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GSMArena team, 30 December 2014

Core values


Samsung Galaxy Core Prime review: Core values

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4. User interface
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360° spin, hardware overview
  3. 3. Display, connectivity, battery
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, loudspeaker, messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy Core Prime specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (187)

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A slimmer TouchWiz

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime runs on the latest available Android 4.4.4 KitKat customized with a stripped down version of TouchWiz. The same one used in the Galaxy Grand Prime and we imagine it will be the base for many more entry-level and mid-range Galaxys to come.

Here's a video walkthrough of the most notable features.

The lockscreen is the default in TouchWiz - a simple screen with just the time and a camera shortcut (which can be disabled). The usual Swipe, Pattern, PIN and Password security modes are available.

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A regular lockscreen

The homescreen is also basic TouchWiz, with a 4 icon dock on the bottom and no Briefing/My Magazine pane. You can have up to 5 homescreens, panes can reordered and one is set as default.

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A basic homescreen with no special panes

The notification area is again, like what you may have seen on any other Galaxy smartphone in the past, but it too has seen some of its functionality missing. The Quick Connect and S Finder shortcuts won't be missed but there's no shortcut to open all toggles, even a two-finger swipe doesn't work. This means you have to swipe the row of toggles until you find the one you need. At least there's still a way to reorder the toggles.

Anyway, below the quick toggles is a brightness slider and below that the notifications. The brightness slider can be disabled.

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Trimmed down notification area

The settings menu is a vertical list of apps divided into categories. The handy search function is gone, which can slow down inexperienced users until they learn where each setting goes.

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Settings menu

Unlike Samsung's premium devices, the Galaxy Grand Prime uses the standard KitKat app switcher (with minor tweaks). This means it shows a vertical list of apps with their icon, name and screenshot. Three to almost four apps fit on the qHD screen. There's a shortcut to kill all apps, but the task manager is gone.

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Task switcher

TouchWiz had become a leviathan through years of feature bloat, full of clever-sounding features of questionable usefulness. Recently Samsung took a hatchet to its Android skin and really trimmed down the cruft. The Galaxy Note 4 and Edge are running some of the best mobile software, even if we still have some complaints about cosmetics.

The Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime software is even more simplified and we actually miss some of the functionality - things like the customizable quick toggles or the motion gestures were handy tools. After going through the pre-installed apps, we found that plenty have been cut in favor of AOSP/Google alternatives.

Next Page » 5. Performance
4. User interface
  1. 1. Introduction
  2. 2. 360° spin, hardware overview
  3. 3. Display, connectivity, battery
  4. 4. User interface
  5. 5. Performance
  6. 6. Phonebook, telephony, loudspeaker, messaging
  7. 7. Gallery, media players, audio quality
  8. 8. Still and video camera
  9. 9. Browser, other apps
  10. 10. Conclusion
  11.  
  12. Samsung Galaxy Core Prime specification
  13. User opinions and reviews
  14. Review comments (187)

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