Monday, January 21, 2013

Simplify your phone!

I think I will start doing weekly (monthly?) tips for Android.
My tip for this week is going to be to Simplify your phone. There is more computing power in a standard smartphone today than there was in all of NASA in 1969...When we went to the moon... With that being said, it is very easy for us to get lost in our own phones.
The majority of people with smartphones use it for 3 main things:
1 - Pictures
2 - Texts
3 - Phone Calls
Yet we still find the need to have 6 screens full of apps that we have used twice.

A few months back I ran into this amazing launcher, for those who don't know what that is, it's the application your phone uses as your home screen.
It is called Smart Launcher. It takes away all the pages that the default launcher has. "GASP! But Josiah, However will i clutter my phones home screen with pages and pages of apps now?"
Well I'm glad you asked, Smart Launcher organizes all your apps for you in categories such as" Utilities", "Settings", "Games", etc. And gives you a single page home screen with a few shortcuts to your most commonly used applications arranged in a nice little circle. My shortcuts are for camera, phone, gallery, Web browser, texts, and email.

Now tell me what else you need to have on your main screen?

The first picture is of the home screen with the shortcuts, the second page is the categorized apps listing that you get when you hit the little icon in the bottom left corner of the screen.
this app has singlehandedly made my phone less frustrating and confusing to use on a daily basis and i highly recommend you at least try it out on yours. Worst case scenario... You miss your cluttered unorganized phone and you just un install the Smart Launcher app and your phone goes back to being its messy self again... Yay cloud!

That'll be it for now, stay tuned to see if I post again.

2 comments:

  1. Does the app run your battery down faster like widgets do?

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  2. Opposite effect, it should increase battery life. It's a smaller app than the default launcher

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