Launch or Perish in Flight

 

Launch or Perish in Flight

A lot of guys in my age do not know how to use a new cellphone, especially if that is given by a kid who had bought a new one and dished out the old one to daddy or mummy.

To teach them the difference between a launcher and a browser is not possible.

They expect by the touch of a button, that they can accomplish anything (with a touch-sensitive phone).

A cellphone is a cute gadget with powerful and fanciful actions.

It is a mini-computer much powerful than the computer on board the Apollo 1.

I have just written a powerful and resentful piece about the Firefox browser and the Microsoft launcher.

They are both bulky and unmanageable in a cellphone and slow to respond unlike a computer with 8 GB-RAM.

I used to suggest that Amazon with its Kindle should have a silky and lightweight browser. I ultimately bought a Lenovo (Android 8) instead of the Kindle in Singapore.

Let me dish out the browser which is a heavy utility to access the Internet with many file formats including png and video files. A lot of add-ons are necessary as with improvement in hardware capabilities.

Whereas the cellphone launcher is not a browser (it might it do in the future with ultra smart phones) but an access point to many and basic applications in a phone which may vary from model to model but broadly do the same functions.

Of course, SIM also has a greater share responsibility of transferring digital information which also varies depending on their infrastructure.

I want the launcher to be light but if possible able to detect vulnerabilities of viral attacks.

A browser may be a vehicle for transmitting attacks due to its bulky add ons.

I have tested a few and come to realise that the phone’s dedicated launcher is the best which knows the product’s hardware capability better and integrate better.

In fact, I got into a muddle with a third party launcher and could not launch all nearly 200 applications that I have installed.

I use only 5 applications, regularly apart from my 6 emails.

The rest are my tech craze including learning French.

So the bottom line is, do not have more applications than necessary in your phone.

Check the utilities before buying and get the salesman to install any additional stuff before buying.

Of course, I got a better part of three launchers integrated in less than 24 hours.

Let me give my rating

1. Number one is the phone’s dedicated launcher.
2. The second is the smart browser
3. The third is the XO launcher
4. The fourth is the simple application launcher
5. The fifth is the Microsoft launcher which is bulky and pretty bad.
6. Sixth is the Ragdu.