One of the 3, 452 enhancements Meizu implemented is the "Smart Bar, " where Meizu has somehow merged the app's bottom menu bar and the system's virtual soft key bar for the sake of screen space and intuitiveness.
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When first installed, Pokki advertises its apps at the bottom of the Start Menu, but you can turn this off.
WSJ: Review of Start8 and Pokki: Bringing an Old Start to a New Windows
Two sensors just below the screen detect when you reach toward it and automatically trigger more information to appear for example, play, pause and other controls show up along the bottom of the audio menu.
In spite of its small iterative steps forward, Sense is now a user interface that's beginning to show its age, with oversized widgets that fail to make the best of the space available to them and that egregious omnipresent menu bar at the bottom that takes up far more space than a couple of links to your apps and phone ought to.
The handset's got a fairly nice bezel, with the front-facing camera on the top and a home button on the bottom, flanked by illuminating back and menu touch buttons.
Throughout the built- in applications you can have menu buttons appear at the bottom of the screen, be pulled down from the top, slide in from one side, have the hub alert slide in from the other side, or have the hub alerts replaced by yet another menu.
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As for the performance freaks, you can enable Ultimate mode which is right at the bottom of the "ASUS customized setting" menu, but we didn't notice any performance gain during our benchmark tests.
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The only time we noticed a bit of pause was when we tapped the touch-sensitive buttons lining the bottom of the 4-inch screen (these include menu, home and back, in that order).
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In place of the menu button is a white Kindle logo along the bottom bezel.
The menu button on the iPhone 5 is smaller and closer to the bottom edge than the predecessor to lend more room for the display.
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We'd be even happier to see this menu take over the position of the Personalize item next to the phone dialer at the bottom of the home screen, but having it at all is a move forward.
Bottom line: Whatever Microsoft does or doesn't do later this year, you can get back your Start Menu and desktop supremacy in Windows 8, right now, with these utilities.
WSJ: Review of Start8 and Pokki: Bringing an Old Start to a New Windows
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