| I have an HTC Desire which I used to love because it was fast and easy to use, however that all changed about few months back when the latest version of Sense got auto installed. Now, if you want to unlock the phone instead of just swiping down on the screen, you have to put your finger over a "ring" and drag this up past a certain point on the screen and then let go. At this point your homescreen will come into view by doing a 360 degree spin which last about 2 seconds (there is no way to skip it). Then once you have unlocked it if you want to navigate between screens you have a compiz cube style effect which seems to really slow the interface down. Not to mention that when you get an incoming call you are back to the "ring" interface and you must drag and drop the ring onto answer or reject. Of course if you want to reject a call and you drop the ring even a millimeter shy of the reject button it will answer the call. Oh, and there's no way to turn these features off or go back to the previous version of sense.. The problem can be mitigated somewhat by installed the "widgetlocker" program, but the answer issue can't as far as I can tell. I really have no idea why they would decide to ruin the UI like this! If they hadn't messed this up I would quite happily have bought another HTC when I was looking for a new phone, but after this there is just no way I could recommend one. |
Luckily though HTC does provide bootloader unlocking tools on its developer site so that you can install your own build of Android on the phone (and get rid of Sense).