Instead of the vertically
scrolling app tray found on most Android phones, Samsung takes a page from the iPhone's book and uses a horizontal application menu.
Another twist is that on the bottom of the vertically
scrolling app tray is a slider bar, which lets you view apps by category: Downloaded, Frequently Used, and those pre-loaded by Verizon Wireless.
Not exact matches
The
app tray opens instantly and
scrolling is ultra smooth both within
apps and outside.
In operation is feels very much like the Torch did, offering a slideable
tray of
apps on the screen, with the ability to
scroll left or right to access favourites or downloads, or head into media.
In the
app tray, you
scroll horizontally instead of vertically; icons receive a bold, colorful treatment.
The UI is nothing like the cards interface of old, and also nothing like the modernized interface of LG's webOS - powered TVs: it features either a rotary dialer - like
app tray or a traditional vertical -
scrolling arrangement, and it actually looks a lot like an earlier build of Android.
Spin it and you can pull up the notification
tray,
scroll through text or your list of
apps, or zoom in or out on a map.