- October 30, 2009 12:01 pm
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, featurephones, and smartphones alike, distinguishing yourself from the playing field that’s becoming increasingly saturated gets harder and more challenging with each device release. In fact, it’s even to the point now that if your device doesn’t have a unique or highly tweaked UI — barring any earth shattering hardware — your device will go unnoticed and under appreciated. HTC never standing still and always looking forward has something that might just stand out from the rest…
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 onto a G1. The improvements aren’t a small affair mind you as they are system wide, covering icons, menus, buttons, applications, etc. One could speculate that the Hero is running an updated Android firmware or maybe even an early early build of 2.0. While nice to dream about, the Hero in the video shown at Android Central is actually running Cupcake/1.5. Still, HTC could be trying to stand out from the crowd as mentioned by adding their own design flare. If this is in fact the handy work of HTC’s design labs label me impressed!
Source: Engadget, Android Central
