A person can never have too many wallpapers, themes or icons. It is really impossible. There is something extremely satisfying to swap thing around on the fly and make your device look new and fresh when ever you want to. Wallpapers are a quick and easy way to dress up your home screen with minimal effort. Sure, [...]

One of my favorite parts of Android is the apps. Sure I love my OS, I love the customization, the themes and mods, but the apps are what makes our devices truly shine. There are apps out there for everything. We have used and featured many apps on AndroidSPIN, all offered something that we thought you guys [...]

In the world of home replacement apps there are many to choose from. When it comes to ones that are built, designed and function like the stock ICS launcher but with more options, there are only two, Nova and Apex. They were both created by two separate developers to offer up a more customized home approach to stock or even customized ICS based devices. The [...]

Some of you may have heard of, seen or know the developer team named The Collective. They are a large group of developers that help bring ROM’s and various other things to the Android community. If you have a Samsung Galaxy Note on AT&T, you are probably running their ROM. They aren’t limited to just [...]

I may not be personally a fan of live wallpapers, but I know many of you are. While cruising around YouTube and the Play Store last night I came across one that blew my mind. The developers behind it, maxelus.net, have created quite a few live wallpapers like Ice Galaxy and Shadow Galaxy. While those are [...]

Some of you that pried open that wallet of yours and dished out the 16 dollars to get TSF Shell Launcher Launcher are probably not at all bored with it at all.  Some of you out there are also probably debating on spending the money and getting the unique launcher on your device. I completely understand, pricey [...]

Having a tablet can make your overall life increasingly more productive and entertaining. Many people have even begun using their tablets more than their laptops or even desktop PC’s. Developers keep moving forward and create new uses for your $500 something tablet, like accessing your PC remotely to watch movies and play games. For many, [...]

There is a large abundance of weather forecast applications in the Play Store. Everyone has their personal preference, but sometimes it is time for a change. A new weather application was just launched to the Play Store from Distinction Ltd. Some of you may know them from their popular Cocktail Flow application that brings a unique user experience [...]

Here we sit, still wishing, wanting and waiting for the manufactures and carriers to get off their lazy asses and make ICS available to us all. In the mean time, many of you bide your time picking up launchers, themes, icons and other various things to make your device look more like ICS at every install. While [...]

We have covered Nova Launcher quite a few different times. Doing our best to keep up with the application and any updates that the developers made to it. It has taken some time and 15 beta builds to get it to a point that they thought was worthy of mass consumption. Today, they launched the [...]

So many launchers out there, it is kind of hard to choose which one will satisfy your Android needs. Now I have been an avid Go Launcher Ex user while running Gingerbread, and have moved over to Nova Launcher with my beta ICS I am running on my phone. Some users out there, however, might [...]

We all love a great deal on applications and games. We love it when they pop up in GetJar Gold, the market or even Amazons Free App of the Day. While all of those options are a great way to get a heck of discount on a very popular app or game, we sometimes wish [...]

Some of you probably already have seen, or have placed on your phone,  some sort of dual-boot app your phone. I personally have never tried to dual-boot my phone but I thought I would give SwitchMe by Fahrbot Mobile a try. BootManager has been used in the past for dual booting your phone, but is much more complex [...]

SlideIT keyboard is on sale this week in the Android Market for the small price of a .99. In light of CES going on in the Las Vegas all week, this sale will end this Saturday when CES ends. For those of you that have been thinking about getting another virtual keyboard on your device, [...]

Hats off to Team Carbon for porting their CM7 Theme chooser themes as GO Launcher EX themes. One thing I’ve been missing since upgrading from my Vibrant to the Galaxy S II is my CM7 Theme chooser. Now thanks to Team Carbon some familiar themes are now available for those of us who use GO Launcher EX. First [...]