HTC's Sense UI has evolved over the years from a laggy train wreck in its early incarnations to something quite lean and serviceable in Sense 4.0. The newest version, Sense 5.0 — which will be launching on the HTC One — is yet another departure. But different isn't always better. Read More >>
Featured comment by EddyCJ:
"Samsung and HTC do it because they want people to forget Android even exists - so people buy their phone for the Samsung-ness or the HTC-ness.
Many..." More »
HTC's Sense skin for Android has long been a bloated skeuomorphic mess, with aluminium ring pulls, flip clocks and fancy weather animations. If these leaked screenshot are accurate, though, that all looks set to change — for the better. Read More >>
Featured comment by Someone Else:
"Get Beautiful Widgets to replace the clock/weather widget, there are tons of flashkight/dialer apps and the built in 4.2 timer is beautiful too." More »
These rugs, which depict the five senses of touch, smell, sight, taste and hearing, seem to leap out as three-dimensional shapes as you look at them. Weirdly, though, they are in fact perfectly flat. Read More >>
Android 4.0 (a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich) is the prettiest, most intuitive version of Google's mobile OS yet, but hardware manufacturers still insist on dirtying it up. Android skins are inevitable, but who does it best? See for yourself. Read More >>
Robots aren't known for their gentle touch and thoughtful caress, but that could all be about to change. A team of engineers has developed a robotic finger that's capable of detecting textures — and it's more sensitive than a human hand. Read More >>
Android is awesome and powerful, but it has, shall we say, a learning curve. That scares some people away. After all, iOS is so intuitive that babies can use it. Literally. But you're not a baby. Read More >>
Featured comment by 143lsb:
"If you want, I can take it off your hands for you. Since you clearly can't get into it. Just think of it as a charitable donation to your local neighb..." More »
The HTC Sense web site has never really worked as advertised, with most users failing to sign in, not being able to use many of the promised features and generally getting frustrated with HTC's supposed phone management and tracking tool. Now HTC's given up on it as well. Read More >>
Featured comment by kwiiiq:
"Heck - I forgot this thing even existed. Would be nice to see their partnerships with Dropbox along with their acquistion of Beats and MOG coming to f..." More »