![]() ![]() This matches the general material design of Android, as you'll find round contact images across Gmail, Google+ and so on. Within the People end of the app, the design has changed slightly, switching contact photos to round rather than square images. The arrangement of the dialler is very much the same as it was before, with tabs across the top for call history, people, favourites and so on - which can be edited if you don't have any favourites, for example. ![]() The Phone app and the People app are intrinsically linked as one feeds into the other. Yes, both are too complicated and we wish that the standard double press on the standby button was in place, as on the recent Nexus devices. This replaces the "pick up and press the volume button" to open the camera. If you swipe down on the display twice when picking the phone up, the camera launches. There's also a new launch gesture for the camera. In Sense 8.0, the camera app has everything in there, offering video, slow motion, selfies, hyperlapse and the pro mode, without some of the other features previously offered, like bokeh, photobooth and split capture. This is unnecessary, as a long press on the quick settings icon takes you through to the menu anyway, which is a standard Android feature.īack to the camera and the other big change is that previously HTC wanted you to add other camera features to your selection. On Sense 7.0 you were offered menu buttons in the quick settings on some options. This is separate from the auto-brightness option in the display settings menu, but lets you move the brightness up or down easily, rather than tapping the button as you did in Sense 7.0. There's also now a manual brightness slider in quick settings. The visual design is much nicer than Sense 7.0, which has overly-fussy icons, lines, menu buttons and is very cluttered. These quick settings are essentially the same as stock Android, although HTC has changed the selection of shortcuts to its liking, adding extreme saver and calculator as options here. These are the settings you swipe down from the top and this is one area where the One A9's Sense 7.0_g paved the way for Sense 8.0. Where Sense 8.0 takes a huge leap towards Marshmallow is in the quick settings. HTC Sense 8.0: Quick settings and settings The idea is to have something utterly unique and it's a great idea as you can have a phone that's completely personalised - and about as far from Apple's grid of icons as you can get. You can reassign stickers to different apps, so if you want a picture of a rabbit to access Gmail, you can. But in this case, the stickers replace your app shortcuts. It's basically like having a selection of stickers and putting them wherever you want on your home pages. The main point of Freestyle however is that you can put an app shortcut wherever you like, escaping the grid layout. There are a range of Freestyle themes to download and they then behave very much like other themes in that you can change icons, fonts, wallpapers and sounds within that theme. The big change, however, is Freestyle layout. This follows the lines HTC's wide range of themes that were evolved in Sense 7.0, letting you change just about every aspect of the visuals of your phone. ![]() One of the big changes that the HTC 10 brings is the Freestyle layout option. Pocket-lint HTC Sense 8.0: Themes and Freestyle layout One thing you don't get is the option to switch back to HTC's old grid layout, something that HTC Sense 7.0 offered, but Sense 7.0_g didn't. ![]() This opens in the standard Rolodex view that Android offers with a "clear all" option at the bottom. One other area on the home page where clutter has gone is the recent apps button. It's still available, however, if you want to use it, but HTC Sense 8.0 is more about removing clutter. Where Sense 7.0 put HTC's Sense Home widget front and centre, showing apps you use in different locations, that's not been mentioned at all on the HTC 10. However, a long press on the wallpaper opens up the pop-up menu that's expanded on Sense 8.0, introducing one of the new features - Freestyle layout - as well as the options to change the theme of the phone and manage widgets or pages. There's also been a tweak to HTC's weather clock visually as it is smaller, and now you can have it automatically switch to the travel clock when you're roaming, which is a nice touch. ![]()
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