I came across this interesting video showing off Samsung’s new TouchWiz user interface yesterday. The home screen widgets look very nice, closely resembling Vista’s sidebar. The buttons all seem nice and big and finger friendly, and the style is simple and clean.
The finger scrolling is wrong though, all wrong! I don’t want to push down to scroll down, it feels totally unnatural after using an iPhone and software like Pocket Player. When scrolling with my fingers I want to feel like I’m pushing a surface around, which means if I push down on the screen, the content scrolls up. Plus it doesn’t seem to slow to a stop like it should, again reducing the intuitive, real world feel. Work on it Samsung!
Come on Microsoft, this is the kind of thing we want to see in Windows Mobile 7! You’re the largest software company in the world, how come you’re being left behind???
Oh, and the sound effects are pretty cool too!