![]() Once unlocked, you're welcomed with the familiar homescreen interface introduced in Ice Cream Sandwich. The lockscreen could even be skipped altogether. There are multiple unlock patterns to choose from: simple slide, pattern, pin or password, and face unlock. Lockscreen widgets can also be reordered by tapping and dragging, so you can choose which one is visible on the main lockscreen. Lockscreen widgets are resizable - tap and drag down to expand and show more content, if available. ![]() The camera shortcut, previously located at nine o'clock on the unlock circle is now a stand-alone widget, a swipe to the left away from the lockscreen. There's a large variety of third-party lockscreen widgets and a few stock ones: Messages, Calendar, Gmail and Digital Clock. The one on the main lockscreen is collapsed to make room for the padlock button, but can be expanded to display additional information. Lockscreen widgets are present on the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition and are full-screen, resizable tiles, one of which is always visible at the top of the main lockscreen, above the padlock icon. The lockscreen in Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean features the same large dotted circle around the center-placed padlock button. Here's a UI rundown video to start you off. It's exhilarating and compared to the undersaturated screen on the Nexus 4 feels a different league entirely. Thirdly, there's the matter of the expandable storage, which doesn't play nice with Google's vision of a cloud-based storage system.īut seen as how you could get the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition straight off Google Play (in the US, and for a premium) we'll go about with the software part of the review with the disposition that this is, a rare, but honest to goodness Nexus device by Google.įirst off this is the first time we're seeing stock Android on a FullHD scale and the first time we're seeing it coupled with Samsung's top-class Super AMOLED behind the scenes. Secondly, Google has promised fast updates but they will still need to go through Samsung before they make it to the Google Play Edition S4. Firstly, there are physical buttons on the Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition. So here's where the name-calling and finger-pointing start. Just by looking at it this could easily pass as a Nexus device on steroids - it's got the stock OS and everything runs perfectly smooth and fluid. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Google Play Edition comes preinstalled with Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean and a new live wallpaper dubbed Sun Beam.
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