Desire S Software Review | Pocketnow

Опубликовано 17 апреля 2011, 10:08

The Desire S ships with Android Gingerbread 2.3.3, the most current version of Android to-date. In addition to this up-to-date version of the OS, the Desire S also ships with HTC Sense UI 2.1, and while not 3D, it's still got some newer widgets, and a new app or two that continue to add polish and refinement to the Sense UI.

While I'm an Android "purist", the Sense UI for Android is significantly more advanced and seamless than UIs other OEMs. The main draw to Sense is HTCs use of animated and high-resolution widgets for any of up to seven homescreens. This version of Sense adds some 3D "hints" to various widgets that can be seen when swiping between homescreens if you look closely enough.

The Sense interface is present in many of the preloaded apps: email, phone, contacts, calendar, FM radio, navigation, internet, camera, calculator, gallery, news, weather, settings, and more. In most cases, this means that HTC has added the "slider" interface, allowing you to switch between various types of information within an app. If you tap and hold on any of the sliders, you'll be able to add and subtract elements from it. Additionally, if you apply a skin from the Personalize menu, all apps that have been modified with the Sense UI will also change, which is quite nice should you get bored of the default HTC black and green color scheme.

Another great feature of this version of Sense is that it integrates with the cloud through HTCSense.com, for free. After you make an account, you can remotely manage your phone in many respects: you can track it on a map, you can remotely lock or wipe it, and more. My only complaint about this integration is the almost constant requests for "linking" contacts on your phone with people in your HTCSense.com account.

Generally speaking, I'm a hardware-keyboard kind of guy; the Desire S doesn't have one. I can get by just fine with an on-screen keyboard, but if I need to hurry and type out a long email, or document my big fingers don't fit well on those little on-screen keys and I get typos. Of course devices with larger screens, like the HTC Evo, are much better than their smaller-screened siblings. On the Desire S, for whatever reason, that wasn't a problem. I could type quickly with very little missed keys, and didn't feel uncomfortable typing like I do on devices with similarly sized screens.

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