Nokia may have sold most of its mobile phone business to Microsoft for more than $ 7 billion, but there are still some people Nokia working on projects related to smartphones ... The Android application launcher called Z Launcher is proof .
The latter, as its name may suggest, sometimes as a replacement for the Android home screen, and will learn how you use your smartphone and presents you with quick access to your most used applications based the time of day or other factors.
Although you can not download Z Launcher on Google Play Store today, know that you can try a beta version of the application you registering on the site Z Launcher .
Z Launcher is designed to tackle the problem of finding applications and activities on your phone when you have dozens or even hundreds . Rather than scrolling through a long list of applications or pinning all your applications on the Home screen, simply start by using Z Launcher and it will understand what applications you use most during the day and display in the foreground.
Top left of the homepage of the Z Launcher screen, you will find the time and date directly below that are written in small print. Notifications for calendar events are displayed in the upper right corner, so you do not forget your anniversary dinner, your staff meeting, or the departure time of your flight. Below, the relevant applications and various reminders, and web pages that you frequently visit.
There is also support research-based gestures with "Scribble" . In fact, you simply draw the first letter of the item you are looking for and will bring Scribble applications, contacts or tasks related to the letter. Of course you can concatenate it to improve research.
The pre-release version of the application is optimized for smartphones rather than tablets , and it does not work officially on devices that were Rootes. It should work with most smartphones running on Android 4.1 or higher, but Nokia said they only tested the launcher on the Galaxy Samsung S5, S4, S3, and the Nexus 5 - personally it works on the HTC One M8. We do not know when it will be available to all ...
Other companies have published application launchers for Android designed to learn your behavior and show you the content you need when you need it, but apparently still not convinced. Thus, every time I turn on my phone, I prefer my standard home screen ... And you, what do you think?