XDA China Gets Their Hands On HTC Sense 3.5

On 08.25.11, In HTC, Rumors, by Eric

Remember yesterday how I said the HTC Bliss would have a new version of Sense? And it’s been upgraded to 3.5? Well XDA.cn did more digging into the Bliss and put together some screenshots of what they think is pretty close to the new interface.

The problem with Sense 3.0 is that HTC slapped a hardware requirement on it (must have dual-core) and said sorry about your luck to anyone that didn’t meet that mark. Apparently they are backtracking on this and XDA.cn says that older models of HTC phones should be able to run this updated UI. 3.5 will still use the ring style unlocking system that 3.0 did but it will most likely show more notifications for weather and messages than it did before. The Sense widgets have been updated as well as you can see pictured above. The weather widget covers almost the whole screen now, down to the two new buttons at the bottom, of for applications and one for the phone.

While XDA.cn has said that their version of 3.5 is a beta version, it is already looking decidely different. Anyone excited for this new Sense? Any older phones looking to get in on the love?

Via: XDA.cn

http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Forte/542650247 Michael Forte

Sure older phones could run it, but it doesn’t mean that HTC will actually upgrade your phone to it.

Anonymous

Well they update their phones more people would rather have the latest os ans don’t really care what version of sense they have.

http://twitter.com/marsgrafx MARS GRAF-X

most people have contracts .. and are not going to go out an buy a new phone for 2 years.. i have a contract for 2 years and will not be buying a new phone for 2 years.. but i would like my current phone to be up to date.. when my contract is up i will buy a new phone again.. but if there is a company that is not up dating there devices then why would i buy that phone.. !

Anonymous

It’s simple maybe not for you to understand but as they develop newer phones they make the newest skin to work ideally with that type of phone say for example dual core. The older phones will not be able to fully run the newer skin without some issues(lag, memory etc) I mean no company updates all of their phones. Moto, samsung, htc do not so that leaves you with apple which usually gets maybe 2 updates at the most. So yeah you have a contract but its simple. And don’t say well they have sense 3.0 on roms because that isn’t the full sense skin it is parts of it which is why it can run on older phones.

Bi1ly665738

I would rather them update my phone with as much as the phone could possibly handle.. If it requires my phone to have dual core, give me what doesn’t… MY OPINION of HTC has been somewhat poor because of this. The Thunderbolt was probably 4 months old (I don’t remember exactly) before they came out and said Sense 3.0 will only be available their new phones…. and lets not forget that we still haven’t received gingerbread yet.

Eric Rees

It seems like with the hardware requirement taken away it shouldn’t be as hard for devs to port this to older phones.

Anonymous

Very Nice.. Sense has it’s place!
Anonymous

I hate it already its in another language! Lame
Absolutedesignz

did they bite MIUI notification?

Richard713

how and where? thats how 3.0 pulldown is….

Sm1tty300

cant wait for this and Gingerbread on the Bolt

Anonymous

You can get 3.0 and Gingerbread for your Bolt now.

viewthis66

looks groovy to me.
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Anonymous

Maybe my thunderbolt will be running this then?

Anonymous

No… You will get Gingerbread but not this version of Sense unless you get it from a rom by the developers.

Anonymous

Either or will work for me
Eric Rees

That’s not necessarily true, if it is compatible with older phones HTC could possibly OTA this to single core phones if they wanted to. We’ll see when this gets official though.

http://www.facebook.com/LuisElTiburon Luis Rojas

Kinda ugly, im my opinion.
Anonymous

Why is this taking me to Android Life?…. I don’t want to be there.

Eric Rees

Because Sense comes out on more phones than just Verizon .

Anonymous

That’s fine, but this article was linked to Android life from Droid-Life. If I wanted to come to android life I would come here…. I don’t think they should link us here just to trick us into coming over. Or to get inflated clicks over here.

Anonymous

Hey bud, sorry you feel like it was a trick. We were just sharing an article that was posted on Android Life. The experience is not all that different from Droid Life. To get back to DL, there is a quick link up at the top.

Also so you know, with the relaunch of Android Life, we are just testing some things and will note your thoughts.

Thanks for your continued support.

Anonymous

I love Droid-Life…. and thanks for noting my response… BUD.

While I am sure android life is a great place I feel it should stand on it’s own merits without false inflated clicks…. But as you noted you are testing some things.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Omar-Arteaga/100000475154562 Omar Arteaga

Chill out dude.
Anonymous

At least he didn’t call me “Buster”. One time my father-in-law “back when I was dating his daughter” took a hold of my earlobe and called me buster…. I eventually got even with him by marrying his daughter.
Anonymous

Buster.

Anonymous

I disagree, I think if the article COULD be relevant on both there should be a link….now relax and go suck your thumb

Anonymous

If it’s relevant on both… put it on both. Easy enough, right?
Guest

This sounds like a job for the Department of Redundancy Department !

Simonxliu

Its called a link. They’ve been around since 1995. First time using the internet?

Anonymous

For the sole purpose of artificially inflating clicks at this site that gets little traffic.

But hey, if I was trying to get ad revenue I’d try every trick in the book also.