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Categories: Windows Phone
By: , IntoMobile
Sunday, December 27th, 2009 at 4:18 PM

HTC isn’t afraid to rip out everything that Microsoft has built, and subsequently left to die, in Windows Mobile and then replace it with their own solution. You’ve seen their “Sense UI” replace the calendar user interface, photo gallery, email viewer, and even the application launcher, but now they’re stepping up their game by working on a better way to manage your documents. With live previews, sorting by sender, receiver, and recently opened views, you’re not going to have to flip between applications and scroll through a huge list of emails just to find that spreadsheet your boss is asking for while foaming at the mouth. Once again HTC has proven that in order to differentiate yourself from the market, in this case other Windows Mobile devices, you need to build better software. I’m still confused as to why HTC continues to build two different versions of their user interface, one for Windows Mobile and one for Android. Hasn’t it become obvious that no one is interested in Windows Mobile by now? That may change when Windows Mobile 7 comes out, but that’s at least a year away. Sigh.

[Via: Pocket Now]

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Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Kevin

    You’re alienating some of your audience every time you make such naive remarks.

    There are still over 7 million WinMo users in the USA alone. And they have the best choice of phones.

    • Stefan Constantinescu

      I must be doing something right because our traffic keeps on growing; Happy New Year!

      • bazza

        Crack is bad but its use increases every year, it must be doing something right.

        Skewed logic ftw.

        Why the need to make a UI for the OS folks do care about if its so good?

        Maybe HTC just like to put their own stamp on things, show what their software guys can do regardless of OS. A uniform look across their product line that is less likely to confuse joe public.

        But hey youre the sharp witted blog writer with an answer for everything.

        have a genuine Happy New Year.

        • Stefan Constantinescu

          so … crack = awesome? is that what i’m hearing?

          but in all seriousness, the amount of resources being poured into prettying up Windows Mobile could be better spent on something like Android.

          • bazza

            It seems to be doing just fine on its own so far. All the geek blogs are fawning over the 2.0 and 2.1 updates without Sense UI. All those extra resources would be wasted on Android, a thriving OS in terms of popularity, and also especially now Google proper is now in the game. What more can HTC do?

            Winmo is the ill person in need of the medicines. Its core is strong, it just needs to dump the junk its been lugging around for years for sake of legacy, and tone up those digital muscles. The HD2 proves it can be done.

            Its moving in the right direction, its just a damn crying shame that its shooting itself in the foot via bad management. That goes for Symbian too.