The MeeGo operating system is particularly interesting, since the company has spent some time tweaking the OS
with home screen widgets and a custom, finger - friendly program launcher.
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.
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.
You get up to six customizable
home screens that you can populate
with all sorts of
widgets (including Facebook, Twitter, and RSS feeds).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.»
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.
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.
Your experience is based around a series of
home screens that can be customised — or decorated if you like —
with shortcuts and
widgets.
With a full scroll touch screen and the ability to customize the home screen with widgets, the phone keeps your favorite features upfr
With a full scroll touch
screen and the ability to customize the
home screen with widgets, the phone keeps your favorite features upfr
with widgets, the phone keeps your favorite features upfront.
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.
The UI gives you five
home screens, each of which can be customized
with Live Panels,
widgets that automatically update in real time.
In addition, the Behold II is equipped
with Samsung's innovative TouchWiz allowing easy customization
with widgets located in a slide out tray on the left side of the
home screen and providing one - touch access to a customer's favorite and most commonly used features and applications.
The five additional
home screens feature Facebook and Twitter
widgets, a calendar, a media
screen with YouTube, Napster, and music player, and an alarm page
with buttons to activate Wi - Fi, account syncing, and
screen brightness.
The Social and People
Widget Suites delivers Facebook news feed, status posts, photos and video live on the
home screen —
with pages from your closest friends on Facebook, according to Facebook's Social Graph API.
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.
That means you won't have the customizable
home screen with widgets, live wallpapers, and all that sort of stuff.
... [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.
As expected, users can customize all of the S II's seven
home screens with widgets and shortcuts to apps.
With Android devices, you can choose the apps, shortcuts, and
widgets that you want on your
home screens.
As
with previous versions of TouchWiz, pressing a
home screen for a few seconds opens an option to add
widgets, shortcuts, and change wallpapers.
Some of the Enhancements in the new Jelly Bean Update: — Buttery Smooth Performance & Great Stability (Thanks to Project Butter)-- Full User Interface Revamp (Same UI as of the Galaxy S III and Galaxy Note II)-- TouchWiz Nature UX — Samsung's S Cloud services — Improved Camera features — New Lockscreen
With Many Customization Options — New Features like Direct Call, Smart Stay and Pop - up Play — New
Widgets (From Galaxy S III)-- 2
Home screen modes — New Notification bar
With More Notification Toggles — Google Now
The
home screen is a vertically scrollable page of apps
with folder and
widget support.
The smartphone the newest version of the HTC Sense experience, a seven - panel
home screen with a wide selection of interactive
widgets so the most important content is immediately available at a touch.
Fixes include reduced
screen animation lag and locking, a working HDMI indicator that clears out when the cable is connected, a fix for duplicate text messages, a fix for MDN changes forcing data connection resets, proper display of
home screen widgets, proper battery capacity displayed and fixes for dock sound playback along
with VZW Navigator functioning over Wi - Fi and a new Vibrate icon.
Dell includes their Dell Stage
home screen UI, which is simply five custom
widgets for you to use
with the seven
home screen panels.
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.
They build a
widget (launch zone) that you will start
with on the
home screen that includes your browser, settings, reading app, music, videos, and you can change which apps are opened by this overlay by pressing the cog button on the
widget.
The tablet comes
with a full -
screen interactive view of your «library» content on its main
home screen; touching the
widget brings up all of your book, movie, TV, and magazine purchases.
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.
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
home screen widgets, which we first saw
with the Xoom, are a great way to see information at a glance.
With new live content forward scrollable
widgets, your key information is streamed right to your
home screen.
Along
with a bump to Ice Cream Sandwich, the update will also bring HTC Sense 3.6 UI goodies, You will also get the Recent Apps menu, revised menu structures, new fonts, face recognition (i.e., Face Unlock), re-sizeable
widgets,
Home Screen Folders, new app dock, multi-tasking menu, Data Usage control, improved text input and and some nice performance improvements.
There's only one bloatware app — the OnePlus Community — and a
widget screen to the left of the main
home screen with a surprisingly useful loyalty - card - storing app on it.
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.