Launchers for Android are pretty wonderful, as they can transform your phone into something totally different. There’s already awesome launchers like Launcher Pro and ADWLauncher but Samsung wants to throw their hat in the game too.
I know what you’re thinking. Samsung? With their freaking TouchWiz UI? Luckily, we dodged a bullet there and it’s not going to be TouchWiz. Instead, it’s a new interface called Pure Breeze that’s, um, a little weird. The emphasis of Pure Breeze is to manage your applications with groups. On launch, it’s a long vertical list of apps that isn’t side scrollable, you throw the apps you want to organise into the bottom bar (which is side scrollable). There’s also a floating “home screen”, called The Kite, which is always easily accessible (and the place you can store your favourite apps and widgets).
I’m not sure if I like these small tweaks (I’m so used to side-scrolling homescreen on Android phones) but I just know I feel really weird using them. [Android Market via TechCrunch]
Samo
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 11:00 AMThe horror.
Liam
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 11:47 AMUgly as all hell, I think I’ll stick with Go Launcher EX…
Apollo
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 7:54 PMI love samsung products as much as the next person, but it doesnt feel like android – its not even in the same ballpark.
Will
Saturday, September 3, 2011 at 10:18 PMyeah im willing to have a go. thats the great thing about android its customisable if you dont specifically like the home screen your given you can change it. there are things about android i dont like and i think it could concevably fix them for instance being able to start a new app on top of a previous one without having to go to the home screen is pretty handy. especially as it means you can drop straight from one to the last by hitting back and not having to go into the task manager.
having said that the design looks …interesting to say the least and the implementation could be wonky but who knows it may work well.
Euan Melville
Sunday, September 4, 2011 at 11:20 AMGoTo app does the same thing but its just an app, you don’t have to download a whole new launcher.