Comments on: HTC Ville caught on video with Sense 4.0

By: Mlivengood

Mlivengood — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:30:00 +0000

HTC phones like this are great, I’m getting this one almost as soon as it comes out, the HTC Ville just looks so slick and has good colors and I like the back, it’s also probably the thinnest HTC phone of all, if you compare it to the Nexus One, it looks alike, however the operating system is different and the sizes and features are a bit different, Sensa isn’t the best operating system but is better than the one by Samsung, I forget what it’s called…Anyway, it looks great and I’m waiting forward to when it comes out!

By: Daleos

Daleos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Actually I liked the hardware buttons. The amount of times I’ve accidently swiped the home button whilst playing games is annoyingly too often.

By: Daleos

Daleos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:48:00 +0000

Actually I liked the hardware buttons. The amount of times I’ve accidently swiped the home button whilst playing games is annoyingly too often.

By: Daleos

Daleos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:46:00 +0000

I’m not against releasing a new phone every 6 months but all the different names is confusing. They need to stick to one name for the flagship device, one for a cheapy and then have maybe 3 midrange phones with different enhanced features like enhanced audio or camera. They seem to be getting there with the XL and XE suffixes for the Sensation. If the Ville will eventually be called the Sensation XV or something then they’ll be on the right track.

By: Daleos

Daleos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:46:00 +0000

By: Daleos

Daleos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:36:00 +0000

Actually, Sense is the reason I prefer HTC stuff. It’s not so much the UI but the joined up supporting apps that I like. Maybe I’ll switch to stock once developers at least keep one eye on the recently released preferred design specs but until then Sense is it.

By: Daleos

Daleos — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:36:00 +0000

By: eilegz

eilegz — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

again SENSE bloat kill the essence of ICS, plus HTC overpriced and lower spec phones really need a revamp…

By: eilegz

eilegz — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:30:00 +0000

again SENSE bloat kill the essence of ICS, plus HTC overpriced and lower spec phones really need a revamp…

By: I7h4zard

I7h4zard — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:13:00 +0000

Sense has:
-The ability to remove or add home screens (Up to 7)
-A “Kill All” button in the task manager
-The ability to swipe from the final desktop on one side to the other one (Carousel)
-Pinch to preview all home screens.

Improves on Stock in some cases, but:

The big downside: Heavily skinned.

By: I7h4zard

I7h4zard — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:13:00 +0000

Improves on Stock in some cases, but:

The big downside: Heavily skinned.

By: Sonelone

Sonelone — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Did you expect anything else out of HTC? Their only big jump in the past 2 years has been Desire HD to Sensation. Then it just went Sensation>Sensation XE>Amaze>Rezound

By: Sonelone

Sonelone — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:42:00 +0000

Did you expect anything else out of HTC? Their only big jump in the past 2 years has been Desire HD to Sensation. Then it just went Sensation>Sensation XE>Amaze>Rezound

By: HereNotThere

HereNotThere — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:35:00 +0000

Am I the only one that thinks its ridiculous that they are essentially releasing a phone with the same guts as most of the other phones on the market! The sensation, the amaze and whatever that other sensation with beats was. They all had the same specs as this. The only thing different is the upgrade to ICS, which is something the owners of the other phones deserve to receive in an update. This is a pathetic over saturation of the market with no concern for the people that are already using their products

By: HereNotThere

HereNotThere — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:35:00 +0000

By: gupt009

gupt009 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:00 +0000

HTC just killed awesome ICS UI with Sense. May be they should rename their skin to ‘Sense-less’ which will be more appropriate.

By: gupt009

gupt009 — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 21:26:00 +0000

HTC just killed awesome ICS UI with Sense. May be they should rename their skin to ‘Sense-less’ which will be more appropriate.

By: Benjamin Puna

Benjamin Puna — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:25:00 +0000

why do OEMs persist with capacitive buttons! ICS doesn’t need them!

By: Malcolm Odita

Malcolm Odita — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:06:00 +0000

Sense in its previous iterations looked quite good, this is not quite good. Its poor. I know the OEM’s need to differentiate but..

By: companyemails

companyemails — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:54:00 +0000

Nice enough, but man Why would a company take a great looking UI and make it uglier just for the sake of differentiation? Some of the animations seem nice, but the rest I would rather pass on.

As a separate comment, of all the ICS OEM builds that have leaked thus far, I have yet to see a single one that improves on stock ICS in look and feel. there are a small handful of individual features that ICS could benefit from, such as:

- pinch desktop preview;
- dock carousel (allows you to add more than 4 apps to the dock);
- being able to swipe directly from the final desktop on one end to the final desktop on the other end;
- an X button in the app switcher (like the one in the notification panel) that allows you to terminate all listed apps in one touch if you want to); and
- the ability to expand or reduce the number of desktops beyond the stock 5.

On the tablet build of ICS I would also add an option to allow you to reverse the positions of the notification bar and the app drawer from where they are placed by default (putting the app drawer at the bottom (where our thumb can more easily get to it), and the notification panel at the top (where it is easier to see).

Lastly I would make sure that any device using vanilla ICS by default cam preloaded with the full range of Google apps, and allowed the user to delete what they didn’t want (not just disable them).

Again, these are just tiny suggestions I would enjoy having, but none are critical to my enjoyment of ICS, which IMHO is brilliant thus far.

By: Dunnion

Dunnion — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:47:00 +0000

I normally like how HTC phones look, but this just looks like a blob, and the top of the phone just looks weird to me.