Recently, a video surfaced on YouTube.com, of Sergey Brin and Steve Horowitz giving a video tour of Android, Googles new operating system for mobile devices.
In case you missed it, here’s the video:
There’s a look at the ‘home’ screen, a kind of desktop, with a bar of icons that you can scroll across for applications like web browser, folders, contacts, and a wallpaper image.
This appears to be quite standard approach, not an attempt to emulate desktop icons in any way. It looks quite minimalist and utilitarian, with a thin information bar at the top, giving battery life and signal strength, the time – and a square ‘G’ logo.
This seems to me like a better approach to mobile software, keeping the interface uncluttered to allow faster access to the information that you want – very Google.
