Furthermore, OnePlus» proprietary Shelf still occupies the customary location on the screen to the left of your home screen, offering bite - sized chunks of data without cluttering the home
screen with widgets.
... [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.
That means you won't have the customizable home
screen with widgets, live wallpapers, and all that sort of stuff.
With a full scroll touch screen and the ability to customize the home
screen with widgets, the phone keeps your favorite features upfront.
Samsung fills all five home
screens with widgets upon widgets; there's one for the weather, a large clock, a photo gallery, and widgets corresponding to Samsung's email, calendar, and social apps.
As expected, users can customize all of the S II's seven home
screens with widgets and shortcuts to apps.
Honeycomb 3.0 allows you to customize five different home
screens with widgets.
But you can still populate the seven Home
screens with widgets.
Not exact matches
Aside from the Apps shortcut, the Entune software has a Home
screen filled
with a customizable combination of
widgets, displaying hands - free calling shortcuts, the navigation map, the odd and innovative Driver Easy Speak toggle, the current audio source, and more at a glance.
The new Android phone will have WiFi hotspots capabilities, UMA, a 3.2 MP camera
with autofocus, 3.2 ″
screen, Multitouch, new and improved Lg
Widgets, email client support and HSPA up to 7.2 Mbps.
The Streak 7 runs Android 2.2
with some nice custom
widgets on its seven desktop
screens.
For example, a Green Sprint ID pack will populate your home
screen with eco-friendly
widgets, while an ESPN one will have sports - related apps.
As
with all Android
widgets, you can remove any Dell Stage
widget by tapping and holding it and then dragging it in the garbage can which appears on -
screen.
You get up to six customizable home
screens that you can populate
with all sorts of
widgets (including Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds).
It looks like they've bulkified their already - chunky
widgets for use
with the bigger
screen.
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.
Widgets for YouTube and the Music player are on the second home
screen along
with shortcuts for Blio, the Gallery, Let's Golf 2, Qello, Slacker Radio, and T - Mobile TV.
The last
screen displays an e-mail
widget and an events
widget with icons for Mobile Hotspot, Lookout Security, QuickOffice, and Yelp.
By default, the home
screen shows shortcuts to pre-installed apps and an interactive bookmarks
widget for launching one of your favorite sites
with a tap.
A MobileLife Organizer
widget sits on the fourth
screen with apps for Contacts, Facebook, Google Talk, and Qik Video Chat.
That one, from what I've heard, has its Paperwhite - like
screen, and its Android - like system
with its app - like
widgets.
On the left hand side of the
screen is the Android apps that come bundled
with it and a few other
widgets spread evenly around.
These include a new mission control interface,
widgets, and lock
screen, along
with a few other surprises as well.
Unlike the standard Samsung Galaxy 4 Tab, the NOOK variant lacks Samsung's infamous My Magazine, which intrudes upon your
screen with an irremovable
widget that allegedly give access to multiple updates from a single location; PCWorld applauded the removal of the «feature» in the new Galaxy Note 4, so the fact that the Tab 4 NOOK lacks it altogether makes the entire experience much more pleasing from a UI perspective.
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.
When you first boot up the Nexus 7 and sign in
with your Google Account, you're greeted by a series of
widgets on your home
screen called «My Library.»
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.
This includes the deck - of - card style YouTube
widget on one of the five home
screens of the Tab 10.1, which lets users flip through YouTube videos
with a single flick of a forefinger.
The latest version comes
with a redesigned home
screen, landscape mode for music playback, home
screen widget and more.
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.
In addition to all the Google Play home
screen widgets and icons, the company gives users a $ 25 Play credit when they first activate the device and throws in a free copy of the movie «Transforms: Dark of the Moon,» along
with some sample magazines, books and songs.
But the real changes are to the operating system: It's using Android,
with Archos» customer interface built on top, like the Super
Widget, a series of multimedia shortcuts on the main Android
screen.
Both devices will come preloaded
with Swype as well as a «pre-configured home
screen» (read Alcatel launcher)
with the most «essential apps and
widgets pre-loaded.»
The initial
screen displays a
widget with the date and time, an AccuWeather.com
widget, a gallery
widget and 16 apps directly below.
I have the Nook app on my Moto phone and it works just as well
with all the features except no big rectangle on the home
screen, which is a
widget, but can be moved there.
The image below shows all five
screens at the top
with options to add app shortcuts,
widgets, wallpapers, and other shortcuts directly to each of them.
Beyond the core apps in the dock (mail, Web, drawer), two of the five home
screens come
with preinstalled apps for YouTube, text messaging, news and weather
widgets, and more.
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.
Once the
screen is unlocked, you're greeted
with seven home
screens you can customize
with widgets and shortcuts.
Stop making the iPad a large iPhone and give it its own set of features
with widgets and the option to have multiple windows open at once — make use of its larger
screen.
Your experience is based around a series of home
screens that can be customised — or decorated if you like —
with shortcuts and
widgets.
This
widget, which takes up the majority of the
screen, shows the time and date
with a slideshow behind it in the main window; two smaller windows display the last website visited and the last song played.
@ about 5 mins 12secs in he clicked on
widgets and it takes you to a more standard android interface
with 5
screens.
This is along
with the SE user interface,
with the on -
screen pinch - to - zoom for highlighting all of the
widgets on board, a second noise reducing microphone and a range of Sony Ericsson applications, such as TimeScape and Facebook inside Xperia.
Widgets from previous versions of Android are still compatible
with the Eee Pad Transformer, but dedicated Honeycomb baubles look better on the high - resolution
screen.
Included in Samsung's Jelly Bean updates will be the «Pop Up Play» floating video window, pause video capture, and Easy Mode which allows items such as favorite contacts to be placed into resizable
widgets on the home
screen along
with more control over incoming calls.
TweetDeck 1.01 won't install and the official Facebook app is optimised for Portrait mode, and I'd prefer a desktop
widget with the
screen real estate that is available on the AC100.
ICS experience appears to be relatively unvarnished — there is a launch
screen with a weather
widget and most used apps, as well as a second one preloaded
with links to the User Manual, online help, Task Killer etc..