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Zeam Launcher - Your Reliable Home Replacement
Tested version: 2.6.0
Latest version: 3.1.10
Requires Android: from 2.2
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Summary
The standard Android home app is sometimes a bit too spartan. HTC phone owners may be annoyed at how much space Sense takes up, which really slows downs performance on “weaker devices”. Isn’t there something in between? Something that’s not too big, works efficiently and still manages to include a couple cool features? Why not give Zeam Launcher a try. Find out if this home replacement is of any interest in today’s test report.
Features & Use
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Let me start off by saying that, yes, Zeam Launcher is really manageable in size. After downloading the initial 500kb file, the app ends up being around 840kb after installation. It uses just 20MB of RAM, which is about two-thirds of what HTC Sense needs. As a result, however, Zeam Launcher lacks many things that Sense has such as the weather clock, bookmark and small 1x1 widgets for Wi-Fi, Airplane mode etc.
Besides the things I just mentioned, I don’t miss anything from Sense. On the contrary, this home replacement includes the usual pinch-to-zoom feature, which let’s you see an overview of all your screens. There’s also a scrollable dock bar at the bottom where you can drag-and-drop all of your most used apps from the app drawer.
You can place up to seven apps on each one of the seven possible screens. That way you have quick access to all of the most important apps on your phone. You can position your apps in any order by simply long tapping them and moving them over. Opening and closing the app drawer is animated and the drawer also shows which app you opened last. The only thing missing is the option of arranging your apps into categories as is possible with ADW Launcher. Another great feature is the quick uninstaller: just long press any app icon and move it to the trash to wipe it completely from your system.
You can, of course, adjust Zeam to fit your needs:
- General: Full-screen mode and auto-rotation
- Workspace: Scrolling, flipping, wallpaper, icon-labels yes/no, scrollable widgets
- Action Bindings: Adjust what happens when you swipe, double-tap, long-press etc. (toggle fullscreen, open app drawer, go to default screen)
- Applications grid: Open/close animation, bookmark last app opened
- Dock: Background, space between icons, auto-reset.
Screen & Controls
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Here Zeam Launcher has shown itself to be useful for daily use: the controls are intuitive and similar to those of your most common home replacement apps. The additional features do not require any getting used to (the scrollable dock-bar, for example). It’s really nice to see that the screen can be viewed horizontally. If auto-rotation is turned on, the screen flips to the right position automatically. Besides the regular app icons, widgets and shortcuts, you can also add action-icons to the screen (see the screenshots).
In terms of screen and controls there’s virtually nothing to complain about.
Speed & Stability
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Zeam Launcher reacts quickly and smoothly to every command – a must for any home-screen app. No lags, no crashes, no hassle. Even restarting the launcher (a necessary step for certain configuration changes) works faster than with HTC Sense. A solid 4 starts!
Price/Performance Ratio
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Zeam Launcher can be downloaded for free from the Market. Just short of 5 stars here because we have received an answer from the support team for over a week now.
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Market Comments
Tim, Oct 2, 2012
should be called EZeam for EZ launcher I just wanted to be able to have minimalist home screens that rotate orientations on my samsung s2 with android 4.x ice cream sandwich. Why that isn't built-in, I don't know. Zeam quickly and easily gives you this capability plus a couple of other nice features, without also including the kitchen sink, garbage disposal, and a couple of drain traps, too, like so many other launchers. EZ to setup without having to get a degree in android launchers design and architecture. I did try all of the so-called "top rated" launchers, too, but kept coming back to this one. Many of the others just froze up a lot or were laggy or just too complicated to setup. Thanks for the great app, Michael.
bas, Oct 1, 2012
Snel en goed! Een snelle launcher met toch wat meer mogelijkheden dan de standaard launcher. Aanrader!
G, Sep 29, 2012
Thank you Instead of having to download a launcher thats changes everthing, this one lets you customize just the launcher yourself.
Victor, Sep 29, 2012
Perfect If you want your phone to be faster, Zeam is the perfect choice. I've tried several launchers, but I've always been a bit upset because they just felt slow. Installing Zeam completely sped up my old Nexus One: it's blazingly fast, perfectly smooth, and does just what you need, with no useless gimmicks. I can't imagine leaving Zeam for another launcher now.
Winson, Sep 29, 2012
A little bit slow on my Galaxy Note... Disappointed... And keep restarting on my handset, don't know why!?
Art, Sep 29, 2012
Used to be good. Has not been updated by developer in a very long time. Force closes in android 4.0 and horrible for jelly bean. Would be nice to see an update . Switched to Nova launcher which is jelly bean compatible.
Sean, Sep 27, 2012
Not good enough. I've had nothing but problems with Android launchers and this doesn't look much better. They ALL need to import your current home screens for one thing and also allow several pages of icons along the bottom, main launcher row. COME ON DEVELOPERS... I offer Tech Consultations for $300 an hour if you want a huge list of obvious tweaks that would greatly improve your software...
Levent, Sep 27, 2012
Awesome but I loved this but I want few features like app hide, less lagy app drawer more customizing on setting but still awesome work you done here
Great launcher, it's really fast and has some nice customisation options. The developer says it's a lightweight launcher but the reality is that it's a really quick home application. If you like clean launchers, try this one.