You can also disable the personal message altogether and remove the time and date info.Īnother nice trick is the Quick glance option we first saw on the Galaxy Note II. You can type something else, choose a different font and color. You can change the greeting message on the lockscreen by hitting the edit button. There are no app shortcuts at the bottom of the screen by default - the Favorite Apps widget to the right has taken over that role, but you can enable them and have up to five easily accessible shortcuts. The pages to the left contain different widgets - email, Google Now, Messaging, music player, Yahoo! Finance and News and you can download apps from the Play Store that add new widgets. The page to the right of the default one is special and can either be a list of favorite apps (the default TouchWiz setting) or a shortcut for the camera (as in pure Android). The lockscreen has multiple panes, each containing one widget.

You can also opt for the well-known ripple and light effects. The options include Oil paint and watercolor, which blur the color on screen as if you were dragging a wet paint brush through the screen. You can choose what effect to add to the unlocking. The default lockscreen shows the time along with a personal message overlaid on beautiful photos pulled from TripAdvisor (with text at the bottom about where the photo was taken). We start with the lockscreen, which features the widgets introduced with Android 4.2.2, that we saw on the Galaxy S4. Here's a user interface video to start you off, which also shows the new air and motion gestures in action. The Galaxy Note 3 combines the best of both worlds and while it seems familiar, there's plenty new below the surface - so much in fact that you'd need a couple of days just to get to know all the features. The Samsung Galaxy Note 3 comes with Android 4.3 Jelly Bean - the latest release of the Google platform available at the moment - and a laundry list of new TouchWiz features.

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