[Galaxy S II Themes and Apps] soraxd:
we all love our stock apps, theyre the meat and potatoes of our phone, they do a few crucial things, but not all apps are created equal. so lets take a look at the stock apps, and see if we can make any improvements, shall we?

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Browser!

the stock browser is smooth and simple, but maybe too simple if you ask me. Dolphin has a nice set of browsers whether youre looking for simplicity (with a nice array of features of course), or if youre looking for a fully featured browser, with addon support, and gestures. or take the Opera rought, which may save you a bit on your data bill. so without further ado, here they are

Dolphin Browse Mini

simplicity at its finest, very fast, smooth experence, all rolled up into a lightweight app, google chrome feel.

Dolphin Browser HD

fully featured browser, supports themes and addons, firefox feel

Opera Mobile

a unique layout, very friendly and clever UI, incorporated hardware acceleration, and offers a unique service; "Opera Turbo", which works as a middle man, translating and compressing data, optimizing it for mobile phones, probably not necessary on a phone as powerful as ours, but it will use less data if youre on a limited plan, dont worry turbo is an option you can turn on or off in settings

Gallery!

the stock Gallery has a very slick layout, but its not very fast, and it doesnt show full resolution.

QuickPic

QuickPic is a much more powerful solution. it has tons of options, including the option to always rotate a picture to fit the fullscreen, something no other browser seems to do, you can move and copy pictures right from the app, and it supports animated .GIF and offers a large cache to keep pictures loading fast, here it is, QuickPic!

Music!

the stock music player has an awesome ui, once you remove the album tab for folder, its a super intuitive music gallery, with a beautiful interface, and recently added, and played playlists make music wonderful, throw in some bright colors and you have a great app. sadly parental controls over the battery, and when the music player can and cant be opened limit it, so along side the stock music player, i use power amp

Power Amp

power amp has a few things on the stock music player, because you select your music folders during setup, it will never need to wait for media scanning, you can delete songs while playing them, and it has a nice array of widgets, and lockscreen widget, and it supports bluetooth controls. i personally dont care for the coloring, i like the bright pretty colors of stock, but as far as usability, theres plenty of room for both music players in my life; Power Amp

Camera!

Modded Stock!

Stock Camera has the best UI, and features. sadly theres some HORRIBLE parental controls, you cant use the camera below 15%, you cant use the camera if music is playing, or if youre on a phonecall, you cant use the camera if media scanner is running, theres an unmutable focus, and shutter sound. on top of this, because samsung added a lame photo and video editor app, they removed the ability to adjust lighting, coloring, and saturation in the camera, and the ability to pause/resume video recording, now you need to use the after effects of each respected picture and video editor..sigh~ but alas a small light at the end of the tunnel, Pulser_2 has modded the stock camera app, to mute the shutter sound, let you open camera while playing music, and remove the battery parental controls. heres the link, tho youll need to use an app like Root Explorer to manually replace the stock

HDR Camera

a true HDR camera, will take 3 shots, under exposed, over exposed, and normal exposed, and take the most dynamic colors from each, and encode them together, making some pretty awesome shots, this camera can also be used while playing music, while on the phone, at any battery, can adjust coloring and saturation, and no sounds. very useful, but not a quick picture camera, better for scenery

LockScreen!

WidgetLocker

WidgetLocker allows tons of customization, and style to the lockscreen, i can activate the LED flashlight, open to camera, camcorder, silence, or anything else i can think of, right from the lockscreen, very attractive look, well polished, and very useful. you can also add widgets like a normal window, tho i think it takes away from the glamour.

Launcher!

TouchWiz 4.5

based off the stock touchwiz 4.0 from samsung, comes TouchWiz 4.5 by Fr4gg0r. this heavily modded version offers some nice features not found in the stock, such as; homescreen count, enable/disable landscape, uninstall button on homescreen, icon dock count, enable/disable dock background, change app labels, number of apps per page, number of app columns, number of app columns, sort alphabetically, enable/disable app backdrops, enable/disable 3D effect for backdrops, enable/disable unread text/gmail/missed call counter badge on app, and supports themes, just to name a few options this launcher has, click the picture to see a full list of features, and download TouchWiz 4.5

Video?

while i dont have a good video player, QQplayer can play 1080p even on non 1080p supported phones, and can play .AVI files with subtitles, but i wouldnt say its exactly the nicest video player, still something worth mentioning, but i wouldnt say its better than stock

soooooo, what do you guys have?

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