HTC CEO: ‘initially, we don’t have time’ to put Sense on Windows Phone 7
We think there might be a miscommunication or a disagreement in semantics here, because HTC CEO Peter Chou has mentioned in an interview with FierceWireless that its ubiquitous Sense UX won't "initially" appear on its first crop of Windows Phone 7 devices, but that "over time [they] will innovate on top of that to provide some HTC experience ." That seems like odd phrasing considering that we've already seen HTC devices in the wild running bits and pieces of Sense on WP7 , so we tend to believe Chou might have a more thorough, comprehensive experience in mind -- something that Microsoft is pushing back on (for now, anyway) by demanding that UI innovation be sandboxed in some pretty significant ways. In the same conversation, Chou mentioned that they'll be releasing an LTE phone in 2011, though he didn't give any details on design, platform, or carrier.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: ceo, design, htc, metropcs, phrasing, semantics, sense, sense-ui, states, windows, windows-phone
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: desire, dessert, entry, htc wildfire, htc-sense-ui, htcdesire, sense-ui, summer
HTC Aria for AT&T hands-on
We just took delivery of AT&T's brand new Aria from HTC, and we have to say, we're kind of tickled -- with the hardware, anyway. It's hard not to smile at the HD Mini -esque design elements, including the faux screws on back, the wild yellow interior, and... well, just the overall mini-ness of it.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: aria, att, entry, faux, faux-screws, htc, htc aria, htcaria, our-review, review, sense, sense-ui, senseui, yellow-interior
HTC EVO 4G’s graphics capped at 30FPS?
Reports are flying in from across the internet -- and by that we mean the xda-developers and Google Code forums -- that the EVO 4G might have something of a framerate issue. It seems that the device is "locked in" at 30 frames per second both in 2D (Canvas) and 3D (openGL) modes, while anecdotally, a phone like the Hero hits 54fps on average and has "smoother scrolling" in the menus
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: benchmarks, case-the-nexus, developers, frames per second, google-code, graphics, graphics-capped, hero, hero-carrying, open gl, sense-ui
Home Tab Mod 1.7 for Sense 2.5 breathes new life into Windows Mobile (video)
Ready to customize your custom Windows Mobile skin? HTC's already thoroughly tricked out Sense UI has received the modding treatment courtesy of Co0kieMonster and his team over at xda-developers , and user feedback has been exultant about the results. What you're getting with the Home Tab Mod, and particularly in this latest version 1.7, is a litany of custom arrangement options to suit all tastes
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone Tags: arrangement, custom, engadget, entry, Notifications, sense-ui, tab, windows, xda
Verizon’s HTC Incredible gets a user’s manual
You can't buy an Incredible from Verizon just yet, but we're getting awfully close -- and in the meantime, you've got some exciting new reading material to pore over. It looks like the full, unabridged, seemingly final version of the phone's user's manual has just leaked over on Android Forums , and while there aren't any blockbuster revelations in here as far as we can tell, it confirms what we've long suspected: this is basically a CDMA Desire with an 8 megapixel camera. You've got the full Sense UI experience atop Android 2.1, a 3.7-inch WVGA AMOLED display, 1GHz Snapdragon , and an optical joystick -- a new trend out of HTC that looks destined to completely supplant the trackball, much as it has already done for RIM.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: awfully-close, choice, experience-atop, htc, Joystick, material, phone, result, sense-ui, senseui, snapdragon, usersmanual, vzw
Verizon’s Nexus One to be sold only through Google, have Sense UI (or not)
This doesn't come as much of a surprise, but Android Central seems to have obtained a screen shot from a deep, dark, top-secret Verizon system that indicated that the upcoming CDMA version of the Nexus One will be "available only through www.Google.com/Phones." That, of course, matches T-Mobile's strategy of quietly letting Google do its thing -- and Verizon's strategy of keeping its network "open" -- so you'll just have to remember to not line up at your local store at 8PM the night before the launch, otherwise you're going to come away very, very disappointed.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: differentiation, htc, Lot, nexus one, quietly-letting, reference, result, sense, sense-ui, verizon, verizonwireless, vzw
HTC Legend already trickling into customers’ waiting hands?
That certainly was a timely review , wasn't it? Dutch site Tweakers.net is reporting through a number of its forum members that previously ordered HTC Legends are being scheduled for delivery as early as today, beating the phone's announced early second quarter availability by a solid three weeks.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: dutch, engadget, entry, forum, legend, market, most-metallic, netherlands, news, phone, sense, sense-ui, senseui, shells, waiting-hands
HTC Desire’s Sense UI ported to Droid; HTC, Motorola cringe
If you work for Motorola, cover your ears and say "Blur Blur Blur Blur" at the top of your lungs over and over again for the duration of this post, because what we're about to present is an unholy marriage the likes of which neither Sanjay Jha nor Peter Chou ever intended.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: droid, flash, flash-bear, logo-on-startup, looks-downright, port, project, sense-ui, senseui, stills-claiming
HTC Legend spotted just hanging out, playing it cool
Look familiar? Yep, this is precisely what we expected HTC's rumored Legend to look like based on the renders we'd seen so far .
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, Other Tags: aluminum, check, cousin, freshened-look, htc, in the wild, inthewild, legend, logo, result, sense-ui, suspect-feels