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HTC Commits to Android 2.1 and New Sense for All Heroes

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Feb 16, 2010, 6:17 AM   by Eric M. Zeman

Today in Barcelona HTC CEO Peter Chou said that it will provide Android 2.1 updates to its existing lineup of Herp devices (GSM model, Sprint version, Droid Eris). The update will also include the new version of HTC's Sense UI, which brings new features such as Friend Stream.

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RockTripod

Feb 16, 2010, 3:36 PM

Herp

That may be one of my favorite typoes. Its too bad they weren't using the plural.
lmao! the very same thing just went through my mind 🤣
bluecoyote

Feb 16, 2010, 12:29 PM

Eventually!

Someday!

In the future!

Eventually!

Down the road!


I don't get it, why isn't Android 2.1 on the Hero now? It's been out now for over a month, and HTC has surely had a working copy before then.
I'm sure they have their reasons. Re-designing Sense for 2.1 probably takes more than a month or 2.
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sense is hardbaked into android 1.5. It's not just a simple Skin that they can plug in. This is one of the reasons why hacking development is so slow for HTC devices. It's next to impossible to remove the UI from the OS and still have a functional ...
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Slammer

Feb 16, 2010, 11:06 AM

As Emeril would say.........

BAAMMM!!!.

It appears my boys at HTC are not letting me down. I said 2010 was going to be the year for them. This is an awesome start. There are 3 things I am routing for this year.

1) HTC.
2) WinMo7 *
3) Sprint **

* While Android maybe the big player this year, the re-tooled WinMo is going to have another wind of action. I am a firm believer in NOT counting a company like Microsoft out. I suspect a new interest for them by years end.

** Sprint has been struggling, but their direction to fix CS, has worked and it has dramatically improved. They have the will to survive and have made tremendous across the board advances internally. I further expect to see more great news from this carrier.
WinMo7 really suprised me.. I'm kinda impressed by it. The only thing that concerns me is how well it will handle business tasks. I know that they want to market to a new crowd, but there are a lot of companies that stuck with MS because of their b...
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troy864

Feb 16, 2010, 9:43 AM

sureee

Any day now.....
 
 
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