Interesting discussion regarding using HTC Sense VS Not

Posted on January 25th, 2010

Yesterday night, I posted a photo of my new HTC HD2 Windows Phone to Flickr. You’ll notice from the shot, I’ve turned off HTC Sense and gone back to the default UI seen in Windows Mobile 6.5 (Professional).

New Windows Phone: HTC HD2

Nothing against HTC’s hard work at providing a fantastic looking UI to run in Windows Mobile but I find that the Sense UI is overly complicated and too “busy” for me. I feel like its information overload. I would much rather have a much simpler UI. I hate to use this as an example but if you look at the hottest phone on the market today in the eyes of consumers – the iPhone – it’s UI is very simple and easy to use. I bet if you gave a consumer a phone running HTC Sense, they might find it complicated too. But again, I applaud the hard work HTC has done in this space and look forward to seeing where they take it. They have done a lot of great work here.

There is an interesting discussion taking place within the comments of my Flickr photo about running with HTC Sense on versus not.

  • ulises

    U KNOW I FEEL THE SAME WAY ABOUT THE SENSE UI BUT I LIKE THE OTHER ONE BECAUSE OF ONE THING THA WAY U PLAY THE MUSIC IS MUCH EASIER AND LOOKS BETTER BUT MY PROBLEM IS THAT MY SON TURNED OF HTC SENSE N I DONT KNOW HOW TO PUT IT BACK U THINK U CAN HELP ME

  • michael

    Hi there,
    it makes all the difference when trying to sell yourself to show who you are and why you are enthusiastic about the topic.testking ccna
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  • testriq

    Yes you are right that most of the phones have simpler UI and easy too and you could also get it as the phones should not be complicated for the Users to use it as they really need it simple and easy or they will switch to other phones

  • testriq

    yes you are right to have a simple UI but you cant say that the simpler one is good enough as both have their different features something is better in this and something is better in that so let the user define which one is good for them

  • testriq

    You know I feel the same way about the sense UI but I like the other one because of one thing the way you play the music is much easier and it looks better too so let it be let others decide that it is hard or simple

  • testriq

    Hi there,
    it makes all the difference when trying to sell yourself to show who you are and why you are enthusiastic about the topic.
    You don’t need decades of experience and a wall of awards to write a winning real estate bio.

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