Saturday 1 June 2013

Stock gallery with a pinch of TouchWiz :~

  • The Samsung Galaxy Grand comes with the default Jelly Bean Gallery which, as you'd imagine, has been treated with some additional TouchWiz flair. It opens up in Album view, which is what we're used to seeing. Rather than the familiar stacks, the app uses a grid of photos, two on a line.
  • Besides Album view, photos can also be sorted by Location, Time, Person (photos with tagged faces) and Group.
  • The Gallery app
  • Getting inside an album displays all the photos in a rectangular grid, which is horizontally scrollable. When you try to scroll past the end, the photo thumbnails will tilt to remind you you're at the bottom of the list.
  • When viewing a single photo, you'll find several sharing shortcuts and a delete button above the photo, while below is a line of small thumbnails of all other photos in the album. You can tap those small thumbnails to move to other images or you can just swipe sideways.
  • Viewing a single photo • Simple editing options
  • The Gallery also supports highly customizable slideshows with several effects to choose from, as well as customizable music and speed. You can also highlight specific images to be included in the slideshow.
  • When viewing a photo with people's faces in it, the Galaxy Grand will try to detect them automatically (and you can manually highlight faces where it fails). Buddy photo share will use your contacts' profiles to try and recognize people automatically.
  • Very capable video player

  • Samsung has gradually become one of the best around when it comes to video playback, and the Galaxy Grand is no exception. It offers several view modes - grid, list, folders and nearby devices (which accesses DLNA devices).
  • The grid view shows static video thumbnails (unlike the handset's more powerful siblings, which animate the thumbnails).
  • The video player on the Grand does feature Pop up play - it moves the video in a small floating window and you can use other apps on the phone with the video on. You can pinch-zoom the video window to adjust its size.

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