Feel the Weather in Your Hand With the HTC Sensation XE

Feel the weather in your hand with the HTC Sensation XE which provides an immersive experience providing the sun or rain to show you the weather as part of its intuitive interface and impressive features which bring everything to life, and make it easier and faster to do what you want.

The unibody touch bar designed handset features a large 4.3 inch display through which Android and HTC Sense are brought to you for fast and easy touch controls and input via dedicated onscreen keypads, for rapid communication with friends and simple access to powerful applications. By accessing the preinstalled Android Market, you can add many more applications to the handset, which can allow you to do more shopping and get loads more information all in your hand. You can switch seamlessly between portrait and landscape by tilting the handset, and the onscreen keypads switch accordingly also. Integrated social networking is also present, with Facebook statuses for each of your friends appearing alongside their current profile photo, and allowing you to instantly stay up to date with the latest. Twitter and other services are also integrated, and messaging and email make it great for communication.

The Sensation XE provides an 8 megapixel main camera on its rear side and includes an LED flash for poor lighting conditions, along with auto focussing and a range of impressive features such as scene modes and effects for the perfect photo. You are able to share photos or videos captured in full 1080 pixel high definition instantly via the integrated social networking and other messaging, or alternatively instantly connect via the Bluetooth to share at close proximity with another. There is also a front VGA camera for self portrait photos and video calling, while other connectivity includes a microUSB port.

As with the HTC Sensation XL which offers a slightly larger display, this device produces excellent sound quality for your video playback (in HD), and when using the built in Music application as it comes with BeatsAudio mobile sound technology, offering superior quality to all of your sound. You can use the dedicated stereo earphones to immerse yourself in the audio form your phone.

The HTC Sensation XE is a well designed handset which provides many excellent features and offers intuitive widgets and applications which allow you to do more in less time. The phone offers an impressive camera along with specialist audio technology combined with the powerful Android operating system and hardware to support it.

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Canada's weather service lags U.S. in resources

Canada's weather service system lacks the resources and funding compared to its American counterparts, some weather experts say.

"I do know that the meteorological service of Canada …is starved for funding and has been for years and probably always will be," Ian Rutherford, executive director of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society, told CBC News.

"It's very difficult to run a weather service in a country as big as Canada, with such a small population," he said.

Rutherford said Canada does a good job with the resources it has but that at some point, public safety could be compromised.

Rutherford noted that Canada has to run its service with a bigger area and a tenth of the population compared to the U.S.

"We can't afford what they do in the U.S," he said.

Rutherford said Environment Canada employs around 500 meteorologists, compared to the National Weather Service in the U.S, which has 10 times as many. He said his society has about 800 members, compared to the 12,000 members of its American counterpart.

As well, Canada has about 30 radiosondes (atmospheric measuring probes in weather balloons) compared to around 300 for Americans, Rutherford said.

"The density of observations over Canada is not what it should be. And that's simply because we can't afford to put in the same density and coverage of observations they have in the U.S. and Europe."

"This inevitably affects the quality of the information," Rutherford said.

But Rutherford said Canada "is just as good" when it comes to disseminating information about weather events. He pointed out that Canada has a dedicated Weather Network similar to the U.S. Weather Channel.

Rutherford also said the Canadian Hurricane Centre, for example, based in Dartmouth, N.S., is very good at forecasting and analyzing hurricane-related data.

"Money isn't everything," he said.

He said both countries have weather radio networks that broadcast warnings and forecasts to those with a weather radio, that radar and lightning networks are integrated and that all meteorological information is shared internationally.

Frédéric Fabry, associate professor at McGill University's Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department, said data gathering is somewhat comparable to the U.S. and that forecasting is as good, although the Americans have a better infrastructure for disseminating information.

But Fabry said the U.S. has to spend more on resources because it is much more affected by weather.

"If you look at the U.S., they get the worst weather in the world. Snowstorms, tornadoes, hurricanes. We get them too, but not of the same scale as them," he told CBC News.

"So, of course they invested a lot more in tornadoes because it's a threat and it's very visible and you can show you're doing something about it. Here, the tornado threat is not as [high] so we don't invest that much."

Fabry also agreed there are no gaping holes in Canada's weather service system.

"You have to choose between, [whether] you spend more on tornado warnings or snowstorms or icestorm warning or aviation forecasting...certainly aviation forecasting is important here."

"So it's a matter of priorities and budget."

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