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Custom OEM skins such as HTC's Sense or Samsung's TouchWiz are commonplace on Android smartphones these days and are used to differentiate their phones. HTC Sense has as many lovers as haters; much like most other Android skins. In a recent interview HTC's head of Sense development, Drew Bamford, provided some valuable insight into how skins, Sense in particular, add value to the Android experience.

HTC has improved Sense considerably with version 4.0

Bamford believes that HTC Sense 4.0 adds a lot of usability to the Android experience. A prime example is the time and weather widget that is almost an icon of Android itself, as well as the updated camera application. HTC also wishes to develop personality through its custom UI, to the extent where customers will go into a store and ask for an HTC phone rather than an Android.

“I think between our widget sets, our customizable lock screen and our skins, we offer a much more personal experience overall. A couple that you’ve probably heard a lot about because they’re our kind of key feature on the HTC One are the camera and authentic sound,” Bamford says.

In the interview he goes onto admit that HTC got carried away with amount of pointless processing intensive tasks in the past in previous versions of Sense. Instead with Sense 4.0, “it’s just a different approach that we eventually came up with,” one that isn't as resource intensive and a alternative to the stock Android 4.0 user experience.

KitGuru says: We've had some hands-on time with the HTC One X over the past few weeks, and we have to admit that Sense 4.0 is much better than previous iterations.

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HTC admits their Sense Android skin “got cluttered” https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/blair-mcclelland/htc-admits-their-sense-android-skin-got-cluttered/ https://www.kitguru.net/lifestyle/mobile/blair-mcclelland/htc-admits-their-sense-android-skin-got-cluttered/#respond Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:00:34 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=81413 If you buy any Android smartphone these days you can expect the manufacturer to slosh together a custom skin to overlay the stock Android experience. Samsung has TouchWiz, LG and Motorola has their own nameless skins, while HTC has Sense. In recent times HTC has gone against what made them one of the largest Android …

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If you buy any Android smartphone these days you can expect the manufacturer to slosh together a custom skin to overlay the stock Android experience. Samsung has TouchWiz, LG and Motorola has their own nameless skins, while HTC has Sense.

In recent times HTC has gone against what made them one of the largest Android manufacturers by releasing endless amounts of phones, however they are now admitting their Sense UI may have caused some of this hardship to strike the company as well. This comes after poor sales and financial results in the latter stages of 2011.

HTC's less cluttered Sense UI will be present on the upcoming HTC One X smartphone

“From the original Sense up to Sense 3.5 we added too many things. The original concept was that it had to be simple and it had to be easy to use and we had that philosophy, but over time it got cluttered. What we've done right now is a good mixture of keeping Sense and Google's Ice Cream Sandwich element in a good balance. We haven't tried to change everything here. We have kept a lot of the ICS element but still added the Sense favour on top of it.”

HTC's chief product officer, Kouji Kodera, also admitted that “there where too many things in there, even on the home screen we had four or five icons before consumers got a chance to add things themselves. For the HTC One range we have taken it down to Sense 2.0 again.”

HTC have also said that they will focus on product quality not quantity in 2012. The new, less cluttered Sense 4.0 skin will be seen on HTC's recently announced One trio of smartphones that will be begin global launches before summer rolls around.

Kitguru says: A global company that speculates possible mistakes in the public eye, bravo to you HTC.

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