The handset is a different take on the folding phone, with two independent 5.6-inch screens connected by a hinge.
If nothing else, giving your phone a Windows-themed lick of paint should keep you going until Microsoft makes its long-anticipated return to the world of smartphones with the Surface Duo. The creator says the theme uses the Nova launcher paired with Whicons and KLWP icon packs, should you want to try your own similar project. And as one poster noted: “ 0/10 no Candy Crush ads.”įor now, the theme is a work in progress, but a video will likely be coming soon given the huge flurry of interest from the Android themes subreddit. There’s even a Recycling Bin, which is presumably only for show given the lack of a parallel feature on Android.įor the full experience, you could always add in the Cortana app for Android, but you may want to stop short of making Bing your default search engine, though. The screengrab shows a Start menu with live tiles, the taskbar and desktop icons. Posted on Reddit by the enigmatically named 2073521, the work in progress shows what might have been had Windows Phone not died a slow and painful death over the last decade. The disjointed experience between the Microsoft Launcher and the rest of the OS on Surface Duo is becoming extremely tiresome.If you’re the kind of person that gets OS homesick when forced away from your Windows machine, then you’re going to want to keep an eye on this upcoming Android theme. I want the UX to feel polished and fluid, and I want the overall user experience to feel seamless as if it were all built by the same team. I love my Surface Duo 2, and I just want the OS to be perfect. I just wish everything else I mentioned above would be addressed, then it would be great. I also like the fluid dock that moves icons depending on what screen you're using, and the blur effects look great too. It's clean and consistent with the rest of Microsoft's current design language. I will say I like the new Microsoft Launcher UI. Integrate it deep with the gesture system and the rest of the OS, and allow it to feel like a component of the OS rather than a third-party launcher that isn't really integrated at all. Surface should create a special Surface Duo launcher that's designed for the dual-screen form factor from the ground up. It's just a poor UX all around, and I wish Microsoft would fix it.īetter yet, I wish the Surface Duo team would dump Microsoft Launcher and go its own route. The launcher unloads and reloads itself whenever you go into and out of an app, and it makes no effort to tie itself to gestures to create a more fluid experience. Regardless of the feature drought, the issues with Microsoft Launcher not feeling integrated with the rest of the Surface Duo OS is a serious sticking point for me. Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central (Image credit: Source: Daniel Rubino / Windows Central)
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