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I'd have to disagree about it being an ugly design. What was ugly was the hack of putting squares around every icon, when those icons were designed to live on t
by heliodor 14y ago
I'd have to disagree about it being an ugly design. What was ugly was the hack of putting squares around every icon, when those icons were designed to live on their own, not in a square. That's what was ugly. I'm happy to see the squares gone and the design conform to the standard Android design guidelines. The dock of icons going away is also good. If I'm looking in the applications list it's because I'm looking for something that wasn't on the home screens, so why show me part of the home screen? Makes no sense.
I'm neutral on the lack of four-way symmetry and I'd have to agree that the avoidance of black is sad, though light-colored phones look great too (as Apple itself shows).
- mahyarm 14y agoInsisting on four way symmetry is like insisting the status bar and a tab bar are the same height.
- usaar333 14y agoAgreed. Heck a lot of the design decisions are just regular Android (no square outline, dock disappears when drawer opens, etc)
- andrewflnr 14y agoI would actually kind of like a nice charcoal grey for my phone.
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- lloeki 14y agoIndeed, and actually, I like it (and I'm not one prone to like Android handset design). Especially in that shot with the three generations side by side. The first two mimic an iPhone 3G and an iPhone 4, and it shows, while the SIII really stands on its own (that's coming from someone who downright LOVES the iPhone 4 design). I wish they would have let go the metal on the side and went for a bit straighter lines on the long sides to make it feel more balanced, but really, it's fine.
- MBCook 14y agoI agree. I'm and iPhone user and I don't think the S3 looks bad at all. It actually looks kind of nice. More importantly it's distinct. It doesn't look like a fake iPhone. Now I've never touched one.aybe in hand all that tapering feels weird. But it seems like a large improvement over the "pretend I'm an iPhone" look of the previous models.