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The good news is that should you eventually find this feature slightly stale, you can disable BlinkFeed altogether and just have the plain old Android home screens. Either way, HTC's conducted many tests and is pretty confident that battery life won't be a big issue here. As you'd expect, fresh content automatically comes in from the top, and it does so every two hours over mobile data, but more frequently over WiFi. On a related note, an SDK will be provided for developers to let their apps publish to the BlinkFeed. Regardless, the feed can be customized to suit your needs, though the first version won't let you add custom RSS feeds just yet. You won't be seeing emails here, as HTC positions BlinkFeed as a place for more ambient info rather than critical updates. Created in collaboration with Mobiles Republic, this tool pulls in content from various publications and social networks (Twitter, Plurk, LinkedIn, Flickr, Zoe Share and more), as well as your calendar and TV shows from the TV app (more on that later). This is simply a Flipboard-like tile interface that sits permanently on the main home page.

Similarly, the app tray is set to a leaner 3 x 4 grid by default (which we found to be rather pleasing to the eye), but you can also switch back to the usual 4 x 5 version for nostalgia's sake. Yes, just two panels, as HTC found out that 80 percent of users have three panels or less, and surprisingly, 35 percent of the same group use just one panel! But fret not, as power users can always add more. By default, there will only be two home screen panels out of the box: a "BlinkFeed" page and a classic Android home screen on the right.
