In a recent announcement, the Taiwanese smartphpone maker HTC confirmed that it intends bringing HTC Sense user interface to their devices based on Microsoft’s forthcoming Windows Phone 7 mobile (WP7) operating system; quite similar to the way it has already put its Sense interface on the handsets running Windows Mobile 6.5.

However, since Microsoft has long being saying that it wants to basically homogenize the user experience of WP7, it still remains to be seen how much touch HTC can possibly put onto its forthcoming devices, with certain restrictions by Microsoft in place.

Noting that “Microsoft has taken firmer control of the core experience in Windows Phone 7,” Drew Bramford, chief of user experience design team at HTC, told Forbes that there still is enough scope for HTC to innovate.

Elaborating further, Bramford said that the future version of Sense will essentially be different from that on the existing Windows Mobile (6.5) phones, where it chiefly substitutes all the core applications and boasts complete integration into the handsets.

By and large, the addition of the HTC Sense interface to other mobile operating systems has been hailed by users of most handsets; with the Microsoft Windows Mobile users particularly opining that the Sense enhances the usability element of the old and obsolete platform.