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hi guys Davey here Bombo calm and let's gonna be doing a review on the HTC Sense for user interface found on the HTC One series like the One X the one s in this case the Evo 4G LTE variant from Sprint but what that says go ahead and get right into the review first thing I look out out and cents is the home screen so right now I have five home screens on my phone of course but I wanted more I can just pinch out and hit add panel just like that of course if I don't want seven panels which is the maximum I guess press and hold on them and remove it just like that so pretty cool ability to customize your home screen just like that I could actually get it down all the way to one if I really wanted so that's that with the home screen the next thing I want to show you is the app launcher so of course first you have this app dock right here which is customizable and these icons actually show up on your lock screen which I'll get into in just a second but let's go ahead and look at the app launcher so your apps are not scrolling up and down anymore side to side just like ICS and you have all your pages right here if you want to look at the top apps that you use most often you hit this frequent tab and these are the apps that I use most often so I have five apps going down and four across so that's 20 apps in total most of the time this will be you know the page where you'll find apps that you most commonly use if you go to downloads these are the apps that I've downloaded myself from the Google Play Store and you have a little Play Store icon right over here which is a nice little shortcut so we're trying to get to a place where instead of having to look for it or make a separate work on the home screen you just tap on the sky and get right into it to download whatever you want so that's the app launcher what's really cool about the app launcher is you have this little cube effect which is pretty much consistent throughout the whole UI and I'll you know show you that within each section but not only could you do this little cube animation but you could also edit these tabs right here at the bottom so say for example you know what I don't really care to see this downloads tab I've actually just press and hold on it so press and hold and it says press and hold I constantly range so see I didn't want this over here I could just delete it like that and I say I just wanted my frequent tab to be first I could do it like that as well so at home and all of a sudden my launcher it has been customized to exactly I want it I want the apps that I use most often right then there and then all my apps will be here so of course you know you don't have to do this but it's an option that you do have let's go ahead and take a look at these settings though so I'll go ahead and hit settings now you'll notice right away that the settings look different from your typical ICS device it's white background and you know all the icons have been customized by HTC also you have this little cool scrolling animation which definitely gives it a nice little look you know it's a little bit more polished you know basically the wherever you scroll from is however many tabs it makes I'm going to show you the personal type tab premiere so the personalized tab is where you're gonna customize a lot of things on your phone just like that your name implie so you have scenes on the Sense UI which is basically a home screen arrangement so as you get remember I don't have anything on my home screens other than that one page with the clock widget I'll go ahead and select Sprint's steen right here so your HTC device may or may not have this but you get the idea I mean you're gonna have something similar so you see my home screen looks a little bit different the background is different and I have these widgets are already pre-loaded on my home screen so pretty cool to have you know scenes like that and you can actually customize these scenes and change them that way you know if you're at work you could put your work scene on if you're at on vacation Capri application scene on and so forth so for example this is the work one if I wanted you know all my productivity widgets and whatnot all my homescreen I could do so so that's definitely a cool functionality that HTC Sense offers you you know not not many other you either I don't think any UI is offer you that same functionality you could also change the skins so the cooling what sense compared to other UI is it really gives you the ability to customize your phone to exactly you want almost to the level of having a custom ROM I mean maybe I'm exaggerating a little but for example right now my lock screen I'll go ahead and show you that looks like this so I unlock it you know this background whatnot and the little ring was silver if I go over to the personalized tab and go over to the skin let's say I like the matte back black look so this is the HTC EVO 4G LTE you know it has that matte black back cover so why not make salamat I'm going to choose this matte black look I'm gonna tap apply and it does take a second because it's changing pretty much everything on the phone so it has to reload a lot of the UI and there you go even my clock widget is not black of course my notification bar is not black like my little app dock is matte black and let's go ahead and look at the lockscreen and you know more of the same matte black so it's a really cool way to kind of theme your phone to whatever you want you can do like a purple theme go ahead and show you what they have really quick so they have this matte one that I have they have this orange is orange ish one right here called fractured they have one called infinite which has a green hue with the dark gray they have serene aluminum which makes everything look nice and shiny and then this typical HTC one go ahead and black back out of here another thing I wanted to talk about cents is the amount of wallpapers that come so if you hit on HTC wallpapers unlike other phones or other manufacturer UIs HTC loads a whole bunch of custom wallpapers on here I mean hurt you just have a bunch to choose from and a lot of more you know really really nice you know I have really really good quality and for example if I wanted to choose let me see I get picked when I have too many options this lets us choose this little waterfall right here actually will choose yeah which is this so we'll choose this hit apply and there you see I changed my background like that and you know it's really nice to have a little bit of options obviously can download an app for that but I just like the fact that they included speaking of you know things that they include widgets is another thing so to add a widget is press and holding the home screen and honestly there are so many widgets that come with sense it's crazy I mean other phones come with like maybe 12 pages of widgets you see down here it says 24 so you have 24 pages worth of widgets and a lot of them were done by HTC then you can kind of scroll through so yup all these clocks you have you know some apps that I downloaded myself but most of them you know come sloggin phone and also more from HTC all these little toggles that you have I mean really nice because it gives you control over things that you normally wouldn't may be applications the market harshest say Google Playstore you know don't necessarily match the theme of your phone where of course these ones look like just everything else so you'd actually customize our categorize what you're looking at so for example if you want to see widgets that you know we're just from just for message and you could tap on it and see the messaging it we're just on here so pretty cool of course we have that same little cube effect here so we can add apps and shortcuts if we wanted but that's what I want to show you there as far as the the wide variety of widgets you could choose from another thing is the browser so let's quick take a quick look at the browser so let's go ahead and load up phonebook calm really quick so phone buff calm and I want to show you this cool feature that the HD sense browser has that I haven't seen on other Android browsers just yet I have seen on the iPhones browsing it's the read feature so for example let's say I'm reading this article the HTC One X versus the Samsung Galaxy s3 loading it up really quick and you know this is a bumboat website you have to go through some links you know you have some menu options and things like that and maybe I don't want to get that I just want to read the article of course there's advertisements and things like that so a good way to get out of all that is you just hit this little reef feature right over here you tap read and just like the iPhone it takes all that other stuff away and you have nothing but the article and it's a really really nice no way to read things on your phone and with the screen this big you know you're gonna be doing that a lot so if you're in New York Times you're on you know Huffington Post or whatever you wherever you go for your news or articles you're gonna be able to read it you know with just the text without having to worry about ads and things like that of course if you want to go back to four you just tap fall like that so anyway that's another feature that I like on the UI another thing is the camera and you know I have to talk about the camera I've talked about it in the review when I did it on this phone I did on the review on the HTC One S but I have to do it again here because the camera you are in here is really nice you know one is the ability to take burst shots like that so I know phones like the galaxy s3 has the same variety but it's not as you know easy as I mean you have to hit a menu setting and then turn it on and then do it this one you do it right then in there if you wanna take one picture do it like that come on take burst please press and hold it if you want to record a video you could just press this video button and boom you're recording a video so really cool that you can do all that right then there of course you have all these customization options right here for all these different effects that you could apply if you want more you could just tap on settings and you know these are all the options that you have over here and if you tap on this effects page you have the HDR panorama mode portrait landscape whiteboard all these little effects so let's go ahead and turn on whiteboard and you can see this makes it a lot brighter and let's do uh you know what let's do I don't know I'll show you a slow-motion video really quick so you can see that the video recording icon has a guy running in slow motion I could you know this tap on this I'll just knock this guy over and maybe just pull them around like that stop recording the video and let's go ahead and watch it this should show you how it looks of course it doesn't record audio but I think it's a pretty cool feature just to be able to watch things in slow motion I mean really cool of course you wanted to speed it up you just tap on this and I get the sped up motion based off what you want anyway that is the camera app which I definitely like on the Sense UI and last thing I just want to talk about is the general UI man I kind of already made inventions of it as far as the this whole cube 3d effect that it has which is nice but the UI is powered the way the UI looks the probably my favorite features about cents compared to the other UI is out there I just feel like it just looks the cleanest you're not only do you have all those options to customize it and make it a matte black for example like I did but when you tap on for example the weather widget or the clock widget your world clock has a nice 3d globe you know little things like that that just make you feel like it's higher in you know your timer and stopwatch are beautiful here's your alarm let's go ahead and look at the weather for example so tap on weather and you get this nice little weather forecast right here I could go to hourly and see a little graph as far as how the weather is changing over time get a four-day forecast get weather news I still have that 3d cube effect going on if I wanted to look at a different time zone let's go ahead and do I wanted to do this through animation so let's see if I could get so you can see it's just through animations see the clouds moving you could tap on it once to get a full screen view just really nice way to interact with your weather app so anyway that is the weather app of course like I said it's customizable so I'm going to show you a little bit more as far as how these tabs are customizable so this is my phone app you know you have your groups call history people and that they're all you know have the cube but for example let's say I don't know I don't you ever use groups on my phone so I'm just gonna press and hold on it ok there you go it gets me into edit mode then I present hold on it move it out of the way you know what I don't really like I want people over here I can do it like that reorder to exactly I want and that's why I'm saying like you really have the ability to customize your phone to exactly how you want with the SNC why but anyway that's pretty much it on these sense user interfaces HTC Sense 4 I really do like it I know this video went on for pretty long but I just wanted to give you guys you know an in-depth look as far as the things that like there's a bunch of things that obviously that you know I didn't cover check out the video I did comparing the Sense UI to the TouchWiz UI on the galaxy s3 that might give you you know some of the things that I didn't cover in this video but anyway that's it for me in this video if you found it helpful please hit the like button it helps me out a lot and subscribe to the channel thank you