That also meant the opportunity to change shortcuts, add folders and have those shortcuts and folders appear as lockscreen shortcuts. The launcher in Sense changed in version 4, doing away with the awkward arced arrangement with a permanent "personalize" button on it, becoming much more like native Android. Swiping away from Blink Feed will still give you a normal page, where a long press on the wallpaper will let you personalise things, dragging widgets out as you want them, if you want them. Wheeler, talking to Pocket-lint, said that HTC had found may people never changed the widgets from the default selection when they took the phone out of the box. The widgets are still there if you want them, but as a feature that's been synonymous with HTC in the past, they've taken a backburner. The focus isn't so much on widgets, the ubiquitous flip clock isn't blaring 10:08 in your face: instead you're looking at a minimalist weather clock sitting above a new headline feature in Blink Feed. There are apps and bloat that have been carved away as Sense 5 is stripped back to the essentials. HTC Sense 5 trims things down, continuing a move that started with HTC Sense 4, but this is certainly the biggest step yet. You're sacrificing lean raw speed for a repackaged experience. One of the biggest criticisms of HTC devices over the past few years is that HTC Sense sits in the way of the Android goodness. If you don't like Blink Feed you can turn it off, and you can always swipe to the side to return to a conventional home page that you can fill with shortcuts and widgets, if that's what you want to do.Īs Blink Feed draws on the things that are important to you, it will give your device that personal look and feel: no longer will you be looking at the HTC flip clock, instead you'll be dashing through pictures or friends, news stories, TV programmes and more. It's a connected service, naturally, so you'll need a data connection to drill down through content, but it will cache pictures and headlines so you can stay abreast of matters important to you.īlink Feed is your new home page on the HTC One and Sense 5. The result is a mosaic of content for you to browse and select. Of course you'll find Pocket-lint in there, as well as UEFA, ITN, Sky News and more, all ready to serve you content. That might be your social networks like Facebook, but you can also tailor the content to you by selecting sources, with more than1,500 on offer. Blink Feed is designed to be a glance-and-go method of getting pertinent information in a flash, hence the name.Īt a basic level Blink Feed is a content aggregator, drawing from multiple sources that you define. Blink Feedīlink Feed is an evolution of much of what HTC has been doing before, a "new imagination of the homepage", as Graham Wheeler, director of commercialisation product management at HTC, told us. We will update this feature as we find out more.
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