HTC's Sense UI coming to other current Android phones

John Chan | Jun 26, 2009

The Sense interface on the new HTC Hero.

The HTC Hero was unveiled at an event two days back, and without a doubt the highlight of the launch was not so much the physical features of the smartphone but rather the custom Android interface on it. According to Pocket-lint, CEO Peter Chou confirmed that the new HTC Sense user interface "will be available on some other existing devices". This will give added capabilities such as an expanded Home screen with unique HTC widgets and tighter integration with social-networking tools like Twitter and Facebook. There's no word on which devices exactly will get this, but it's likely to be the HTC Magic which recently went on sale in many parts of the world.

Mobileburn is also reporting that phones bearing the "with Google" logo will not be eligible for the upgrade as licensing terms between Google and HTC would prevent the manufacturer from being able to tweak the interface too much. That's not going to be a problem for us here in Asia as the HTC Magic does not have the Google branding and already has some modifications, most notably being support for Microsoft Exchange.

Via Boy Genius Report and Engadget

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Devlin says...
According to Engadget HTC said they are considering porting over the Sense UI to their other non-Google devices but it nothing was set in stone.

Jun 27, 2009 00:16