#android #smarphone

  • Xanthrax@lemmy.world
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    20 hours ago

    FYI if you like the UI in the promo, just download Niagara. It’s minimalistic and one-handed. The pay wall limits customization, though. Also, there’s phone cases that have keyboards built in if you miss your black berry. Here’s my home screen/ ui:

    Edit: I use viral as my icon pack

    Also swype based keyboards are fucking amazing if you work with your hands.

    • RedC@sh.itjust.works
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      18 hours ago

      The pay wall is actually insane! I bought my lifetime license back when it was 10ish dollars. But I just went to try to get the license for wife, ~45 dollars?!

      Plus I do believe I remember being able to do more in the unpaid version back when I had it, now my wife can’t change clock, show weather, change icons etc etc without paying.

      Their last update was the “artistic” update, with new wallpapers “designed by real artists just for us”. The wallpapers are very sus (ai) in my eyes. Not much has happened on the update front new feature wise for quite a while, just lots of customization.

      I genuinely love this launcher, and I would find it hard to go back, but it is sad to see it go the way I see it going.

      • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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        7 hours ago

        Jeez, even $10 is pricy. I think I paid $5 for nova, and that took some thought. I have only bought a handful of apps in the last like… 17 years? Most expensive was fairemail (I actually bought it twice, one from the website, one from the play store) at like, $7? But that has a feature set that nobody can touch, it’s better than Thunderbird on the desktop imo. So $10 for a launcher is absolutely wild.

        E: and $45 is more than what I pay for most AAA games lol

      • Ilandar@lemmy.today
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        13 hours ago

        You can download “modded” versions that have all the paywalled features unlocked, but it seems like a bit of an unnecessary risk when there are so many other great, free launchers out there.

    • 🍉 Albert 🍉@lemmy.world
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      21 hours ago

      I’m using it, it’s still really useable without paying. and they offer a subscription and a one time payment, overall, not bad