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HTC Sensation 4G Review - A Sensational Smartphoneby Brian Klug on 7/1/2011 12:38 AM EST
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GrizzledYoungMan - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkAnd did you nail her or what? Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI'm not even sure how to respond, lol. She's my GF ;)
-Brian Reply
prophet001 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkwhat a screwed up baseless comment Reply
seapeople - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkIt actually wasn't baseless. His comment was inspired by a picture in the article. You should read more closely. Reply
yelped - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkYou left you cellphone number on the Sense 3.0 page, on the notification screenshot under voicemail. :) Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkThat's not actually my number, just this loaner device ;)
-Brian Reply
yelped - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkGood :) When do you think Anand will be ready with his Evo 3d review? Also, do you know if there is a HTC phone with a hardware keyboard based on the Qualcomm 8660 being released soon on Sprint?
Thanks! Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkAnand will finish up the EVO 3D review next week most likely. He's been under the weather this week, but next is the target.
I honestly don't know about an MSM8660 based phone with keyboard coming soon. MSM8260 on T-Mobile with keyboard is coming with the MyTouch 4G Slide though.
-Brian Reply
Pratheek - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkSince qHD will soon be the default resolution in high end smartphones, I would like to see how qHD S-LCD fares with qHD (SAMOLED+) with RGB stripe layout with slight adjustment in maximum brightness & white point levels... Reply
iamkyle - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkPics or it didn't happen ;) Reply
StormyParis - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkand I was looking forward to getting the Sensation, especially for its big, high-rez screen.
I'm thinking of going the Galaxy S 2 route instead:
- GS2 is much lighter (115 vs 150 grams). Less sagging pants and shirt pockets sound really nice (I currently have a 155g HD2)
- screen seems better: fewer pixels, but much better contrast and angles
- Samsung actively supports CM7, I'm not even sure if the Sensation is unlocked (HTC says they're no longer locking, I don't know if originally locked devices get an unlock)
- everything else seems broadly the same. camera maybe a bit better on the GS2 Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI personally think the HTC Sensation looks much nicer than the Galaxy S II, and it also provides all 4 Android buttons, which is more useful.
Also, Sense 3 is a genuinely nice addition, so I REALLY don't understand the lust for AOSP based ROMs.
I know which phone I'll be recommending if people ask me... Reply
kaworu1986 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI actually registered just to post this, and here it goes:
Sense (and the other skins) just need to DIE: they're bloated, ugly and inefficient (not to mention introduce bugs that stock Android does not have); worse than that, they are way of creating vendor lock-in and force users to upgrade hardware by withholding Android updates (a very clever trick to neuter one of the greatest advantages of Android, its open source nature).
Why can't OEMs just stick to do their job? People complain about the crapware OEMs install on PCs (which at least you can uninstall or just format) and somehow this is OK? Also, commodization is exactly what makes the PC ecosystem great: customers can shop around for the best price for their performance needs without having to worry about their devices being left without a software upgrade path or features unavailable. And with phone makers locking their bootloaders the last way of getting out of their death grip, custom ROMs, are being taken away from us.
Finally, I'd much rather rely on software written by a good software company (Apple, MS, Google) with 100s of engineers dedicated to the project than the much smaller team an OEM can afford to put on the job. Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkWell, I have a Desire HD, rooted, s-off, I can put whatever the hell I want on it...
Oh, and I choose to use a sense based ROM with Sense 3. I've had a phone with pure CyanogenMod, it's all well and good, the point is, as long as the phone isn't horribly locked, and xda-dev get their dirty mitts on it, you can have whatever yo uwant! Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkOh, that said, I don't use the launcher. I use Launcher Pro. Reply
Chloiber - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkExactly the same here, except I'm using a Desire (non-HD). I really like Sense. I rooted the phone about one year ago and was using Stock Android ROMs a lot. I really liked it. Now I returned to a Sense 2.1-3.0 mix and I like it even more. Some things are simply better with Sense. I also replaced the launcher with LauncherPro (also on Stock Android) because it gives you a really nice, smooth experience. In this regard, pretty much every stock browser, be it Sense or stock Android have failed thus far.
Strange that Brightness, Airplane Mode and Screen Rotation is missing, as it is included in Sense 2.1 (for example Desire S). But you probably already knew that, as you listed exactly the 3 things that are included there... :-) Reply
shabby - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkAosp ui is pretty archaic compared to touchwiz/sense, it lacks a lot of features that makes the phone more user friendly to the average person.
Compare the aosp lockscreen to the sense3 lockscreen, which do you think the average person would want? Compare the widgets from touchwiz4 to the widgets of aosp... oh wait there aren't any in aosp. Catch my drift? Majority of users aren't like you and me that want a plain aosp/cm7 phone, so sense/touchwiz will never die, top selling phones will never be plain google aosp phones because that's not what majority of the public wants. Reply
JasonInofuentes - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkI think it's important to keep in mind that AOSP was designed with UI modifications in mind. It's not like HTC/Moto/Sammy/LG/Lenovo/Sony got their hands on source and went to work altering it against Goog's wishes. They wanted to be supportive of modifications to the OS from corporations and amateurs alike.
Yes, the course was lost as manufacturers delayed updates in order to implement their UI, and some of the UIs were buggy, but then again lots of popular custom ROMS are buggy and users still love them. The point is, if there's value added, which in the case of Sense 3.0 and, by reports, the new Blur then it might be worth the cost to many. But devs should work with Google to make sure that their skins add without being too deleterious. Where I think all OEM devs should back off is in integrating social media streams; unless your implementation is decidedly better than the best social media apps then it's likely going to be a redundant, unwelcome presence. Reply
mikehunt80 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI don't think I've ever used the search button in previous devices, but I guess that's personal preference.
I tried out the Sensation before buying the Galaxy S2. There was absolutely no contest. The S2 felt snappier browsing the web (A9 is 25% quicker clock for clock vs. A8/snapdragon), much lighter and nicer to hold without feeling cheap or creaking and I thought the screen on the Sensation was fairly poor in comparison. On top of that the S2 will play absolutely any video you throw at it, I'm told it'll even play 1080p mkvs and my 720p mkv Avatar makes people's jaws drop on the S-Amoled+ screen.
The Sense launcher is nice, but I use Go Launcher EX, which has most of the features of the Sense and is almost infinitely customizable. The Sense lock widgets screen looks nice, but is useless is you use pattern or pin lock.
Both great phones, but the S2 to the more rounded device for me. Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkGood point on the video compatibility.
It best bloody play 1080p mkv though, since my dirt cheap chinese tablet (<$200) can play 1080p mkv without any pauses.
That's one thing a lot of the top tier devices miss, and I agree that that actually swings things in favour of the Galaxy S II.. Reply
mikehunt80 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkYeah, nvidia need a slap for leaving h264 main/high out of their hardware codec in Tegra 2 and not bothering to add Neon.
Cardinal sin! Reply
metafor - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkDICE player allowed you to play 1080p mkv on the Sensation. I've even played Blu-ray rips, though not at really high bitrates (20mbps I believe). Reply
ph00ny - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linksearch button can be triggered by holding the menu button also having the physical home button also means no accidental tiggers Reply
nraudigy2 - Saturday, July 09, 2011 - linkS2 will play 1080 Adobe Flash video. Sensation will get up to 720, but G2X and Optimus only play 480p. Reply
ph00ny - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI've been recommending sensation over GSII just so that i will be the only one with GSII...
But anyone that has tried both devices have said GSII is noticeably quicker that includes the Tmobile employee that was letting me test drive the device while she played with mine Reply
Chloiber - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkThere are 2 negative points regarding the Sensation which keep me from buying the phone:
1. As you mentioned, the space between the display and the case. Many users already got dirt and dust under their display.
2. Choppy performance. It's a dualcore phone and the browser is still very choppy - I can't live with that. I don't buy a DC phone just to see choppy browsing.
At the same time, other high end phones like the Galaxy S2 suffer from huge problems too. The praised display has huge drawbacks. A yellowish tint and gradient from left to right and huge banding issues. It's very well documented on XDA.
I expect those things on mediocre phones. But choppy browsing performance despite a DC SoC or problems with the display (be it dirt or just a crappy display) are a no go for a super high end smart phone for me. So I'll probably wait for the next Nexus. Reply
piroroadkill - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkTry Opera Mobile. Reply
Chloiber - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkTrue, Opera mobile is really smooth, even on my Desire. I'm still somewhat disappointed in the browsing experience on stock Sense. Reply
Myrandex - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkThat's one of the things I love about Windows Phone 7. The smoothness of the platform, even on older hardware, is amazing. When comparing it with an Android phone back when I purchased (last November) my LG Quantum, and the Android device actually had better hardware, the choppiness was unreal. I would hope that it would be better with these DC phones but it doesn't seem to be the case.
Jason Reply
Will Robinson - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkNice review guys,wondering why the Samsung Galaxy S wasn't included in any of the benchmarking? Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkWe're still waiting for an SGS2, hopefully we will get one soon from Samsung USA and be able to compare it in its final form.
Take care,
Brian Reply
sam46 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkbrian,
this is one of the few reviews which have praised sensation.but in my view your review is the best.
i am saying this because i believe that unlike other reviewers you not only test mobile phones in your lab but also use them as in daytoday life as a normal user.this gives a better impression of the devices which you review.
many reviewers have given more praises to sgs2 than sensation.they have based their views with the limited time which they had with the devices that too in their testing labs.but i believe that in real world usage sensation makes more sense than sgs2.and this has happened before with their older brothers that is desire and sgs.the reviewers had given more praises to the sgs but the actual users prefered desire over sgs.
though samsung devices looks great on paper,users get frustated with their handsets.
apart from htc in my view hp makes better handsets.lately they are catching up with the hardware but their design sucks.for example take pre3,may be its design makes more sense while handling and using it,but its looks are not good enough to make a good impression.now that they are putting single core1.4ghz processor in pre3,but still they are behind the competition of dualcores.but i do believe that pre3 will give a tough competition to all the dual core phones in terms of speed and performance because of a very light os that is the webos. webos is unarguably the best os out there which is slick and fast,easy to use interface,better management of memory,provides true multitasking,provides a great
feature like just type, and a best notification system.webos is very very light when compare to ios and android,so i think it doesnt need a dual core processor and 1gb of ram.it can perform better than ios and android even with a single core processor and 512mb ram.but hp needs to work on better designs to give a better impression of their devices.
by the way,congratulations brian for this great article.pls tell me what do you think of the observations i made above. Reply
StormyParis - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkYou need to be specific: what hidden drawbacks do Samsung's phones have ? and what hidden qualities, HTC's ?
Disclaimer: my current HTC HD2 is the first phone I'm happy with in ages. I had junk from Motorola, LG, and Nokia before that had serious design flaws, plenty of bugs, bad support... or rather, all of the above. My HTC just worked from day one, now it's started a second life under CM7, and I'm very happy with it 2 yrs on.
I was looking foward to buying a Sensation. But the lighter weight, on the whole, better screen, and better moddability f the GS2 are on the verge of convincing me to buy that, instead. Reply
sam46 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkRead the review of droid charge by brian klug.He clearly mentioned that samoled+ has some serious problems such as overheating,yellowish tint and oversaturated colours.It is the slimmest smartphone in the world,but according to many users sensation is better to handle.Due to its wait and built quality it feels solid in the hand.And also remember that sgs2 is made of plastic.
To know what drawbacks samsung phones have you need to do some googling.Just search for
defects of sgs and sgs2. Reply
bigboxes - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkPlease capitalize your sentences. It was quite the chore trying to read your post. If you want to be taken seriously you need to remember to correctly use those writing rules you learned in school. Reply
sam46 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linksorry,i am from a non english speaking country.despite that i can write pretty good english,isn't it? Reply
SimKill - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkDo you still not capitalize stuff in your language? I'm a non-native English speaker too, and my language doesn't even have capital and small letters. I still make an effort to write well so that I can convey my message as clearly as possible. Reply
sam46 - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkI will :) Reply
Speed3mon - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkbigboxes... gAy Reply
Visual - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkWait, what? Having white appear as red is accurate color now?
BTW the Galaxy S II gives users a few choices of color calibration even with stock FW. And just wait and see what the hacked ones do... Reply
Chloiber - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkIt's just a warmer white. On AMOLED displays, the white is very blueish (at least in the tested display in this article. Some like it "colder", some "warmer". And yes: AMOLED still produces way too oversaturated colors. It's like turning contrast way too high on your TV (that's often the setting in the shops). People go "Aaahh, look at those colors!" but in reality it's just horrible.
The best way to find out is watching a football game. If the green color of the field burns through your eyes, it's wrong ;) Reply
hechacker1 - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkIt's only yellow/redish in comparison to a that blueish AMOLED. Given a few minutes with the device (not comparing it side-by-side with another) your eyes will adjust to that white temperature.
Technically, the internet color-space is designed to be 6500K. So you should want your screen to match that for color accuracy.
Sunlight is closer to 6500K than 8000K for comparison. Ideally the screen would have the full spectrum of the Sun. In reality we can only get an approximation. Reply
jaydee - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkBattery life was better web browsing on 4G, than browsing on Wifi? How can that be?! Reply
metafor - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI thought that curious too. Hopefully it's a software issue that will be fixed in upcoming updates. I'd hate to think that the WiFi radio actually consumes more power than HSPA+. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkIt's confusing to me as well, and something we're starting to see on a few devices lately. I was very puzzled by the result, ran that test twice and still got the same result.
-Brian Reply
Stuka87 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkLucky guy!
And great review. HTC has come such a long ways. I definitely consider the Sense UI to be far nicer than that of base Android or other OEM's. Reply
rahvin - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI haven't used Sense on Android but I have used it on Windows mobile and liked it. But you should really take a look at some of what Engadget found in regards to what Sense does to battery life. It's quite astounding really, in some phones it caused a 50% drop in battery life. Reply
poohbear - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkWhen are you guys gonna review the Samsung Galaxy S2?? that's a beast of a phone and the best smartphone on the market today. My Korean friend has it and its insane!!! Cna't wait for it to come to America! Reply
yelped - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkOk, thanks. Great job on the review! Reply
introiboad - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI really want to see a review of the Galaxy S 2, given that it uses the Exynos SoC with a brand new GPU from ARM itself. Benchmark results are lacking without it :) Reply
iwod - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkIt looks like in Browser Benchmark, iPhone 4 with iOS 5.0 will properly rise to the top. And it is great to see after a year of its introduction, iPhone 4 is still playing very well with it competitors.
About Screen Size, Brian would you and Anand makes notes which size of screen you prefer.
For iPhone 3.5", I think a lot of us want a bigger screen. But what size? 4", 4.3" or even larger?
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI think 4.3" is really the upper limit for smartphone displays. I've got the Infuse 4G here beside me, which is 4.5", and that already is almost challenging to hold sometimes, and occasionally awkward to type on. Factor in the fact that it has just a WVGA display, and those pixels are positively gigantic.
Personally, I prefer 4 or 4.3". Anything above that is starting to just get excessive. I can only imagine what that rumored 4.7" HTC WP7 device is going to look like.
-Brian Reply
Chaser - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkAfter an iPhone 3G, Droid, Evo, Galaxy S and G2x this phone finally gets it right in so many ways, It never ceases to impress me.
Sense 3.0 with Gingerbread makes it perfect!
dtomilson - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkBeing a tech blog I have always found Anandtech to publish articles on the same phone is the same phone is the same phone (Android). Any updates coming on the beta of Mango that has been released? How smooth it is and how much better it performs given the lower specced hardware the current-gen devices use.. Reply
karnovaran - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkBrian, there has been much debate on XDA about screen quality differences resulting from the Sensation panels being manufactured by two different companies: Sharp and AUO (Acer). I'd love to know which panel you were reviewing.
Can you tell us which panel you have? The way to check is by downloading terminal emulator from the market and running the following command: dmesg That will spit out a bunch of information, just hit menu and email it to yourself then search for "panel". Thanks. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI always run dmesg on devices just so I can see a bunch of different things/hardware ;)
Just grepped out panel and found the type:
<6>[ 1.603759] mipi_novatek_panel_type_detect: panel_type=PANEL_ID_PYD_SHARP
-Brian Reply
quiksilvr - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkAhh T-Mobile. It's almost tragic. They have awesome phones but...what's the point? Once the merger happens you have to change the phones and there isn't a full guarantee that our prices will remain the same for monthly bills. Reply
Conficio - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkSo apparently the T-Mobile phone does not yet have the boot lock removed and knowbody knows if that will be some software update.
Hence question what are then the "unlocked" HTC sensation phones that float around in on EBay etc.?
I ask, because I'm about to get an HTC Sensation (buying it outright) but I want to be able to operate the phone with other carriers SIMs (internationally). So is the T-Mobile phone locked to their network? Reply
Conficio - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkHow much of the htcsense.com features work over Wifi. Does remote Wipe or location tracking work?
In other words, does the location get determined by the phone and sent back to htcsense.org or is it determined by the carrier? Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI don't know about location, but I'm assuming that if it uses the Android location framework, it will work. Remote wipe and lock does indeed work over just WiFi, in addition to just cellular.
-Brian Reply
warisz00r - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkSome reviews mention that, by cupping the non-metal parts at the back of the phone with your hands (like whule using it in landscape mode) seriously attenuate reception of one of the radios. Have you tested for this issue? Reply
warisz00r - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkI've read the Connectivity part again now and found the mention about it, but you still didn't mention how this problem impacted your day-to-day experience with the phone. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkFor me honestly the Sensation is still in-line with other handsets I've tried. You always end up dropping ~15 dB, sometimes more and sometimes less depending on whether the device has diversity with a second antenna up at the top.
It makes a difference when you're on the lower end of signal, but again not more than any other smartphone (excluding the iPhone 4).
-Brian Reply
Conner_36 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkWhat?? no side-by-side pictures with the iphone 3g/s? Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkHML/MHL on page 4
clos instead of close on a previous page Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkThanks, those are fixed now!
-Brian Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkIs that an app, or built-in? I don't have it on my Evo 4g running 2.3
thanks Reply
bobbozzo - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkNM, saw the icon on one of the app list pics; It's GPS Test Plus. Reply
Brian Klug - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkGPS Test Plus - it's awesome, and it's just using the raw NMEA GPS output which includes SNR to make a nice visualization. ;)
-Brian Reply
sam46 - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkbrian,can it play 1080p flash videos in the browser flawlessly? Reply
sam46 - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkbrian,you have not yet answered my question?
And pls dont take too much time too review these flagship smartphones.Other websites have already posted the reviews of sensation and sgs2,they even compared them.Instead of waiting for an american version of sgs2,go and get an international version and post the review with in two weeks.Keep in mind that your readers are going to other websites for smartphone reviews. Reply
sam46 - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkbrian,could you please respond? Reply
sam46 - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkBrian,please respond. Reply
nraudigy2 - Saturday, July 09, 2011 - linkSensation will only play 720p flash videos. Only Galaxy S2 plays 1080p. Tegra 2 phones still on 480p. Reply
lazn_ - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkHow can we get the manufactures to understand that we don't want their crappy bloated buggy interface UI spooged all over our screens?
I have ruled out ever buying a HTC android product because of HTC Sense. I was looking at Motorola since my old Droid is great, but now they smear their Motoblur crap on top of everything they make..
I mean really, MFGS: You are paying your programmers to make your phones CRAPPIER! How does this make sense?
Some of us want a clean uncluttered functional phone without having to root the damn thing.
COME ON! The first Dual Core, Uncluttered Android phone available to buy will be my next phone. Till then YOU ARE NOT GETTING MY MONEY. I'll consider the evil empire (Apple) before going to a "Microsoft Bob" based android phone. (and if you don't get that reference kids, Google it) Reply
synaesthetic - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkYou'll probably have to wait for the next Nexus/dev phone to get an unobstructed Android experience. Reply
aryonoco - Friday, July 01, 2011 - linkJust wanted to thank you Brian for an awesome review. Such a pleasure to read, and the depth of knowledge really shines. In this age of gadget blogs who don't know what they are talking about, AT is just such a breadth of fresh air.
The Sensation looks like a nice device. If I was in the market to buy a new phone, it and the SGSII would be at the top of my list. But I think my HTC Desire, running Gingerbread and with a new battery, still has some life left in it. I'll probably give this generation a miss and wait for the new Nexus phone. The rumored 720p resolution (if it is indeed true) would be amazing. Reply
iwod - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkThanks, so it is between 4 to 4.3". Lets just hope Apple introduce a 4.15" display. :P Reply
erple2 - Wednesday, July 06, 2011 - linkI disagree - I like the smaller iPhone screen, and prefer it to these giant Android screens. I think that Apple had the right idea - make the phone as small as possible while still being usable.
I'm not saying to go Zoolander small, but anything larger than my Samsung Captivate is just too large, IMO. That's a 4" screen, I believe. I'd still like a slightly smaller screen, however.
The SGS2 appears to be a 4.27" screen - IMO too large. I'm disappointed in that. I'm not sure what my next phone purchase will be, when I finally drop my Captivate against the wall in frustration at it's horrifyingly bad cell antenna not working at all. Reply
Trisagion - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkI got tired of waiting for your review and went out and bought the Samsung Galaxy S II. All I can say is ... what a fucking brilliant phone. Without a doubt, the best smart phone available this year - right from the brilliant, crisp display to 16GB on board storage to snappy dual core goodness.
Sensation? What Sensation? Reply
synaesthetic - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkNo SGS2 on AWS bands. :( Reply
coolhardware - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkNice review. Never thought I'd see a gf discussion be the first comment posts on an AT article ;-)
A note on the Sensation, it is supposed to be capable of 1080p MKV playback!
And of course the 1080p recording is pimptastic too:
Overall a pretty sweet phone IMHO :-) Reply
mutu - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkpls review Samsung galaxy S2. Reply
Penti - Saturday, July 02, 2011 - linkNot to nitpick but why is it even called 4G? It's simply a 14.4Mbps device, we have 32Mbit (advertised speed) HSPA+ for "mobile broadband" here in Sweden, and nobody would care much what speed the cell phone is able to use and nobody tries to pass it as anything else. It's simply called HTC Sensation over here in Europe. Do not yet have 4G in my very little town, but 32Mbit HSPA+ is here. Expect 4G even out here in this market within a year or so though. Sooner in neighboring towns. Guess it's a good thing AT&T are picking up T-mobile USA. We will still need HSPA/+ for a while, but we are quickly moving on. Sure you could also opt for a WiMAX 16m network and the handsets is about as immature, but you need to be building your next gen network now. Reply
synaesthetic - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkThe "4G" is T-Mobile US silly marketing speak that means nothing, of course. They tack 4G on the end of every phone with an HSPA radio capable of more than 7.2Mbps peak downstream. Reply
Penti - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkYeah I know that, but why not just call it "Our old network till we get picked up by AT&T"? It's clear why they are without a next gen plan. Their customers need to be picked up by another operator for that to happen. Reply
synaesthetic - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkUntil it's unlocked, I won't buy it. Reply
tejagamer - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkExcellent Review.. As usual..
Now waiting for your comparison of SGS2 vs O2x vs Sensation and the SGS2 review.. Reply
bubblesmoney - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkHi Brian,
When you review the SGS2 please compare the internal memory on it to the internal memory available on other top of the line android handsets. This is an important limitation on android handsets which are not rooted +/- rommed to overcome the app2internal memory problem of android. Full time Android users [not part time android reviewers :) ] will appreciate what i mean. None of the reviews of android handsets bother to cover this problem users of stock handsets face if they dont root their handsets.
Handsets made by the likes of HTC severely skimp on the internal memory, more specifically the internal memory partitioned and kept for loading apps. On just a year old HTC Desire the partition available for apps is just a measly 147mb. Even on the HTC sensation it is just about 1gb. Compare this to the year old samsung galaxy s which has 1.8gb available for apps. The samsung galaxy s2 also has about 1.9gb available for apps from its 16gb/32gb internal memory. The HTC low internal memory problem does not go away by buying a 32gb card as the card is useless for apps that go on internal memory. The only option on HTC handsets which ALWAYS come with low internal memory compared to the competition (internal memory partition available for apps) is to buy a non HTC handset or to root and get rid of the problem or to use the sdk method described on xda forums.
For a reviews of android handsets it is vital that the internal memory is compared too in a comparison chart and more specifically the internal memory available for apps need comparing too. Please exclude the useless microsd cards supplied with handsets as that is useless for apps that dont go to sd card. Hope you provide such comparison charts for future reviews of android handsets. When games by gameloft etc run into many MBs on internal memory, having internal memory of the likes of 147mb available for apps on the HTC desire will be crucial information especially for many android handset buyers.
Similarly the rear speaker quality being poor is another HTC hallmark in my opinion after owning 2 HTC handsets. But not sure if it is just a hardware issue or HTC software issue. But things get better after loading apps with equalisers (poweramp etc) and boosting the gain. This works later even if the said apps are deleted I think.
Software is nothing without good hardware, so i will be keeping away from HTC and go the samsung galaxys2 way. But I guess the compromise is the much poorer GPS reception on samsung galaxy s2 and other handsets made by samsung.
USB on the go needs to be mentioned as well as competitor handstes have this feature but not the HTC sensation.
Accessories like speaker docks, keyboard are an important differentating feature. Just have a look at the HTC website to see if their handsets can even find one speaker dock or even anywhere else on the net. These options will make a difference to buyers and need to be mentioned in handset reviews. Reply
bubblesmoney - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkBrian,
In another review they seem to be saying the speaker is good. see http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_sensation_vs_galaxy_si... see the link for detailed test results Reply
leexgx - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkbut is not 800-900MB not enough space thought with an 8-16-32 SD card as well (i be hard pushed to use 800MB of internal storage) samsung need all that space as they have there own app store that has 3-4 games that use a lot of space, most other phones have 800-900Mb free space nowadays, i guessing most samsung phones do the 2gb/6gb split with 8gb internal space
if you was talking about cheaper phones like the HTC desire or some random 1.6-2.1 OS phones with 500-800Mhz cpus (that are still been sold what's very lame as they are Crap) i would agree with you 110-50MB of space is not enough even with A2D (that's only on 2.2+ devices)
i agree with the sound of the load speaker seem to be lacking on 2 HTC phones i have seen
samsung need to fix there GPS issues there is Zero reason that GPS should be flaky at best (the jumping between to points every 1-2 seconds)
i agree GPS should be tested and if the phone has less then 1gb internal storage it should be reported as it makes the phone have limited use Reply
bubblesmoney - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkHaving less internal memory on android phones is actually limitting the number of purchases on the android market. People like me would have probably bought almost all the games by gameloft and many other apps for work. But thats not possible now because of the crap apps 2internal memory policy on android and the equally crap stock app2sd move feature.
The microsd cards are ok, but that does not replace the need for proper internal memory. I already have a couple of 4gb cards, a couple 16gb cards and a couple 32gb cards. Would have preffered a hot swappable card feature without needing to pull the batteries. But I guess the USB on the Go feature on the SGS2 is an alternative. My cards are mainly stuffed with office documents and presentations, teaching videos etc apart from a few songs. But still need good internal memory for apps (some games and other professional apps and loads of teaching apps for my child). Presently i am using one phone for me and another for apps for my child. If the internal memory was ok then i wouldnt need to keep switching between two phones depending on what app i want to use. Not everyone is interested in rooting and playing around with firmware. But the present internal memory hardware situation and crap app2sd stock situation doesnt leave one with much alternatives on android for people who need more internal memory. Reply
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As for GPS, i've done multiple tests including a tunnel pass and they've been spot on. Walking sessions showed the exact side of the road that i was on (google maps showed accuracy of ~10m) and during the tunnel test, it was able to get gps signal as soon as i was out of the tunnel. Reply
dtomilson - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkLet's see some Mango chatter. Let's see a new and innovative mobile OS that has cool new features that no other OS does. Other blogs have raved about it, has Google paid you not to? Reply
kmmatney - Sunday, July 03, 2011 - linkI'm still waiting for a good real-life battery assessment for a phone. How long does the battery last if the phone is sitting around doing nothing? Can I squeeze 2 days out of it if I forget my charger on a short business trip? How much charge does it lose sitting on a nightstand overnight? I'm a current iPhone 3GS user, and can get up to 3 days of battery out of my phone if I need to. I have no idea if I can do that just by reading this review. Reply
JasonInofuentes - Monday, July 04, 2011 - linkSo, battery life assessments are really particular to the user and even down to what day it is. Let's cover your specific questions first.
-Battery life sitting around doing nothing: Well, what good is the phone to you if you're not doing anything with it? And, what is nothing? If you mean screen off and not handled (as I'm guessing you mean, does that mean it's also not updating e-mail, and other apps? If you have absolutely no applications periodically pulling data and you leave any of these phones untouched until they die then they will last . . . a really long time.
-2 days on a business trip: What do you do for a living? Again, if you don't have any apps downloading data periodically, you only ever use your phone as a phone and maybe a few e-mail sessions, then any of these phones should hopefully last that long.
-Sitting on a night stand overnight: See the first answer.
Don't look at these battery life measurements as an absolute, look at them as a guide. If you spend a lot of time downloading data on 3G, then make sure to get a phone that does really well in the 3G test. If 3G isn't your thing but you're on WiFi downloading data a lot, then grok the WiFi graph and pick something near the top. And if you're main use for the phone is voice calls, there's a great list of voice call data available to you. Not sure which you are? Well, it sounds like battery life is your bread and butter so just pick one from the top of the list and go for it. You've got at least two weeks to decide if it's for you and my experience is that the honeymoon period when people get new phones is about 5-7 days, at that point they'll either be happy or dragging their charger around with them. Reply
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Skewz - Friday, July 29, 2011 - linkPlease review the gs2. Would love to see Full benchmarks and compare it to the sensation. I'm up for a new handset shortly. Reply
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trialsta - Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - linkI am interested in how you managed the MHL to HDMI output, what dongle did you use and what steps did you have to go through to make the phone output in that way? With the cable I have nothing seems to happen despite trying several different ways of doing it.
Rob Reply
trialsta - Thursday, September 01, 2011 - linkI am interested in how you used the MHL feature and what dongle it was that you used. I have a micro USB to MHL cable yet despite trying several different methods I cannot get anything to turn up on the screen. Perhaps a step-by-step tutorial or video would be useful as there don't seem to be any available anywhere else. Reply
trialsta - Monday, September 12, 2011 - linkQuit deleting my comments when I ask a perfectly sensible question about the MHL! You left all those bloody stupid ones about your girlfriend up. Reply


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Shares in Australia's second largest hotel and resort operator fell slightly on their first day on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Mantra Group shares began trading on the market at $1.85 at 1200 AEST, and ended the session at $1.78, valuing the company at $444 million.
The wider market also fell.
Mantra chief executive Bob East said the reception from investors to the company's public listing positive.
"Our new shareholders include a strong representation of blue-chip Australian investment institutions and we are looking forward to welcoming many retail investors into ownership of the company," he said.
The company operates 113 hotels, resorts and serviced apartments across Australia, New Zealand, and Indonesia, catering for about two million guests a year.
Its network includes the Peppers and BreakFree chain of hotels and resorts.
Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said he was not expecting a rush of buyers for Mantra in light of a dip in consumer confidence linked to the May federal budget, which signalled spending cuts and new taxes.
"Hotels are still in the consumer spending area and are susceptible to falls in consumer confidence," he said.
The company made a profit of $24.6 million in 2012/13, and expects that to grow to $27.4 million in the current financial year.
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Erin Tilling barricades herself inside her downtown apartment every night.
First, the 35-year-old hearing-impaired woman turns the deadbolt. Then she piles suitcases in the small space between the door and a wall. Finally, she carefully wedges in a chair. Tilling hopes the obstacles would be enough to prevent an intruder from forcing his way into her apartment.
Once she has taken these small steps, the slightly built woman takes out her hearing aids and settles herself for the night on a narrow cot in her living area. She keeps her skinny cat Garfield close by. The animal reacts to noises in the hallway. Tilling hopes he would alert her to danger.
"It's scary, horrifying, especially on the weekends," she says. "I'm trying to move. It's not that easy because there's no place to go."
Tilling lives in the Manitoba Housing apartment block at 375 Assiniboine Ave. Hank Lecoy, another resident, was found slain in his 16th-floor apartment Tuesday. Sheldon Tony Genaillie, 50, has been charged with second-degree murder.
But Tilling and others in the block say Lecoy's slaying isn't an isolated incident of violence. A 10th-floor resident, who says she's afraid of gang reprisals if she gives her name, often hears people fighting in the hallways, especially on the weekends.
"I don't open the door. I'm scared. I just stay in my apartment with the door locked."
She's lived in the block for three years and says she knows and trusts her immediate neighbours. In fact, she just helped her sister move into the building. You've got to live somewhere. The building is clean and the elevators work. There are obvious signs of wear, the result of many people moving in and out. The common area is tidy and nicely decorated.
Tilling's $285 rent is paid by the government, as is the rent of the other residents. She has a bachelor apartment with a private bathroom. Her two teenage children stay with her on weekends, although there's no obvious place for them to sleep.
There was a serious show of security at the block Thursday morning, where police investigators continued their work. A uniformed Manitoba Housing guard patrolled the lobby and exterior of the block before making his way upstairs for a floor-by-floor check. Tilling says that level of security is new.
"Before we never seen nothing like that. Usually it's a guy who sits in the lobby at night."
The building uses key cards. In theory, that means only residents and people they buzz in can enter the block. There are security cameras at the front and back of the building.
"People sneak in," Tilling says. "They wait until someone buzzes the door and they go in, too."
She says since the killing, visitors are more carefully screened by security. Tilling has seen people sent back outside to buzz the people they claim to be visiting.
Manitoba Housing officials say there were 78 noise and disturbance calls at the block in the past three months. Most of the noise complaints were categorized as minor. Police have been called to the building 11 times since the beginning of August.
Another serious incident, a standoff with an armed man on Oct. 17, ended peacefully, although Tilling says residents were frightened by the police presence.
In January 2009, a young woman died after falling off her apartment balcony. Her boyfriend admitted shoving her during an alcohol-and-drug-fuelled fight. He is serving 61/2 years for manslaughter.
Tilling lived in the block at the time of that killing, too.
Manitoba Housing's security branch will hold a tenant forum on Nov. 13 at the block.
Erin Tilling says meetings won't do any good.
The violence in her block ebbs and flows around the issuance of government cheques. When family allowance and welfare money comes out, so do the troubles. The end-of-the-month cheques bring more trouble because they're bigger, she says.
Not everyone on social assistance is a drinker and certainly few of them are violent. But some residents at 375 Assiniboine Ave. are terrified of what happens when the sun goes down.
A disabled woman shouldn't have to rely on a cheap chair and a watch cat to make her feel safe in government housing.


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Meet Mr. Remy Wilson. When you hear his story, I hope that, like me, you will fall in love with and want to help this dear boy.
Remy is a Pekingese who landed at the Orange County Animal Care Center in Orange. Like so many dogs, he found himself in a strange place, surrounded by strange people, noises, smells and sights.
And, like so many dogs', his story circulated on Facebook. Lisa Lowe, a Rancho Santa Margarita animal rescuer, stepped in and got Remy out of the shelter. He was bound for a Canadian rescue group that planned to find a home for him.
But something was off, Lowe told me. Remy didn't seem quite right. She took him to her vet, where he spent the night so he could be watched in a calm environment.
The next morning, Remy suffered a spinal stroke, and this formerly happy, wiggly boy found himself unable to use his back legs.
Lowe hustled him off to Southern California Veterinary Specialty Hospital in Irvine, where he was immediately seen by veterinary specialists, including Dr. Wayne Barry, a diplomate in neurology. Berry diagnosed the spinal stroke (meaning the stroke occurred not in Remy's brain but along his spine), and treatment began.
Now, things might seem hopeless for a dog who can't use his back legs. But here, as I've written before, is where the miracle that is canine comes into play.
Dogs, unlike humans, waste no time bemoaning the state of things. They accept what is and go from there. When Mr. Wilson arrived at the specialists', he could not stand or walk on his back legs.
A video posted on Lowe's Facebook page shows him hopping on his front legs but unable to put any weight on the back ones. A photo shows him looking sad (Remy might not understand that he can't use his legs, but he can understand being in the third strange place in as many days. No dog likes that amount of uncertainty.)
In his early days at the hospital, Lowe said, the staff was saying, "We have to wait and see." The prognosis, as in most such cases, was uncertain.
But everyone is hopeful that this little guy will come around.
That may be happening. Last week, a little over a week since Remy's stroke, I visited him at the hospital. I spent some time with the little guy and July Kabis, the registered veterinary technician who is fostering him and working with him on a daily basis to help him improve.
When a neurological crisis occurs, something goes wrong with the body's nervous system. (If you were reading my columns in 2005, you'll remember Jitterbug's story. My little Tibbie could not use her back legs when I rescued her because of neurological damage. She had a compressed vertebral disc that pushed on her spine. The result: Nerve impulses did not make it to her back legs, causing her to drag them. Surgery to repair the disc gave her back the use of her legs.) In Remy's case, doctors were able to determine the location of the stroke, but only time will tell how close he returns to normal.
It's possible the he will regain full function of his back legs. He isn't completely paralyzed in the back end: His tail wags like a whirligig (something that was not happening when he entered the hospital), and he's perfectly capable of controlling his potty breaks, thank you. But he can't quite get his feet to turn over onto the pads.
So he walks – and yes, he is walking, a huge improvement – on the tops of his feet. The hospital's rehabilitation department keeps him active and moving. He gets foot, leg and back massages. He walks in a water tank to prevent muscle atrophy from disuse.
He gets walked, many times a day. "I don't carry him anymore," Kabis said, except in situations where he might be in danger – crossing a street, for example. When we took him outside, we walked for about 15 minutes, and Remy kept up a good pace. Sure, we rested a bit, but overall he did not look like a dog who was heading downhill.
Quite the opposite. He's steadily climbing a hill. And lots of folks are cheering him on.
Remy's care is costing thousands of dollars, Lowe says, although she's received help from several quarters. If you'd like to help – and remember, even $1 can help in cases like Remy's – here are several ways you can do so:
•Renee LaBoucan, head of Animals In Need, the Canadian group poised to take Remy when he's ready, began a FundRazr account that so far has seen about $1,400 donated.
•The Facebook page Help Save Mr. Wilson has videos, photos, updates and links about Remy and his situation. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Help-Save-Mr-Wilson/429316697162662
•This YouTube video tells Remy's story (it's also viewable on the Facebook page): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRiN6g-N66k&feature=share


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Sitar master and composer Ravi Shankar died Tuesday at a hospital near his home in the San Diego area. Shankar's foundation released a statement that says the musician had suffered from upper-respiratory and heart issues over the past year and underwent heart-valve replacement surgery last week. He was 92.
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Baileys Crossroads Planning Study Open House on Feb. 12
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The Fairfax County Department of Planning and Zoning (DPZ), along with a consultant, will host a Baileys Crossroads Planning Study open house on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 7 to 9:30 p.m., at the Goodwin House Auditorium, 3440 South Jefferson Street, Falls Church. Parking is available at the rear of the Giant parking lot located along the south side of the Goodwin House.
The Baileys Crossroads Planning Study specifically looks at the area to the south and east of the interchange of Leesburg Pike (Route 7) and Columbia Pike (Route 244) in the Baileys Crossroads Community Business Center area. The study will result in recommendations for changes to the Fairfax County Comprehensive Plan and strategies for implementing changes.
Two concepts for the study area will be presented. Attendees are invited to provide input on these concepts and how to make the study area into a more urban place, with better physical links while maintaining compatibility with neighboring districts. Residents also can review the concepts and submit comments online from Feb. 12 to March 1.
Frequently updated information about the study, such as maps, reports, analysis and upcoming public meetings, is available online. Subscribing to the Baileys Crossroads Planning Study e-announcements via this Web page also provides a way to stay informed about the latest updates.
For more information, contact the DPZ Planning Division at 703-324-1380, TTY 711, or by e-mail.
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Gymnastics opens up SEC schedule against No. 8 LSU
Published: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 at 6:01 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, January 7, 2013 at 11:55 p.m.
The third-ranked Florida gymnastics team opens its 2013 Southeastern Conference schedule with a dual meet against No. 8 LSU Friday night in Baton Rouge.
UF (1-0), the 2012 NCAA runner-up and SEC Champion, opened its regular season with an easy 196.575-190.550 win over visiting Ball State Friday in the O'Connell Center, but should get a good early-season test from the Tigers.
"Friday night's competition was really wonderful," head coach Rhonda Faehn said. "It was our first meet back in the O-Dome, and we had so many new faces, especially with our freshmen getting out there and getting to see what it's like to compete in the O'Connell Center but also just to compete in collegiate gymnastics.
"We were able to evaluate film footage Sunday, and we definitely achieved what we were looking to for the first meet. We're excited to head to LSU this weekend."
Gator fans got their first look at heralded freshman Bridget Sloan, the 2009 World all-around champion, Friday and she did not disappoint. In her first event, Sloan tied for the vault title with senior Ashanee Dickerson, each with a 9.925, then she added a pair of 9.8s on the uneven bars and balance beam before turning cheerleader for Florida's final rotation, the floor exercise.
"Bridget Sloan is just so fun," Faehn said. "It's nice to see her personality come out. In every practice, she's very disciplined and very hard-working, but at the same time, she really just lights it up. Everyone just feeds off that energy and her enthusiasm, and that really showed in the competition Friday night."
Fresh off an exciting 77-72 over LSU in their 2013 SEC home opener Sunday, the Gators (12-4, 1-1) travel to Starkville, Miss., Thursday to take on the Mississippi State Bulldogs (8-7, 0-2) at 8 p.m.
UF had taken No. 6 Kentucky to the wire before falling, 76-69, in Lexington in its SEC opener.
"We were really excited about the opportunity to go to Kentucky and start our SEC season and came up a little bit short, but I think the way that game went – the toughness that we displayed – kind of bolstered our confidence a little bit and empowered some of our players who really had to play big roles going down the stretch Sunday," head coach Amanda Butler said. "You always want to be tested and find out where you are, and the earlier you're tested, the better."
Butler noted that senior All-SEC forward Jennifer George, who sustained a shoulder injury late in Sunday's win, was being evaluated Monday but that early indications were positive.
"She'll probably be day-to-day this week as they kind of just see how her pain is and those sorts of things," Butler said, "but it's not worst-case scenario by any means."
UF returns home to face No. 12 Tennessee (11-3, 2-0) in a nationally televised game (ESPNU) Sunday with an early tip-off at 11:30 a.m.
Two-time defending NCAA champion UF heads into the spring ranked No. 1 in the nation.
Individually, six Gators are ranked nationally, led by junior Sofie Oyen who used a fantastic fall performance to earn the nation's No. 1 singles ranking, with senior Lauren Embree coming in at No. 5 and freshman Danielle Collins also earning a top-25 nod with a No. 22 ranking.
Head coach Roland Thornqvist's focus is now on putting together some top-flight doubles pairings.
"I think we have our work cut out for us a little bit the next few weeks in that we don't really know what we're going to do with doubles," he said. "In all my years here, we've had some really, really good doubles pairings, and at this point, we are basically starting anew trying to figure out what we're going to do with our pairings."
UF competes at the Freeman Memorial individual tournament in Las Vegas, Jan. 17-21, before opening dual-match play with back-to-back matches at home against South Florida and UCF Jan. 29-30.
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TAUNTON Deane have recruited Australian batsman John Rogers to help boost their West of England Premier League challenge.
Deane gained promotion back to the top flight last season and will start their 2014 campaign with a home clash against Bristol on Saturday.
One of their additions to the team is 27-year-old Rogers, who was born in Canberra but now lives in Perth and plays state cricket for Western Australia along with his club side Wanneroo district.
The left-handed top order batter, who also bowls left arm medium pace, has scored 447 First Class runs at an average of 21.28 and played in three KFC Twenty20 Big Bash matches, scoring 45.
Last season for Wanneroo, Rogers scored 429 runs at an average of 33, including two half centuries and one hundred.
Rogers said: "I am very excited, the Australian summer finished on such a high note for me, winning the premier club competition, and my game is in really good order after learning a truck load in my first season of First Class cricket.
"The Deane was an easy choice for me. I have a good relationship with club captain Phil Saxby from my time with Brisbane grade club Valleys.
"Taunton and Somerset was home to Justin Langer for a while and with him now coach at WA, he gave the place a glowing critique.
"So with those two opinions, I knew it would be a good place to not only enjoy my time in England but also work hard on my game in preparation for the next Australian summer.
"It is always hard to put expectations on a season, especially in unfamiliar conditions. Besides enjoying everything that an English summer has to offer on and off the field, I hope to develop the tactical side of my game, make the step from just scoring runs, to 'creating' an innings, which I feel is my biggest hurdle to overcome to succeed at First Class level."
Phil Saxby will lead the team this year after work commitments have stopped former skipper Robert Woodman being able to commit for the full season.
Saxby remained level-headed about the club's chances this year, saying: "The club is entering into a transitional stage and with this in mind it's important to be realistic about our goals and expectations.
"Obviously our biggest priority is to stay up, but I feel this is selling ourselves a little short. Once everyone is on deck, a mid table finish would be an achievable and satisfactory result. To do this, we will need our senior players to perform consistently and lead the way.
The team have also signed top order batsman Jack Fraser, from Winscombe, who scored almost 1,000 runs in all competitions last year and took 33 wickets with his off-spinners.


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Date: December 04 2012
Australian residential building approvals fell 7.6 per cent to 12,540 units in October.
This compares to an upwardly revised 13,575 units in September, seasonally adjusted.
In the year to October, building approvals were up 14.5 per cent, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said on Tuesday.
Economists' forecasts had centred on a 1.6 per cent fall in approvals for October.
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Williams Wins Weight Throw at George Mason
On the final day to qualify for the 2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, Liberty throwers Jocelyn Williams and Mychelle Cumings competed at the George Mason Last Chance Meet, Sunday at the George Mason Field House.
Two days after winning her first Big South weight throw title, Williams was victorious once again. Her first attempt (63-0.25) turned out to be her best of the day and put her more than two and a half feet in front of her nearest competitor. However, it was not an improvement on Williams' Big South-winning toss of 67-5.5, which broke her own program record.
Big South Women's Outstanding Field Performer Cumings came in second in the women's shot put on Sunday, thanks to a heave of 51-5. Like Williams, the junior could not quite replicate her effort from the Big South meet, where she threw a Liberty, Big South Conference and meet-record 53-5.5.
At this point, Cumings is tied for No. 20 nationally in the women's shot put while Williams sits at No. 25 in the weight throw. The qualifiers for the 2014 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field Championships, including the top 16 declared athletes in each event, will be announced on Tuesday. The NCAA meet will be contested at the Albuquerque Convention Center in Albuquerque, N.M., March 14 & 15.


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A midrange No-Limit Hold'em event began with 696 players in $5,000 seats chasing a prize pool of $3,271,200. The top 72 finishers earned prize money from the purse while the winner received a nice WSOP payday of $719,707. Additionally one of the coveted WSOP gold bracelets goes to the winner.
Heads-up and 2 AM both players agree to play another level so into the wee hours the one-on-one duel.
Norbert Szecsi enjoys a 3 to 1 chip advantage but opponent David Miscikowski attacks the stacks and doubles through to take the chip lead. Szecsi comes right back and regains a small lead about half way through the session. Looks like this ones going into an extra day.
The two players returned to the Rio to play to a completion of Event #49 and picked up where they left off earlier in the day. After a level of play the two were still close when they left for the first break. Returning to play yet another level they probably didn't even need to sit down because two hands into play David Miscikowski had all the chips and Norbert Szecsi was pondering how he was going to spend his $444,707 for second place.
David Miscikowski left with $719,707 in cash and his first WSOP gold.
The following lists the nine final table players' order of finish and the prize money awarded to each.
David Miscikowski----- $719,707
Norbert Szecsi----------- $444,425
Manig Loeser ------------$288,912
Margareta Morris -------$212,202
Oliver Price---------------$158,064
Kevin McPhee----------- $119,267
Jean Gaspard ------------ $91,037
John Dolan ---------------$70,265
Blake Bohn -------------- $54,792
Congratulations to David Miscikowski for winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and the winner's share of $719,707 in cash.


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Some adverse effects of the fiscal cliff have been avoided for now, but we still have a spending dispute coming in the next two months, as well as a debate on raising the debt ceiling.
Those outcomes remain to be seen, but what wasn't up for debate was the extension of the temporary two-percentage-point payroll tax cut. This was designed as a temporary stimulus measure by reducing the contribution to the Social Security fund by most working Americans with the federal government covering the difference from federal coffers. Since we all know the concern about the long-term viability of Social Security in the future as the population ages, continuing the payroll tax cut wasn't seen by either party as a solid long-term measure, and these FICA withholdings will increase to 6.2% from 4.2%.
We do know that most workers will see their paychecks shrink in the new year due to the payroll tax cut, even if middle class income taxes don't change. Consumer spending, which is roughly two thirds of the economy, grew by an annualized rate of 1.6% in the third quarter. The savings rate is already a low 3.6%, particularly considering how consumers need to build retirement savings as the population ages and bearing in mind that the savings rate was previously as high as 8% to 10%. If faced with a smaller paycheck, would households further reduce their savings rate or cut their spending?
Not all households are created equal. The payroll tax cut would take about $175 billion from consumers, according to a Bloomberg calculation, with a household making $50,000 a year seeing a $1,000 hit to income, spread over the year in increments of about $84 less per month. But workers only pay payroll taxes, or FICA, on incomes up to $110,100. As such, the payroll tax cut will affect higher-income earners less -- unless they have household earnings more than $450,000 a year for a married couple or $400,000 for an individual.
Those in the top 1% of taxpayers (with incomes above $506,000) will see an increase in income taxes (not payroll taxes) that would subtract nearly $74,000 a year from their take home pay, according to the Tax Policy Center. Add in higher capital gains and other taxes, and the new provisions will increases tax revenues by about $600 billion, or about 4.5% of total consumer incomes (or 3.8% of GDP). Since wealthy households tend to save more of their incomes, however, the hit by the payroll-tax increase on the middle class arguably may have more of an effect on consumer spending.
Consumers may both reduce their savings rate and cut their spending. In real terms, consumers' aggregate wage and salary incomes grew by 3% from the third quarter of 2011 to the third quarter of 2012, but the average individual workers' weekly earnings only increased by 1.8% from 12 months ago. (The difference reflects more people working and other factors, such as year-end bonuses by some workers but not others.) When modeling consumer behavior, it behooves us to pay attention to individuals, not just the aggregate population, and the average weekly pay increase would theoretically be offset by the payroll tax cut.
Thus, if consumers split their payroll tax increase between cutting back on spending and reducing savings, we could see overall GDP growth reduced to 1% or so, according to some economists. This is a drop from the 3.1% pace in the third quarter, of which 0.73 percentage points came from inventories. In other words, growth of real final sales, the metric that excludes inventories (and where I focus my attention), would slow considerably from the 2.4% pace of the third quarter.
While we may avoid a recession, growth in consumer spending may be subdued. Consumers may focus more on the essentials and less on discretionary items. This, of course, will be determined by how inflation of food and fuel play out in the new year. Consumers don't have as much cushion to absorb any big price increases on these items, which tend to have volatile prices, before they cut back elsewhere.


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Conference: the Deception of Evolution and Secret Behind Matter
The fallacies of Darwin's theory will be explained in three seminars.
It was noted that the Deception of Evolution and Secret Behind Matter conferences are going to be held on October 21st and 22nd, at the press meeting organized in Milano on 11:30 yesterday morning. The event comprises one part of the Europe tour of a scienctific group led by Harun Yahya.


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The Most Important People on The Internet: Volume 33
Welcome to the 33rd installment of The Most Important People on The Internet and I'd just like to say a special thanks to the comments that really made me laugh this week, but got lost in the mix on account of the Ryan Dunn flame wars. I'm talking about you, Steven Spielberg conspiracy theorists on the Megan Fox post with your wacky talks of eugenics and claims of colluding with George Lucas and James Cameron to propagandize America into accepting our new Chinese overlords. I saw what you did there.
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Because the world needs a new Heidi & Spencer-esque couple with a hint of statutory rape now more than ever, here's Courtney Stodden and Doug Hutchinson posing for a Valentine's Day-themed photo shoot that is not only disgustingly hilarious, but probably the most insightful look into their relationship since he banged her in a pumpkin patch making your moms all jelly. No longer is their love a mystery wrapped in an enigma, but instead, it's blossomed before our very eyes into the kind of romance Shakespeare would've written himself had his testicles actually dropped, that doily-wearing poof.
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Reminder: We are doing a live playoff chat today at noon, internet connection-willing. Be there. And you don't have to ask questions. If you want to comment on something, like Chris Kreider's debut, I'd love to hear what you think, too.
1) Game 3 was the Rangers' season in a nutshell. It followed a loss, and they responded. They won it by playing the way they play, defensive, straight-ahead. And they won a game that could have gone either way. How many of those have gone the Rangers' way this year?
2) They also won because their best player, their MVP, was, well, their best player and their MVP. Henrik Lundqvist was sensational in this game. If you look at the goals he's allowed in this series, he's been pretty spectacular in all three games. Loved the way he went after Zenon Konopka, too.
3) Brian Boyle=Beast. But now he's not just a beast. Now he's looking like Mario Lemieux, too. He looked like Lemieux on that breakaway, and he looked like Lemieux on the pass that sprung Ryan Callahan out of the penalty box. He did all the dirty stuff. And still blamed himself for taking that penalty, as he did for losing the faceoff in OT that led to the game-winner in Game 2.
4) He's a guy who's still young, but blooming a little bit later than some. I think he can get better still. Most important, he wants to get better, and to do what it takes to get better.
5) Interesting how this game really didn't get nasty. It was physical alright. There were some typical playoff shots delivered, too. And a few scrums. No fights. Really good hockey game.
6) As first-time commenter Stizzy pointed out last night, the stats were lopsided. I don't put a lot of credence in some of the stats because sometimes they're home-cooked. Like the hits were 48-33. I can believe Ottawa out-hit the Rangers. I do not believe it was 48-33. Most troubling, as Stizzy noted, was faceoffs. The Rangers won 15, lost 29. Yikes.
7) How about the save from Stu Bickel, and the consecutive defensive plays Anton Stralman made? Wow. Great sign when your fifth and sixth D-men are doing stuff like that.
8) Everybody off the ledge now?
9) I really liked Chris Kreider's first game, jumping out of school and onto a moving locomotive. He was nervous at first, and he was kicking himself for whiffing on that one shot in close. Maybe he was a little bit unsure at the start. Geez, that's some jump for a kid, though, and I thought overall he did fine. Would love to see more of him as this goes on, even when Carl Hagelin comes back (assuming the Rangers can win two of the next four).
10) I brought this up with Dave Maloney on the radio last night. If Paul MacLean is going to get all this credit for making the lineup adjustments he made in Game 2 … and I thought Konopka really helped in Game 3, too … then shouldn't he get some blame for not having enough grit in his lineup in Game 1? I mean, could he really have thought he was going to win by out-finesse-ing the Rangers? Did he watch any of their season? Did he understand why they were the best team in the whole NHL for 80 games?
11) Also thanks to Dave Maloney for joining me in a radio shout-out to Tony from AZ during the intermission. Tony heard it and it meant a lot to him.
12) You guys are nuts with the traffic. I just want to tell you how much I appreciate it.
13) Visting teams went 3-0 Monday night. That runs the total for these playoffs to 14-8 for the road teams. Um, home-ice advantage?
14) You should see the way they cover hockey in the papers up here. The Ottawa Sun treats it the way the Daily News and Post treat the Yankees. Eight, nine pages of stories, photos, stats, back page, front page. They also have something that would drive you guys nuts. A special called: "87 … Sid the Kid Watch." Yesterday it focused completely on the play on which Crosby knocked Jakub Voracek's glove away from him. With quotes from Skid, who wasn't happy to be asked so much about it.
My Three Rangers Stars:
1) Henrik Lundqvist.
2) Brian Boyle.
3) Anton Stralman.
Lev's Three Rangers Stars:
1) Henrik Lundqvist.
2) Anton Stralman.
3) Brian Boyle.
Sioux-per-man's Three Rangers Stars:
1) Henrik Lundqvist.
2) Brian Boyle.
3) Stu Bickel.
I'm giving Stu the 3rd star for saving THAT goal that would have made it past Henrik. Thinking back that is the one play in my opinion, that was the play of the day. If that goal goes in, its a different game.
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Topic: Further treatment after surgery
Hi all, I've posted sometimes but this is the first time I have this introduction.
My Mum was diagnosed with CC on 15 July: Tumor was in the confluence of the common bile duct, and has already spread to the right bile duct (Bismuth Type 3). Portal vein is not affected. Liver also is still good. AFP, ECA index are normal. CA19.9 is 57.
Surgery was performed on 23 July: They already removed the right lobe of the liver + gall bladder + bile duct and rejoin the intestine with the left intrahepatic bile duct. The pathology report showed that the margin was clear (the free-cancer cells distance is 2 mm to the liver), lymph node was negative (they tested 2 lymph nodes surrouding the tumor).
After the surgery, she was bleeding inside and bowel obstruction. However, today everything went through already (we have been staying in the hospital for 7 weeks). We can leave the hospital tomorrow.
We have asked the doctor on further treatment such as chemo or radiation therapy. The Dr said that in my Mum' case, with a succesful surgery (clear margin, negative lymph node, the tumor was not really aggressive), chemo is not neccesary at all. What we need to do is just to observe her situation and have regular CT scan, if the tumor recurs, they may have radiation therapy. Anyway, they said that the survival rate in my Mum' case is quite high.
So, I would like to seek your advices on this. Did any one of you have surgeries like my Mum's? and afterward, did the tumor come back, and how long?
Thank you so much for your greatful help so far, and hope that we can exchange alot of experience through this forum. I have read alot of treatment after surgery in this forum but I still post this here in detail, so you can understand her case further.
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If you are using Acrobat/Reader 10.1.2 to print PDF documents, you may notice that the job is sent to the printer as a duplex job (print on both sides) and this may cause some issues like printer lights blinking, or errors about lack of paper in the paper trays.
With Acrobat/Reader 10.1.2 we have introduced the widely used print option "Print on both sides of paper" directly in the Acrobat/Reader print dialog. This option is available in the printer settings, but it is not very convenient to have to open the printer settings and change it each time you wish to print differently (simplex/duplex).
This option in the Adobe print dialog is enabled by default, whereas the initial value should match what the user has specified in the printer properties. This option can lead to the printing anomalies mentioned above.
This is a bug in Acrobat/Reader 10.1.2 and has been fixed in the 10.1.3 update so that the option has the same initial value as defined in the printer settings, and the printing anomalies should no longer occur.
1. Open Acrobat or Reader.
2. Choose Help > Check for Updates.
Acrobat or Reader will install the update automatically.
There are 3 options to workaround this issue.
To workaround this behaviour in the meantime simply disable this option in the Adobe print dialog.
Option 2
In an enterprise environment, you can use the following registry key to disable duplex mode automatically in Adobe Reader X:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\AVGeneral]
or for Adobe Acrobat X:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Adobe Acrobat\10.0\AVGeneral]
For MacOS use the preferences file (com.adobe.Reader.plist / com.adobe.Acrobat.Pro.plist) which is located in [user]/Library/preferences/. The name of the key is DuplexMode under AVGeneral and it has the datatype Number. You should set this value to "1", for Simplex.
Option 3 (courtesy of the post from banyooo on http://forums.adobe.com/message/4147397)
If you are in a Windows domain controlled environment you can also roll out this registry key using a group policy as follows:
- Open your Windows Group Policy Editor
- Chose "New Group Policy"
- Ggo to UserConfiguration >Settings >Windows Settings >Registry
- Right click "Registry"
- Chose "New-> Registry assistent", local computer
- Go to [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Adobe\Acrobat Reader\10.0\AVGeneral] "iDuplexMode"=dword:00000002
- Click "finish"
- Double-click that new entry and navigate down until you see "iDuplexMode"
- Double-click it too, and change the REG_DWORD value to "1" (decimal)
- Chose "Replace" under the "Action" menu
- Close the GPO editor and link that newly created group policy to your domain or OU or whatever
- Perform a gpupdate /force at the client to see the reg entry changing from "2" to "1"
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I have two grandsons, one 7 and one almost 4. They are different in just about every way, each one very special but also very much individuals. I am writing about them in order, starting with the older one and saving the younger one for another column.
The oldest one is named Jonathon, but most of the time he is "Buddy" to his grandfather and I. He has been Buddy since we held him the first time. He immediately became our "Little Buddy" and now, he is just "Buddy."
Buddy is quite a kid. He is big for his age. For those of you who know me personally, you would say I am not tall ... actually most people would say I am, well, short. Anyway, Buddy is already up to my nose, and he is 7. His hands are almost as big as mine and soon his feet will be bigger than his mother's feet.
When Buddy was born, my husband retired and became his nanny. For the first year or so, Grandpa was his constant companion. Grandpa and Buddy have a special relationship. His parents and I feel the two of them share a brain. Even though they don't spend every day together these days, their bond is still very strong. Buddy will pick coming to Grandpa's house over just about all other activities. If he can work in playing basketball or football and also come to Grandpa house, that is the best kind of day he could ask for.
Buddy loves being outside. He especially enjoys being outside with Grandpa at our house. We live in a rural setting and have a creek and woods next to our house. He calls the creek "The Big River" even though it is actually the "Little Bureau."
Currently, he and Grandpa are building a duck blind/fort in the woods by the creek. He has built walls with lattice with Grandpa's help, and has covered those walls with twigs, limbs, leaves and large pieces of bark from a dying tree. They are hoping the duck blind will attract animals. That's something else to know about Buddy; he loves animals. He reads about them; he watches all kind of shows on TV about them; and he talks to everyone about the animals he sees. Recently he and Grandpa came very close to a baby deer, an experience he will not forget for some time.
At Thanksgiving each year we all share what we are thankful for. Buddy wanted to be first to tell his thankful thoughts, saying he had worked on what he was going to say for a couple of days. This is what he said, "I am thankful for food because as everyone knows I like to eat, I am thankful for art, math and science because without those I would be stupid." As an afterthought, he threw in that he was thankful for his family. We all laughed, knowing that we could chalk another one up to our Buddy.
Grandkids are so special. One is not more loved than another, but they are each different, and we have decided that our Buddy is one of a kind. He could be considered a young, gentle giant. He is kind, loving and laid back. He has a ready smile that melts your heart. He melted ours from the first moment.
A future column will be devoted to Grandson No. 2, my special pal, Brady, and then I will have to introduce you to No. 3 — he's to be born in March 2013. Who could ask for more? Three grandsons to love. I am so lucky!
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