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HTC’s “Virtual Book” UI Patent Could Be Sense UI’s Successor
4:30AM Chris Jacob | HTC’s new UI patent that “organises applications, widgets, and web pages into pages of a virtual book” may “borrow” a few ideas from Palm, but it’s cool with me. I’m all for a snazzier version of Pre’s card system. More »
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3:50PM Nick Broughall | I don’t read Chinese, nor do I own an HTC Magic. But it looks like the promised Sense UI ROM update for the HTC Magic has been made available on the HTC Taiwan site. If you own a Magic and are game to have a play around with the ROM on your phone based solely on a website in Chinese, let us know whether or not the update works…
[HTC Taiwan – Thanks Unimaginative]
Is The Sense UI Now Available For HTC Magic Phones?
3:50PM Nick Broughall | I don’t read Chinese, nor do I own an HTC Magic. But it looks like the promised Sense UI ROM update for the HTC Magic has been made available on the HTC Taiwan site. If you own a Magic and are game to have a play around with the ROM on your phone based solely on a website in Chinese, let us know whether or not the update works…
[HTC Taiwan – Thanks Unimaginative]
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2:01PM Matt Buchanan | Take the most daring Android phone yet, but make it faster, stronger and better (but blander). You have the Sprint take on the HTC Hero, which happens to be the best Android phone you can buy. More »
Sprint Hero Review: Faster, Stronger, Uglier
2:01PM Matt Buchanan | Take the most daring Android phone yet, but make it faster, stronger and better (but blander). You have the Sprint take on the HTC Hero, which happens to be the best Android phone you can buy. More »
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HTC Tattoo: Budget Android Phone Gets Slick Sense UI
6:00PM Danny Allen | Previously leaked as the “Click“, HTC’s Tattoo has replaceable face covers that you can also design yourself. It runs Android with HTC’s beatifying Sense interface (as seen on the Hero), and has a 3.2MP camera, 3.5mm headphone-jack, and MicroSD storage. More »
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How To: Install The HTC Hero’s UI On Your Sad Old G1
7:00AM John Herrman | The tireless tinkerers over at XDA have assembled a definitive guide to loading the Hero’s custom-baked Android build onto G1s. It’s fairly involved and a little risky, but hardly unfamiliar territory to HTC fans. [XDA, GetYourDroidOn—Thanks, Patrick!] More »
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Rumour: Existing Android Phones Won’t Get HTC’s “Sense” UI For Lame Licensing Reasons
7:55PM John Herrman | That HTC’s “Sense” interface would run on older hardware was known for months before its official announcement, so a sanctioned update for existing phones makes sense, right? Turns out, there might be an extremely annoying barrier standing in HTC’s way. More »
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HTC CEO Says “Sense” Android Interface Coming To Existing Phones
12:40PM Dan Nosowitz | HTC’s been known to slap a polished finish on an existing smartphone OS, first with WinMo’s TouchFlo and now Android’s Sense. But fret not, HTC G1 and/or Magic/MyTouch owners: HTC’s CEO hinted that Sense is coming to existing Android phones. More »
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HTC Hero Hands-On
9:50PM John Herrman | The Hero feels more substantial than HTC’s previous Android handsets, but the hardware—and the software, to a certain extent—will be familiar to anyone who’s used the company’s other hardware. It’s all just a bit, well, nicer. More »
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8:50PM John Herrman | As expected, HTC has dropped the details on a new Android phone—the leaked-to-all-hell Hero, no less. And HTC’s fantastic, also-leaked Android interface overhaul is here, too: it’s called Sense. Oh, and it’s got Flash support. More »
HTC Debuts Hero, With Fresh “Sense” Face For Android
8:50PM John Herrman | As expected, HTC has dropped the details on a new Android phone—the leaked-to-all-hell Hero, no less. And HTC’s fantastic, also-leaked Android interface overhaul is here, too: it’s called Sense. Oh, and it’s got Flash support. More »
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