A recent tweet by an HTC employee spurred a flood of rumors today about the user experience on the HTC One. The comment was made simply enough, “So you can pay $649 for a piece of plastic running stock or… You can wait” -Leigh Momii. Leigh also used the tag #IO13 and the comment was in reply to the announcement the Samsung is going to offer their flagship phone running a stock Android experience for the price of $649.
So you can pay $649 for a piece of plastic running stock or… You can wait 🙂 #IO13
— Leigh Momii (@jetleigh) May 15, 2013
Initially, we took this comment to imply that HTC planned to announce something similar at this year’s Google I/O event happening now in San Francisco, but those ideas were quickly squashed by original tweeter and even HTC’s own Jeff Gordon who went on to comment that HTC would is not working on another Nexus One.
Some consumers out there favor the stock Android user experience and have their reasons why it is preferred over OEM user interfaces HTC has slimmed their user experience down with the latest offering and another rumor we read today says that HTC Sense will get even more stock-like when Android 4.2 comes to the HTC One.
For those who keep talking about wanting pure Android on the HTC One, I urge you to wait for the 4.2 update. It will be awesome! 😀
— Richard Lai (@richardlai) May 15, 2013
In our opinion, HTC has best and easiest to use user experiences out there. It has deep social networking integration and simple navigation features that execute better than other UI’s we have reviewed.
Currently, the HTC One 64GB Dev Edition is available for $649 and will be an early candidate for Android updates when they are available so customers have the opportunity to get the perks of a pure Android phone, as it applies to software updates, but with the presence of the HTC Sense user interface.
Source: AndroidandMe
Been Samsung user but can’t stand TW UI and flashed it with Custom ROM (Nexus ROM). If HTC One is getting Android vanilla experience then this might be the right phone for me.
the HTC One developer version has the bootloader unlocked already, so you can flash it with the Nexus ROM. But I see the appeal in not doing the extra work if you already know that you don’t want Sense.