HTC Droid Eris – Widgets & Apps – Panda Home Explained

PDAadmin — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 05:10:39 +0000

Here is how to correctly install Panda v1.85 Beta on your Eris. You will need to allow non-market developers on to your phone. It will default back to not allow after you have installed. This is just a demonstration of how Panda works, and in Part 2 of this video I will go a little further into it and demo some apps that work well with Panda. Panda is a free home replacement, like Open Home, GDE, and ahome, which are all paid. The great thing about Panda is that most of the themes, keyboards, fonts packs & icon packs that are made specifically for those paid home apps will work with Panda anyway. Some don’t but most do. This allows you to get some of the paid stuff for free. If you don’t quite understand the concept, look at it this way: HTC Sense is an independent user interface that overlaps android. Panda is the same idea basically. You can flip between Panda and Sense by pressing your “home” key on the bottom. Once you are in Panda, you can kill out HTC Sense and any HTC Sense apps or widgets because they aren’t being used at all when you are in Panda. It’s your choice, but it frees up so much memory. Say you want to run the HTC clock/weather widget on Sense, you can download a similar app in the market and run it on Panda, because it will be installed as a separate Android Widget. Droid users who want the HTC “look” do this. The only real difference is the slider on the bottom, which is very handy because you can launch the dialer from any screen in Sense.

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HTC Droid Eris – Widgets & Apps – Panda Home Explained