The Excellent Htc Sensation Has Handy Social Networking Options

By Author: Chris Westley
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The powerful new HTC Sensation is among the most advanced smartphones available. With the like of a dual-core processor and an 8 megapixel camera, this Android powerhouse appeals to everyone from the smartphone novice to the technology enthusiast. In this article I will focus on the social networking features included on this phone.

Social networking is a major part of the daily lives of millions of people. Most smartphones now include apps and widgets which allow users to stay connected to their friends, families and co-workers no matter where they are, via their favourite social networking sites.

The HTC Sensation comes with Facebook and Twitter apps installed as standard, providing a convenient way to stay in touch. The Facebook application is used by millions of people on the Android OS as well as iOS on the iPhone and many other operating systems such as Nokia’s Symbian and Sony Ericsson’s TimeScape ad well as several others. The HTC Sensation allows users to update statuses, edit profile information and read and send messages simply through its intuitive touchscreen operation. In fact you can carry out ...
... about every activity that you can on a desktop computer.

The same is true of the Twitter application. This allows users to carry out tasks such as post new updates (known as tweets) as well as browse your followers list as well as people you are following.

But one thing that sets the HTC Sensation apart (and other HTC handsets with the Sense user interface, for that matter) is the ingenious FriendStream application. This allows users to merge feeds from both Facebook and Twitter into a single feed which can be assigned to one of the 7 customisable homescreens. The beauty of this app is that you can view feeds from both social networks on one interface without having to log into each site individually, and everything is displayed chronologically regardless of its source.

As you can see, the HTC Sensation has plenty to offer the avid social networker but the rest of its spec list is also seriously impressive. The general performance of the phone is superb thanks largely to its 1.2 GHz dual-core processor. This offers numerous benefits from ensuring that the 4.3 inch S-LCD capacitive touchscreen responds instantly, to making web pages load straight away. The latest version of Android OS (v2.3 aka Gingerbread) offers an easy to use and customisable interface with access to thousands of apps from the Android Market. The 8 megapixel camera is capable capturing high quality still images as well as 1080p high definition video.

The HTC Sensation offers the best technology available in just about every department and it is hard to find something to dislike about this phone. It is available on most major UK networks with some deals even throwing in the handset itself for free.

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