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what's up everyone John renter from TechnoBuffalo here and I am sitting with the HTC one I wanted to give you guys a tour of HTC Sense 5.0 this brings a lot of new stuff to the table and brings a totally redesigned user experience to Android HTC devices let's go ahead and get started so let's begin with the lockscreen here things are the same yet different so you've got the same ribbon down below if you want to launch an icon or launch an application all you got to do is just drag it up and you can launch it you've got a brand new weather widget that shows up there you can do some customization if there's you guys that were wondering what it looks like in the previous version of sense 4.0 we've got that right here you got those icons if you wanted to launch one you just drag it down and you can go ahead and quick launch it very simple so here on the HTC one we'll go ahead and unlock the phone by its wiping up and we'll run into settings and I can show you some of the personalization options you can do with the lockscreen and go up to the top we've got personalized right there and this is where customized home screen and lockscreen style are going to live so go ahead and check out the lockscreen style so you can pick the wallpaper and this is one we currently have it'll give you a sort of a streamlined view we've got the weather you've got the time and then your icons down below you can have productivity you can keep track of all your calendar items here photo albums want to view your pictures music you want access that or no lockscreen whatsoever I'll go ahead and go home and this is where things start to get totally different what we're looking at right now is blinkfeed think of it as sort of like Flipboard for your home screen so you've got this giant icon at the top for your weather and certainly you can move and customize all that stuff if you want this is a default configuration so to show you news from a ton of different feeds if you scroll down and keep showing more if you want to select it go ahead and tap it and you can see featured headline we've got all kinds of different choices here and TechnoBuffalo should be here actually very soon I can go ahead and pick different ones that you like in the content will show up so let's go ahead and check MTV if you scroll over there'll be service as an app so you can show your Facebook feed Flickr if you have a connected and Linkedin a twit Calendar Zoe share it's sort of HTC's version of violet will make three second gifts for you so your pictures come to life they say so we'll go back there's a ton of different categories here as well you can choose from HTC has said though that more will be coming so your sports guy like me you can go ahead and have ESPN if you wanted to see just stuff from the NBA show up or whatever sport you might be interested in you can do that so we selected all that well go ahead and go home stuff will start to refresh and look at that got a article about the Lakers game last night and you can see all the different stuff that starts to show and the more you add the more you can scroll and Serpa shows up kind of like live tiles here you get all the information this article you want to read like let's say that one I would go ahead and launch the article and doesn't launch inside of a browser it launches it inside of blinkfeed so it's pretty quick really a very neat design you can have that be your home screen if you choose do some other tweaks here it's go ahead and jump into the app drawer and things here look kind of different so first you'll see that same weather widget you can view things in alphabetical order custom or most recent so if you go into custom you can move things around if you want stuff in a certain area or you want there to be a folder personally though I like to see how stuff alphabetical order it's what I'm used to you can also change how this grid is going to be viewed so go ahead and it settings right there grid size if you want to view 4 by 5 or 3 by 4 I like to see more on the screen so I'll keep it that way you can go ahead and launch right into Google Play and then here are the rest of the apps that are going to be shipping also you'll notice that the drawer right there that usually would click to launch the app tray changes a little bit so go ahead and go back home HTC and since 4.0 changed away you multitask so let me go ahead and show you what that looked like here on the droid DNA there was a dedicated button for multitasking it lived right down there if you tapped it you had sort of a carousel you can view different things if you wanted to launch an app you could just select it otherwise wanted to close something you could swipe it off you couldn't see that many things right there's one of the things I really didn't like actually about sense 4 well HTC has made that totally different here with it sense 5 well they have two buttons we have a back button and a home button we don't have that multitasking button so if you want to access it you just double tap home and you get now this whole and grid rather of applications that you've got open so you can see a ton more than you could on really any skin of Android even native version of Android if you want to close something you can swipe it up and if you want to launch into it and go ahead and just tap it it's actually pretty neat it is kind of difficult to make sure you tap that button twice and not hit what might be above it on the screen we'll go ahead and go back home widgets here are also redone and HTC tap to go ahead and long press we can view the widgets here there's that weather clock i was talking about i love the HTC weather stuff i've always really enjoyed it you want to scroll through widgets now you go up and down to do it so you can see all the custom ones those are the classic HTC the default android ones are all here and a lot of other sort of custom sent tweaks what's not here though is any sort of blinkfeed icons I thought blinkfeed might be a widget you could add different home screens but that does not appear to be the case it looks like it's either that one home screen or nothing at all so I'll go ahead and go back home here also sort of the same is this button ribbon across the bottom you can control what's there we have custom HTC widgets it looks very similar to what we see in sense 4 so you can quickly whatever you like you want to go to phone you can go ahead and go to phone you can see since the skin goes pretty deep here a dialer has been customized as well one thing we don't have if we pull this down don't have any sort of quick launch icons there which I always like to see if you want to turn off Bluetooth there turn off Wi-Fi whatever it might be I know you can go through and add those certainly it's Android so you get a ton of customization options here there's a lot more that sense 5 does I want to give you guys an overview of some of the most important stuff and some of the big stuff that I saw that was different as opposed to the previous version sense for point you know whatever it might be on the phone that you were using so anything else you guys want to see on the HTC one be sure to let us know of a ton of coverage coming up please give this video a thumbs up it definitely helps us out and check out TechnoBuffalo comm for ladies and greatest tech news I am John Rhett enger' I'll see you next video you