HTC Endeavor RUU has treasure trove of Sense 4.0 screen shots
Gotta love a good RUU — otherwise known as a ROM Update Utility — because they’re chock full of fun stuff. And the one that surfaced over the weekend for the HTC Endeavor has found itself available for download. We’ve been picking it apart and have packaged up a nice little Sense 4.0 preview.
And that’ sbeen the big question since Google announced Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich — what will HTC (and the other manufacturers) do with their custom user interfaces. ICS easily is the sexiest “stock” UI Google’s come up with (by far). How will HTC and Motorola and Samsung and everyone else customize it? We’ve gotten a glimpse of what HTC likely has in store for us in that leaked video of the HTC Ville, and now we’re getting an even better look thanks to the RUU. Packaged within it are nearly two dozen screen shots that show a Sense that looks familiar, yet refined.
Looks like we’ve got a bunch of different lock screen options, with the ring and quick links that we’ve come to know and love so much, and the Sense dock has more of the traditional Android look and feel that we’ve come to know. How that all works together, we’re not quire sure. It’s almost some sort of hybrid, with HTC’s widgets throughout. Or perhaps what we’re seeing is just a massive serires of themes.
(Update: Now that I think about it some more, maybe toss out that whole “hybrid” thing. What you see after the break may well just be example images of what you see in Sense 4.0.)
You get a good look at the Sense phone book, favorite contacts, photo gallery, lock screen reminders and stocks backgrounds — in both portrait and landscape. And it also looks like Beats and NFC are a go, too, from what we’ve seen in the ROM.
We’ve got a plethora of screen shots after the break. Peep ‘em.
We’ve got some wallpapers from the leaked RUU available in the Android Central forums, too!
