Smartphone Sensation by HTC is made in the classic shape. A case of the smartphone is made of metal and plastic. The phone uses Android 2.3. Phone dimensions: width — 65.4 millimeters, height — 126.1 millimeters, thickness — 11.3 millimeters. Weight — 148 grams.
Diagonal of the color screen is 4.3 inches with a maximum screen resolution of 960x540 and 256 pixels per inch (PPI). The screen of the device protected by scratch resistant glass and has the automatic rotation function.
HTC Sensation runs on 2-core Qualcomm MSM8260, 1200 MHz processor and Adreno 220 videoprocessor, has 1 gigabytes of built-in memory and 0.8 gigabytes of RAM. The phone has a slot for a memory card of up to 32 gigabytes.
Capacity of Li-Ion battery is 1520 mA⋅h, this is approximately 400 hours of standby time and 8.3 hours of talk time.
The phone is also equipped with sensors of illumination, approaching, gyroscope and compass. This gives additional functionality to the phone in various applications.
HTC Sensation was presented to the public on April 12, 2011.