Display
The Desire Eye's screen, which measures 5.2 inches diagonally, has a resolution of 1,920 x 1,080 pixels. This results in good image quality in a pleasant ratio. The image has a vivid color intensity, maybe a bit yellowish but certainly not striking or even annoying. The automatic screen brightness also works well. The backlight time-out can be set to auto sleep. It is not entirely clear what this means exactly, but it is likely that the screen will stay on as long as the camera senses that you are looking at the screen.
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The unit can be turned on by making gestures on the screen. This is the so-called Motion Launch. One of these gestures is the familiar and convenient double-tap to wake up the phone. In addition, you can also swipe in a direction across the screen to open a certain window or function. Unfortunately, you can't further set this or choose which gestures should be enabled and which shouldn't. Swipe in particular quickly leads to accidental activation of the device. Moreover, the descriptions of the required gestures are not really accurate. For example, the settings state that you have to hold the phone in the portrait position to unlock the camera with the volume knob, but the instructional animation shows that the camera should be held horizontally.
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Menu
The Desire Eye runs on Android 4.4.4 with Sense 6 over it. With the move to Lollipop, Android has changed dramatically but HTC is not ready yet and it remains to be seen what the consequences will be for HTC's Sense shell. In terms of operation, Sense 6 largely corresponds to standard Android and is mainly a cosmetic rebuild. There are nine themes available for the interface, which not only give the background a makeover, but also the accent colours.
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To the left of your main start screen is a window through which you can scroll through. This is HTC BlinkFeed. Here you can see at a glance the latest news and the most important updates from your social media. By default updates of the social media you have linked to HTC Sense will appear here but other news feeds can also be added. However, adding RSS feeds manually is not an option. If BlinkFeed doesn't have any added value for you, which we can imagine, you can simply remove the whole screen.
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Dragging the status bar down will display the notification window with notifications of installed apps, if available. On the back of the notification window you will find shortcuts for the most important setting functions such as WiFi, screen brightness, sound, etc. This overview can be customized by the user, but the maximum number of shortcuts is twelve anyway.
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The application menu is still a grid that needs to be scrolled through vertically. This can be sorted in three ways and in two different grid sizes. The entire interface works smoothly and smoothly on the Desire Eye. This was also to be expected because it has the same processor as the HTC One M8.
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