Samsung Testing A New UI For Their Smartphones

Samsung testing a new UI for their smartphones

BY Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh is a 26-year old freelance writer from Kolkata, India. He loves to tinker around with his Android devices and flash custom ROMs on them....

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Published 7 Jan 2014

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Samsung’s TouchWIZ UI has always been an eye-sore. While it was still usable back in the Gingerbread days, it looks cartoony and downright kiddish compared to stock Android, HTC’s Sense UI and iOS7. Now, it looks like after years of criticism, Samsung has finally listened to what its users have always wanted.

According to @evleaks, Samsung has been exploring a new smartphone UI for its upcoming devices. From the screenshots, this new UI looks much better than the eyesore the current version of TouchWIZ looks on the Galaxy S4 and Note 3.

The UI does not really look as gorgeous as HTC’s Sense UI or stock Android but chances are its still under development, since the battery icon in the screenshots are green. Post KitKat, Google has made it mandatory for the status bar icons to be white in color. If the screenshots are anything to go by though, Samsung may finally fix one of the biggest complaint that Galaxy owners have had with their devices.

Samsung has been experimenting with a new interface on its tablets, known as Magazine UI. The new interface is inspired from Windows’s Modern UI and relies heavily on widgets. Nevertheless, it looks absolutely gorgeous compared to the version of TouchWIZ seen on the previous versions of Galaxy Tabs.