Samsung discovers Widgets and coloured menu icons

Ok, so maybe that title is a little hard on the manufacturer of my favourite-looking phones.

So Samsung is jumping on the "widget" bandwagon that is so 'trendy' nowdays. Which is cool, but only if I can add ('widgetize') anything I want on my homescreen, and am not forced to choose between less-than-ten 'presets' (which seems to be the case here, btw).

However I don't get this whole "freely-moving-across-your-homescreen" thing. I can quickly think of many accidental scenarios which would result in quite a mess-up of your phone's homescreen.

And the other big news here is that this interface (which is apparently an evolution of the Croix interface used in the F700 and the Armani phone) has coloured menu icons. And yes, that is big news for Samsung's touchscreen phones. And no, the icons in the Croix interface did not have more than one colour. It's good that they still decided to fit the Croix devices with a colour screen, I might add.

Anyway, the Samsung F480 (shown) is not a smartphone, but with so little news from Nokia on S60 Touch, any new touch-based interface cathces my attention.

[Source: Phone Scoop]