jrz5024: your title should be "Touchwiz on Epic love it or hate it?" Many of us early on said Samsung rushed the epic version because of the horizontal format necessity of a slider- they removed many features because they ran out of time.
If you read the impressions of the leaked Froyo build- ALL OF the missing touchwiz features are addressed with Epic 2.2 update...now let's see if they STAY for the official build.
Most of your complaints are homescreen and app drawer issues though... Touchwiz is much more than that. It's the contact/dialer and integration throughout the device - which i think is well done and cleaner to read and better executed than MANY of the Android phones today.
Personally, I hate ANY LAUNCHER that uses default Android spacing. I need 5 columns and 5 rows on each homescreen. It just feels better to me- so I use launchers like Launcher Pro Plus and these days- Zeam, to accomplish this. The poor use of homescreen space using a 4x4 layout coupled with Touchwiz's poorly sized widgets will probably keep me from ever using it as a homescreen or app tray... but I say the same thing of HTC's Sense as well.
I welcome the updated Epic Touchwiz that comes with Froyo- but will I use many of the new features due to not being able to change to a 5x5 grid or a standard android app tray...? Probably not.
That said- I feel the additions that Samsung provides in TW is way better than Motoblur or LG... and I like a customizable dock over the terrible HTC Sense gray arch dock.
Personally, I'd rather see more people using and supporting market app and widget development than expecting device makers to create widgets and the like. Like Jorte for a superior Calendar, Facez or Tweetdeck for social apps, Buzzbox or Pulse for RSS, Zeam or Launcher Pro Plus for homescreen and app tray customization, Folder Organizer for applicaton and folder /icon grouping/changing etc.
Instead of griping about the Samsung UI shortfalls- the great thing about Android is you can change it... something you can't do on another phone OS... Personally, I hope Samsung and the Nexus S will lead to Samsung releasing more "pure Google" phones in the future- and some with a keyboard- ahh for now it's just a dream.
If you read the impressions of the leaked Froyo build- ALL OF the missing touchwiz features are addressed with Epic 2.2 update...now let's see if they STAY for the official build.
Most of your complaints are homescreen and app drawer issues though... Touchwiz is much more than that. It's the contact/dialer and integration throughout the device - which i think is well done and cleaner to read and better executed than MANY of the Android phones today.
Personally, I hate ANY LAUNCHER that uses default Android spacing. I need 5 columns and 5 rows on each homescreen. It just feels better to me- so I use launchers like Launcher Pro Plus and these days- Zeam, to accomplish this. The poor use of homescreen space using a 4x4 layout coupled with Touchwiz's poorly sized widgets will probably keep me from ever using it as a homescreen or app tray... but I say the same thing of HTC's Sense as well.
I welcome the updated Epic Touchwiz that comes with Froyo- but will I use many of the new features due to not being able to change to a 5x5 grid or a standard android app tray...? Probably not.
That said- I feel the additions that Samsung provides in TW is way better than Motoblur or LG... and I like a customizable dock over the terrible HTC Sense gray arch dock.
Personally, I'd rather see more people using and supporting market app and widget development than expecting device makers to create widgets and the like. Like Jorte for a superior Calendar, Facez or Tweetdeck for social apps, Buzzbox or Pulse for RSS, Zeam or Launcher Pro Plus for homescreen and app tray customization, Folder Organizer for applicaton and folder /icon grouping/changing etc.
Instead of griping about the Samsung UI shortfalls- the great thing about Android is you can change it... something you can't do on another phone OS... Personally, I hope Samsung and the Nexus S will lead to Samsung releasing more "pure Google" phones in the future- and some with a keyboard- ahh for now it's just a dream.
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