NEW TOOLS & FEATURES: Suggestion​s

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Below a few low-cost but potentially useful tools and features that you could consider for the next big update in Q2 (feel free to add any other ideas):
(1) Menu Button vs. Recent Apps Button
Mostly in the EMEA we are used to have a dedicated "Recent Apps Button" rather than a "Menu Button", which is also the case with Nexus phones, Sony, etc. I know that you can long-hold "Menu Button" to go to recent apps, but as I multitask quite often I would prefer the functionality to be the other way around. Click for "Recent Apps" and long hold for "Menu Button". Luckily this is onyl a software issues. A button to switch between these two options would take less than a day to program into the UI. Extremely low cost new feature for the VIBE UI and it would make several users happy. (I know that you can swipe up or double tap the screen, thanks for that, but when my screen is full of apps from top to bottom, it is difficult to find any space for a double tap somewhere.).
(2) Magnifying Glass (and a Mirror)
Recently, I was testing the latest Emotion UI. I was surprised to find out that they have under "TOOLS" a "Magnifying Glass" app and a "Mirror" app. As dumb as that sounds, I found them both extremely useful and efficient. You could magnify anything under the phone using the camera app, but this takes a lot of resources and a long time -> you need to open the camera app, switch to rear facing camera, then click on the screen to focus on close objects, then with two fingers zoom to 3x to see your "broken nail" or "small text" magnifcied. In Emotion UI I could just do it in one click via the app. (The Mirror app also seemed handy, as it did not suck all the resources of a selfie camera and you could adjust your hair in one click before that important date.)
(3) Brightness level (or profiles)
Brightness level on Vibe UI is continuous. As I like to use 25% during the night, and 75% during the day, I am always switching it up and down twice a day at least. However, since there is just the continuous bar I don't know what the brightness is. So when I want get 25%, I get one day 16% other day 34% next day 22%, every day at different brightness - hardly a seamless experience. I would personally prefer to see a number next to the brightness bar to set the brightness exactly to any number (and be allowed to switch between few brightness profiles e.g. night mode or day mode or evening mode). There are third party apps for this, but it would be better to have that integrated in Vibe UI. I also liked the "warmer color for the screen" at night in Lenovo Z2, but sadly in Lenovo S90 the options seems missing.
(4) Recent apps screen
As neat as the recent apps screen is, it only uses 1/3 of the entire screen. It packs 3 features "Clear Memory", "Favorite Apps", and "Recent apps" in that small portion of the screen. Maybe some smart re-arranging would allow to use the space even better. Potentially moving the "clear memory" option (and potentially adding some other stats to it)  or the "favorite apps" option towards the upper part of the screen would allow to have a bit more space for recent apps at the bottom. But there are also other way of re-arranging this. One could also imagine having the upper part of the screen switching between "clear memorry & stats" and "favorite apps" by a click at "start" or a "broom" or just text toggels. I think not many users know that the options for favorite apps even exist at the moment (good idea by Lenovo).
(5) Stock Android L Option
This is an obvious one, requested a couple of times, and this fuctionality is already available in K920. K920 has received fantastic reviews for this in my view. Many people who are still a bit sceptical about Vibe UI in ROW would be willing to buy the phone because it runs the Stock Android L. This is also great for powerusers and developers. It does not incure cost, as it is already developed for K920 and has a potential to atract even more buyers. The Lenovo strategy in EMEA and Rest of Asia seems to be to grow the market share quickly and Stock Android L option would help this cause for now. As with the current implementation all Lenovo apps would stay active  in the Stock Android anyway. Btw. with Stock UI running on the phone, those users who really need an app drawer would be satisfied as well, but I still expect most of the Stock Android users to switch to Vibe UI after they get used to it and understand its advantages.
--- to be continued by me or someone else at some point when a good idea comes along ---

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6. Landscape mode for Desktop
At least on this S90, the home screen and all the other desktop screens with apps do not rotate to landscape. I just saw that iOS rotates home screen on phones and the apps to the landscape mode, but I am not sure how easy or difficult this would be in android that also includes widgets. But again it would be a pretty neat feature that one could enable or disable in the Features or in the Desktop Settings if apps could rotate to landscape. For instance, I sometimes use the phone on a tri-pad for skype calls, camera, or just generally as a phone holder, so in that case it would make sense for me if at least the apps would rotate to landscape (generally speaking the widgets don't need to do that, as I think that might pose some implementation challenges).