Now that we’re hearing some rumors about Android 2.3 Gingerbread coming to the HTCs (engadget says “june”, the official 2.3 ROM with HTC Sense seems to have popped up on the web), I wanted to do a little round up of the things that could be improved upon (dislikes). The likes are very obvious – even on 2.2, android is the ultimate smartphone os, and to me spells h a p p i n e s s.
Two peculiarities should be resolved with gingerbread: the recently launched Google android web interface lets you name your devices – a first step into a direction we fancy? – and screenshots should be included this time. Just thinking of that post back in january.
So let’s talk about Sense itself. HTC’s digital surface is a very sleek and well thought-through interface and gets constantly new widgets and skins etc. It might be because of my not activating facebook on the device (?), but some of the widgets I always use are a bit slow, change their appearance by themselves if you “match contacts” (the “People widget”) or shred your private messages (the “twitter widget”) and even obmit messages and “@ mentions” altogether (still, the “twitter widget”). These would be the albeit very few instances where Sense falls short of being perfect.
Turns out to be a very short post. Blame it on the Taiwanese and on Google.
On another note, and yeah, I’m talking to you, dear iPhone 4 using @hans_san : ), the business capabilites of said HTCs are nothing short of gewd – yes, you may setup multiple MS Exchange accounts on the same device, you don’t even need an app for that, and you can schedule peak times and different setups for push updates. So there ya go.
Ah, before you ask, the “Zombies”-tag? It is not at all related to this post, no, really, but them zombies are everywhere.
