Gadgetory

hey what's up guys mkbhd here I asked on Twitter if you guys wanted it and resoundingly most of you guys said yes so found you further ado this is a tour of what's on my Android phone which at least right now anyway happens to be the Galaxy Note 2 let's take a look all right so the device of choice here is indeed the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 from Verizon as you can tell by the branding everywhere all over this device I'm putting a sticker on that home button right after this video is over but basically it's a big device I know but it kind of fits me it's a big enough device that it gives me advantages over my galaxy s3 previously but I've been enjoying it so far and basically I'll start off with the software basically everything about this is still stuck but it's running a ton of different apps that make it seem like it's rooted and running a version of stock Android but this is still totally stock and I'll show you all the apps and everything all the information you need to know about this is down right below the like button on this video in the description so be sure to hit that up if you want that information but we're start here with the lockscreen of course and the lock screen is called widget Locker and it's just a simple clock widget here with widget Locker that I'll get to you in a second but widget Locker gives me access to Google now the phone dialer messaging camera and unlocking and this is the Nova Launcher prime home screen so that's right my launcher is Nova Launcher prime and I don't have actually more than one home screens just one home screen everything is really tightly centralized and gives me quick access to everything that I do on this device first of all I'll go ahead and show you up top here this is super widget pro that's the most frequently asked question I get about this set up super widget pro and it's actually one of the stock default customizations that you can get out of the box so you buy the app you go ahead and add a 4 by 2 widget or a 5 by 2 widget depending on how bad your home screen is and you can just add that with you right there and it's actually Christmas Eve right now so that is the date widget super and down here is HD widgets and this is just a couple quick shortcuts so I can tap here to get to my battery and it also tell me how much battery percentage I have left this is the tote lock and unlock and that's a camera light and actually does work as you can so that will turn on the LED light on the back of my device further down here of course like I said I don't have more than one home screen but I do have more than one dock and that's a lot of the part of how I get to my apps so going through my dock down here at the bottom I have the phone dialer I have tasks and I have my home button here and messages and Chrome and actually obviously if you tap the app it will open it up but actually have a swipe action on messages to open a new message when I swipe up from it so that's pretty useful and of course the others will bring you to their designated apps and I'll swipe over to the next page here and there's Google now when I swipe up from Google now it takes me to the voice Actions so that's pretty nifty as well Google+ is the Google+ app stock of course Falcon pro is probably the best Twitter app for Android right now at least it's a really new one and it's really well well done very polished and smooth so Falcon pro for Twitter I use a stock calendar app from the Google Play Store because it's so much nicer than the Samsung one and lastly there is the stock TouchWiz a camcorder or kind of camera app I have the shortcut here themed of course but it's the stock app then there's Instagram I also use something called press for Google Reader it's a pretty good app for reading through your feeds I haven't sorted into different categories here and different feeds but that's how I read through Google Reader pocket which is where I keep things to read for later and then I have two folders here one for music and one for location so I use Foursquare and Google Maps a lot and I also use all of these music apps so SoundHound this was actually a widget to immediately start idea whatever it's listening to so it's quick little shortcut there and also there's Spotify Google Play Music & Sound Cloud so those are all the apps down here in my dots and of course when I swipe up from home I also get straight into the Google now app Google now is awesome I use this more probably than most people do but it's a really really useful app I'll go ahead to my notification tray here and I have a couple of things in here one is called swipe pad and swipe pad is basically you can swipe in from the edge of your screen and get a number of shortcuts to apps now I actually swipe in and when I swipe in it take me to recent tasks and that's something you can get from the Play Store as well it's called Tad's and so you can choose a swipe in from the left from the bottom left bottom right top left top right wherever I choose to swipe from the bottom because that's the way it kind of works out for me also you can of course long press on home you can still use the stock TouchWiz way but I prefer this way it's pretty nifty and it will let you open up whatever recent apps you were using so that's nice what else is up here battery reborn battery widget reborn is one of the best new apps of 2012 gives you your battery history here it's telling me I have 54% battery left and it will give me all sorts of information about how much battery I've been using so it's a really good app and I have the pro version of that as well I tend to pay for apps if they're good so if it's good enough I will pay for it and of course Google Plus is in here too so that's the basics of my Android setup here on my galaxy note 2 I can take you through the app drawer just for a little bit just to show you what else I have installed I have a lot of apps from the Play Store that are like stock Android apps so for example the stock calculator you can get that from the Android Play Store clock jb+ is basically the stock Android 4.2 jelly bean clock app you can get that from the Play Store this is the stock contacts when I was Google Drive Dropbox I am the sky is my weather app I was also asked about this I posted a screenshot about how it was going to snow on Christmas this is weather sorry I in the sky which is the weather app that I use it's pretty good I use it a lot more clouds than Sun that's nice to know it's also cold and what else gallery ICS is basically what I use to go through the gallery because the stamps on gallery is not very good so this is the basically the gallery that I use to look through the pictures that I take with the note twos impressive camera what else is there a Geekbench Falcon pro like I said next page mint package buddy really good app also for tracking packages and it can sync over multiple devices so if you have like a tablet you can install package buddy on the tablet and it'll track all the packages you have all punched into your phone already Need for Speed Most Wanted is pretty great I play that probably more than I should anyway reddit news is the reddit app that I use so for those of you who read it check this one out it's pretty good I still have the stock Google Reader app but I'll probably delete that soon score Center s note which I do occasionally use off without the stylus here just because I can finish this video with the stylus what else is there oh this is a screenshot or did I just freeze it now alright s note I use occasionally Snapseed is also pretty good it's from Google and you can use it to edit photos it's not like that useful to me because I don't edit photos on my phone that often but whenever you want to it's there then there's SoundHound for identifying songs that are playing SoundCloud for listening songs Spotify I use Spotify pretty much exclusively for my music and app syncs with Facebook so if you subscribe to me on Facebook you see all the music that I listen to on Spotify and that's basically a Google Tasks and YouTube I'll go ahead and open the YouTube app just because I can it doesn't feel like cooperating does it and yeah this is the YouTube app basically all that makes your phone look stock so if you're running sort of a jellybean esque is it running stock Android you can check out a whole bunch of these apps in the Play Store from the links below that's basically it so for those of you who want see it on Twitter happy holidays glad you enjoyed what at least wanted to see my setup to enjoy and hopefully this will give you some ideas for your own setup so thanks for watching and I'll talk to you guys in the next video peace