I've never owned an HTC device before, so this is somewhat new territory for me. However, I have owned numerous Android devices, and am familiar with "flashing ROMs" and "kernels". I remember being in the UK during the public's transition from feature phone to iPhone stylised phones (I was also in Japan for the same transition some years later), and vividly remember an HTC device with a *huge* 4" screen and a large clock and weather widget on the home screen.