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Relying on Nokia and HTC, the newly Window Phone 8 OS from Microsoft has been successfully known around the world, but Windows phone still can't make a mark in the smartphone market! Luckily the Windows 8 live Tile has won lots of praise from mobile users! Some Android users want to get such Windows live tiles on their Android devices.

If you are also interested in those Windows 8 Live tiles and bored of Android's user interface, why not creating those live tiles now on your Android phones and tablets? We have rounded up best two free Android apps to help Android user create Windows 8 live tiles on Android. Just take actions to download the following Windows Live Tile apps and beautify your Android!

Tile Launcher

This Android app brings basic smooth Windows live tiles to Android devices, but users get many choices to customize their own live tiles.

Feature:

Scrolling – Users can select horizontally or vertically. And it allows you to specify Scroll Settings for scrolling speed, direction, and overscroll effect.

Tile Customization – You can easily select your own title, icon, background colors or images.

Snap Effect – If you need snap effects, it will perform an action, switch screens or open the drawer when overscrolling.

Lock Desktop – It supports to lock your desktop to prevent accidental changes.

Toolbar – this is a unique feature! You are allowed to choose font, colors, icon, and even show a Jellybean-styled date widget!

Note: The Tile Launcher apps are free available on Google Play and runs on Android 4.0 and above! In addition, if you want more special effects for sliding drawer and Tile Appearance, you can purchase its Tile Launcher Pro Key to activate its Pro version.

Launcher 8

It is the most favorable app for creating Windows 8 live tiles. You will be surprised to get more options on tile size, color and more!

Feature:

Tile – You can choose different sizes, various colors and even add Android widgets.

Theme and Background - More than one hundred kinds of theme colors can be selected. You can save and restore the theme and set background style.

Screen - You can edit the start screen layout and set the WP8 style lock screen.

Application list - it allows to switch the style of the app list.

More – with permission, it can help you show the shortcuts of Live contact and SMS

Note: The required Android version is 2.2 and up! So it can run on most Android smartphones and devices!

More Android tips:

Different from other competitors, HTC holds its event after that of Apple. It debuts its first Windows Phone 8 lineup with the new Windows Phone 8X and 8S. Sharing the stage with Microsoft to detail its smartphones, they call the new phones “signature”. Regardless of the partnership with Nokia, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is glad to see more phones running Windows Phone and says 8X truly a Windows Phone hero product.



The 8X, also known as Accord, is Powered by Qualcomm’s 1.5 GHz dual-core S4 processor, it features a 4.3-inch laminated super LCD 2 screen with HD 720p resolution (1280×720 pixels) and 16GB of storage. It supports NFC technology, similar to Nokia’s Lumia 920.


Beats Audio is coming to Windows phones for the first time ever. That will be one of HTC’ advantages. Amplified by Beats Audio, users will get awesome listening pleasure with deeper bass, crisper vocals and detailed high notes. To compete in the photography space, the 8X has 8MP rear camera with f/2.0 aperture and HTC’s Image Chip technology and can capture 1080p video. Besides, it easily fit more people in the shot with an ultra-wide-angle front camera that captures nearly triple the area of most other front cameras.

Another smaller one, 8S, aims to the mid-range market. Powered by a slightly less powerful 1GHz dual-core Qualcomm S4 processor, the 8S  offers a 4-inch WVGA (800×480 pixels) super LCD display and 5MP camera with 720p video shooting.in addition, it owns only 4GB of storage with microSD expansion and Beats Audio technology lacking of built-in amplifiers.



Both phones’ design is similar to Nokia’s Lumia, providing a simple, human feel combined with an innovative, unique unibody construction. Of course, unique color options and a screen to personalize are available.

All of HTC Windows Phone 8 phones will go on sale in November and U.S. carriers will include on AT&T, Verizon and T-Mobile.

Even though Nokia is suffering a long slide and people love to use Android and Apple devices, all rumors about Nokia are always spreaded rapidly around the world.

Now new rumor about Nokia comes again.

Images leaked on Twitter by user "Evleaks" last week possibly are real and purportedly the 4.5-inch Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820, which are rumored to be introduced at press event with Microsoft tomorrow.

The Verge has confirmed them from multiple sources. The new Windows Phone 8-based devices Nokia Lumia 920 and Lumia 820 tomorrow will use an inductive method to realize wireless charging—lining the device up to the contacts on a charging pad. To compatible with other wireless charging products, they will support the Qi wireless power standard.

The Lumia 920 will have 32GB of device storage, 1GB of RAM, and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor. But it will feature an 8-megapixel camera on the back and a 1.3-megapixel one on the front, not the 41 megapixels PureView like Lumia 808. The 4.3-inch Nokia Lumia 820 will own a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage with a microSD slot.



More details about Lumia 920 and 820 will be unveiled and this rumor can be confirmed again tomorrow in New York. We are all looking forward to it!

No matter what kind of phones Nokia will launch, we are glad to see that a company keeps inventing creatively and designs of Nokia are always amazing and freshly different from the trends today. Nokia, the Finish handset maker as former leader of mobile devices worldwide, has gathered for decades and still owned unimaginative power to recover or crawl out of the hole they are in.