides why no dual-core? Surely this device will be heavily used for gaming, web browsing and multitasking?. Well one clue as to why the Sensation XL only sports a single core processor is because it has 786MB of integrated RAM, which should make it pretty good for system heavy usage such as multiple browser tabs and HTC’s Sense UI. With all the latest tablets and smartphones on the market though that make use of dual-core processors, is the Sensation XL really going to be worth buying, considering the XE is such a capable handset?
We’ll leave this one over to you.
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