Android is an open source mobile operating system given by Google. So anyone can make changes in it and use it or sell it as they like. Same thing followed by different mobile companies which make changes in provided default Android operating system features and give better experience with more features and changes to their users. So that is the benefit to have something like open source project. Companies like Samsung, Sony, HTC, etc make changes in different things and applications, for example they all give different lock screens in compare to default one. Same thing goes for other features too. But thanks to developers we are having some free apps using which we can have those kind of stuff in any android mobile phone. So today we will talk about Lock screen apps. Using those apps you can have different lock screens of those big companies on your any android phone. I mean even you are not having Samsung android phone, you can have Samsung look like lock screen on your android phone using such application. So let’s see about those applications.

Samsung Galaxy Lock screen for your Android-Galaxy Locker: Galaxy Locker is good application using which you can get Samsung Galaxy series phones kind of lock screen on any android phone. Personally even I think that Samsung is providing very cool lock screen application over to default android lock screen application. But with this application I can have very similar look lock screen on my non Samsung android phones too.  With this application you can have three kind of lock screens, one is Light effect second one is Ripple effect and third one is Watercolor effect. Light effect mode will give you Samsung Galaxy S4 kind of light flare effect on your lock screen; they have also provided different modes instead of light on same mode. In water ripple effect you will get famous water ripple effect when you slide to unlock your phone which you may have seen on many Samsung phones. The last one is the latest. Using watercolor effect you will get color fading effect when you slide to unlock your phone just like new Samsung Galaxy Note 3. So with this application you can have Samsung kind of lock screens on your Android phone. Just remember that you must have Ice Cream Sandwich android version or above on your phone to get this application working. You will get all personalization option to change the lock screen wallpaper and size of clock and date on the lock screen. You can also put shortcuts on that lock screen using the setting page. If by chance you are facing double lock situation, means you are getting this lock screen and default lock screen too, then you can off default lock screen from the settings to avoid this problem. If you want to get default one back then you can on it from the settings.

LG optimus lock screen for your Android-LG Optimus Lockscreen: With LG Optimus Lockscreen application, you can have LG optimus series phone’s lock screen on your any android device. I have noticed that LG’s this series phones have very cool lock screen effect and it is liked by many people. I am sure after seeing it once you will surely want to have this one on your phone too. This application will provide you that kind of lock screen effect on your phone. You just need to drag your finger on screen to unlock the phone and it will give you effect like water drop which will expand as per your finger sliding on screen. This application has provided other modified mode too for the similar kind of effect. Instead of water drop you can have different options like Particle, Crystal, DewDrop, Ripple and Whitehole which will work similarly with different effect as their name suggest. The application I have mentioned above for Samsung kind of lock screen, this application is also developed by the same developers. So you will get very similar settings page using which you can do many personalization just like I mentioned above. Both applications are free to install, you will get ads when you open the application but don’t worry after enabling it and closing the app, ad will not appear. So it is worthy to try out.

IOS 7 kind of lock screen for your Android – IOS 7 Lockscreen Parallax HD: Apple Company has recently launched their latest mobile operating system IOS 7 for their iDevices. It has very cool looking lock screen. This application (IOS 7 Lockscreen Parallax HD) will give you that kind of lock screen on your android device. Just install this application and using it you can have similar kind of lock screen with enhanced security system by giving pin code option just like IOS 7 has. So if you want to experience something similar then you can go for this application. This application has also provided IOS 7 wallpaper to choose it on your lock screen with many personalization options. You can also open few applications directly from the lock screen which is little new thing that you will not find it even IOS 7. So if you are fan of iDevices and you are having Android phone then with this you can have little experience of IOS 7. 

Blow to Unlock-MUnlock: Recently Micromax Company has introduced very cool lock screen application. Using it you can unlock your android device just by blowing air on the phone or just by shaking the phone. Now this application is freely available on Google Play store with MUnlock name. Just search it on play store and you can have it on your phone for free. I have used it on different phones and yes it is working smoothly just as it is saying. Just blow the air and it will unlock your device. Honestly it is just to attract the users but still works well as it suggests. So if you want to have something new then you can have this lock screen for free from the play store.

Windows 8 phone launcher and lock screen- Windows 8 Launcher: Windows 8 phone operating system has good lock screen too. You can unlock your phone just by swapping wallpaper upside. Now similar thing you can have on your android phone as well. For that you need to download Windows 8 launcher which is freely available on the play store. You will get launcher with lock screen which will change whole user interface of your phone. You will get experience just like windows 8 phone. But you can also change launcher after installing this to have android experience back with windows 8 phone lock screen enabled. So you can enjoy it both ways. There are many personalization options available in setting area using which you can change many things for lock screen and launcher itself. 

So this is it. Using above applications you can have different lock screens on your any android phone. So with this you can enjoy different phone’s experience on your own android phone. If you enjoy different lock screens and if you have one favorite one then you can choose it from above list and change your phone lock screen as you like. Have fun.

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