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So the concensus is that TouchWiz can be disabled?

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Old 08-31-2010, 05:07 PM
 
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After watching that youtube clip on disabling the touchwiz launcher. It looks like you CAN INDEED run the vanilla android skin on the Epic?

Why the hell none of the reviewers brought up this point yet all of them complained about TouchWiz?

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Because they are ignorant. Simple as that.

Now do you trust these "reviewers"?
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Because they are ignorant. Simple as that.

Now do you trust these "reviewers"?
I trust you more than those reviewers.
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yeah I guess that's what you get when you have "bloggers" do product reviews.

A bunch of hacks.

These experts of nothing, simple consumers are not suitable for product reviews requiring moderate technical knowledge.
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yeah I guess that's what you get when you have "bloggers" do product reviews.

A bunch of hacks.

These experts of nothing, simple consumers are not suitable for product reviews requiring moderate technical knowledge.
Why don't the companies ask someone from the forums to do it? I know Phil does a review and his are excellent, but besides Phonedog and AndroidCentral, the reviews seem to be garbage (with the exception of Engadget that is only adequate).
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Why don't the companies ask someone from the forums to do it? I know Phil does a review and his are excellent, but besides Phonedog and AndroidCentral, the reviews seem to be garbage (with the exception of Engadget that is only adequate).
Did any of them reveal/discover this important fact of this phone? or did they just do stupid unboxing segments(talking about the fancy ear buds), and dedicate half a paragraph on the USB door?
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For the record, Phil stated over and over that you could use the launcher of your choice, and that he didn't understand why people get so upset over Touchwiz.
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For the record, Phil stated over and over that you could use the launcher of your choice, and that he didn't understand why people get so upset over Touchwiz.
I agree with him. Not only is Touchwiz not that big of a problem, but he did state that you can change the launcher to another one.
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I agree with him. Not only is Touchwiz not that big of a problem, but he did state that you can change the launcher to another one.
I see. .then he be a competent reviewer.

From all of the reviews out there the pictured painted on the industry was why would these manufactures lock you into their custom skin.. and that vanilla android would be awesome on the Epic 4G... what a joke
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Old 08-31-2010, 06:15 PM
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I just followed the directions on mine and disabled Touchwiz. Honestly, I don't think touchwiz is that bad at all, but it is really, really easy to disable it following the instructions in the video.
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