Pocket-Lint: HTC has announced, in a something of a surprise, that it's about to delete customers' data in an overhaul that the company has planned for its online backup service, HTCSense.com. Everything will still work up until 30 April 2012 but if you haven't exported your data from the service by then it'll be too late.
The smart money is on HTC coming out with new and improved version of HTCSense.com some time in the near future but to expect to be able to fall back on that come 1 May would be foolish. So, if you need something to tide you over, or you'd just like to take a look at what else is out there, here are some HTCSense.com alternatives - or, more importantly, what on earth to do with your phone when the service has gone.
The HTC One M10, code-named perfume and dubbed HTC 10 by the media has made another appearance in a Chinese listing as well as a Chinese blog, but this time the rumors are quite interesting. Apparently, there will be at least three models of the HTC 10. Let's just hope HTC doesn't pull a... well, HTC this year and makes the best model Asia-exclusive.
HTC and Google have spoken about HTC smartphones getting Android 5.0 Lollipop in the following weeks, and it seems that HTC is diligently working on Sense 7, too. The HTC One M8, Desire Eye and other HTC smartphones should be getting the Android 5.0 Lollipop update by the end of the year. There is a chance that HTC phones won’t get the update until early in 2015, though, so don’t get your hopes too high. Nonetheless, screenshots of the new HTC Sense 7 have leaked online and show great integration of Material Design in the UI.
VR-Zone: It was recently rumored that HTC was working on a new mobile operating system for China, and a leaked image could have given us our first glimpse of that particular OS.
