The HTC First, featuring Home by Facebook, allows customers to receive friends' updates directly on to their home screen.
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Facebook installed Home on both the HTC First and a Samsung Galaxy S3 at the event to show how the app works on both devices.
Speaking of which, while Home looks fine on the HTC First, we would say it looks even better on the S3 simply due to the larger screen.
Anyone remotely familiar with the HTC or Sprint Touch will feel right at home with Verizon's version, the XV6900.
We've already gone into painstaking detail of Facebook Home in our review of the HTC First, so we won't dwell too much on the downloadable version.
Home, available on a new HTC phone and for download to a half-dozen other HTC and Samsung phones starting April 12, is a suite of Facebook apps that will load as soon as the phone is turned on.
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Given how in-your-face HTC's new Sense 5 UI is (its BlinkFeed home page manages to be reminiscent of Flipboard, Blur and Windows Phone), we feel a bit silly kvetching about something as unobtrusive as carrier bloatware.
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More importantly, the software in the claimed leak suggests the company will bring a trace of Sense UI style to the home screen, rather than having to relegate it to the HTC Hub: a live tile would bring the oversized clock and weather that One owners know so well.
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On the front, you'll notice HTC's standard three-button setup below the screen (back, home and recent apps), with the front-facing camera, proximity sensor and earpiece above.
As you may have heard, Facebook Home has finally made its way to a select number of devices from HTC and Samsung.
EE, the UK's most advanced digital communications company, has partnered with HTC and Facebook to be the exclusive UK launch partner for the HTC First, the first superfast 4GEE smartphone to feature the new integrated Facebook experience, Home.
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Hero includes the new HTC Sense widget-based interface that puts at-a-glance info right up front on the home screen where it belongs.
We've taken a closer look at the HTC First hardware, so let's dig into the firmware side -- namely, the Facebook Home user interface featured on the First.
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