In the past couple of generations Sony's software additions have boiled down to a different lock screen,
a few icon changes and some pre-installed apps — everything else is pretty much what you get from Google in Android 7.1 Nougat.
Not exact matches
Through 24 years of living all I can TRULY say for sure now is that I KNOW there is a GOD and I always will, but his role and the role of others keep
changing every
few decades or so, before you know they are going to be proposed GAY biblical
icons and then I'm through with Christianity all together.
Though most of the
changes are aesthetic and minor, and many are seemingly pointless (like
changing the standard Honeycomb
icons, which everyone does but no one needs to), there are more than a
few really useful
changes here.
The quick settings menu on the lower right also has a
few options you won't find everywhere, including a brightness slider with a Super IPS + toggle button next to it and
icons for
changing the device's power mode.
Apart from a
few changes to the lockscreen and
icons, the update is not visually too different from Android Jelly Bean.
The tablet comes running Android 7.0 Nougat with a
few UI
changes including custom app
icons and widgets.
All they did is
change the appearance of a
few icons and added a couple features like user profiles, faster video streaming (ASAP), and smart suspend to improve battery life.
The always - fun Internet Archive Wayback machine shows that between 2000 and 2008 (the last available date), the Web site
changed the look of a
few icons but not much more:
One minor peeve about macOS, and it's the same complaint I've made about the last
few versions: The built - in folder
icons are blindingly bright, and you can't
change them by
changing the display theme from the default theme to the optional darker them.
Themes could
change wallpapers and
icons as well as a
few Samsung stock apps such as the dialer, contacts, messages and the notification area, for example.
Or maybe you don't want to
change all your
icons, but just want to tweak a
few.
Then there are the miscellaneous features such as better Bluetooth audio, quick option for adding a new custom ringtone, dynamic and new shapes for
icons, improvements to the ambient display, WiFi Aware that will someday make apps like Xender obsolete and a
few security - related
changes.
Aesthetically, there are still some frustrating
changes, like the cartoonish
icons in Settings and a
few ugly app
icons, but throughout the UI HTC has exercised some much - needed restraint.
However, you can access a
few handy settings (like the ability to
change icon shapes) by long - pressing any empty space on the home screen, then tapping the settings gear.
If one day I feel like I want to have an iPhone style on my G4, I can add a dock that resembles it,
change up the
icons and placement, and boom, a whole new feel in just a
few minutes.
There are quite a
few themes available right from the get go; some options are quite good, and you see different app
icons and
changed UI backgrounds if you enable a theme.
And now, talking about the new visual
changes, the iOS 11 6th beta seems to have made a
few changes to the app
icons.
Every Android manufacturer likes to tweak the user experience by
changing fonts around, messing with
icons, and manipulating menus, but HTC is one of the
few that seems to have a method behind its madness.
The
icons have not
changed, nor have the widgets (although there are a
few additions), the appearance of the notification shade, or the Gallery application.
From here you can modify things like adding percentage to the battery
icon,
changing up the quick tiles in the pull - down menu and a scant
few more things.