The widget menu feels like its always about to freeze, along with the widgeting program as a whole is laggy and disorganized, more of a totally free canvas for thoughtlessly-sized shortcuts than an actual, interactive dashboard. The Cube-oh, that horrible fucking cube-is just a six-sided spinning shortcut menu for multimedia apps, which feels like an obstacle, not an interface. Ugh.
I won't go on too long about how this interface looks. Let's just say it is oppressively ugly, and leave it at that. But the way it functions is inexplicable, and inexcusable. It's as if Samsung assigned each tiny piece of this phone's software to a different team, and ordered them not to speak to one one more under any circumstances. This isn't design by committee. This is worse than design by committee. And the effect on user experience is crippling: Fiddling with this thing for a few minutes is akin to being yelled at by a panel of six men, none of whom speak languages you've ever heard before, and all of whom take pleasure in your cranial pain. You could conceivably get used to this with enough time, but it's an order of magnitude less usable than the regular Windows Mobile 6.five interface, which hey, isn't that good. Perhaps a lot more importantly, everyone I handed this to was visibly frustrated within seconds. You can't turn it off, either: With a little effort you can kill the homescreen, but the rest of the modifications are there to stay.
