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HTC Sense UI Available For Rogers HTC Magic Only?

by Billy on August 15th, 2009

In June we talked about how the Sense UI may be coming to your Rogers HTC Dream/Magic. HTC’s Sense UI is a new, very slick and shiny user interface for HTC devices. It was first launched on the HTC Hero, along with Multi-Touch and Flash support, but everyone was left wondering what about other HTC devices?

Well it seems that the Sense UI is definitely coming to the HTC Magic.

HTC Sense

As was originally reported, HTC confirmed that due to licensing terms of “with Google” branded smartphones, they will not offer the Sense UI as an upgrade to those devices. However, as we all know, the Rogers HTC Magic is not branded “with Google”.

So how can you get the Sense UI on your Rogers HTC Magic? Well there are no guarantee that it will even come to Rogers, but if it does, it would seem that Rogers may push an OTA update for it. If not, it will be available from the HTC website.

It is likely we will be getting the update, but we still have to wait a little bit more, as it seems the release will be sometime this Fall 2009 (at least that is what I understand from the rough translation).

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Posted under: Android Apps, News, Rogers/Fido

  • Any news on this? I would absolutely LOVE to have Sense on my Magic
  • David
    What about HTC dream
  • nedly
    The guys over at the xda-developers forum have had the rom available for months. I have the official Sense UI on my Rogers magic. There were some bugs, but I haven't checked back lately to see any new updates.
    The question to me is what happens with the new Android updates like Donut, etc? Will we have to wait for HTC to update the UI to incorporate?
    The sense UI in reality provides very little to the Android interface in my opinion. The widgets are the biggest draw, but with a limited amount, the extendability runs out fast. Besides, I wouldn't be suprised if the Android team was already working on a more integrated system for widgets to be built with the API in a future update. As for performance, get ready for a rediculous loading time, and lots of crashes.
  • Billy_Android
    I think all of us are wondering whats up with Donut. As always, time will tell. I hate waiting...
  • thesniperz
    Android 1.6 SDK was just released today
    http://developer.android.com/index.html

    They said it will be on devices as early as October
    http://www.engadget.com/2009/09/15/android-1-6-...

    so we might not have to wait long.. hopefully rogers release it right away.. :D
  • darron
    Wow finally, been waiting a while for this one but i heard on other sites that you might have to pay for the upgrade. I hope you don't :(
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