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Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Post by someperson »

rtpg wrote: post #3

One of my favorite things about android is some of the high-quality UI modifications that are out there. I've been using Cover for a while and couldn't go back to the default lock screen, it's just too useful. Also been playing around with Aviate, but to more mixed results. Between things like that and Facebook chat heads, I feel like Android is the place to be for high-productivity smartphone users.

Cover looks very nice, but I won't install it as I don't have a high degree of trust of the app with my data

Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Post by zurn »

AceJohnny2 wrote: post #2

You have to download and install the APK manually. With the ease of publishing something to Google Play, why haven't they done so? Is it just to limit initial deployment to people who know how to do this? Also "Sorry, we are not currently supporting rooted devices". I wonder why.

Google Play is accessible only if you hook your Android device to a Google account AND you Andorid device vendor has put up the $$ to use the proprietary Google apps like Play.

The real question is why so many apps are distributed only through Play, excluding privacy-conscious users and open source Android devices.

Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Post by felipeerias »

plainOldText wrote: post #9

I was close to install it, then I read their ZLauncher Privacy Policy and I discovered they read your text messages and call logs, and I abandoned it. I guess, trust really affects our perception of a system, and our willingness to share personal information with it. Unfortunately, if there is no trust, the relationship/interaction man-machine will never achieve its full potential.

How did you think that it would suggest you who to call or notify you of incoming messages?

Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Post by jonathankoren »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #10
plainOldText wrote: post #9

I was close to install it, then I read their ZLauncher Privacy Policy and I discovered they read your text messages and call logs, and I abandoned it. I guess, trust really affects our perception of a system, and our willingness to share personal information with it. Unfortunately, if there is no trust, the relationship/interaction man-machine will never achieve its full potential.

Machine learning is sort of hard to do without corpus.

I bet money, it's simply most frequent app and contact called.

Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Post by AndrewDucker »

I tried it. It's nice in some ways, but horribly limited.

It defaults to 4 icons at the bottom for the dialer, two of which weren't my defaults (for browser and SMS app). By default I run with 6 icons at the bottom, and another six or so that I go to all the time.

It doesn't allow widgets (I have one set up to allow me to toggle wifi and one for a torch).

I can see some people loving the simplicity, but for me it's just not going to work.

Re: Nokia's New Homescreen Replacement App for Android

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Post by gambiting »

plainOldText wrote: post #9

I was close to install it, then I read their ZLauncher Privacy Policy and I discovered they read your text messages and call logs, and I abandoned it. I guess, trust really affects our perception of a system, and our willingness to share personal information with it. Unfortunately, if there is no trust, the relationship/interaction man-machine will never achieve its full potential.

....literally, what? It's like complaining that the contacts app has permissions to read your contacts. It's a launcher man, of course it needs to read your call logs and messages, what's so upsetting about this?
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