Download HTC Sense Task Manager For Galaxy S III, A Beautiful App Switching Alternative

         If there’s one thing that iOS hasn’t changed at all since its very inception, starting with version 1.0 and now to 6.1, it’s the look and feel of the interface. Granted, there have been various feature enhancements, and with iOS 6, there were some visual uplifts as well, such as the color-sensitive status bar and others, the overall feel of the operating system has remained the same. To be honest, this wasn’t a feel that was very catchy, either, so it’s not like Apple deserves any praise here either.

Android, on the other hand, has been a very different beast altogether. Not only have there been launchers for a long time that can totally change the appearance of your device, but also, it had also been possible to go for themes and aesthetic customization through the use of widgets, live wallpapers and whatnot since a long time back. Over the years, Google’s smartphone and tablet operating system has matured even further, with no small credit to the open source developer community. One thing that the user base has always had a beef with, however, was the OEMs’ decision to impose their custom skins over the vanilla Androidexperience, which essentially differentiated, say, Samsung’s products (TouchWiz) from those of HTC (Sense).

Sense has always been, in my opinion, one of the best custom Android skins out there, and it’s hard to argue with that once you’ve used a Sense-based interface for any amount of time. It’s absolutely beautiful, with elegant icons, highly functional widgets, and scenes that are sufficient to reflect your mood and operating environment for a lot of scenarios. The problem, however, is that Sense is not open source, and while there have been countless attempts to port Sense elements to other ROMs, it’s mostly been without much luck. Thankfully, if you own a Galaxy S III i9300, you can share some of the experience in the form of HTC Sense’s Task Manager & App Switcher that has been ported to the said device, provided you’re running stock firmware XELLA, or a custom ROM based on the said firmware.