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FlyScreen’s fast. Embed your twitter, facebook, news, weather, sports- your favourite web services, right onto your lock screen! (*and WILL keep it locked!) Get zero click access to the content you love most! Much faster than always opening a separate app or browser.

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android App Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

• Convenient way to access apps and services without opening separate apps or web browser
• Launch many 3rd party services without locking your phone

Cons

• Registration and login required to use the app
• Creates extra or altered steps when unlocking phone. Either triple tapp Menu or Home + Menu button (versus double tapping Menu by default)
• Currently can’t change the background, theme it or customize it. (However I did find a 3rd party developer at ModMyFlyScreen.com offering a way to customize it a bit…)

Features:

FlyScreen is a cool idea for adding news, sports, RSS, social media, SMS text messages, email and more on the unlock screen of Android phones. Get News, RSS, social media, SMS , email and more all from one convenient screen. Similar to Motorola’s proprietary “MotoBlur” software debuted on the Motorola Cliq.

The Tagging feature is convenient for marking content for reading later and integrates with other RSS reader apps. You can even share content with Facebook or Twitter. Search to launch Google in a web browser.

I really like that you can custom set update intervals (so notifications wont disturb you at night) in addition to manual updates and you can exit the app.

Video: FlyScreen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuIbvAMTXs8

Usefulness:

FlyScreen Android App is very useful for keeping up with services you otherwise have use many different apps to access.

Ease of Use:

There some usability quirks with organizing your screens, but a quick review of the help section should ease this pain. Don’t forget you have to register and login just to use the app. 

Frequently Used:

Accessed every time you unlock your phone.

Interface:

The user interface is the driving factor in this app. Some widgets are a bit inconsistent but a good attempt to organize your unlock screen.