Realizing that it needs to change something to get back on the right track again, HTC has reworked many of its offerings. Not only has the company made changes to the styling of its smartphones, but it has also innovated its custom software found on those devices – the Sense UI. With the launch of its newest handsets – the One series of Androids, HTC has introduced a new version of Sense, which comes as an answer to all the negative feedback that the company received regarding its UI overlay. Most importantly, HTC has put a lot of effort into simplifying the UI in order to make it a bit easier to work with, and a bit lighter on the processor as well.
Sense 4 is a different story. It's lighter, cleaner and much more visually appealing than older versions of the user interface, and it has the full suite of ICS goodies to go along with it. HTC also throws in its own imaging technology, dubbed ImageSense, to offer some cool new enhancements to the camera.
Android skins. We've vehemently opposed many of them over the years, because each manufacturer chooses to value differentiation and "user experience" more than the nature of the OS itself and completely misses the point. Additionally, a healthy portion of these skins are loaded up with so many extra frills and gimmicks that the performance of the actual device suffers as a consequence. HTC's proprietary UI is no exception to this, and in the past has been one of the worst offenders.
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