HTC Desire ROM makes Sense on the Nexus One
By Nilay Patel 
posted February 17th 2010 2:33PM
posted February 17th 2010 2:33PM
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posted February 17th 2010 2:33PM
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This totally takes the edge off of the screw-over that HTC is pulling by not offering the Desire to the US. Finally excited about the Nexus One again, now. Thanks.
@Leindurstit Sense is clunky, closed source, significantly modifies the Android frameworks (breaking some things in the process), and a memory hog.
AOSP > Sense.
Yeah, but it looks pretty. :(
@coolbho3000
WTF?
@Leindurstit is the Desire really not coming to the US? They said that - "HTC Desire has been accepted by almost every key carrier in every key country we work with"
@coolbho3000
Could you qualify that claim? What does Sense break?
@coolbho3000
Can't help agreeing there, though the hardware on the N1 may well make it workable compared to other Sense outings...
@enh
They key is 'key country' ;)
@Tes http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3933
HTC changes too many things.
@Leindurstit HTC wins either way, since they're the ones making both phones...
@coolbho3000 nah bro, you got it all wrong...being waiting for sense since i was a puppy and now i shalt have it on my N1. Its just a completely diff experience, worth having
@Leindurstit Yes to the keyboard and Snapdragon, no to the larger screen. As long as the screen is WVGA, it can be less than 3" for all I care. Larger screens eat more battery, and when you enlarge the screen without enlarging the resolution, the image becomes less sharp. No thanks. Can't wait! More: http://bit.ly/htc-desire-nexus-on-steroids
@lisaannetyler you do have an argument on battery, but the resolution on the Nexus One/Desire are higher than those of any phone except the Droid by a tiny margin(not noticeable). And they also have a higher Pixel to Area ratio.
@coolbho3000 Yeah, Sense was cool on ANdroid 1.6. WIth Android 2.1 the interface got much better.
You've gotta love the Android rom hackers. They work real fast!
@ChazClout Just wait until all the WinMo hackers come over to Android once WM7 is released. Then the fun will truly begin!
(-b±√(b^2-4ac))/2a, where a = 0, and b = 1. ;)
@N900
You just divided by 0. Oh shiiiiiiii.......
@N900 a ≠ 0
@N900 Yay I love me some quadratic formula!
@N900 Math... Yuck.
@Phil P Well.. too late my CPU just burned, but I definitely saw some cool stuff right before the explosion (don't know if I were supposed to though)
@N900 : Not sure if this is meant to be a quiz, but if a=0 then the equation is just bx+c=0, therefore with b=1 you get x = -c. Did I win?
@N900 Threw that into good ol' wolframalpha....and the results are...complex infinity!
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=(-b%C2%B1%E2%88%9A(b^2-4ac))/2a,+where+a+%3D+0,+and+b+%3D+1.
@trwrt LOL i got a laugh out of that thanks
Oh I would love me some more fragmented OS action !
@goatlover
It's still 2.1
@goatlover
How exactly is this fragmenting the OS? It's still 2.1, all that HTC changes is that they put a pretty skin over it.
@Dafrety have you used HTC Sense for 5 months then the Nexus One. The Nexus One is better the main reason is you get updates all year long not once a year or worse none at all!
sounds like some wm firmware job, the android is really not so open, not much more open than wm
@htd
You don't know what your talking about.
Anyways...So far anything that's come out on the Nexus one has made its way to the Droid...would love to have flash already since adobe is taking its sweet ass time teasing us with all these videos but no release.
@htd Really? Where can I get the source code for Windows Mobile to edit as I like and make my own version of it?
@htd http://source.android.com/
Enjoy!
@Bobbo Animated Wallpapers? Not that they really matter, but I don't believe they are "available" on the DROID, at least not through supported means.
Well, considering HTC refuses to release any of their newer phones (Desire, Legend, HD mini) in the US, I guess this is better than nothing.
@pika2000 I don't think it is HTC choosing not to sell them in the US as much as it is the lethargic carriers in the US taking forever to buy, test, build images, and ship them.
@RandomGuy Wrong. Blame the carriers all you want, but nobody's stopping HTC selling their phones directly. HTC could've simply put in a chipset that supports 850 UMTS band, and sell all those phones themselves without contract in the US, just like Nokia, SE, and recently Google, have been doing. But no, they put a dual band UMTS chipset instead. Really, this is 2010, and companies like HTC still thinks that cellphone market as segmented local markets.
@RandomGuy Conflicting requirements between US carriers and international phone manufacturers. US phone carriers fill their lineup with the phones they want, whereas the manufactures develop phones to make their own product ranges. Sometimes the US carrier thinks they already have a phone that does more or less the same thing, or they don't feel such a phone is necessary. Which is why I don't like carriers having such a strong control over the phones offered in a given country.
That is interesting - although the same hardware, the memory ROM does not have enough room? How does desire do it?
@POZ More space is partitioned to /system on the Desire, and presumably, more space is partitioned to /data on the Nexus One.
@POZ Ya, it partitions up the space differently. So more to system in the Desire but less somewhere else.
why cant I just have the god damn thing on at&t bands
@one2gamble
I know right..
I Really hope the whole smartphones getting popular thing finally ends up in there being unlocked phones sold in the USA *without* carrier exclusivity, and phones being made with cellular radio chips that are compatible with all providers. I know, only in my dreams...but any way you look at it, the current system really bites for consumers...Oh I've been with carrier ABC for 5 years but now carrier XYZ has the phone I want, but their coverage sucks in my area and in order to get that phone I have to sign a 2 year contract with them and if I decide that the coverage is so bad it's pretty much unusable I have to pay an ETF. Bunch of horse shit. Someone needs to come in and regulate this nonsense before it gets even more out of control.
@one2gamble I know right. I am switching from Sprint to AT&T in the spring when these phones come out and they aren't on AT&T. I really don't want an iPhone.
@Techeternity I know right? That is all.
@flextopia
I know.
great news:)
I'd like a HTC Desire, wonder when they will be on sale in the uk and for how much without a contract.
@hajj3
You & me both, infact, throw a keyboard on it too, vodaphone! Oh, and dont come on vodaphone
@hajj3
March 26th.. stop. £440.. stop. end of line.
I think the name would be Paul, who happens to own MoDaCo.