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HTC Sense UI Versions, Features, Devices Details

HTC sense is a software suite that was developed by the company named HTC. HTC sense was made for android devices. HTC sense was built for Android devices that HTC made. It was a user interface of HTC mobiles. Here in this article, we will discuss HTC sense versions and some features of their version and devices used to support HTC sense UI. HTC sense was a trendy UI to many HTC users. Still, this UI has some values in the market. It is still there. So let’s know about this now.

HTC Sense UI Versions Devices and Features

HTC Sense was first initiated in 2009 by its developer HTC. It was an android based software system for HTC users. Many versions of HTC sense came after the release. It used to give updates of the new versions almost every year. But after 2018, we do not found any major updates by HTC. These data were collected from Wikipedia and some other popular news blogs online. Here you the versions of HTC sense UI:

HTC Sense

The first version of  HTC sense was released in 2009. It was the initial release of HTC sense. It was introduced to people worldwide as a new android based program. It came with a new feature in android devices. It was built by HTC company. And then almost every year it received updates, and gradually it has grown up more.

Sense 1.9

HTC 1.9 was released in 2010 with new features for its users. It came up for android users of HTC mobile devices. People used to like this new feature-based android smartphone. It was the second update of HTC UI for HTC devices. It is a story of almost 10 years ago. We could not find so much data about it.

Sense 3.0

Sense 3.0 was released in 2011 and developed by HTC. Sense 3.0 debuted on the HTC Sensation mobile. The sense 3.0 version introduced HTC Watch, a movie streaming service, and updated the lock screen with app shortcuts for easier access to HTC Sensation. And there were some more extra features included in this version.

Sense 3.6

Sense 3.6 in HTC devices came up with android version 4.0. Sense 3.6 was a handy UI for HTC users at that time. It was a story of a long time before. Android was growing around the world and competing with iOS with new features.

Sense 4.0

Sense 4.0 came in 2012 in the HTC One series of devices with Android version 4.0. Like all other versions, it also came up with some new features. But that was so old that we have found to collect those exact changes sense 4.0 brought to its devices.

Sense 4.1

Sense 4.1 was a minor update to the original Sense 4.0. It used to run on top of Android 4.0.4 instead of Android 4.0.3 and included many bug fixes. The only device of the original HTC One series not to receive this update was the HTC One V.

Sense 4.5 or 4+

Sense 4.5 was announced in 2012 for the HTC One X+, updates with Sense 4+ were also released with Android 4.1.2 updates for the One X, One S, Evo 4G LTE, One SV LTE / 3G, and Desire X. This also came with a lot of new features for HTC users.

Sense 5

Sense 6 was announced in 2013 in HTC one device. It came up with many features, such as a more minimalistic design and a new scrolling news aggregator on the home screen known as “BlinkFeed,” which displays a scrolling grid of news headlines and social network content on the HTC device. Sense 5 uses three home screen pages by default. Sense 5 was an exclusive move of HTC UI.

Sense 5.5

It was an updated version of Sense 5.5 Announced in September 2013 for the HTC One Max device. Sense 5.5 adds RSS and Google+ support to BlinkFeed, allows users to disable BlinkFeed entirely, adds a tool for making animated GIFs, and additional Highlights themes on the supported device.

Sense 6.0

The UI of HTC device Sense 6.0 was nicknamed “Sixth Sense” by the developers. It was released in 2014. At that time, this version was supported by HTC One (M8) device. This version of HTC UI came up with Android 4.4. It was quite the same as the previous version but offers new customization options (such as color themes and new font choices), increased use of transparency effects, etc.

Sense 7.0

Sense 7.0 was first announced in 2015 to android users with the phone HTC One M9.  This version of the device came up with android 5.0. Sense 7.0 has a lot of features enabled, such as – the ability to customize the navigation buttons across the bottom of the display; users around the world can change their order and add a fourth button, such as a power button or one that hides the navigation bar altogether with sense 7.0.

HTC Sense 10

This was the latest version of HTC Sense, as far as we know from our research. It came up in 2018 with the Android 8.0 update. It also unlocked a lot of new features for HTC users. HTC sense 10 was supported to many HTC devices, such as HTC 10 devices. It was the latest flagship of HTC sense at that time.