When I had my Tilt2, the first thing I did was remove the HTC UI tier. Stock win mo 6.5 was similar to the Zune UI and it was much faster and easier to use for me at least and it even looked nicer. Sense was just way too busy. I checked out an EVO recently and it's even more busier and complicated than before! Way too much unnecessary sliders and motion built in. I am also not a big fan of the huge clock and weather widget. I guess it's a personal aesthetic thing....
Win phone 7 is built around a unique UI experience, changing that with Sense defeats the whole purpose of win pho 7!
@MicrosoftOwns dude there is a reason that winmo is irrelevant now. its a battery drain, its crash machine, and its flat out horrible. It will be better but still third place in mobile OS i mean 4th behind RIM,ANDROID, AND IOS4. It's dead.
if its all the same, I guess the best winmo 7 phone is going to be samsung with their super amoled display going by mobile displays. The hardware is really not going to differentiate that much.
am I one of few who are thoroughly unimpressed with windows phone 7? Even though I was really hoping it'd be something great?
I got the chance to play around with it for awhile and found the UI to be really disorganized and the OS is really unintuitive. After the phones come out and people play with it for a reasonable amount of time, I think the "coolness" of this OS will fade, considering day-to-day productivity and usability
@incendy yes, i'm pretty sure HTC Sense on WP7 devices will be primarily added vie tiles and seperate apps. Don't think that MS will allow any deep changes.
@jjasper123: because Sense makes any phone better in day to day use?
In any case, it shouldn't be TOO surprising... http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=3147 "One element of these docs that seems to be largely overlooked is that MS will allow hardware partners to access the system at a deeper level than independent developers. This would theoretically allow a manufacturer such as HTC or Samsung to create their own custom ‘experiences’ on the phone."
The possibility was right there in the developer docs leaked early in the year. Just saying.
Personally, I'd like to see Sense with a more WP7 aesthetic.
@Robo And only that, since they each take up 1/3 of the damn screen. Am I the only one that thinks WP7 is ugly? Current HTC phones can have multiple items on one screen, all with relevant information. SS's for WP7 show maybe 6-8 huge buttons which together take up the entire screen. How is that better?
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When I had my Tilt2, the first thing I did was remove the HTC UI tier. Stock win mo 6.5 was similar to the Zune UI and it was much faster and easier to use for me at least and it even looked nicer. Sense was just way too busy. I checked out an EVO recently and it's even more busier and complicated than before! Way too much unnecessary sliders and motion built in. I am also not a big fan of the huge clock and weather widget. I guess it's a personal aesthetic thing....
Win phone 7 is built around a unique UI experience, changing that with Sense defeats the whole purpose of win pho 7!
@Steve Jobs Clone Yep, here's the original article: http://pocketnow.com/thought/htc-sense-for-windows-phone-7
It will probably have to be implemented as custom tiles, all of which can be moved/removed by the user at any time.
@patp Sense can't be turned off on the HTC Desire, without rooting it.
@MicrosoftOwns dude there is a reason that winmo is irrelevant now. its a battery drain, its crash machine, and its flat out horrible. It will be better but still third place in mobile OS i mean 4th behind RIM,ANDROID, AND IOS4. It's dead.
@MicrosoftOwns
if its all the same, I guess the best winmo 7 phone is going to be samsung with their super amoled display going by mobile displays. The hardware is really not going to differentiate that much.
@jjasper123 Because they need an excuse for delaying updates.
@Federaly
am I one of few who are thoroughly unimpressed with windows phone 7? Even though I was really hoping it'd be something great?
I got the chance to play around with it for awhile and found the UI to be really disorganized and the OS is really unintuitive. After the phones come out and people play with it for a reasonable amount of time, I think the "coolness" of this OS will fade, considering day-to-day productivity and usability
@incendy yes, i'm pretty sure HTC Sense on WP7 devices will be primarily added vie tiles and seperate apps. Don't think that MS will allow any deep changes.
@jjasper123: because Sense makes any phone better in day to day use?
In any case, it shouldn't be TOO surprising...
http://www.rgbfilter.com/?p=3147
"One element of these docs that seems to be largely overlooked is that MS will allow hardware partners to access the system at a deeper level than independent developers. This would theoretically allow a manufacturer such as HTC or Samsung to create their own custom ‘experiences’ on the phone."
The possibility was right there in the developer docs leaked early in the year. Just saying.
Personally, I'd like to see Sense with a more WP7 aesthetic.
@Robo And only that, since they each take up 1/3 of the damn screen. Am I the only one that thinks WP7 is ugly? Current HTC phones can have multiple items on one screen, all with relevant information. SS's for WP7 show maybe 6-8 huge buttons which together take up the entire screen. How is that better?
@jjasper123
Could have used this concept image:
http://www.concept-phones.com/htc/htc-hd3-concept-runs-windows-phone-7-htc-sense-3/