The phrase
"superfluous features" refers to unnecessary or extra elements that are not needed or helpful in a certain situation or object. It means that these features are excessive, not important, or don't serve a useful purpose.
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The bells and whistles are all stock, but sometimes it's the simplicity, the lack
of superfluous features that makes something truly elegant.
During the company's F8 keynote, Mark Zuckerberg announced that it's going to «completely redesign Messenger» to give its users a «simple and fast experience,» following years of jamming the app with
superfluous features like video games.
For a shooter like Call of Duty, you'll want a mouse that's simple and highly responsive, not loaded
with superfluous features.
Even outside of the Android Wear world, the smartwatches of 2017 seem dead set on
pushing superfluous features like LTE connectivity at the cost of aesthetics — whaddup Samsung Gear S3.
It's cool use of available technology, without going overboard and
adding superfluous features, or changing the character of such an attractive timepiece.
Samsung is famous for bogging down its phones with apps and
superfluous features.
The list included body hair, wisdom teeth, and the coccyx —
superfluous features that served as Exhibit A in his argument that humans did not descend from «demigods» but rather from a long line of fur - insulated, plant - chewing creatures that sported tails.
The Kobo Touch is keen on extras like this support and the reading achievements, so much so that — like the Kindle — it has its own «
superfluous features» section.
I personnaly have no interest for audio books except when in my car, so the audio feature on an e-book reader is somewhat of
a superfluous feature for me.
This # 89 beauty is a simplified version of its predecessor, cutting out almost
all superfluous features to offer an equally - good, or even better, reading experience for less money.
It adds
some superfluous features like Ninpo activation per touch gestures and «Hero Mode» which is the same as in Ninja Gaiden 3, so Ryu tends to block and counter automatically and gets unlimited ninpo at times.
They keep the speed up and data usage down by omitting
the superfluous features that people on slower connections wouldn't be able to use anyway.
Meanwhile, a lot of
the superfluous features Samsung adds do nothing — except bloat the system and cause it to take up even more storage.
I did eventually switch to a different launcher (Nova Launcher), and I did disable a number of what I feel are
superfluous features, including the Edge screen and FaceWidgets, but the good news is that I am pretty damn happy with the way Samsung has restrained its propensity for feature bloat — or bloat of any kind, in fact.
Its biggest strength isn't what it has, but what it doesn't: there's no bloatware,
superfluous features, unnecessary hardware or even branding to get in the way of using it.
Some of
the superfluous features have gone, menus have been condensed, but Samsung has done so in a way that maintains its identity.
To me, that speed and clarity are worth the one or two
superfluous features that I can easily disable.
Much of Google's new content revolves around everyday user experience rather than adding
superfluous features that most people would probably never bother to use.