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edit: very early Gingerbread screens: http://www.sizzledcore.com/2010/05/22/android-3-0-screenshot...
That's good. Problem: what about Sense and Motoblur? Think HTC and Moto are going to drop them just because the Android UI bas improved? yeah right...
Also work on the UI side hopefully also means faster portation of those UIs. Not sure why it takes Motorola/HTC/Sony so long to port their versions to the latest Android code, but i guess this can be improved on the Android side of things, too.
Now we just need someone to build a phone without vomiting their own crappy interface all over it. The Nexus One is great, but can't we have a bit more choice than 1?
Wanting choice and keeping companies from customizing their product to differentiate them seem to be goals that are at odds with each other. However, I've used a number of android based phones and I still find the Nexus One's interface to be the best and cleanest.
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No, it's more like a gut and redo, while leaving the structural elements alone. And they say they are happy with the structural elements.
I say kudos if they can pull it off. Ignoring the possible meddling of the various device manufacturers, they have their work cut out for them. I want to be optimistic here; it is just I've never seen such re-engineering done before for any OS.
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Wanting choice and keeping companies from customizing their product to differentiate them seem to be goals that are at odds with each other. However, I've used a number of android based phones and I still find the Nexus One's interface to be the best and cleanest.
Yeah, I'm not mad at Google, I'm disappointed with HTC, Motorola and Samsung.
I'd like to see some stronger innovation, but that some subset of the choices suck just provides a solid reason to pick the better option. Even a bad example is an example, in that we all learn what doesn't work, and we can cherry pick the best things from a number of different sources. The wider ecosystem in carrier-customized Android interfaces means finding out faster which featuers ones are not strong.
Now we just need someone to build a phone without vomiting their own crappy interface all over it. The Nexus One is great, but can't we have a bit more choice than 1?
I'm more than pleased with how Android looks and behaves on the Nexus One. Obviously it can only get better from here, but I really hope that Google tries to avoid going the exact same route of Apple with their iOS. Apple has a lot of desirable features on the iPhone, but also many quirks that I can never, ever get over. On top of this, I'm not a huge fan of how they're doing multi-tasking, and the introduction of "w…
The wallpaper feature is there if you want to use it, but Apple has included some darker pattern wallpapers if you prefer a low key background behind the icons. Of course, one could always whip up a plain black background to use too.
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I say kudos if they can pull it off. Ignoring the possible meddling of the various device manufacturers, they have their work cut out for them. I want to be optimistic here; it is just I've never seen such re-engineering done before for any OS.
UI redesign will most certainly take place on the homescreen, the launcher, the dialer, etc. In other words: in it's own seperate applications, this wouldn't conflict somewhere because it's done quite frequently. Android is themeable quite nicely, so even changing the standard dialogs from one style to another _should_ work. My own concern here is that some developers probably have written their own UI code and some…