HTC Hub gets updated and looks a lot better

We take received numerous tips today that the HTC Hub was updated over night. Sure plenty, it was and the new version is v2.ii.

The update brings a few Mango features into play and gives the Hub an improved appearance. For those not familiar with the HTC Hub, the old version offered you weather information and links to featured Windows Phone apps. The new version still offers the weather and featured apps but as well adds news and stock information to the Hub.

HTC Hub Updated

The new version spreads everything out on multiple pages while the erstwhile version had a cramped, cluttered feel to it. Yous can add together forecast cities to the main folio (tap on a city to pull up a detailed forecast), customize your stock information on the next, access customized RSS news feeds on the next and so check out featured Windows Telephone apps.

Another very nice feature of the new HTC Hub is Alive Tiles for your forecast cities. Just tap and hold on the forecast city listing on the master page (yous can also do this from the detailed forecast view) to create a Alive Tile on your Start Bill of fare. The Live Tile will display the current temperature and forecast high/low forth with a weather icon for the current conditions.

All in all, the update vastly improves the HTC Hub. It's cleaner looking and better laid out. The Hub enjoys Mango'due south fast resume feature and the Live Tiles are really nice. If you're running Windows Phone 7.5 on an HTC device, you can find the HTC Hub here at the Windows Phone Web Marketplace or cheque your HTC Apps listing in the Windows Phone Marketplace app.

Thank you goes out to everyone who tipped usa on this!

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