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Source: HTC

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RE: Reap what you saw
By sprockkets on 7/8/2012 1:08:22 AM , Rating: 2
They don't? Sense 3 and 3.6 on the HTC Sensation can control the music app without unlocking, and their notification shade had easy access to recently used apps before ICS. They had the unlock ring before ICS. Further, their phone app has the usual HTC touches like speakerphone on flipping the phone over (been on HTC products since around 2007), or play the ringtone louder if in a pocket, then quiet it down when you pick up the phone toward your face.

All of that is not in stock ICS. And if they don't exist in the SG3, I'm not interested. I know though Samsung did put some other nice touches on their SG3 though.

RE: Reap what you saw
By bug77 on 7/8/2012 6:28:16 AM , Rating: 2
I didn't mean to say Sense is completely useless. But it's not a reason to delay an update for 9 months. I'm pretty sure all the nifty stuff you mention can be sold separately through the Play Store. And by that, I mean those could be made into normal applications rather than integrating them with the OS to the point that makes an upgrade unfeasible.

RE: Reap what you saw
By sprockkets on 7/8/2012 6:03:41 PM , Rating: 2
When you actually watch development of the RUU's, you find out it has more to do with writing drivers for all the hardware to work with the new Linux kernel, not because of "skins". They had a working ICS rom but stuff like wifi sharing and such just didn't work yet.

But even if it did delay it, HTC at least made sense work very well with the new ICS guidelines (and bleeping apple added to the delay of the US launch by their stupid patent lawsuit).

RE: Reap what you saw
By bug77 on 7/9/2012 4:49:10 AM , Rating: 2
Come on, it's not like they have to rewrite the drivers with each release. Android works on Nexus phones from the start, so at least some drivers are ok. Linus releases several kernels a year and these are working on a much larger hardware selection.
Bottom line, put enough resources on the job to get it done quickly or stop doing it at all.

