Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Zeam Launcher

I had initially purchased a Viewsonic G-Tablet for my parents and an Archos 70 Internet Tablet for myself. Over my Christmas bread, I delivered the G-Tab to my parents, funny thing is, when they saw the Archos device they fell in love with the smaller form-factor. So, I ended up keeping the G-Tab and leaving my Archos 70 behind (I will visit you later!).

So being the inquiring boy that I am I started investigating, installing and reinstalling stuff onto the G-Tab. I started out installing the VEGAn BETA 4 build; info can be found here (http://vegantab.gojimi.com/) and here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=884103). I generally like the VEGAn build, nice interface and fun, though still buggy.

I finally loaded the TnT Lite, build 3.1.2. details can be found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842004). I have found that this build is fairly stable and very usable. I unfortunately do not like the launcher interface though. So I started looking into alternative launchers. I found several, some at cost, some free. I finally settled on the Zeam Launcher Version 2.8.4, which is free and can be downloaded from the Google Marketplace, details can be found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=664149). I particularly enjoy the ability to extend the launcher to full screen; this gives the UI a very clean feel. Some of the other features that I enjoy are the ability to configure how many rows and columns to use for icon placement. There are many other features that I will not cover here, but I would strongly encourage any person that has a G-Tab to install this launcher, I don’t think that you will regret it!

Happy Tab-ing, and Happy New-year!

1 comment:

  1. I will give the TnTlite 3.1.2 a shot, and test the new ADWLauncherEX cause it look petty awesome too. http://androidcommunity.com/adw-launcher-ex-released-silky-smooth-20101228/

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