Comments on: HTC Puts Widgets On Market

By: gino

gino — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 08:12:49 +0000

I personally think HTC should leave the customer the chance of having a phone without the sense UI for various reasons:
- any update on the OS i have it right away
- If I go 4 android, why having a UI that ruins android looks? It looks pretty much the same as the sense 4 WM devices!. Is like having an Iphone UI on top of the Android.
- I personally do not want anything that could barely interfere between my phone and Android, in that case people like me are being left only to the Nexus choice.

By: Ammar

Ammar — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 05:44:34 +0000

These widgets work very nicely on the unlocked version of the HTC Hero!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 04:27:16 +0000

Turns out they don’t work on a Hero with modded 2.0 Rom on it, Oh well

By: JD

JD — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:40:24 +0000

Battery widget looks great, but I noticed it is a DRAIN on the resource it monitors, so I un-installed it and no more excessive drain. I guess I COULD kill it with ATK, but then I would have to wait for it to load every time I load my home. I can get all the battery info I need in the settings. Now the dice roll? THAT’S nice!

By: Teek

Teek — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 16:00:34 +0000

@ari-free

LevelUp wrote his own code and licensed his images from another developer. What HTC did is scummy and typical of big-business. What LevelUp did was perfectly legally. There are no laws preventing you or anyone else from writing your own program that looks like another program as long as it is all original. I can go build a word processor that looks just like MS Word as long as I write my own code and create my own images…and don’t use any of their trademarks like their name. I couldn’t call it Macrosoft Word Processor.

I am sure HTC didn’t (nor should they be able to) patent the display of a clock and the weather! They just know that they can afford to send a C&D and 99% of small time developers will have to shut down rather than fight a bogus claim because they can’t afford it.

By: brad

brad — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:38:26 +0000

downloaded all kept battery very handy – tip calc kept maybe for future use. dice bit pointless.
today in history takes up to much room – great apps

works on my t-mobile HTC Hero in the UK

By: r00n

r00n — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:56:26 +0000

I really dont like it that I can’t get this on my Tattoo!!!

By: urandom

urandom — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 09:19:44 +0000

Battery widget is good. I’m not seeing the usefulness of the rest, personally.

By: David Goemans

David Goemans — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:27:03 +0000

I think those widgets are fake, not from HTC. Look at the contact email address… it’s htcandeng@gmail.com not blah@htc.com. This is probably some joker who thinks its a good idea to spoof HTC, give them a bad name ( cause his ratings are low ) and then get kicked from the market.

By: MagicDroid

MagicDroid — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 08:10:11 +0000

Magic users are screwed again… thanks a bunch HTC!

By: asqwerth

asqwerth — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:36:06 +0000

@Pavi (post 43): don’t run it from the App tray. Access HTC widgets from your home screen and choose the appropriate widget.
I have a European Hero running on 1.5 – the battery meter and Today In History widgets work. I didn’t bother to try the other 2.

I have to say that aesthetically, I prefer the look of the vizBattery battery widget, but the HTC widget actually bubbles and fizzes on your homescreen as you charge your phone, and that visual effect looks REALLY nice. If you press on the widget while it’s charging, the pop-up info window also shows the green liquid in the battery bubbling away.

I’ll try the HTC one for the moment, see how it compares with vizBattery with regard to battery drain. The latter seemed pretty energy efficient to me.

By: The Black Guy

The Black Guy — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 06:20:05 +0000

Dice works on my behold 2 so it should work for all other 1.5 and higher android phones

By: william

william — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:09:24 +0000

only got the battery widget. i think it’s pretty dang sweet. other ones (and info under settings) generally show the percentage only in multiples of ten. but this one is accurate to the ones. i like that.

By: Mensahwatts

Mensahwatts — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:47:52 +0000

Even though Droid can’t use HTC widgits….Droid still is one of the most badest ass phones out there if not the badest…..DROIDDDDD!

By: Mensahwatts

Mensahwatts — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:45:50 +0000

@TM….you tellem TM…some foos just don’t read things through…ha..sad but oh so true