PointUI - New Home UI Revolution - MERGED

[Ouhei]

EXTREMELY well put together but it feels so disconnected from the rest of the phone, going into contacts or opening programs feels like it takes a lot more effort than with the traditional today screen.

I'll keep tinkering with it to see, but if they continue to develop this it will be a must have for sure.

btw, you can fix the sliding motions in the settings.

[Zyphlin]

This is definitely something to build upon, but right now I just can't get into it.

First off, I can't stand products that take over my phone. My left softkey is now set to this "home" program, and I think I'll have to get a registry fix to fix it. On top of that, I uninstalled the program in "remove programs" and yet its still there, and the soft key is still there.

I can't seem to get the weather program working. I have full bars, but I keep getting warning signs popping up as it tries to get data, and then it fails. Occasionally it will succeed, but unless I succeeded in every previous attempt in that route it won't give me the actual info. (IE, lets say I get US, Virginia, and then hit H for my town and that fails. It will send me back to letters. I hit H and it works this time, but suddenly I'm picking from a random letter with international cities all over like Paris).

The lack of skinning is a bit of an annoyance as well and makes it something I just won't be able to use right now due to my care for how my phone looks. I click on any program and suddenly my bottom bar is black and white, my top bar looks completely different. So I'd need to change my whole theme.

Finally, the scrolling is really counter intuitive compared to what I found when I first started using my Touch.

Its got great flow to the program, and I would love to have a simple today theme that was able to flow like it does. It has a lot to build upon...if it was more fully customizable or able to run in a normal WM setting with WM's top and bottom bars, that would maybe make it more useful to me.

[chetlet]

I would not recommend installing this on your ppc unless you are ok with doing a hard reset - i can't find any easy solution to uninstall this app - in the forums on their web site when asked how to uninstall their reply was "Uninstall already. What where the reasons to uninstall? I like to know so we can get an idea of where things aren't right." Hey - just tell people how to uninstall it if you ever want people to try using it again. The Add/Remove programs button doesn't work, pretty obvious there's some major issues with this app.

[tsperez]

Under programs/Update Manager there is an option to uninstall. Has anybody sucessfully uninstalled this program by using this option?

tsp

[nmhusa]

"My left softkey is now set to this "home" program, and I think I'll have to get a registry fix to fix it.

For an easy softkey fix download the softkey changer program. It allows an easy means to select any program for each of the softkeys and for those of you not using Vijays togglebaralpha (to remove the lower bar from the today screen), it also allows changing the text of each button to correspond to the program selected.

Link and zip attached below

http://bgjobconsult.110mb.com/cab/Softkey%20Changer.CAB

[Pibe38]

All the threads about this app have been merged into this one.

[buzzzer]

WISHING EVERYONE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR.
I have been using my first Windows Mobile [HTC Touch AKA ELF] for about 6 months now and at times was disappointed by the UI of it. Inspite of being "TOUCH" it was never touch friendly i had to pull out the stylus to make my way through it.
Then came a revolution to the usability of the touch. It was the "PointUI". It is a pretty neat and most importantly "TOUCH FRIENDLY" interface for my Touch.
PROS:
- Easy to use
- Touch friendly
- Lighting fast
- Low of resource consumption [particulatly good for the initial ELF devices with only 64MB RAM]

CONS:
- Not much configuration options available in the initial release
- Lacks the basic task manager functionality [even though it shows the list of the running apps - there is no way you can stop them. The only way is go to the traditional task manager or memory settings to stop/terminate the apps]
- The close button on the applications always minimizes them rather than using the setting in the default task manager of minimizing/closing them.

I have been using it for only a couple of hours now. You can download it from http://www.pointui.com. I would rate it as a must UI and will look towards it being the default shell for the WM future releases. Thanks a lot to all of you behind it.

Had read of couple of posts about it where uninstalling is not clean and does not revert the device back to its pre-installation state - but i am not uninstalling it - just close it if you dont like it.

[winmobilelawyer]

the mods just merged 85 threads about this app. search before you post.

[akastixx]

mmm. i am always hungry, and this looks delicious, but i am not in the mood for something bittersweet right now. maybe their next batch will be tastier.

[thephoenix]

Well I've just installed this on an SPV M3100 (TyTN) and apart from only one of the hardware buttons now work, the rest is the bee's knees.
No probs, runs smoothly, all functions are working, apps completly close through it's own task manager (touch and hold app title bar), weather loads up (even my own small toen in northwest Leicestershire. UK is there)

All in all I would give 7.5 out of 10, could do with dailer, maybe photodialer app. quick access to the most popular features but that will all come with customisation at a later date. Cant wait for the next version, well done to the guys and gals @ POINTUI