HTC Hero UI looks amazing, will be coming to Windows Mobile
HTC has just announced its latest Android device, the HTC Hero. We don’t normally cover Android, but the news by NetworkWorld that the new UI will be coming to Windows Mobile devices also made us more attentive.
"We’ve been developing this for three years," said John Wang, chief marketing officer of HTC, in a phone interview. "The point is to enrich the user experience, to make it personal, convenient and give users moments of delight."
The company calls the new software HTC Sense, and it will be introduced in HTC’s entire portfolio of mobile phones starting with the HTC Hero. The company is the world’s largest maker of Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphones, and handsets running that software will also run HTC Sense in the future.
The new UI, called HTC Sense, features many elements of HTC’s new People-centric communication paradigm. As can be seen from the video, many elements of TouchFlo3D and other software, first pioneered on Windows Mobile, has crossed over, and new elements such as twitter widgets seemed to have been added.
Here is what HTC has to say about it.
HTC Sense
Built on a culture of innovation and a passion to enhance people’s lives, HTC shapes the mobile experience around the individual. Debuting on the HTC Hero and available on all new HTC devices moving forward, Sense delivers on three basic principles: Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover the Unexpected.
Make It Mine
Make It Mine is about feeling your HTC phone was created for and by you. To do this, HTC encourages you to dictate and organize how you want to access the people and content in your life in a way that fits best for you. For some, this means adding glance-view widgets that push content like twitter feeds, weather and other content to the surface while others may want quick access to business-focused information like email, calendar and world-times. HTC is also introducing a new profile feature called ‘Scenes’ that enables you to create different customized content profiles around specific functions or times in your life.
Stay Close
Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from phone calls, emails, texts, photos, status updates and more. HTC Sense takes a different approach by integrating these communication channels and applications into one single view, enabling you to stay closer to your important people. With HTC Sense, friends’ Facebook status updates and photos, along with their Flickr photos are included alongside their text messages, emails and call history in a single view.
Discover the Unexpected
Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced, not explained. HTC Sense is focused on providing a variety of these simple yet innovative experiences on your HTC phone that will sometimes bring you moments of joy and delight. It can be something as basic as turning the phone over to silence a ring or as simple as improving the smart dialler for making calls quicker. HTC Sense also includes ‘Perspectives’, a new way for viewing your content such as email, photos, Twitter, music and more in different ways.
Read more at Networkworld here.
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Wow, HTC made the UI so much better and useful. Hope that the UI does get integrated into wm, unless MS does an incredible job with their wm7
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mann thats the best UI i have ever seen.. its so pleasant and simple.. and soo useful.. =D
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Where does it say that the Sense UI is coming to WM? I don’t see that anywhere…. I still want it tho…
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admin Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 4:54 pm
“The company calls the new software HTC Sense, and it will be introduced in HTC’s entire portfolio of mobile phones starting with the HTC Hero. The company is the world’s largest maker of Microsoft Windows Mobile smartphones, and handsets running that software will also run HTC Sense in the future.”
Its repeated elsewhere also. Its being called HTC’s successor to TF3D.
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mweb586 Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
Ok then. I didn’t really read the article I just wanted to know.
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looks like MS gotta step up to beat HTC.
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Reminds me of Palm Pre’s WebOS cards interface. Guess it’s because they didn’t leave the tabs from Touchflo 3D
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Now if we can just get it on a capacitive touch screen it might actually work that well on a Windows phone
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aleis38 Reply:
June 24th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I concur
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I dunno. It’d work if they could find a way to get rid of wimno’s ugly mandatory top and bottom bar setup.
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Sense UI looks interesting, but the hardware looks cheap and poorly made. Seems to be trend with android phones, especially HTC.
Also can someone please tell me the need for a “Phone” softkey when there’s a dedicated hardware button?
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Until a WM phone is actually released or upgraded with this UI I wont believe it will be ported to WM. Remember the FM radio on the TP2? With HTC anything can happen.
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OMG beatifull, i cant wait till it hits WM.
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Knowing HTC, we should buy new device for this beauty, well I hope Genius at XDA do something about it.
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NOT coming to WM???
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/06/24/htc-sense-ui-taking-android-to-the-next-level.html
“Mobile Burn went straight to the source and has confirmed that Sense UI is not headed to Windows Mobile.”
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admin Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 7:29 am
I have heard other direct interviews which contradict that, as well as lines from their press release itself. Likely they mean it wont be exactly the same, but very similar.
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It’s pretty but is it really much more functionality that we have with WM already? No. There are several similar UI products for WM out already, it’s just a matter of development and refinement.
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manual_ Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:54 am
Showme showme showme!:]
Please let me se those several UI products that are equally functional, COMPREHENSIVE, USABLE and elegant. I want to install ONE of them and finally fall in love with my WM device:)
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Marko Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 10:27 am
SPB Mobile Shell 3.0…
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manual_ Reply:
June 26th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Are you serious? Don’t you see the difference between SPB and Sense?
SPB isn’t even close to that. Not to say that tapping e-mail icon in SPB takes you out of it SPB and throws you back into default WM horrible interface (that’s what i saw in a demo video). So it isn’t comprehensive. And i want my UI to be consistent from head to toe;) SPB is CLUTTERED and hasn’t the tiniest amount of class that Sense has. While it might be an alternative for older WM devices it’s not a solution for say an Omnia i happen to own;)
So SPB doesn’t have features of Sense.
But still, there are several others, right? Please tell me what the others are;)
Oh yeah. Don’t tell me I can skin SPB. Making something skinnable isn’t an excuse for not providing good default skin.
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