LG Optimus Black vs HTC Sensation
We take a look at how the new HTC Sensation stacks up against LG’s new Optimus Black
We compare the LG Optimus Black to HTC’s Sensation.
Form:
LG Optimus Black – 122x64x9.2mm, 109g
HTC Sensation – 126.1×65.4×11.3mm, 148g
The Sensation is one of HTC’s most up-to-date looking handsets and the company seems to have paid attention to many of the current industry trend with more and more smartphones being thinner, longer and cleaner in design.
However, the Sensation still retains the distinctive HTC aesthetic and has opted for rounder corners rather than keeping everything angular. There’s not a great deal that can be said about the design, it’s not bad looking but it isn’t exactly ground-breaking either and at 148g it’s a reasonably heavy device too.
The LG is smaller, thinner and lighter as well as going the whole hog on the contemporary visuals front with its boxier, obelisk-like design, but we feel it has paid off and works very well in its favour.
It looks more premium and that’s what we like to see.
Winner – LG Optimus Black
Storage:
The LG has 2GB of internal storage for contacts, games, apps and multimedia while 512MB of RAM backs up the phone’s processor. Micro SD cards are supported up to 32GB.
Storage space isn’t the Sensation’s strong point and it falls down against many other current handsets here with only 1GB of onboard capacity, however, there is some slight redemption with the 768MB of RAM to make things run smoothly while card support is the same as the LG with Micro SD up to 32GB and an 8GB card provided as standard.
As both phones have less than 1GB of RAM we feel the internal storage space is the deciding factor and as the LG has twice that of the HTC it’s a clear winner in this round.
Winner – LG Optimus Black
Display:
The Optimus Black’s display is a 4-inch IPS LCD Nova capacitive touchscreen with a 480×800 pixels resolution and 233 pixels-per-inch (ppi). Features-wise it’s only got an accelerometer but has both the Optimus 2.0 user interface (UI) and the Gesture 2.0 touchscreen interface preloaded.
The Sensation uses a Sony-manufactured S-LCD capacitive touchscreen at a slightly larger 4.3-inches and with a resolution of 540×960 pixels at 256ppi. It’s a lot of numbers but they’re all a bit better than the LG’s stats. The display features toughened ‘Gorilla Glass’ while the phone comes preloaded with the HTC Sense 3.0 UI and features the usual multi-touch input, accelerometer and gyro sensors.
We think HTC has done quite a bit better than LG here and the Sensation’s display is the more desirable of the two.
Winner – HTC Sensation
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