In case you missed Pocketnow’s initial impressions with Sense 4.0 (read: snoozefest) there was a little tidbit of information that even we initially looked over our first time reading through. One reader brought it to our attention that in between all those letters and punctuation, in plain black and white — you know, because there were no pictures — was the news that Dropbox will be giving Sense 4.0 users 50 sweet GB of delictable cloud storage. Yeah, I couldn’t believe my eyes either.

There’s a few things I absolutely cannot live without in this crazy mixed up world of ours and one of those is Dropbox. I love it. I swear by it. And if I party too hard one night, may even come home with their logo tattooed on my lower back. Crazier things have happened.

Although it wasn’t specifically mentioned just how long Dropbox would allow users to enjoy their 50GB of storage, we’d imagine they’ll follow the same 1 year “trial” they gave to Sense 3.5 users a few months back when they offered 5GB of bonus storage. In which case, don’t get too attached to those photo’s and videos you upload Dropbox during the trial.

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Google is slowly making efforts to move into mainstream “Siri territory” with their latest acquisition of Clever Sense, a company who has just released an app called “Alfred” (think: Batman) onto the Android Market. Clever Sense had this to say on their website:

Today, we are excited to join Google and start a new chapter in curating the world around us! Together with the Google team, we will accelerate our efforts toward this shared vision.

Using the Clever Sense platform, Alfred is able to find and make recommendations based on the things you like. At the heart of Alfred is a technology Clever Sense is calling their Extraction and Serendipity engines and is most likely what caught Google’s eye to begin with. Using Alfred, a user has the ability to:

• Discover new places with recommendations curated just for you!
• Refine your searches for cuisine type, price range, dietary restrictions, distance, and more
• View details about a place, like address and menu, and what’s particularly good there
• Plan your outing by helping you call, get directions to a place, and share with your friends
• Show you places near your current location, for now, or at a different location, for later
• Find places based on your specifications, save them for future reference, and more

Although I haven’t had much time to play around with it myself, if you’re curious to see what all the hoopla is about, you can find Alfred for free right now in the Android Market (US only). Make sure you let everyone know what you think in the comments!

[Clever Sense via AndroidandMe]

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HTC’s new Sense 3.5 is looking pretty nice, but unfortunately we aren’t quite sure when the first device baring the new Android skin will hit shelves. Luckily for owners of the HTC Desire HD if flashing custom ROMs is your thing you know have access to the bran new version of Sense on your device. Once again thanks to the industrious folk over at XDA-Developers, a version of Sense 3.5 has been pulled from the software files of the HTC Bliss and tweaked to run on top of Android 2.3.4 on the Desire HD. There are still some notable bugs, such as a lack of Bluetooth support, but if you want to be the first on the block to rock the new custom user interface from HTC, hit up the source link below.

[XDA via Engadget]

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The HTC Sensation and Evo 3D haven’t received perma root for more than a few days and those crazy developers over at CyanogenMod have already managed to cook up an early CM7 build for the Sensation. Shown off in this video, CM7 is a near stock Gingerbread ROM with added tweaks and enhancements that’s entirely built from the ground up using the Android open source code.

CyanogenMod supports a number of devices and it’s all thanks to his team of “douches” who do this in their spare time that we’re able to experience the joys of a “pure Google experience” on devices normally cluttered with Sense/Motoblur/TouchWiz UI’s. You kids with a Sensation have some good stuff to look forward to.

[Via Kmobs]

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I hope you’re hungry because we have one doozy of an Android Overload for you tonight. The reason it’s so jam packed tonight is someone forgot to hit publish on Friday’s Android Overload resulting in the smorgasbord you see in front of you (I blame that new Chavez, kid). As usual, most of these news worthy articles were occurring overseas. So grab your fork and dig in!

• HTC Sensation begins arriving in Canada. Launching any day now. [MobileSyrup]
• Future has begun taking pre-orders for the LG Optimus Black on TELUS and the HTC Sensation on Bell. [MobileSyrup]
• Xperia Arc on Rogers receives Android 2.3.3 OTA update. Now with more Facebook! [MobileSyrup]
• Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 headed to the UK on August 4th. [PocketLint]
• Asus Eeepad Transformer 3.1 kernel source is released for devs to mess around with [Droid-Life]
• Telus’ HTC Desire HD Gingerbread upgrade is beginning to roll out. [MobileSyrup]
• HTC has hidden a Resident Evil easter egg in their preview image for the Friend Stream widget found in Sense 3.0.
• The HTC Incredible S has begun seeing its own round of nightly CM7 builds.
• The HTC Salsa and ChaCha are headed to Vodafone in Australia.
• Three UK is set to carry the Sony Ericsson Xperia Ray.
• The HTC ChaCha is also going to Telus in Canada. The Salsa looks likely for release there as well. [MobileSyrup]
• The Motorola DEFY on T-Mobile UK is getting Android 2.2 next month.
• Play.com is now offering presales for the new Xperia Mini phones. [USEB]
• The Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo is now available in Europe.

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HTC said it wasn’t coming. Then they said it was. And now, due to complications, it might take a long time or the upgrade might not be as beneficial as some might hope. I’m talking about the upgrade to Android 2.3 on the HTC Desire of course. Telstra was one carrier set to deliver the modified Sense upgrade that would allow users to install only what they needed from the Android market, but it appears they will elect not to deal with space limitations and will just get rid of HTC Sense altogether for their upgrade.

Said plans were spotted on the company’s support page for the Desire. It’ll be extremely interesting to see how this plays out. Are they breaking an agreement with HTC or has that since expired? Will users accept Gingerbread for the loss of Sense? I’m sure more than a few of those Aussies on Telstra wouldn’t be keen to losing Sense – some might have bought the phone because of Sense in the first place.

On the other hand, don’t take my skepticism for a lack of excitement – something like this sounds great to me and you. But only time will tell if it’s as easy as Telstra’s hoping it to be. [via Android Police]

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HTC has made it clear that the Thunderbolt won’t receive Sense 3.0 (they also said the HTC Desire wouldn’t receive Android 2.3…but I digress). If you are in possession of a rooted HTC Thunderbolt with S-Off status and Clockwork Recovery, you can get the latest version of Sense courtesy of the latest version of the Das BAMF Gingerbread ROM.

Though the build is at release candidate status, it still has a few bugs, namely a glitchy front-facing camera. But if you can deal and can’t wait to get your hands on Sense 3.0 (and it really is quite an improvement), you can find all the information at the source link below.

[via Engadget]

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Like that ultra-cool lockscreen found on the HTC EVO 3D You’re in luck! Thanks to some leaks of HTC Sense 3.0 ROMs, developers have been able to pull the lockscreen out and package it up as an installable .APK for all with compatible phones/ROMs. The APK is as easily installable as any application, but you have to be on a compatible HTC EVO 4G ROM. Even then, some things are not yet working but the developer responsible is hard at work trying to knock those kinks out.

And if you’re on a different HTC phone and would like to have this, keep an eye on your phones’ respective developer forum at XDA to see if someone will be so gracious enough to head the project up. (Or just go ahead and do it yourself.) Look above for my quick look at the new HTC Sense 3.0 lockscreen found on the HTC EVO 3D. [XDA, Thanks Deltatko!]

Android Phone Fans

A few days after hearing the EVO 4G is included in HTC’s plans for devices receiving the Android Gingerbread update, what appears to be an official build with the Sense UI layer on top had leaked. The leak comes in the form of a system dump that the boys over at XDA Developers are already hard at work crafting into an easily flash-able ROM for installation.

While the timing of the leak is no true indicator of when we might see the update sent out to owners of the EVO, it is a good sign that development is moving along. Speaking of development, expect some new custom ROMs to be cooked up based around the release.

[911sniper via XDA, thanks to all that sent this in!]

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Well what do we have here? The HTC Pyramid was expected to be announced alongside T-Mobile’s other wares at CTIA but it never made its way to the “official” foreground. Fortunately, leaksters exist. The latest was sent to XDA and shows more than we’ve seen before.

To put it simply – yes, it looks like T-Mobile’s version of the EVO 3D. (Without the actual 3D and other things unique to Sprint, of course.) It has the same qHD display that was rumored in recent specs and – surprisingly enough – has HTC Sense 3.0. (It runs on top of Android 2.3.) This version differs from 2.1 found on the HTC Thunderbolt the new “S” line of phones, and other recent HTC products. We’re surprised because we were led to believe that this version of Sense would be exclusive to the EVO 3D for quite some time.

I took a look at Sense 3.0 on the EVO 3D at CTIA – you can see one very cool unique feature that HTC’s added here. (Long story short: it makes your default lock-screen awesome.) Other than that there’s not much new to see here. Still, we know how eager some of you T-Mobile subscribers are to get your hands on a new 4.3 inch device so these pictures should hold you over until T-Mobile’s ready to make things official. More can be found at the source link. [via XDA]

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