Oct

2010

Gratious Slide 0.8 leaked out for Froyo and HTC Sense!

by Jesse Bauer
tagged Android, android 2.2, android froyo, froyo, gratious slide, HTC, HTC Gratia, HTC Sense, leak, ROM, sense, xda-developers

HTC Sense has a new ROM for Android 2.2. The Gratious Slide 0.8 has been leaked out from a Chinese source! Unfortunately, the language is in Chinese as well, so you’ll need to change that once you’ve got it running. To do that, When it’s done booting, go to settings then scroll down to the [...]

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Oct

2010

HTCSense.com now online – currently only supports Desire HD & Desire Z

by Steve Ginter
tagged HTC, HTC Sense, htcsense, htcsense.com, remote lock, remote wipe, sense

HTC is making great effort to ensure you want to choose them for your next Android powered smartphone. Their new website and service at HTCSense.com has gone live and touts some pretty nice features should you own an HTC Desire HD or Desire Z. Remotely backup your contacts GPS location finder if you lose or [...]

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Sep

2010

HTC 5 Seconds Fast Boot Demo Video

by Chris Moor
tagged boot speed, HTC, HTC Sense

Last week HTC announced a new version of HTC Sense that will include an optimised boot speed which will reduce the boot time from half a minute down to 5-10 seconds. This new version of HTC Sense will be first seen on the Desire HD and Desire Z handsets. HTC demoed these devices with the [...]

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Sep

2010

HTC Announce New Version of HTC Sense

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, HTC Desire HD, htc desire z, HTC Sense, htc sense update

HTC announced this morning in London that HTC Sense will be getting a face lift very soon. There are no graphical changes happening, but a number of key software enhances were announced. Here are the new features that HTC talked about: HTC Maps HTC are going to introduce a pre-loading system to a maps application [...]

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Sep

2010

HTC Desire HD and Z Launched in London

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, HTC Desire HD, htc desire z, htc event london, HTC Sense

While North America has had the EVO 4G for a while now, Europe has been waiting for their next big phone to be announced. Well the wait is over. This morning HTC held a press event in London where they announced two new HTC phones to the European markets, the most exciting of which is [...]

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Aug

2010

The four main Android flavors

by Chris Moor
tagged Flavors of Android, HTC, HTC Sense, motoblur, motorola, Samsung, TouchWiz, ui, Vanilla

As you all know, Android has different verisons of itself, for example, 2.2 Froyo, 2.1 Eclair, 1.6. and 1.6 Donut. But what some of you may not know, is that there are different versions of Android in these builds. These usually vary by the phone manufacturer. Let’s take a look at the four flavors of [...]

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Aug

2009

HTC Hero Sense UI Headed To The HTC Magic

by Chris Moor
tagged HTC Hero, HTC Magic, HTC Sense

HTC have announced that the HTC Hero ‘Sense’ user interface will be made available for the HTC Magic handset. Announced at a press conference in Taiwan, HTC revealed that the update will be available from their official website at some point in the future. However, due to licensing reasons the update will not be available [...]

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Jun

2009

HTC Sense Upgrade Unlikely For Existing Android Phones

by Chris Moor
tagged HTC Sense

Last week we reported on the rumor that HTC’s Sense interface could soon be making its way to existing Android phones, but sadly due to licensing terms this now seems extremely unlikely. That’s right, even though my G1 and the MyTouch/Magic are made and developed by HTC, you’ll find it also says Google on the [...]

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Jun

2009

HTC Sense Interface Update For The HTC Magic?

by Chris Moor
tagged HTC Magic, HTC Sense

It appears that the HTC Sense interface could soon be made available to existing Android handsets. According to Pocket-lint, HTC’s CEO Peter Chou confirmed to them that, “HTC sense will be available on some other existing devices.” Chou didn’t say which current Android devices would receive the new HTC Sense interface, but with only the [...]

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May

2009

HTC Hero Custom Android Build Videos

by Chris Moor
tagged HTC Hero, HTC Sense

Here’s some video footage of HTC’s custom Android build expected to be included on the upcoming HTC Hero handset. Although the footage is taken from an emulator and not an actual functioning handset, it still highlights the huge potential the Android platform has for customization from both handset manufacturers and carriers. Below you will find [...]

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