Wednesday, September 15, 2010

HTC Announces New HTC Sense, Phones, etc.

Today, HTC unveiled 2 new devices as well as announced a new version of HTC Sense. Sense has been the most popular skin for the Android operating system, so this comes as big news that HTC chose to change their interface a bit.

The new and improved Sense, says HTC, has some major improvements.

  • Boot time has been improved, down to just 10 seconds.
  • The mapping app has new caching functionality, reducing rendering time.
  • The map now orients itself to the direction you are going with the aid of a digital compass.
  • The incoming call screen now slides up from the screen's bottom instead of using the entire screen.
  • DLNA support is built-in.
  • Sense is now less about presenting data to you and more about allowing you to control and interact with your data.

HTC also announced the coming launch of HTCSense.com. Here is their announcement below:

With the new HTCSense.com service, people can simply manage their mobile phone experience from their HTC phone or personal computer. For example, people can easily locate a missing phone by triggering the handset to ring loudly, even if it is set to silent, or to flag its location on a map. If the phone's been lost or stolen, users can remotely lock the phone, forward calls and texts to another phone, send a message to the phone to arrange its return or even remotely wipe all personal data from it. HTCSense.com makes it easy to setup a new HTC phone or access archived mobile content such as contacts, text messages and call history from a PC browser. People can also customize their phones with exclusive HTC content like wallpapers, HTC scenes, sounds or plug-ins

It is not quite clear when HTCSense.com will launch, but it will be welcomed when it is ready.

HTC is also planning to launch 2 devices: the HTC Desire Z and the HTC Desire HD. 

The HTC Desire Z is essentially an a generic T-Mobile G2. It has all the same specs, from the 5 megapixel camera and 720p video recording to the 800MHz Qualcomm processor. It even features the same hinge style that the G2 has. 

The HTC Desire HD on the other hand is a more powerful phone. It will feature a 4.3 inch screen, 8 megapixel camera, 720p video recording, and a 1Ghz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor (the same processor used in the HTC Evo 4G). The Desire HD promises to be a powerful and very competitive phone.

Availability of these two phones is less clear however with the announcement stating, "the Desire HD and Desire Z will be broadly available in European and Asian markets from October 2010" with the Desire Z coming to North America later this year. 

Does that mean the Desire HD is not coming to North America? Only time will tell.

HTC has been very busy and this group of announcements has something for almost everybody to get excited about.

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