HTC sense multi-tasking UI

We've all seen a massive improvement over the multi-tasking UI in stock ICS, the flagship device for google to show off the latest and greatest version of android was the galaxy nexus, built from the ground up to work on that device with curved glass and tapered edges, all loving the way it looks and feels. This was the device that showed off what ICS could bring to the market.

The multitasking UI in ICS is a very simple interface, you press the multitasking button or on other devices, press and hold the home button. You are able to scroll up and down to see your recent apps, the app at the bottom being the one that you most recently visited and the app at the top being your last app that you ran.

 HTC has to change all this well bringing the one series to the market. HTC one x which is running nvidia's tegra 3 chip set is not running stock ICS but instead it's running sense 4.0, everything may be fluent and fast and the homescreen interface may have changed a lot since HTC sense running on older generation of smartphones. Before you had the uncustomizable 3 hot keys and the bottom of the screen, now with sense 4.0 you've now 4 icon dock and this dock also works with the lockscreen... Because you've got the ring pull on the lock screen you can drag that ring over an icon from your dock and it will open that app for you.

The main reason I started this blog was to rant about the mutli-tasking UI within sense 4.0, instead of the traditional multitasking in stock ICS, HTC went for a different and change it all together. The multi-tasking UI within sense is similar to webos multi-tasking except they haven't got stackable cards, this works tremendesly well with webos but not when it's with android, the card view in sense has an awful to it.

The sense multi-tasking UI has most of the gestures found in webos, such as swipe up to dismiss the app, you can swipe left and right to see your other recent apps but it hasn't got swipe down gesture that either brings the app into view or like on the touchpad has a slingshot effect.

The likes of HTC and motorola bringing out their own skins to run on top of android to differentiate from the other smartphone that are on the market. This creates an easier decision among the community and they may want a phone that doesn't look like the rest of them.
Just ano