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Will The HTC Ville Be The First Phone To Screw Up Ice Cream Sandwich With HTC Sense?

3:41AM November 10, 2011 | Casey Chan

BGR just leaked info about the HTC Ville, an Android phone that’ll supposedly be announced by HTC at next year’s Mobile World Congress, and it looks really great… except for one thing. It plasters the needless HTC Sense all over Ice Cream Sandwich. WHYYY. More »

Software

New Windows 8 Explorer Interface Looks Like A Mess

10:50AM August 31, 2011 | Adrian Covert

There are parts of Windows 8 that look really amazing (like this, holy shit!). But now, Microsoft offers up a video of the new Explorer UI. More functional, perhaps. But it doesn’t look so great. More »

Mobile

Hands On With HTC Sense 3.5

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2:00PM August 30, 2011 | Alex Kidman

HTC seems to have settled into a comfortable pattern with its HTC Sense UI, and the latest sighting of the 3.5 version of its Android overlay backs this up, with only a few tweaks around the edges. Video after the jump. More »

Online

Twitter Is Axing The Old Interface This Week

10:16AM August 3, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Twitter users hanging onto the old interface have a few more days to enjoy the legacy design. This week Twitter will upgrade you to the new interface. Kick or scream all you want, it’s going to happen. [Twitter via Mashable]

Entertainment

Hollywood User Interface Fakery At Its Finest

7:00AM April 10, 2011 | Jack Loftus

Most of the time the computer interfaces we see in Hollywood flicks are all sorts of ridiculous. They mix glam with hints of what we might expect in the future. Sometimes that’s Minority Report (real, see MIT), sometimes it’s this: More »

Mobile

Leaked BlackBerry Bold Touch Videos Expose Stupid Pinching

8:45AM April 5, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Touchscreen pinching makes sense. It’s undeniably intuitive and pretty gratifying! And now it’s everywhere – including places it shouldn’t be, like the relatively tiny screen of the BlackBerry Bold Touch. This is like picking your nose with a mop. More »

Software

Peek At Windows 8′s Tablet-Ready ‘Immersive’ Browser, PDF Reader

7:57AM April 5, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

WithinWindows posted a few sneak peaks of a pre-beta Windows 8, including an “Immersive” full-screen version of Internet Explorer fit for tablets as well as a “Modern Reader” application for digging into PDFs sans distractions. Pretty! The IE screenshot also offers a glimpse of a Windows Phone 7-esque “tile” interface, which is perhaps slightly less pretty. [Within Windows via WinRumors]

This Is A Good Idea For A Multi-User iPad Login

6:00AM December 16, 2010 | Jesus Diaz

While I think the iPad is a very personal device, my wife insists on using mine. That’s OK, except that I get logged out of Facebook or other internet services. That’s why a true multi-user design is needed. This one looks good. More »

Mobile

Some Would Think A BlackBerry Torch Running Android And Motoblur Is A Very Good Thing

8:20PM December 3, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

After a Droid X was seen ‘shopped with the iPhone’s Google Maps in a Verizon ad, it should come as no surprise to see an advert of a BlackBerry Torch running Android and – gasp! – Motoblur. More »

RIM Acquires Interface Wizards The Astonishing Tribe

2:29AM December 3, 2010 | Kyle VanHemert

Well isn’t this interesting. Today, RIM announced its acquisition of The Astonishing Tribe, the interface gurus played a big part in defining Android’s look in its early stages. The BlackBerrys of the future just got a whole lot prettier. More »