Neat freaks rejoice, Samsung’s Pure Breeze UI for Android is available to try now

Samsung have just developed and released their Pure Breeze UI. An Android based UI that has a focus on widget organization and app management.

The first thing you notice is the inverted take on the typical Android interface. The app grid is displayed by default with four tabs to get you started, ‘All Apps’ which shows you’re full app library, ‘Connect’ which focuses on messaging applications, ‘Surf’ which alongside the browser, contains apps like Android Market and YouTube, and ‘Favorites’.

Besides the ‘All Apps’ tab, each group is denoted by a color allowing you to quickly switch to the group assigned to said color. Each of these tabs is customizable, allowing you to change name, color and order along the bottom to suit your needs.

Pressing the home button will bring out the ‘kite’ a special tray designed primarily for your widgets, but you can put apps or links to your groups on there too if you wish. It allows you to add as many widgets as you want along a vertical, scrollable pane, which on pressing the home button again, flies up into the top right corner of your screen. The kite is accessible as an overlay whilst in apps too, so you don’t exit your app when you press the home button.

There’s a little more to see with regards to interaction but Samsung have made a quick little video to show you the focus of the new UI.

It’s a nice alternative that will definitely appeal to some users more than others, it all depends on how you use your phone and how you like to organize things.

The Pure Breeze UI is available in both lite and paid forms; the lite version having full functionality, but limiting the number of items you can organize. One thing I noticed is that it doesn’t support landscape, which on my HTC Desire Z was a bit annoying, but by no means a deal-breaker.

Assuming your droid is running Eclair, Froyo or Gingerbread this alternate UI is up for grabs and if it turns out you find it more of a storm than a breeze, you can always revert back to your standard UI without issue, have fun!

Lite Version here, Paid version here.

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