I second the above comments from other Note users and I'm perplexed how no reviewer ever mentions
Android Home Screen widgets.
Not exact matches
The Galaxy Nexus runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
The
Android version of the updated app features dynamic
home -
screen widgets that let users play... [Read more...]
Once the phone is unlocked, you'll have access to five customizable
Android home screens to populate with apps and
widgets.
The first
home screen on the Springboard is populated with a T - Mobile Bonus Apps
widget as well as icons for the
Android Market, Blockbuster, Music, TeleNav GPS, the web browser, and Zinio.
Until that happens, ThinkPad users can soak in some real ICS fun with a more refined user interface, face unlock, resizable
home screen widgets, NFC - based sharing with
Android Beam, new camera features, and so on.
If you're bored of looking at a traditional
Android desktop with icons and
widgets, swipe up and you can see a new
home screen feature called My Magazine.
With a variety of
home launchers, lock
screens,
widgets, custom ROMs,
android users change the way their phone looks according to the time or their mood.
The images below show the camera app is accessible from the lock
screen, which is coming to Ice Cream Sandwich; the various
home screens and their
widgets; resizable
widgets and with scrollable content that will be found in
Android 4.0; the multi-task application
screen followed by all the applications on the handset.
Like other flavors of
Android, Honeycomb allows users to place small programs called
widgets and other objects on one of five
home screens.
The Vox's customized
Android interface puts a Kobo - centric spin on everything from notifications to the dock menu to the
home -
screen reading
widget.
In term of user interface,
Android 3.0 is efficient although less intuitive, some software features are better than the iPad 2: — the browser supports Flash — the browser user interface is better — the camera application and the photo gallery offer more functions — the maps application packs more features — the
widgets are great to get updates about news (CNN
widget), calendar and emails instantly from the
home screen
The
Android version of the updated app features dynamic
home -
screen widgets that let users play audiobooks right from the
home screen or resume reading ebooks with a single tap.
if you hold the
home key it takes you to the 5
screens to add
widgets etc like every other
android phone.
The tablet also features
Android's preloaded
widgets for those who want to gussy up their
home screens.
The Galaxy S III runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
Home screens behave as they currently do on
Android (swipe left or right to navigate, open an app drawer, retrieve
widgets, and so on), except you now get a customizable «favorites tray» that resembles the dock in iOS.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System The Motorola Photon Q runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System The Galaxy S III runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
A
Widget Board application serves a shortcut to use
widgets that would normally be placed on
home screens on a standard
Android tablet.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System The HTC EVO runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
Instead of going the route of wholly replacing the
Android 3.0 interface, Acer instead provides its own
widgets that appear on the
home screen as apps.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System The DROID RAZR runs the
Android 4.0.4 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
The Kyocera Hydro runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
The Motorola Photon Q runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
Widgets and App Menu: Just as with Android Honeycomb tablets, the Galaxy Nexus features interactive and resizable widgets which you can use to populate the five home s
Widgets and App Menu: Just as with
Android Honeycomb tablets, the Galaxy Nexus features interactive and resizable
widgets which you can use to populate the five home s
widgets which you can use to populate the five
home screens.
... [Y] ou won't have the customizable
home screen with
widgets, live wallpapers [etc.]... It's possible the
Android hacking community will come up with a way to root the tablet... so we could conceivably see custom ROMs.
With
Android devices, you can choose the apps, shortcuts, and
widgets that you want on your
home screens.
One of the best features
Android has over the iPhone is the use of
widgets — little apps that basically run on your
home screen.
The
Android 1.5 SDK was released in April 2009 and brought along plenty of UI changes, the biggest probably being support for
widgets and folders on the
home screens.
Android 4.2 Jelly Bean features some great new enhancements over the original Jelly Bean build, such as Photos Sphere support, the toggles in the notifications pane, profiles,
home -
screen widgets and more.
The
Android 4.1.2 ZSLSJ firmware update brings the latest Google Now features, TouchWiz Nature UX, the same UI as the Galaxy S3 and Note 2, brand - new lockscreen with multiple custom options, New
widgets, new S features, 50 GB Dropbox free cloud storage account, 2
home screen modes, expandable notifications and multiple other functions.
Less customizable than regular
Android tablets, no
widgets, no custom
home screens, no custom lockscreen, etc..
Widgets: Android and Windows let you add widgets to your home s
Widgets:
Android and Windows let you add
widgets to your home s
widgets to your
home screens.
The
widgets are part of
Android 4.1, but you can take»em right off your
home screen if you want.
The DoubleTime is a horizontal clamshell dual -
screen device and features
Android 2.2, a 3.2 MP digital camera with a camcorder, voice recognition, a dedicated function key for shortcuts, drag - and - drop
widgets, five scrolling
home screens and an expandable menu with scrolling panels along with a 600 MHz processor, microSD slot, 3.2 ″ full touch
screen displays with 320 x 480 and 480 x 320 at HVGA resolution.
You can turn contacts or Web bookmarks into application icons, but you can't (yet) put Web - based
widgets on your
home screen the way you can on
Android phones.
Android communicates with the PB notification system,
Android market works, the
Android apps multitask (but it is the sucky
Android version of multitasking, not the cool PB style), you can even set up your
home screens with stupid
widgets and live wallpapers.
The update will integrate the company's full custom UI into the
Android software, adding such features as a dock - style app tray for quick access to commonly used applications, a series of custom apps and
widgets for the
home screen, and seamless access to Samsung mobile services like Media Hub, Social Hub and Allshare.
Some of the Enhancements in the new Jelly Bean Update: —
Android 4.1.2 — Build JZO54K — Buttery Smooth Performance & Great Stability (Thanks to Project Butter)-- Multi-View (Multi Windows Multitasking, same as in Note II)-- Multi-View can also be disabled — Page Buddy — Notification Panel can now be customized — New Additions in Notification Panel — Smart Rotation (
Screen Display adjusts to your angle of sightings)-- Continues Input in Samsung Keyboard (Like Swipe or Android 4.2 Keyboard)-- Samsung's Cloud services — Features like Direct Call, Smart Stay and Pop - up Play — New Widgets From the Galaxy S III — 2 Home screen modes — New Notifications bar — Goog
Screen Display adjusts to your angle of sightings)-- Continues Input in Samsung Keyboard (Like Swipe or
Android 4.2 Keyboard)-- Samsung's Cloud services — Features like Direct Call, Smart Stay and Pop - up Play — New
Widgets From the Galaxy S III — 2
Home screen modes — New Notifications bar — Goog
screen modes — New Notifications bar — Google Now
It would use an always - up grid of all apps, like the iPhone, but have
home screen widgets similar to, if more organized than,
Android.
BlackBerry Pop - up
Widgets are a pre-loaded feature on BlackBerry smartphones powered by
Android, which allow you to view any application
widget by simply swiping up or down across the icon on your
home screen, giving you fast access to the information you need.
Dell Streak 5
Android 2.2 Tablet includes the Stage User Interface (UI) and a collection of
widgets that bring your content such as music, photos and email to your
home screen.
One reason we love
Android OS is the availability to have
widgets on our
home screen..
The LG INTUITION runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
So far, most manufacturers have stuck with the stock
Android interface, opting for
widgets (Acer Iconia Tab A500) to simplify access to specific apps, or making minor tweaks to the
home screen buttons (as Asus did on the Eee Pad Transformer) to make them cleaner.
There are a couple of
home screen widgets that you can choose to use with RoadSync on your Google
Android device.
Android Ice Cream Sandwich Operating System The LG INTUITION runs the
Android 4.0 operating system (dubbed Ice Cream Sandwich), which adds powerful new ways of communicating and sharing while improving on the best
Android features: easy multitasking, rich notifications, customizable
home screens, resizable
widgets, and more.
Instead of wholly replacing the
Android 3.0 interface, Acer instead provides its own
widgets that appear on the
home screen as apps.
Android has also matured quite a bit over the last few years, supporting some features like
widgets (small apps that run on your
home screen so you don't have to open them) that Apple has stayed away from.