HTC Sense 5: A New Era of Android

The HTC One is more than just a phone, it's an experience. And one of the key features that sets it apart from its competitors is the BlinkFeed feature. This innovative interface allows you to see all the information you want to read in real-time. As you scroll through your feeds, you'll notice that more content becomes available. It's like having a live tile display on your home screen. You can add widgets here and customize them to suit your needs.

BlinkFeed also launches into an app drawer, which is designed to be easy to navigate. The HTC One has a different look and feel compared to other Android devices. Instead of the traditional back button, you'll find two buttons: a back button and a home button. Double-tapping the home button opens up the multitasking panel, which shows all the apps that are currently open on your device. You can close an app by swiping it up or launch into it by tapping it.

Another feature of the HTC One is its customizable interface. Long-pressing anywhere on the screen will bring up a list of widgets that you can add to your home screen. These include the classic HTC weather widget, as well as several other custom options. You can also view and customize other widgets by scrolling through the list.

One of the standout features of the BlinkFeed interface is its ability to show you all the latest news and updates in real-time. This means that you'll always have access to the information you need, without having to constantly check your apps or websites. The HTC One also includes a new weather widget, which is designed to be visually appealing.

But what about multitasking? In previous versions of Android, there was a dedicated button for opening up the multitasking panel. However, with Sense 5, that's been replaced by a double-tap gesture on the home button. This can take some getting used to, but it's actually quite clever. You can quickly access your open apps and switch between them without having to go back to the app drawer.

One feature that's missing from the BlinkFeed interface is the ability to add custom launch icons for quick actions like turning off Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. However, this is a minor quibble in an otherwise excellent user experience. The HTC One also includes a range of customization options, including the ability to change the grid layout and view size of your widgets.

Overall, the BlinkFeed interface on the HTC One is a game-changer for Android users. Its real-time updates and customizable design make it feel like a premium smartphone experience. Whether you're looking for news, weather, or just want to stay connected with your friends and family, the BlinkFeed interface has got you covered.

If you want to learn more about the HTC One, be sure to check out our upcoming coverage. We'll be taking a closer look at some of the phone's key features and sharing tips on how to get the most out of it. Don't forget to give us a thumbs up if you found this video helpful – it really does make a difference!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i am sitting with the htc one i wanted to give you guys a tour of htc sense 5.0 this brings a lot of new stuff to the table and brings a totally redesigned user experience to android and htc devices let's go ahead and get started so let's begin with the lock screen here things are the same yet different you've got the same ribbon down below if you want to launch an icon or launch an application all you got to do is just drag it up and you can launch it i've got a brand new weather widget that shows up there and you can do some customization if there's you guys that were wondering what it looked like in the previous version of sense 4.0 uh we've got that right here you got those icons if you want to launch one you just drag it down and you can go ahead and quick launch it very simple so here on the htc one we'll go ahead and unlock the phone by swiping up and we'll run into settings and i can show you some of the personalization options you can do with the lock screen and go up to the top we've got personalized right there and this is where customized home screen and lock screen style are going to live so go ahead and check out the lock screen style so you can pick the wallpaper this is the one we currently have it'll give you sort of a streamlined view you've got the weather you've got the time and then your icons down below you can have productivity you can keep track of all your calendar items here photo album if you want to view your pictures music if you want to access that or no lock screen whatsoever also go ahead and go home and this is where things start to get totally different uh what we're looking at right now is blinkfeed think of it as sort of like flipboard for your home screen so you've got this giant icon at the top for your weather and certainly you can move and customize all that stuff if you want this is a default configuration so it'll show you news from a ton of different feeds if you scroll down and keep showing more if you want to select it go ahead and tap it and you can see featured headlines we've got all kinds of different choices here and technobuffalo should be here actually very soon i can go ahead and pick different ones that you like and the content will show up so let's go ahead and check mtv if you scroll over there'll be services and apps you can show your facebook feed flickr if you have it connected linkedin a twitter calendar zoe share is sort of htc's version of vine it'll make three second gifts for you so your pictures come to life they say so we'll go back uh there's a ton of different categories here as well you can choose from htc has said though that more will be coming so your sports guy like me can go ahead and have espn if you want to see just stuff from the nba show up or whatever sport you might be interested in you can do that so we selected all that we'll go ahead and go home stuff will start to refresh and look at that got a article about the lakers game last night and you can see all the different stuff that starts to show and the more you add uh the more you can scroll and sort of shows up kind of like live tiles here you get all the information this article you want to read like let's say that one i'll go ahead and launch the article it doesn't launch inside of a browser it launches it inside a blinkfeed so it's pretty quick really a very neat design you can have that be your home screen if you choose to some other tweaks here let's go ahead and jump into the app drawer and things here look kind of different so first you'll see that same weather widget you can view things in alphabetical order custom or most recent so if you go into custom you can move things around if you want stuff in a certain area or you want there to be a folder personally though i like to see how stuff in alphabetical order it's what i'm used to you can also change how this grid is going to be viewed so you go ahead and hit settings right there grid size if you want to view 4x5 or 3x4 i like to see more on the screen so i'll keep it that way you can go ahead and launch right into google play and then here are the rest of the apps that are going to be shipping also you'll notice that the drawer right there that usually would click to launch the app tray uh changes a little bit so i'll go ahead and go back home uh htc and sense 4.0 changed the way you multitasked so let me go ahead and show you what that looked like here on the droid dna there was a dedicated button for multitasking it lived right down there if you tapped it you had sort of a carousel you can view different things if you wanted to launch an app you could just select it otherwise you wanted to close something you could swipe it off you couldn't see that many things right there it was one of the things i really didn't like actually about sense4 well htc has made that totally different here with the sense 5. we only have two buttons we have a back button and a home button we don't have that multitasking button so if you want to access it you just double tap home and you get now this whole row and grid rather of applications that you've got open so you can see a ton more than you could on really any skin of android even native version of android if you want to close something you can swipe it up and if you want to launch into it you can go ahead and just tap it it's actually pretty neat it is kind of difficult though to make sure you tap that button twice and not hit what might be above it on the screen we'll go ahead and go back home widgets here are also redone and htced up if we go ahead and long press we can view the widgets here there's that weather clock i was talking about i love the htc weather stuff i've always really enjoyed it if you want to scroll through widgets now you go up and down to do it so you can see all the custom ones they're sort of the classic htc the default android ones are all here and a lot of other sort of custom synth tweaks what's not here though uh is any sort of blinkfeed icons i thought bling feed might be a widget you could add different home screens but that does not appear to be the case it looks like it's either that one home screen or nothing at all so we'll go ahead and go back home here um also sort of the same is this button ribbon across the bottom you can control what's there we have custom htc widgets uh it looks very similar uh to what we see in sense four so you can quick launch uh whatever you like you want to go to phone you can go ahead and go to phone you can see since the skin goes pretty deep here the dialer has been customized as well um one thing we don't have if we pull this down don't have any sort of quick launch icons there which i always like to see if you want to turn off bluetooth or turn off wi-fi whatever it might be and you can go through and add those certainly it's android so you get a ton of customization options here there's a lot more that sense 5 does i want to give you guys an overview of some of the most important stuff and some of the big stuff that i saw that was different as opposed to the previous version since four point you know whatever it might be on the phone that you were using so anything else you guys want to see on the htc one be sure to let us know we have a ton of coverage coming up please give this video a thumbs up it definitely helps us out and check out technobuffalo.com for latest and greatest tech news i am john rettinger i'll see you next video youwhat's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here and i am sitting with the htc one i wanted to give you guys a tour of htc sense 5.0 this brings a lot of new stuff to the table and brings a totally redesigned user experience to android and htc devices let's go ahead and get started so let's begin with the lock screen here things are the same yet different you've got the same ribbon down below if you want to launch an icon or launch an application all you got to do is just drag it up and you can launch it i've got a brand new weather widget that shows up there and you can do some customization if there's you guys that were wondering what it looked like in the previous version of sense 4.0 uh we've got that right here you got those icons if you want to launch one you just drag it down and you can go ahead and quick launch it very simple so here on the htc one we'll go ahead and unlock the phone by swiping up and we'll run into settings and i can show you some of the personalization options you can do with the lock screen and go up to the top we've got personalized right there and this is where customized home screen and lock screen style are going to live so go ahead and check out the lock screen style so you can pick the wallpaper this is the one we currently have it'll give you sort of a streamlined view you've got the weather you've got the time and then your icons down below you can have productivity you can keep track of all your calendar items here photo album if you want to view your pictures music if you want to access that or no lock screen whatsoever also go ahead and go home and this is where things start to get totally different uh what we're looking at right now is blinkfeed think of it as sort of like flipboard for your home screen so you've got this giant icon at the top for your weather and certainly you can move and customize all that stuff if you want this is a default configuration so it'll show you news from a ton of different feeds if you scroll down and keep showing more if you want to select it go ahead and tap it and you can see featured headlines we've got all kinds of different choices here and technobuffalo should be here actually very soon i can go ahead and pick different ones that you like and the content will show up so let's go ahead and check mtv if you scroll over there'll be services and apps you can show your facebook feed flickr if you have it connected linkedin a twitter calendar zoe share is sort of htc's version of vine it'll make three second gifts for you so your pictures come to life they say so we'll go back uh there's a ton of different categories here as well you can choose from htc has said though that more will be coming so your sports guy like me can go ahead and have espn if you want to see just stuff from the nba show up or whatever sport you might be interested in you can do that so we selected all that we'll go ahead and go home stuff will start to refresh and look at that got a article about the lakers game last night and you can see all the different stuff that starts to show and the more you add uh the more you can scroll and sort of shows up kind of like live tiles here you get all the information this article you want to read like let's say that one i'll go ahead and launch the article it doesn't launch inside of a browser it launches it inside a blinkfeed so it's pretty quick really a very neat design you can have that be your home screen if you choose to some other tweaks here let's go ahead and jump into the app drawer and things here look kind of different so first you'll see that same weather widget you can view things in alphabetical order custom or most recent so if you go into custom you can move things around if you want stuff in a certain area or you want there to be a folder personally though i like to see how stuff in alphabetical order it's what i'm used to you can also change how this grid is going to be viewed so you go ahead and hit settings right there grid size if you want to view 4x5 or 3x4 i like to see more on the screen so i'll keep it that way you can go ahead and launch right into google play and then here are the rest of the apps that are going to be shipping also you'll notice that the drawer right there that usually would click to launch the app tray uh changes a little bit so i'll go ahead and go back home uh htc and sense 4.0 changed the way you multitasked so let me go ahead and show you what that looked like here on the droid dna there was a dedicated button for multitasking it lived right down there if you tapped it you had sort of a carousel you can view different things if you wanted to launch an app you could just select it otherwise you wanted to close something you could swipe it off you couldn't see that many things right there it was one of the things i really didn't like actually about sense4 well htc has made that totally different here with the sense 5. we only have two buttons we have a back button and a home button we don't have that multitasking button so if you want to access it you just double tap home and you get now this whole row and grid rather of applications that you've got open so you can see a ton more than you could on really any skin of android even native version of android if you want to close something you can swipe it up and if you want to launch into it you can go ahead and just tap it it's actually pretty neat it is kind of difficult though to make sure you tap that button twice and not hit what might be above it on the screen we'll go ahead and go back home widgets here are also redone and htced up if we go ahead and long press we can view the widgets here there's that weather clock i was talking about i love the htc weather stuff i've always really enjoyed it if you want to scroll through widgets now you go up and down to do it so you can see all the custom ones they're sort of the classic htc the default android ones are all here and a lot of other sort of custom synth tweaks what's not here though uh is any sort of blinkfeed icons i thought bling feed might be a widget you could add different home screens but that does not appear to be the case it looks like it's either that one home screen or nothing at all so we'll go ahead and go back home here um also sort of the same is this button ribbon across the bottom you can control what's there we have custom htc widgets uh it looks very similar uh to what we see in sense four so you can quick launch uh whatever you like you want to go to phone you can go ahead and go to phone you can see since the skin goes pretty deep here the dialer has been customized as well um one thing we don't have if we pull this down don't have any sort of quick launch icons there which i always like to see if you want to turn off bluetooth or turn off wi-fi whatever it might be and you can go through and add those certainly it's android so you get a ton of customization options here there's a lot more that sense 5 does i want to give you guys an overview of some of the most important stuff and some of the big stuff that i saw that was different as opposed to the previous version since four point you know whatever it might be on the phone that you were using so anything else you guys want to see on the htc one be sure to let us know we have a ton of coverage coming up please give this video a thumbs up it definitely helps us out and check out technobuffalo.com for latest and greatest tech news i am john rettinger i'll see you next video you\n"