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what's up guys lon here from Android 30 and we recently reviewed the HTC 10 so if you haven't seen that make sure to go check it out it'll either be linked in the description below or in a card in the upper right corner of this video there's only so much that can be covered in a review so today I wanted to take a closer look at the new HTC Sense interface for the HTC 10 and go over what's different about it from previous versions what has been improved and sort of give you my thoughts on the latest version of sense so one of the biggest and longest running problems most OEM skins is how bloated and heavy they feel this year major manufacturers like LG and Samsung have made pretty good strides at slimming down their interfaces but here in 2016 I don't think anyone has done a better job with that than HTC HTC Sense has always been one of the more attractive looking interfaces with a very mature look but over the years it became a very heavy and intrusive skin what the HTC 10 sent still feels like sense but it also feels a lot like stock Android and this is probably the closest you'll ever see HTC get to stock Android without actually being stocked Android it's a much cleaner and leaner version of the interface and areas that HTC used to tamper with like the notification shade settings menu and recent apps those have all been left alone and kept purely the way that Google designed them HTC made a pretty big focus on reducing a lot of the unnecessary blow so one thing that you'll notice is that HTC doesn't bombard you with a bunch of widgets anymore there's still a few most of them are just clocks including the old-school iconic HTC clock but otherwise that's really it as far as the widgets go HTC also worked closely with Google to remove a lot of the duplicative apps so instead of having two apps that do the same thing you now just have Google's photos google play music and Google's calendar without the HTC alternatives now just in case you're wondering even though the new HTC Sense feels a lot more like stock Android there's still no Android Easter egg in the settings menu not a big deal but I figured I'd throw that out there for those of you who were curious one of the most iconic features of HTC Sense since the one m7 has been blinkfeed and just like everything else in this new version of sense it's a lot cleaner and much more streamlined it's got a darker gray color scheme over the blue from previous versions and it's a lot nicer to look at with HTC's new font and wider separation between the blocks HTC was one of the first companies to start the whole left homescreen trend and out of all the companies out there that have done something similar blinkfeed is still one of the better implementations out there it's fast fluid and will only show you things that you want to see like your calendar Twitter mealtime recommendations and tons of other content such as sports tech news politics and entertainment from hundreds and hundreds of other publications now if you don't like blink feed or it's not your cup of tea you do still have the option to disable it if you want one of my favorite things about HTC Sense is the built in theme engine which lets you easily customize the look and feel of the interface there's tons and tons of themes to pick from in a variety of different categories and the cool thing about themes on sense is that you can mix and match the wallpapers icons sounds and fonts from any of the available themes or even create your own based on the wallpaper that you pick new to the themes engine is what HTC likes to call the free style themes and these themes basically ignore any sort of specific grid size allowing to have some very unique looking beams like this Mario one for example and you can freely move things around and place the apps and widgets anywhere you want it sort of reminds me of what third-party apps like super and you CCW allow you to do so I definitely like these free style themes a lot they're pretty cool and a lot of fun to play with also new to this version of sense is the be mobile keyboard and that's because the new Sense keyboard is actually powered by touch Pal a very popular third-party keyboard with hundreds and hundreds of themes so you can make it look like it's glowing with these neon colored themes or more like stock Android or however you really want to make it look it is purely up to you and despite how light this version of Sense is I really like that HTC gives you a lot of flexibility with customization HTC has also given users the ability to calibrate the display with the HTC 10 it's not the most robust thing in the world but you do have the to pick between a vivid mode which is the default setting and a standard RGB mode that gives off a much flattered color profile and you can also adjust how cool or warm you want the display to appear based on your personal preference like everything else in this version of sense the camera software also got a pretty major facelift it's a lot cleaner more intuitive and easy to use all of your camera settings and modes are stored in a simple slide-out panel on the left side of the screen which makes everything very quick and easy to get to there's also a new pro mode that gives you dis alar like manual controls and it's pretty easy to make adjustments to the camera settings but the layout can clutter up the viewfinder when you're trying to adjust multiple things at once that's really a pretty minor complaint but aside from that I really love the improvements they've made to the camera software so what do you guys think about sense on the HTC 10 personally I think it's very clean and intuitive HTC has done a really nice job with reducing the amount of bloat while still giving you a lot of really nice and useful features on top of Android but that really does it for this video guys hopefully you enjoyed it and found it helpful if you did please give a thumbs up down below we definitely 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