Am I the only one?

Well the main UI design is where Android has been heading for a while so that won't be much use to you :p

That control centre is a mess though tbh.
 
Rich_L said:
Well the main UI design is where Android has been heading for a while so that won't be much use to you :p

That control centre is a mess though tbh.
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Well once you buy android you expect to spend few days configuring it to start working properly, hence the price is lower...

Spending 700+ quid on 64gb Iphone which UI looks like some 14 year old girls bubble dream...

But I guess apple fans will chew anything including a piece of brick if it has logo on it xD
 
I don't know how to feel about the new design, some part are really nice and some just make me want to puke.

Think somethings like the new signal bars are just OTT it was perfectly before and dots dont really mean anything. The Control centre seems very useful but looks horrible, the way u can see the home screen when your in some apps all blurry looks weird too. Then some of the apps are amazing and very well designed its all just a mixes bag right now.

Well need to actual use it to see how it works but mostly I am happy with it but some things i don't quite get.

Lazder said:
Well once you buy android you expect to spend few days configuring it to start working properly, hence the price is lower...

Spending 700+ quid on 64gb Iphone which UI looks like some 14 year old girls bubble dream...

But I guess apple fans will chew anything including a piece of brick if it has logo on it xD
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Really u need a few days, the phones i get just work out the box, after I put in my email it just figures everything else out.
 
I like all the new features but the UI design is a bit too brash IMO. It's lost most of the understated elegance that it used to have.
 
Fallen god said:
I don't know how to feel about the new design, some part are really nice and some just make me want to puke.

Think somethings like the new signal bars are just OTT it was perfectly before and dots dont really mean anything. The Control centre seems very useful but looks horrible, the way u can see the home screen when your in some apps all blurry looks weird too. Then some of the apps are amazing and very well designed its all just a mixes bag right now.

Well need to actual use it to see how it works but mostly I am happy with it but some things i don't quite get.



Really u need a few days, the phones i get just work out the box, after I put in my email it just figures everything else out.
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Well I guess you are not into configuring stuff... I personally struggled with out of the box S3 full of crappy pre-installed apps that ate up the system.
 
It's pretty in places and weird in others.

Scott Forstall gets ripped for the skeuomorphic stuff but I don't think Ive should get a free pass. He seems to have re-implemented the abomination that was flip 3D from Windows Vista.

There are still kitsch elements in this UI and the fundamental design has hardly changed at all. If you squint it just looks like iOS as it is today.

I can see the new transparency effects being something they end up engineering out of the OS in about 5 years time. I don't think the rounded corners are very cohesive with the rest of the UI either.

I don't know, the jury is out for me. Some of the new features look good, though.
 
I really like it - but you're not the only one. It's always been said that the new look will polarise the population :p I think as time goes on and everyone has had time to use it, they'll grow to like it.
 
Lazder said:
Well I guess you are not into configuring stuff... I personally struggled with out of the box S3 full of crappy pre-installed apps that ate up the system.
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I do like to configure but my phones works out of the box, I mean I need to do the same with my iPad as soon as I get it I JB it, install the apps I need (Which I need less of in iOS7) and so on.

The out of the box experience of the S3 is pretty bad I would agree so much crap on the phone, its why I get Nexus phones cause their clean and great software.
 
I lean ever so slightly in the pro camp but I don't see how this qualifies as "the biggest change since the original iPhone" especially as it doesn't appear to address any of the major complaints about iOS (besides the faux leather stitching).
 
It looks nicer in motion than in pictures, and with the colours, don't forget that your wallpaper heavily influences the colour palette of the subsequent OS layers.

As they said, it's a new start for the OS, so there was always going to be some rough with the smooth, and I'd imagine as user/critical feedback accumulates over time they'll tinker with certain things and make changes where necessary. After all, this is Ive's and co's first foray into software and it's going to be a learning experience even for him.
 
It's another incremental update. The toggles are a welcome addition but I wish they would add widgets or something to make me go "wow". As it is, every iOS release just seems to make me go "meh".
 
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