Although it had initially been proposed that Android 3.0 Honeycomb (remember: the platform that Google has created specifically for tablets) would not have customizations (at least, this was suggested during the presentation of the system), during the last mobile fair in Barcelona we learned that HTC would adapt its HTC Sense to the new environment. And this week, Samsung has followed suit, introducing its new tablets (Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1) with Samsung TouchWiz UX.
Samsung TouchWiz UX is none other than TouchWiz 4.0, the fourth generation of the native interface that the Korean manufacturer has been designing for its mobile devices. With this new stage, it is committed to floating windows (known as widgets) and quick access to applications and bookmarks as the main values so that the platform becomes a safe bet and a good work experience for the user.
On the one hand, in Samsung TouchWiz UX we have the widgets. Samsung has renewed the usual floating windows of its interface (weather information, calendar, agenda, alerts, etc.), which now have a new design, although very much in line with what we can see in the TouchWiz 3.0 that decorates its mobiles Android and Bada.
The widget configuration system still works the same. If we press with our finger for a few seconds on an empty space on the home screen, the options box will appear that will allow us to fill in the content panel.
It is enough to select the one we want and drag it to the position where we are going to locate it. Of course, as a novelty, Samsung abandons the grid in the arrangement of floating windows, so that they can be superimposed on each other, in true Surface style.
In addition, also as a widget, we could set bookmarks to our favorite display web pages to access them directly from the home screen. This is not new.
What yes it is the fact that to configure the widget will work as bookmark, could make a screenshot of the web, and use that image as a marker from the panel start.
And in this line, the favorite applications can also be configured to have them more handy. To do this, we will use a new access that is configured in Samsung TouchWiz UX for Honeycomb.
It's called mini-apps, and it serves, on the one hand, to indicate which are the applications that we want to have access to at all times, and on the other, to tell us which are the most common utilities in our routine as users.
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