According to pocket-lint, HTC CEO Peter Chou has confirmed that the HTC Sense interface will be available as an optional addition to “other existing [HTC] devices.” Though he did not detail which phones would receive the addition and when, it isn’t hard to extrapolate. There are only a few other HTC phones running on Android, though each has a few variants: the HTC Dream, otherwise known as the T-Mobile G1, and the HTC Magic, known as the myTouch, ION, etc.
Speaking of variants: From what we’ve heard from our talks with HTC, it seems a bit unlikely that Sense will find its way to any “with Google”-branded handsets – at least not in any official manner. That means the T-Mobile G1/myTouch are out, but the ION and another other handsets lacking the “with Google” subtitle are in. Cross your fingers, HTC fans, your phone may get a facelift soon.
As a G1 owner, I was watching all the Hero videos yesterday and starting to get jealous. I’m glad that I might have access to this tech on my phone at some point in the future.
Why wouldn’t sense be availible to G1/myTouch? It’s just a shell, right? I would assume that its similar to how TouchFlo was a shell to winmo – it was available to all htc phones. Sense seems to also be a similar shell – if Google wants to be able to allow for user customization, I’d have though Sense would be on all android phones (or the htc ones).