[mattykaps]

i read that this phone will have the google experience as well as sense ui. is that even possible i thought you cant have the google experience on sense ui.

[Phil Nickinson]

i read that this phone will have the google experience as well as sense ui. is that even possible i thought you cant have the google experience on sense ui.

That's something I asked HTC last month, and they didn't know, and I've asked Google, too. Will start another round of e-mails.

[mattykaps]

yeah im not even sure what the difference between the two is but i would really like to figure it out

[judasmachine]

I am just speculating here but maybe it'll be a tad easier to turn off sense, and if you do it starts taking queues from bigG. Again I pulled this out of my overactive (read often delusional) imagination.

[tamanaco]

Just "speculating" here too... given that the Incredible is supposed to have 8GB of total "internal" memory vs the Nexus One 1GB (512 RAM 512 ROM)... maybe the engineers had room to implement both interfaces by giving the users settings to enable/disable Sense UI and then soft-resetting. (Dual-UI-Boot) Again, just a thought.

[Adiliyo]

i really wish i had my eris around still so i could check for sure, but turning off sense (by choosing the default launcher) turns off pretty much everything that sense offers over stock android.

so you could always fairly easily go back to vanilla, however, you wouldn't get the storage space used by the sense ui back.

[thecodeman25]

sorry for sounding ignorant, but what parts of the "google experience" are you missing with sense? other than the search bar? or is that the main thing, being able to search at all times? thanks

[Adiliyo]

you're not missing anything, the sense launcher can run google's stock widgets, which include that search bar.

people are confused because in the past, it was thought a "google experience" phone was one that ran vanilla android, but they seem to have either changed or clarified what constitutes a "google experience" phone now, which can include phones that have modified UI's

[twinturbostang]

As long as I can get back to "vanilla" Android if I want to, and they haven't purposefully removed Google functionality (like I think they did with the Backflip?), then I'm sold.

[eazid]

I am just speculating here but maybe it'll be a tad easier to turn off sense, and if you do it starts taking queues from bigG. Again I pulled this out of my overactive (read often delusional) imagination.

Yeah. But you're probably correct. Google Exp is just android. Sence on top. So technically all android phones with htc sense are both. haha

[Jerry Hildenbrand]

FWIW - the first phone that had Sense - (hero) also were Google experience phones, and say so right on the back of all the "second" run units.

My understanding is Google experience means access to what's collectively called Googlebits - market, gmail app, maps, AmazonMp3, Gtalk - and the closed source framework needed to run them.