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hello I'm the West Road cnet's here the launch of the HTC One we're going to take a look at some of this phone software treats as well as some of the new features of HTC Sense 5.0 let's see what's new all right so in terms of new software the first thing to talk about is what HTC is calling blinkfeed now when you unlock the phone as I've just done it's what you see here it's this mosaic style tile very colorful very brightly colored a list of new story Social Feeds this thing pulls in from new sites including cnet it also pulls in facebook updates things like that the idea being that right on your home screen you've got very very quick access to a couple of news stories that you're going to want to read if you're just looking at things in a hurry this is very customizable as well you can see if I tap just here I can choose the topics and services that I want so here are individual news sources if I pop over to categories if you're interested in design or gaming or music then you can choose to have those things populating your blinkfeed happily when you pop into one of these it doesn't take you to the browser instead it opens it here the bad news is HTC told me that these things won't cash offline so you will need an internet connection to read these stories at least for now if you want to share a story there are a host of options at your disposal including Dropbox email Google+ or Twitter if you hold down on the home button for a moment then it takes you to a Google search this might be Google now once the phone gets a software update you can actually use the HTC One as an infrared remote control when you send a signal to your TV you'll see this red flash at the top which lets you know the signal has been sent finally let's talk a little bit about HTC Zoe camera so the zoe camera takes burst mode photos so that you can select the best of a series of stills from a short video but once you go into the actual gallery itself you've got this rather interesting view here so if i tap the event of today you can see all of the photos and videos that were taken today washed up in to 1 30 second video the editing happens automatically and it looks quite fun and it creates a clip that you could very very quickly share to Facebook imagine something like Apple's I movie but with very little effort on your part if you're familiar with the app Flipboard then there'll be no surprises here but i do like HTC's done and do you think this is quite an attractive interface hopefully it won't be something that you want to delete straight away and it will actually keep you entertained in those moments of boredom even when you're looking at blinkfeed you get access to key android apps along the bottom here by this launcher and if you swipe to the right then you get a home screen and it all starts to look a bit more like the Android that you're probably used to the app interface has been given a bit of a redesign as well you can see HTC's famous weather widget now has a minimalist monochrome style and these apps are look a little bit more spaced out than they did previously something that's bound to rock the world of android fans around the world is that HTC has ditched one of the touch-sensitive keys from underneath the screen so on the right here you have a home button on the other side you have fact but HTC has ditched the multitasking key so how do you multitask now well it's not too much trickier you have to double tap this home button and that brings up a list of your most recently used apps if you hold down on the home button for a seconds you get access to a Google search ok there you have it those are the most interesting new software features with this phone i'm luke westaway pc net and this guy is the HTC one