There is a task manager on board as well (called App Manager), with a small dedicated widget on the homescreen. into alphabetic bars - then you have to tap on each bar to reveal its contents or expand them all with the opposite pinch gesture.Ĭollapsing the main menu, the phonebook and the playlist in the music player For example with a single pinch gesture you can collapse the whole main menu, phonebook, music player, etc. There is a nice handy feature available throughout all lists with alphabet scrolling available - pinch to collapse. It's not the best feature we would choose to copy from HTC, but nevertheless some people will find that useful. They are exactly the same as the HTC Sense's Scenes - offer a predefined homescreen with widgets and shortcuts depending on the occasion - work, travel, play, etc. There is one new thing we noticed on the LG Prada 3.0 - Scenes. Still this solution is a lot better than nothing at all.Ĭhoosing a new icon for an app shortcut on the homescreen ![]() There are lots of icons to choose from, though they can never be enough. Now you can choose a new icon for the app. Tap and hold on it and a small paintbrush appears. So, let's say you put the greenish Market icon on the homescreen. Since the UI color scheme is black and white, LG has come up with something interesting so you can keep everything with this style - you can choose different icons for the shortcuts you place on the homescreens - just like in the desktop Windows OS. All the widgets and icons have been skinned with the black Prada theme, but nothing beyond that has changed. The homescreen customization is the same as previous LG droids - you can add widgets, shortcuts, folders or change the wallpaper with live or static one. There are also music player controls docked here. The notification area, one of the Android strong points, has five switches - Sound, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, NFC and Sync. collapsing all categories with a pinch gesture.You can collapse/expand categories with a pinch gesture. The default categories are Applications and Downloads but you can add new ones as needed. The Category (list) view is the special one. The Page view is quite common among the droid gang and holds nothing special. ![]() It has two different layouts to choose from - category and page. The Gesture support is quite poor compared with the one on the Optimus Black, but still it does things that lots of droids lack - turn-to-mute, turn-to-snooze, turn-to-pause (video player) and the already mentioned tilt to switch panes. Thanks to the Gesture support (if you've enabled it from Settings), once you've selected an item to add you can select the homescreen to place it on by simply tilting the phone. Upon a tap and hold on the display - or by hitting the add button in the menu - gridlines appear on the screen and the four docked icons get replaced by a taskbar with widgets, shortcuts, folders and wallpapers to choose from. The way you place stuff on the homescreen has a twist too. ![]() The number of homescreen panes can be anything from 1 to 7. ![]() You can also change the default homescreen from here. The view mode similar to the HTC Sense leap view is also present: you can zoom out with a pinch gesture to see all the available homescreen panes in one place. The default docked icons are Phone, Contacts, Messaging, Applications but you can reassign or rearrange the first three anytime, just tap&hold on the icon you want to change/move. Frankly, LG has succeeded quite well doing this.Īs usual there are four shortcuts docked at the bottom of screen, which are visible across the homescreen panes and the app drawer. If you are familiar with the Android Gingerbread OS, you'll at home from the very beginning - there is nothing really different in functionality, just the appeal - the UI got new icons, fonts and backgrounds.īefore we continue with our thorough software review, you should find helpful the demo video we made for you.Īs you can see LG has put no efforts trying to hide the pure Android, it just tried to make the OS unique. LG did well with the Prada UI customizations Quite expectedly the theme is done in black and white as well so it matches the Prada style established over the years. The third Prada phone is based on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread, skinned with LG's own theme we've already met within the Optimus Black. The previous two Prada phones used the LG's proprietary uses interface, but it's been always painted in black and white.
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