It's difficult to go over all the customization options this launcher has, but I will mention that you can apply some cool transition effects when
swiping through home screens.
Even just
flipping through home screens and the app drawer can be a little sluggish at times, and games as light as Tetris are enough to slow it down even more.
Once unlocked, swiping
through Home screens on the Flyer showcases a carousel animation; this is more prominent in landscape mode, as you can see previews of the Home screen to either side of the one in focus, plus the ones behind it.
However, while the RAZR let us
flick through home screens quickly, it took longer for this phone to launch the app menu and show all open apps.
The specification page on the Amazon website clearly states that adverts will only be visible while the device is asleep and while the reader is scrolling
through the home screen for a title to read, not while a title is opened and being read.
You select books and media by
sliding through the home screen — your favorites and popular / new items appear here — and then you can visit your apps, books, and movies by tapping the right button.
For many of us, nothing beats the pinpoint accuracy you can get from using a good capacitive stylus, whether you're just
cruising through the home screens on your Android device, drawing, or even typing on an on - screen keyboard.
No problem, just tell Siri to «open Dropbox» or «launch YouTube» and you'll never have to scroll
through your home screens again (unless you really want to).
Some of these react and change colour to match the time and the weather, others are just Google Earth images that move slowly and react as you swipe
through home screen spaces.
As you'd expect, given those specs, the Tab's performance is impressive: I found that swiping
through home screen panels was fast and fluid, and apps loaded almost instantly.
Still, we found the G2x to be slightly more responsive when opening apps and
flipping through home screens, so we're assuming the Motoblur software drags things down a bit.
We did notice the occasional stutter and lag when
moving through the home screen, and when opening some apps — but it was too infrequent to bother us.
Swapping a dualcore processor for more power - hungry 1.6 GHz quadcore innards plus 2 GB of RAM, the Galaxy Note 2 is significantly zippier than its predecessor which makes it ideal for the new multitasking features and is lightning quick loading up web pages and
flicking through home screens.
This is surprisingly snappy and responsive, touch sensitivity is well on the mark,
navigation through the home screens is smooth and apps and widgets load and operate fluidly.
If you want to get back to the Now Playing screen, instead of
cycling through the home screens to tap the Music icon, you just pull down the status bar window shade to quickly return to the Now Playing screen.
We didn't encounter any issues while running through apps,
navigating through the home screen and settings, or even when we used the split - screen mode to multitask between two apps.
Still, the Tab 2 10.1 was speedy when opening apps and flipping
through home screens.
Swiping
through home screens and apps was buttery smooth and apps opened and closed in a snap.
Swiping
through home screens is incredibly snappy, with nary a stutter or hiccup.
In our brief hands - on time, colors were accurate if not overly rich while images were bright as we swiped
through home screens.
Other times, there's visible stutter and lag, whether you're scrolling through apps on the Play Store, swiping down the notification drawer, moving
through home screens, or perusing websites on Chrome.
If you're coming from an iPhone 7 or 7 Plus, don't expect to see any differences when you're just swiping
through home screens or launching apps; there really aren't any.
There's no lag or slow down as you bounce around in and out of apps and scroll
through your home screens.
Whether it was swiping
through the home screens, using the internet, watching a movie, or playing a graphically intensive game, I found there was little that the Storm couldn't handle.
Performance through general day to day tasks such as swiping
through home screens and opening up apps are smooth but the phone suffers from stability issues with certain apps and gaming is very choppy and sluggish making games difficult to enjoy.
Scrolling
through the home screens and various menus always remained very fluid, and apps never failed to launch quickly.
This is especially apparent when swiping
through the Home screens and menus, but also when pushing the on - screen apps and widgets.
Swiping
through home screens, launching applications, and playing games was a responsive and fluid experience and 4 GB of RAM was plenty of memory for smooth multitasking.
The camera app can be launched either through the dedicated camera button on the side of the M4 Aqua's body, from the lock screen or
through your home screen.
Even while dismissing the notifications and swiping
through the home screens will also give haptic feedback.
And apps are easier to find when you're swiping
through your home screens.
Swiping
through home screens, navigating through the UI, opening and closing apps, multitasking, and playing games created no issues at all.