How’s Samsung’s new TouchWiz UI?
If you like the old TouchWiz, you’ll probably like Samsung’s update to its custom software skin. The latest TouchWiz adds the ability to create folders within your apps list along with built-in support for Wi-Fi-based PC syncing, among other things. It also ships with Vlingo’s voice command system preinstalled.
Personally, as anyone who regularly reads this blog knows, I’m more partial to stock Android; as far as I’m concerned, the manufacturer-added skins add unnecessary clutter that can’t easily be removed. (They also tend to slow down the Android upgrade process for the life of the device, as original Galaxy S owners know all too well.) As my colleague Barbara Krasnoff observed, most of the features these skins provide can be added on a case-by-case basis to any Android phone — and in that scenario, you can choose what you do and don’t want instead of having all that extra stuff automatically baked in for you.