HTC: Widgets not important to most Android users

10. danny_a2005 (Posts: 268; Member since: 06 Oct 2011)

"sh*t android users say" thats the name of the video right?

35. p5yb0rg (unregistered)

Widgets and customization are the main things that separate iOS/Windows OS from Android. Take that simple joy from me and I'm gone.

81. microsoftnokiawin (Posts: 1236; Member since: 30 Mar 2012)

live tiles are somewhat similar to widgets

102. Aeires (unregistered)

Except you can't get rid of the live tiles if you don't want them. Fundamentally what's keeping me from owning a Windows phone.

103. rizevnarastek (Posts: 349; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)

It's not gone. You still have widgets in Sense5.

I, currentIy owning a Note 2 have an agenda widget/clock and a news/rss widget on my home screen, on the left and the right a note widget, for play and for work.

I see A LOT of potential in BlinkFeed. Mixing my agenda/news clock widget in a good news/agenda/social agregator feed looks like a brilliant idea.

107. ghmina (Posts: 2; Member since: 20 Feb 2013)

they didn't take this from u you can make any screen your home screen
check this video in the fourth minute twenty second (04:20)

video name
(Interview with Drew Bamford, HTC AVP of User Experience)
in phonearena channel on youtube

64. Dastrix (unregistered)

Customization is the name of the game for Android. I have mixed feelings about BlinkFeed, but I don't think it would detract too much from customization.

70. half_21 (Posts: 44; Member since: 16 Nov 2012)

i'll be dumping android off the trash if not only for the widgets and customization...i barely go to the app drawer to open apps..but instead almost all the apps that i open has widgets..so widgets really make it an easy access and at the same time gives your phone a good look, not just showing a bunch of icons...

79. joey_sfb (Posts: 6600; Member since: 29 Mar 2012)

HTC also don think multitasking is important to.have sense force close all background tasks making some Android apps incompatible. HTC might as well come out their own mobile OS. If it is truly better than Android I will buy them.

100. cloud_atlas1991 (Posts: 61; Member since: 21 Dec 2012)

This is not even a pressing matter. If you don't like widgets THEN DON'T USE THEM. What's wrong, HTC?! Can't find anything worth anyone's attention?

53. MichaelHeller (Posts: 2720; Member since: 26 May 2011)

"Uninformed" is very different from "uninterested". I love messing around and customizing, but I really only use about 2 widgets: weather and screen filter (best app if you use your device in the dark). I've got other widgets on my homescreens, but I don't know that I've ever touched any of them.

94. Droid_X_Doug (Posts: 5993; Member since: 22 Dec 2010)

But you use those 2 widgets every day, right? How would your opinion change if you could no longer use those two widgets?

110. rizevnarastek (Posts: 349; Member since: 06 Sep 2012)

You can still use widgets!!!!!!!!!!!! It's still Android!
Only the default screen is set to BlinkFeed which you can change or disable.

(god why don't you people read before you start ranting, I'm so sick of you dimwitts)

86. RaKithAPeiRiZ (Posts: 1488; Member since: 29 Dec 2011)

people used to buy htc because of the rich collection of widgets , wonder if everyone at htc is possessed by Apple or something

5. danny_a2005 (Posts: 268; Member since: 06 Oct 2011)

me either, never use them

21. taz89 (Posts: 2014; Member since: 03 May 2011)

I use 2 widgets the weather and a twitter widget and I also have power widget in the notification...

62. blingblingthing (Posts: 578; Member since: 23 Oct 2012)

Weather, toggles , Google now , YouTube and Apollo.

90. BattleBrat (Posts: 1476; Member since: 26 Oct 2011)

There is an app called Floating widget, try that out ;)

67. Hemlocke (unregistered)

Now, now, Dexter, let's not get TOO carried away.
Honestly, I like a bunch of widgets, but unless you have the hands of a basketball player to use the Note 2, or you like Motorola's locked down MAXX, the trade off between widgets and battery life is not worth it. I guess if you are close to an outlet all the time it might be, but barring that, I usually ditch the widgets to save my juice.

105. housry23 (Posts: 132; Member since: 03 Jun 2012)

Haha! I wondered if you were the same Hemlocke as XDA. How have you been? Honestly, I get at least a full day with anywhere between 2 and 5 hours screen on time. Widgets don't cause a major battery drain for me. I don't have a bunch of widgets. I have the sharp and clean Google Now widgets and it gives me all the information I need. I also have the circle battery widget. Someone else on here says they like a nice clean look. I think my setup is very clean looking. The UCCW widget can have hotspots to launch applications. It is by far the most intuitive widget out there. Don't take my word for it. Look at what people have done with widgets to make their homescreens as minimal, clean or as complicated as you want.http://mycolorscreen.com/

20. menny07 (Posts: 89; Member since: 13 Dec 2012)

^Basically this. Widgets ruin the wallpapers that I painstakingly find on the Play Store lol.

50. downphoenix (Posts: 3165; Member since: 19 Jun 2010)

Power Control is a must. I no longer use it though since my GS3 gives all of that functionality in the notification bar though, but it was a must on my previous Android phones.