Comments on: You Ask HTC: Hero and Sense Questions

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 02:05:33 +0000

ill save all the typing, you dont have to answer on the yahoo answers page, it can be answered here in the forum, but this is my question.. please help guys

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=As9n_uu1UiS5yx9pPptZgIPty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20100817185159AAP0GMX

By: Dennis

Dennis — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:31:30 +0000

I just purchased two of the Hero’s and on mind I have accidently removed two items off of their page and can not find them anymore anywhere I look? I would like to get them back without have to erase everything and resetting it to the default, Is this possible and if it is can you email me the answer? And thank you for your time!

By: William A

William A — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 23:19:33 +0000

No Sense UI for the G1 :0(

http://www.slashgear.com/htc-confirm-no-sense-upgrade-for-t-mobile-g1-or-vodafone-magic-2647990/

By: cam.shaft

cam.shaft — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:03:50 +0000

Hi Rob,

Any updates on your Q&A, eager to noe the outcome.

cam.shaft

By: Will

Will — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:36:09 +0000

so…. did you get to ask any of these questions Rob?

By: Brett Baker

Brett Baker — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:36:31 +0000

Does the Exchange facility sync with Contacts, Calendar & Mail?

Also does it show different category events in the Calendar (e.g Work, Personal, Holiday etc) as different colours, unlike on the iPhone where it shows it as one colour?

By: Wubinator

Wubinator — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 06:55:04 +0000

@ 2:54 minutes into the movie about the HTC Sense on the HTC Hero site you can see a call being made with in the top left corner the text “3G Mobile” does this mean Sense supports VOIP calls? Without using external programs?

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:50:37 +0000

(sorry for the double post(if possible, Rob, could you merge my recent post with this one? thank you)
My answer to that question is yes, it should be possible. Android was made by Google and several other companies. Even though it doesn’t say “with Google” on the back, Google still made android. So yes, it should be possible for the HTC Hero to access the market.

2. Is the UI “HTC Sense”(aka HTC Rosie) going to be made available for the G1/Dream/Magic anytime soon?
My answer to that question is maybe, because the UI is made by HTC, and not Google. But google might change it up a bit(how it looks/works) for a release of their own.

3. Will the mail client also receive e-mails from Gmail?
This for sure is yes. Gmail also uses POP3 and IMAP. So it is possible.

4. Will HTC release their widgets onto the market?
No. Have you even seen HTC release any type of app/widget into the market?

5. Why does HTC add those “chins” to the G1/magic/hero?
I read that the HTC android phones have the chin because it protects the screen and most of all the trackball.

6. Will it be multi-touch?
Beats the hell out of me. I have no idea if it does.

(remember, these are my answers and I did not get them from any other places/people.)

-Ted

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:49:35 +0000

Couple of Questions/Requests
1) More Memory like the iPhone e.g 16gb or 32gb model
2) Ability to update OS like iPhone
3) Podcast support for the music feature
4) 3.5 Headset Jack (please put it in all phones)

The above features are want I believe makes the iphone such a great phone. How about putting these features in an Android phone. I would buy one tomorrow if they did.

By: Ted

Ted — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 04:34:25 +0000

seems the biggest questions are:
1. Is market going to be available through the HTC Hero?

By: Maj

Maj — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:23:21 +0000

- is Market going to be available ?
- and will widgets work on it ? i mean the widgets developed by market developers for the default home screen, would they work on this ?
- lastly, will it get future android updates ? such as the donut ?
- First time activation, do you have to log into gmail or not ?

By: LaughingJohn

LaughingJohn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:12:30 +0000

Some more:

7. Why oh why haven’t they included a flash?
8. Is the camera as good as the ones on Nokia/Sony/Samsung phones (I’m guessing not).

By: LaughingJohn

LaughingJohn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:10:03 +0000

1. Given we can’t update to later versions of Android, presumably to prevent it breaking sense, will HTC be releasing Android OS upgrades packaged with sense updated as appropriate?
2. Does the mail client sync with Gmail in the same way as the standard google client?
3. Can we still download the google apps?
4. If we do download the google apps will the 2 mail clients be in sync or act like totally separate apps (I’m guessing the latter).
5. Does HTC plan to contribute any of sense to the Android project?
6. Will the bugs/crashes be fixed before release? (silly question I know as they can’t be sure until the problems roll in).

By: TSellers

TSellers — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 23:02:52 +0000

Will HTC give back by sending some of its optimizations upstream to the standard android stack?

Will HTC be releasing parts of its Sense UI to the market (like widgets, its keyboard, its dialer, etc) for non Sense UI phones?

Will HTC be releasing an officially sanctioned ROM to update the Google Ion to Sense UI?

By: RM

RM — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:23:46 +0000

If you haven’t gotten to the interview yet… I think one of the most important things would be to get a fuller understanding of how HTC’s OS modifications play with the base Android OS and how updates will be handled:

– Since you’ve (HTC) modified the Android OS, when Google releases an Android OS update, what will happen?

1. Can users download that directly? (doubtful)

2. Will HTC incorporate Google’s changes into the Sense OS, and re-release it? What would be the extra turn-around time?

3. And, somewhat related, will GMail and Google Maps be included in the Sense framework?