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Originally Posted by ou2mame
i dunno.. i kinda disagree with a lot of people. titanium is so easy, and with very few customizations, you've got weather, apps, opera favs, fav people, etc. just flip your finger around and find what you're looking for. its a lot better than tf3d, at least from my experience with it. i tried to like tf3d, but it was just too much. the text message screen takes forever to load with over a thousand txts in your inbox, and that pretty much killed it for me, because if its going to take literally a minute just to read a text, i'd rather just go to the start menu and open the sms, which defeats the purpose of tf3d. titanium is just easy to use. the start menu, i had problems with, but i sorted the shortcuts into folders, and its actually easier to navigate than 6.1 at this point, because you can actually flip the icons up and down, as opposed to trying in 6.1, and randomly opening programs while you're trying to scroll, or using a stylus, which is annoying in itself. here's what my start menu looks like right now, its not so bad.. it fits my needs fairly well.
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The moment I saw that "launcher" is when I put the phone down and flashed a stock ROM, anything to get rid of it. I prefer a basic today screen for my overview. For a launcher, I prefer to use QuickMenu. It can be set up like the Start menu on a PC, with multiple folders and subfolders, which hang directly off the start menu icon. In addition, it's an extremely capable task manager, it can track memory and battery usage, it can be set to kill A/S unless connected to a PC, it can do a hibernate to recover unclaimed program memory, and it can suspend, reset, and power off the device. It's more customizable than any similar app I've seen, considering its miniscule size, somewhere less than 1 MB.
It's also free (as in beer).
I'm not a heavy texter, so just having a notification that I have new text messages waiting is fine. Ironically, I have free unlimited texting, and barely use it...
Perhaps the reason I hate the new interface is that I view it as WM bowing to the lowest common denominator. I did not buy my device because it was finger-friendly. I bought it because it could do exactly what I wanted, when I wanted, exactly how I wanted. I knew that sort of flexibility would come at the price of needing to use a stylus to reliably navigate the interface, and I accepted it.
In fact, when I pull out my phone now, unless I'm only doing something simple, such as checking the today screen, I automatically pull out the stylus along with it. I know some people complain that styluses are too easy to lose, but I honestly don't see it. I haven't managed to lose a stylus yet, across 3 generations of devices - 6700, Mogul, and TP.