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What makes Android different from many of its competitors is the degree of customization it offers its Benutzer, which goes to the extent of even letting Benutzer choose what is essentially the primary user interface of any operating system – the home Bildschirm Launcher! With Android, you can choose from a plethora of available launchers offering a diverse user experience range, and it’s just as simple as installing the launcher like any other app. In what follows, we will take you on a feature tour of some of the best Android launchers available, to help you choose the one that’s right for you.

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Looking to bring some much-needed flair and functionality to your Android Gerät’s lockscreen? Try Bildschirm junkE – a multifunctional, slider-based custom Android lockscreen replacement app. Through a well-crafted & sleek UI, Bildschirm junkE keeps you apprised of the total number of notifications for unattended text messages and email, and missed calls. Außerdem, it lets you directly unlock to your caller, messaging or mailing app right from the lockscreen. For this, all you need to do is move the slider to the icon of any one of the supported categories, and you’re ready to check your missed calls, SMS-Nachrichten, and emails. Jedoch, the slider constitutes just a small portion of the entire lockscreen. Above the slider, you’re presented with the slideshow of the image thumbnails fetched from some of the latest news feeds of the hour pertaining to various news categories or topics. Tap the thumbnail, and you’re ready to explore the news details, or bookmark it to read it later.

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If virtual DJs aren’t your thing, you might be pleased to hear that the iRig Mix mobile Musik mixer is now shipping. You can forgo hefty price tags and still mix your own tunes for $99.99 with up to two iDevices at a time, audio from guitars, MP3 players, CD players and the like. In addition to physical controls for volume, gain, treble and bass, the mixer is accompanied by a roster of free Anwendungen to help with production, performing and recording. Für Android fans wondering where their own version of these Anwendungen are, IK Multimedia thinks the Android audio engine has too much latency (check the comments section) to handle its real-time processing, but consoles you with the fact that the hardware is compatible with most devices. Hit the jump for the press release. Wiki wiki, y’all.

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Clickfree is a trusted data backup/restore solution provider for Windows and Mac devices. Not only is the company known for its user-friendly applications, but also features several rugged, plug-and-play USB drives that come with the capability of automatically backing up their entire data or just specified content stored on your computer’s hard drive. In an attempt to target the fast-flourishing mobile market, the company has decided to provide Android Benutzer with a nifty local and online data backup solution in the form of Clickfree Backup. This neatly-built app presents you with arguably one of the best methods to instantly backup your crucial Android data – photos, Musik, Videos, Dokumente, Anwendungen, Lesezeichen, contacts and calendar events – to your Gerät€™s lokaler Speicher (SD card), as well as Dropbox. Außerdem, the app sports a built-in content viewer that lets you natively preview photos, Musik, Dokumente, bookmarks and videos from your backup instances. Das ist nicht alles; it also lets you reinstall your favorite Anwendungen on your Android Gerät right from within the local backup, or from the cloud. Details folgen.

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It’s likely overkill for those interested only in some basic tablet modding, but the folks from Liquidware (no strangers to the DIY scene) have a new bit of kit that should please those looking to take on a more ambitious project. Dubbed simply Amber, the kit is described as “80 percent of the way to a tablet” — you’ll get a 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 processor, a 7-inch capacitive display and a customized version of Android 2.3, but no pesky casing to get in the way of any other additions you see fit to add. That convenience comes at a bit of a cost, Obwohl. The Amber will set you back anywhere from $983 An $1,674 depending on the kit you choose. Head on past the break for a quick look at it on video.

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If you look at all the different ways people can modify their Android software and all the various kinds of hardware and operating systems, do you know how many different platforms you’ll find? Offenbar, there are nearly 4,000 “distinct” Android devices in the wild right now. You read that right – four thousand. You think iOS has that many?

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There are many manufacturer-created user interfaces for Android, and sadly, most of them are unpleasant.

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This is Part One of a two-part series on Disassembling Android. 

Android conquered the world in 2011. Hundreds of thousands of Benutzer activate Google’s mobile operating system every day, a growth rate unprecedented in any era of computing. This extraordinary strength has carried into 2012, but Android is not the brazen warrior it was a year ago, and its vulnerabilities are starting to show. Is the world’s leading smartphone platform ripe for disruption?

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Android smartphone and tablet browsers sometimes load mobile versions of Web sites. On native Android Browser, you can try the about:debug trick to change the user agent to force desktop sites to load. You can also use an alternative browser, like Dolphin Browser HD, which lets you easily change the user agent in its settings.

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The figure is so important, I’m breaking it out from the long analysis posted mid-afternoon about the smartphone market consolidating around Apfel and Samsung. The South Korean electronics giant is doing to Android on smartphones what Amazon does on tablets: Hugely fragment the market around a forked operating system. I warned about this three weeks ago in post “Google has lost control of Android“. Now there is sales data to back it up.

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