Sentences with phrase «rather gimmicky»

For Android purists, it's a rather gimmicky take on Google's OS, with the standard theme featuring some rather peculiar UI design alterations that in some ways make it feel more like Apple's iOS rather than Android - especially the brightly coloured gradient - heavy app icons.

I found both of those inclusions to be rather gimmicky on previous devices, so in my eyes I don't miss them at all on this cheaper smartphone.

Not exact matches

Yes, but also a bit gimmicky, and gimmicks are something many fans would rather didn't play a part in the sport.

If not for the gimmicky color - coded conveyor belt stage, and the fact that the mission breaks down into stages rather than ranging across an interconnected, nonlinear setting, this would rank up there among the series» best.

A gimmicky observation of life in Nepal, this is one of those documentaries that offers the audience an experience rather than any actual information.

The volume needs to be turned up, but it is consistent and atmospheric effects usually have dramatic purpose rather than being gimmicky.

Nancy (Lake Bell) and Jack (Simon Pegg) meet cute via a consciously gimmicky romantic - comedy misunderstanding — he mistakes her for his blind date because she's carrying a smarmy self - help book (which his actual intended date pressed on her in a spirit of Good Samaritanism), and she decides to play the role — but rather than stretching this nonsense out to the end of the film and turning it into a barrier to their relationship, Morris and Palmer dispense with it early, then find new ways to play havoc with the budding relationship.

The touch pad at first sounds like a gimmicky sap to iPhone fetishists, but in fact it is rather useful.

Personally, I find that night vision is a bit too gimmicky to be useful — I'd rather be looking out of the windshield when driving at night than staring at the infrared video feed in the digital instrument cluster — but it somehow seems like a good fit for the Maybach's kitchen sink approach to gee - whiz features.

For these reasons, investors should avoid QTEC at all costs; its gimmicky structure of holdings only Nasdaq - 100 companies that are in the tech sector is rather arbitrary and will not help investors accomplish any objectives effectively.

The fact alone that it was going to come with every system tells you right there that they had bigger plans for it rather than it just being a gimmicky add - on.

The protagonist was completely unlikeable and brimming with flimsy motivations, the vehicles handled worse than those in GTA IV, the hacking function of the gameplay felt gimmicky rather than innovative and the replay - ability was nonexistent.

Most of the attractions end up seeming like more of a gimmicky way to show what the gamepad can do rather than focus on actual gameplay and the fun factor of it all.

Players feel that Rockstar is too focused on gimmicky or themed items, rather than letting people dress like actual human beings.

It just didn't seem like they got around to using the motion control in the sort of settings where it would be an immersive add - on to the control scheme, rather than a gimmicky «shake it!»

Sceptics saw his upside works as gimmicky rather than a concept with a philosophical basis.

Now, using enormous marketing campaigns and gimmicky tactics, some large insurance companies now try and reach out to clients directly rather than going through agents.

That makes for rather lackluster still image quality and some gimmicky post-processing tricks.

Although we initially thought of the stand / water bottle hole concept was a bit gimmicky, we ended up rather impressed with how well it worked.

Animojis are one of the more gimmicky features included with the iPhone X, so again, rather than copying the best aspects of the latest iPhones (Face ID, for example), we're instead getting uncanny - valley representations of ourselves.

While it seems gimmicky at first, this new function is rather helpful for larger phones, as it prevents you from having to shift your thumb up to the top of the screen just to grab the shade.

Rather than line the camera interface with gimmicky features and other distractions, HTC wisely focused on improving the photography basics, with particular emphasis on the Photo and Pro modes.

It's seemingly small touches like this that make a smartphone pleasant to use rather than gimmicky biometric readers or finicky gesture controls (which are still here, if you really want them).

It's yet another company choosing to do something gimmicky rather than just using far more functional, straightforward methods of getting the information they need («what are your salary expectations?»