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Re: [ ROM ] [ KITCHEN ] JUICY 8 - Build 090830H (23037.5.3.0) [UC]

I have a love/hate relationship with this rom. I love how easy the phone is to use with one hand now (due to start and ok being on the bottom) and can't begin to describe how awesome it is to have both the clock AND the battery visible at all times. I think this is the largest UI change since...well since it was still called Pocket PC 200X. I didn't like honeycomb at first, but it has grown on me and this build seems to be a big step forward in the department. You can now drag and drop icons to any location in honeycomb instead of just sending to top. However, the new design is not without issues. The new bottom bar hides the bottom of some screens (like Resco Explorer) and of course the soft keyboard works intermittently at best. The new finger friendly menus are nice, but occasionally make me feel like I'm using a legally blind person's phone even with text size set at the lowest setting. I also wish there was a way for a more coherent theme, as it stands right now some menus highlight in black and others in green.

I have got to say that I am grateful that we have someone like Juicy to make these new enhancements available to us in what seems to be the most useful way possible. I look forward to the next build and the bugfixes that hopefully come along with it.

Also, if anyone was wondering, custom taskbars do appear to work without issues with this build. I wasn't sure due to the changes in the taskbar, but I installed GF Bear-Bonz WM 6.5 taskbar and it looks correct and everything appears to be working normally.

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