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Love how Samsung still fight to keep a11 quick settings instead of bending to the new one
Pretty much the only reason I didn't get a pixel when I recently bought a new phone.
God I miss the heyday of Android and custom roms. This is not compelling in any way.
"I hear the quick settings buttons will have even more slightly rounded rectangles this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I can't stand reskins on android. Launcher you can change,but system not,without bootloader unlocks at least. The bloat is real and a bitch to get rid of and even if you adb it,you still have the overall android reskin.
Why do these companies feel the need to bloat android to such extent is beyond me.
Normally, I'd agree with you. Samsung does put some stupid bloatware apps that you have to disable (which I understand is not the same as uninstalling). But in this case I think that Samsung's quick settings are better than stock which looks like this. The amount of space wasted there is insane.
Exactly this. Also, Samsung built a lot of functionality into the OS and did it better than Google in many cases.
I used to hate Samsung's previous design, but OneUI isn't that bad and ads some genuinely better things than stock Android. That being said, I do miss some of the simplicity of stock, plus the genuine speed/responsiveness that it brings.
Hard disagree. From a graphic design standpoint, it is one of the most amateur interfaces I've come across in recent years. Their designers literally don't understand the basics.
Branding. Aesthetic decisions made by big companies are usually about creating brand awareness or some other corpo bullshit like that.
From that small screenshot it actually looks pretty nice
Too ios-like for my taste.
From someone that actually used recent versions of iOS, this looks nothing like iOS, not even close.
Please, for the love of go, get rid of the squircles. They look like shit and the Good Lock workaround is extremely poorly implemented. Needs resolving in the base OS to a geometric shape.
Is there a way to get square icons even with GoodLock? I remember trying and giving up at some point since i couldnt figure out the simplest shape of them all.
Yeah, there is. In themepark you can reshape all icons and adjust the icon picture to fit.
The closest one I see is a little less rounded than the squarcle but it still has fillets and not sharp corners like a square
As per usual, the final release will be buggy as hell. Can't remember last time they released new android version on a flagship without breaking either performance or battery life. Generally the reason I sold my S21 Ultra off and decided to move on. Seriously hoping it won't gift S23U the same present.
Overall, the screenshots look pretty nice, good change after several years of minor adjustments. I also am hoping they're bringing predictive back gesture to their system apps.
Can't remember last time they released new android version on a flagship without breaking either performance or battery life
That's actually quite normal for most in-place OS upgrades, and isn't specific to Samsung or even Android.
As an old PC nerd, the rule-of-thumb still stands true today: always do a fresh install when doing a major OS upgrade, it'll save you from much agony down the line.
I enabled predictive back gestures on my S23u via the Dev options, however it only works kinda on the play store
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