Companies get ideas, services, and products patented everyday. If it’s an idea, they may never even implement or use it in any current or future products. They’re protecting themselves. Because of this, we can’t take every patent we see literally or as if it is “set in stone” but instead more as “suggestions” as what could be coming in the future. With touchscreen’s the new “it” feature on dumbphones,...

Android is by no means an ugly operating system. However, with Android quickly finding homes on multiple devices from various carriers, standing out in the growing crowd is becoming increasingly difficult. To offset the change, a video showing the HTC Hero also shows what appears to be a nicely revamped interface compliments of HTC(?). Haykuro, a talented 17-year old who frequents the xda-developers forum was kind enough to post a video showing an HTC Hero ROM hacked...