Hello World mixes wallpapers with information
Wallpaper applications are a dime a dozen on Android, and most offer similar functionality: browse wallpapers using filters, set wallpapers, and that is about it. While they may differ in terms of sources for the wallpapers, you should not expect major differences between apps.
Hello World changes that. The Android application provides you with a selection of "real-world" wallpaper images. So far so normal. What sets it apart from other wallpaper apps for Android -- such as Google Wallpapers, Muzei or MySplash is that it provides you with information on the locations the photos were taken at.
Additionally, it also provides you with information on country and climate which can be quite useful for traveling to those locations
Hello World Travel discovery & Travel Wallpapers
Hello World requires no extra permissions during installation -- refreshing. The app loads the list of supported places by default which you may browse right away.
Each place is listed with a thumbnail image of one of the wallpapers, its name, country, and continent. An informational page is loaded when you tap on any of the places here.
The page offers facts and information about the place, its history or use for instance, shows all wallpaper images, the location of the place in the world, and climate information.
You can tap on the "see all images" link to browse all wallpapers of the place, and set or share them.
The second option that you have when it comes to browsing the wallpapers, is to use the menu to switch to the images listing.
This listing concentrates fully on the wallpapers, and sorts them into groups such as featured, sea, towns, or ancient.
It takes one tap to add a wallpaper to the favorites, and two more to set it as the wallpaper of the device. Why two? The first tap on "set wallpaper" opens an edit interface that enables you to customize how the wallpaper is displayed on the device.
Options include changing the visible part of the wallpaper, and changing the ratio to adjust for different screen sizes.
Hello World ships with few options only. One that deserves mentioning is the application's auto wallpaper feature. This rotates wallpapers automatically periodically.
Verdict
The idea to mix wallpapers with information sets the application apart from other wallpaper applications. While it may not appeal to all Android users who use wallpaper applications, it will to those who want to know more about the wallpaper images they like. One interesting option that comes from this is the possibility to travel to the location in the future.
There is little to criticize about the application. I'd like to see an option to change the default temperature format from Fahrenheit to Celsius for instance. It would be great as well if more locations and wallpapers would be available. While you get more than 100 locations so far, it pales somewhat when compared to wallpaper applications that offer tens of thousands of wallpaper images.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?