HTC Sense is focused on putting people at the centre, by making
your phone work in a more simple and natural way. This experience revolves
around three fundamental principles that were designed by quietly observing and
listening to how people live and communicate. ‘HTC Hero introduces a more natural way for reaching out to
people and accessing your important information, not by following the status
quo of today’s phones, but by following how you communicate and live your
life,’ said Peter Chou, Chief Executive Officer, HTC Corporation.
”HTC Sense is a distinct experience created to make HTC phones more
simple for people to use, leaving them saying, “it just makes
sense.”’ HTC Hero HTC Hero continues HTC’s leadership in cutting-edge design
that focuses on introducing a variety of distinct devices to represent your own
individuality. Boasting bevelled edges and an angled bottom, the HTC Hero is
contoured to fit comfortably in your hand and against your face while
you’re on a call. The HTC Hero is built to last, beginning with an
anti-fingerprint screen coating for improved smudge-resistance and a
longer-lasting, clearer display. The white HTC Hero includes an industry-first,
Teflon coating, resulting in an improved, durable white surface that is soft to
the touch. With its 3.2-inch HVGA display, the HTC Hero
is optimized for Web, multimedia and other content, while maintaining a small
size and weight that fits comfortably in your hand. It also
boasts a broad variety of hardware features including AGPS, digital compass,
gravity-sensor, 3.5mm stereo headset jack, a five mega-pixel autofocus camera
and expandable MicroSD memory. HTC Hero also includes a dedicated Search button
that goes beyond basic search, providing you with a more natural, contextual
search experience that enables you to search through Twitter, locate people in
your contact list, find emails in your inbox or search in any other area in
Hero. HTC Sense Built on a culture of innovation and a passion to enhance
people’s lives, HTC shapes the mobile experience around the individual.
Debuting on the HTC Hero and available on all new HTC devices moving forward,
Sense delivers on three basic principles: Make it Mine, Stay Close and Discover
the Unexpected. Make It Mine Make It Mine is about feeling your HTC phone was created for and
by you. To do this, HTC encourages you to dictate and organize how you want to
access the people and content in your life in a way that fits best for you. For
some, this means adding glance-view widgets that push content like twitter
feeds, weather and other content to the surface while others may want quick
access to business-focused information like email, calendar and world-times.
HTC is also introducing a new profile feature called ‘Scenes’ that
enables you to create different customized content profiles around specific
functions or times in your life. Stay Close Today, staying in touch with the people in your life means
managing a variety of communication channels and applications ranging from
phone calls, emails, texts, photos, status updates and more. HTC Sense takes a
different approach by integrating these communication channels and applications
into one single view, enabling you to stay closer to your important people.
With HTC Sense, friends’ Facebook status updates and photos, along with
their Flickr photos are included alongside their text messages, emails and call
history in a single view. Discover the Unexpected Many of the most memorable moments in your life are experienced,
not explained. HTC Sense is focused on providing a variety of these simple yet
innovative experiences on your HTC phone that will sometimes bring you moments
of joy and delight. It can be something as basic as turning the phone over to
silence a ring or as simple as improving the smart dialler for making calls
quicker. HTC Sense also includes ‘Perspectives’, a new way for
viewing your content such as email, photos, Twitter, music and more in different
ways. Availability The HTC Hero will be available to people across Europe
in July and in Asia later in the summer. A distinct North American version will
be available later in 2009.
[From John Szymanski] HTC
Corporation, a global designer of mobile phones, today debuted HTC
Sense™, an intuitive and seamless experience that will be introduced
across a portfolio of phones beginning with the new HTC Hero™. With its distinct design and powerful capabilities fully
integrated with HTC Sense, Hero introduces a unique blend of form and function
that takes Android to new heights.