Not long ago, we showed you the Honeycomb lockscreen “Morph” that can be applied to phones running CyanogenMod 7, but here’s a concept that takes the idea to the next level. This lockscreen, when officially available, will work in both landscape for tablet devices, and in portrait mode for phones, giving Gingerbread devices a little more eye candy that they would otherwise never see.
The concept brings a very clean look, but shows more relevant information than you’d find on the standard Honeycomb lockscreen today. The mockup above will show the user’s missed calls, new text messages, emails, battery status, and even music player controls right from the lockscreen’s clock, giving it more of a widget kind of feel. This will allow you to see if you’ve missed anything on your device without having to go past the lockscreen. Simple enough, right?
While there’s much more to any ROM than it’s lockscreen, once we saw how Android 3.0 had it’s lockscreen implemented, many wanted a piece of that action in lower versions of the mobile OS. A XDA member put this mockup together, and it’s under development as we speak, in one form or another. We’ll likely see this released in the next version of Tablet Tweaks, which was merged into the latest version of CyanogenMod to make the ROM more tablet-friendly.
Tweaks like this may make Android tablets that aren’t set to get the Honeycomb update, like the ViewSonic G-Tablet, more tolerable to hold onto. That said, the new lockscreen won’t be limited to tablets, and will work on Android phones in portrait mode. Current CyanogenMod 7 builds give the user the ability to tweak their lockscreen in a handful of ways, but none have looked as good as this.
We could be waiting a while before we see this become available, but considering how fast the guys over at XDA work, it could hit sooner than we expect.
Feel free to jump over to the XDA thread to show your support for the great upcoming lockscreen mod.
[Via: AndroidSpin]