HTC to release widgets for non-HTC devices?

After my colorful rant voicing my displeasure for HTC’s move to C&D LevelupStudios and their “Beautiful Widgets” which mimicked the Sense UI widgets, I was mad, sad, and frustrated. But a few obscure, hidden gems on AndroLib highlighted by one eagle-eyed Phandroid commenter digs up some dirt that could very well make me eat my words.

The three test applications in the picture above show nothing more than a “test” application put forth by HTC themselves. Awesome, what’s the significance? The HHHTest app in particular was given a deeper glance by that eagle-eyed commenter and was found to house the following verbiage:

com.htc.rosiewidgets.sample

On the surface it doesn’t look like much. But if you recall waaaaaay back in June, prior to the Sense UI release, Sense UI was actually called by it’s internal code name — “Rosie”. So “Rosie Widgets” as highlighted in the sample HHHTest widget would lead a cognitive mind to speculate that HTC is close to pushing out HTC widgets for non-HTC devices. Consider me intrigued and excited.

If a price tag is attached, hopefully it’s not something too absurd like $4.99 for the popular weather + flipclock combo. Although, even with Beautiful Widgets last version — weather animations and other refinements — it wasn’t quite as good as HTC’s variant. Perhaps $2.99 or $3.99 would be a better approach.

Oh HTC, you sure do toy with my emotions…

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“Rosie” the new prettier face to come to Android?

Following the leaked video of a supposed revamped Android interface rumored to be Android 2.0 “Donut”, a fresh face is making it’s grand appearance today. Except, the poster, Haykuro from Howard Forums is claiming that this new interface is not Donut, but in fact a new development of its own dubbed “Rosie”. As you can see above (and inside where more screens are awaiting), the interface has some pretty substantial updates and changes compared to the stock Android GUI. Personally, I like this new look in Rosie even more than the current Android look – I have a thing for dark, glassy, and slick looking GUI’s, what can I say. Following close behind the new look is also the appearance of widgets as you can also clearly see a nice weather widget sitting comfortably on the homescreen. Is “Rosie” and even further look down the road such as Android 3.0? Or, do you think it could be a carrier/manufacturer specific build? As previously mentioned, more eyecandy just inside.