From Android skins to Android stock: a sweet & sour experience with the Google-edition HTC One

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The skin/no-skin debate is the Coke vs. Pepsi divide of the smartphone space – if the cola war were an 80-20 split in favor of Pepsi, that is. Studies outlining user attitudes toward UI overlays are hard to come by, but there’s no real question about the prevalent feeling in the tech press: when it comes to Android skins, you can smell the disdain a mile away. If you ask me, the almost-automatic hatred of skins is a tired, destructive artifact of a jaded tech media. It’s a holdover from the days when

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Android 4.2.2 With Sense 5.1 Has Leaked For HTC Butterfly

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Android 4.2.2 With Sense 5.1 Has Leaked, according to reports, for the HTC Butterfly, the international twin of the Verizon HTC Droid DNA. Sense 5 has been included and has debuted with the HTC One, though, on top of Android 4.1.2, but if the report, and the video below, is any indication, an Android 4.2.2 update should land soon (at least for the Butterfly). While you can’t really see the Android version in the video below (as the About screen reports a “protected” version) you can definitely see the toggles in the notification shade. The system dump is available on XDA ...

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