Camera Apps

Criteria:  faster than stock in launch, better control, easy to use

1. Camera FX ZOOM
- pro
- easy interface

2.  Fast camera lite
- auto silent
- no after shot view
- bit easy to focus

3. Google camera
- sphere photo
- touch spot menu
- wrong selection display in menu..(when choosing scene)

3. VSCO
- cool interface
- cool filter
- required resources

4. Carousel (for dropbox)
- good display
- not necessary
- use huge resource
- takes time to open app

5. Fluv
- good display of photos in timeline
- share whole day as album to others
- takes time to open app

6. Pixal Express
- good editing interface, add notes and words on photo easily

7. Open Camera
- light
- install in SD card
- lock-screen ok
- good adjustments

On-going:
currently testing VSCO, using PE for note adding, will see what it can do.. seems higher level class than instagram (need account)

Updates: now using Open camera mainly

Launcher

Criteria: smooth, less resources, less privacy

1) Miui
- Nice and neat look
- smooth interface
- widget compatible (mostly)
- long loading time when switch back from apps to home
- most privacy needed
- movable wallpaper

2. Go launcher
- versatile
- many themes

3. Atom launcher
- fast and responsive
- many themes, compatible to other launcher
- disappear apps periodically

4. Aviate launcher
- good design
- auto sorted
- need invitation code (need google around)
- fast response
- limited widget use

5. Buzz launcher
- highly customized
- downloaded themes fr others
- battery drained..?

6. Google home
- connect to google live
- good icon
- not regionalised in here
- use huge network resource and thus battery drain..

7. Home widget launcher
- simple and fashion design
- for phone user (people who use smartphone for communication) and not for app user
- light and fast response

8. Smart Launcher
- classify apps into gp
- simple home screen for fast assess
- no widget in free mode

9. Apus launcher
- light and fast..? (claim)
- get stuck in screen, not able to move

10 Launcher+
- light weight
- less rights to access
- no widget display in N7000...
- not much difference from Touchwiz?!

11. Solo launcher
- much like touchwiz
- highly customerized
- Solo store like play store
- gestures

12. Z launcher
- Big brand Nokia
- need too much personal info..?
- just script a word to search apps and contact.. (how about Chinese characters? not supported!)
- no widget (no shopping list, no calendar, no weather...etc)
- still developing.. (and I am testing my patient to switch back to google launcher..?!)
- if u don't mind without widget.. try it..!
- no landscape view
- only English display

13. Nano launcher
- very small size (2M)
- widget page ok (fix?), pull down
- neat and easy display frequent use apps
- little battery usage

14. Arrow (by Microsoft)
- very like Nano launcher above
- frequent app in front page
- built-in reminder, note list
- no landscape view
- widget page
- page editable

15 Vire Launcher
- looks cool
- freeze to black screen when changing theme

16. Action Launcher
- good design on side-bar, very handy
- takes time to reload from reboot or changing launcher

17. C-launcher
- similar to default launcher (touchwitz) but can change theme
- light and take less resources

On-going:
Was using Buzz, but found battery drained..?
currently using Aviate for quite a while, found suitable and neat easy. Only lack of full page calendar widget page which S Planner woun't help. Adapting with Widget Shade with Calendar widget as a sub.. looking for anything more interesting later..
Currently using Arrow, seems smooth

Feel free to suggest some! :)

Finding File Manager (Cloud Drive) Apps

Crteria:  easy use,  good display, multiple cloud drives handle

1. Astro
Link:
- good display, nice icon look
- not able to handle 2 accounts in a single cloud

2. Es
Link:
- similar to Astro
- can handle multiple accounts in single cloud

Choice:  2