Handful of Nothing

Come on Samsung, you do such nice industrial designs but the previous UI was lame, this one for sure is better but seems like a bad rip of iPhone. No problem and doing things like iPhone, but this… is almost pathetic. The scrolling is lame, and I can’t think of anything, anything worse then the “selection” always on when scrolling, then when you touch an icon it goes there. Also it looks that is on the limit of sluggishness. When animating back to the home menu (like the iphone but without the rotation) you see the maximum speed of the UI. The Song name scrolling also looks quite sluggish.

Again, this only can be the final offer from a Manager demanding “I want a iPhone like UI!!! NOW!! in 4 months!!!!” and a good competent team trying to give him what he wanted, after all he pays the bills. : /

The only credit is that is actually looking more usable then the last one.

My highlight? The “change background” widget. It’s so big that you don’t want it on your “desktop” so to change the desktop pick you need to click on the widget menu, drag the widget to the screen, choose the picture, click on apply, open the widget menu again, drag the widget back there.

VERY USABLE. =) It could be a simple, small icon on the corner, that expanded when clicked to the picture browser. Chooses, minimizes it again. Of course could be added some live preview coolness but this would be like 3x more usable.