Comments on: HTC Hero: Android UI Customized By HTC

By: Josh

Josh — Thu, 21 May 2009 05:42:30 +0000

Wouldn’t it be cool if Android took a modular approach to its OS, similar to how the Linux kernel loads drivers? Want that feature? Download the binary and tell Android to load it. Of course you’ll have the dupes who try and load GSM modules on CDMA phones, but the whole point of Android is to do whatever we want, not the carriers!

By: X3HaloEd

X3HaloEd — Wed, 20 May 2009 20:28:13 +0000

I agree with Campbell

By: Campbell

Campbell — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:21:23 +0000

@geoff
the more the better.
I understand that your looking out for the common user, but for those who have rooted their phones, it will be amazing. Just imagine the possibilities. Eventually people like JF and Haykuro will be taking the best of all these OS tweaks and make something amazing. The only foreseeable problem is if the future android phones are not rootable.

By: Collin

Collin — Wed, 20 May 2009 17:34:23 +0000

if this is what we get from carriers customizing or tweaking android, then im all for it. That looks incredible, tell me we all wouldnt be happy with that on our g1? i know i would

By: X3HaloEd

X3HaloEd — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:29:22 +0000

@Grant:
That’s not the predominant definition in my vocabulary :)

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:16:25 +0000

You have a good point Geoff but by doing that, the whole ‘Open Source’ thing will be false.

By: Grant

Grant — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:10:42 +0000

@X3HaloEd
“Rooting” IS something a plant does.

By: X3HaloEd

X3HaloEd — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:04:22 +0000

@Geoff:

That definitely sounds like something VZ would do. I would guess that it wouldn’t be hard to get around that by rooting the phone, but it still sucks for the average consumer who thinks that “rooting” is something a plant does.

By: X3HaloEd

X3HaloEd — Wed, 20 May 2009 16:02:32 +0000

That’s a pretty cool interface, and I would really like good Exchange support. I wonder if someone will release a Hero build that we can flash to our G1′s? I’m looking at you, Haykuro.

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 20 May 2009 14:49:14 +0000

As cool as the interface is on that “Hero” I don’t really like the idea of this. I mean how long will it be before all phone manufacturers are creating phones and touting it as Android when, in reality, it’s just based on Android and is actually a fairly gimped system. For example, Verizon could very easily create an Android phone that does not allow access to the market and could only allow a user to buy Verizon apps.

I say leave Google to the main OS and just let the phone manufacturers/carriers add there own apps for release.