A couple of days ago Samsung presented Good Lock, a tool available in your own store Galaxy Apps that allows to introduce modifications in the interface of the latest smartphones of the company (Galaxy S6 in all its variants, Note 5 and S7) equipped with Android Marshmallow. Many voices have ventured to predict that this experiment will end up succeeding the classic TouchWiz.
For now, the only Samsung tablet equipped with Android Marshmallow is the Galaxy Tab S2 which is sold in Germany, however, the update should not take long to reach the Exynos model launched last summer. Then, for sure, we will have the opportunity to test Good Lock on a tablet and thus access its tremendous potential in terms of personalization.
What is Good Lock?
other media The Free Android They wrote a full article a few days ago on what seemed like just one topic at the time, and yet it has turned out to be much more. It is a project experimental Samsung open to user suggestions that allows to reformulate three specific sections of the TouchWiz interface of the Galaxy: lock screen, notification panel y multitask.
If you want detailed information, We recommend you review the EAL Hands On. However, we can specify that the great virtue of Good Lock is the power it provides to users when it comes to personalizing the aforementioned sections, it even returns the widgets to unlock screen. In short, it is a tool closely related to the Android philosophy, something that has been lacking on numerous occasions in the (on the other hand) tremendously popular smartphones from Samsung.
TouchWiz, sooner or later, will be replaced
As we wrote in a past article, "TouchWiz is no longer the clumsy, slow beast it used to be." Quite the opposite. It has become a responsive system and able to deal with applications the same way it can Sense. or even the Google Now layer in the Nexus. However, it is still one of the concepts that can weigh down the commercial evolution of the firm to a greater extent.
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Now that Samsung has left plastic behind and launched some of the most beautifully manufactured terminals ever seen (which has brought it tremendous success in the last two generations), the next step is to gain followers among the sectors of users with a profile. plus geek, who still show qualms when it comes to betting on Koreans and prefer to fish in Motorola, Nexus or cheaper companies that facilitate customization and sharing of ROMs, such as Xiaomi y OnePlus.
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Will we soon see a revamped interface in full and with another name on mobile phones and Samsung tablets?