PointUI - New Home UI Revolution - MERGED

[thephoenix]

Originally Posted by 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

OK when I said everything seemed to be working, it was, now most controls seem to default to text message screen don't know why. It happened after I did a soft restart, I then had to re-activate the program which created these issues.

[ggaeta]

Originally Posted by 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.
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there are updates for the hardware button issue (on their forum). Sorry i cant remember where. But all my hardware buttons work so does my new z9 bluetooth

[Centz]

For those saying you can't close apps with this all you have to do is click the title of the app up top. The menu pops up and Force Quit is the first option. I don't think they put that in the help video, though. Some apps don't close, however, particularly Phone.

[winmobilelawyer]

I think its pretty nice! I mean, as always, it is not a complete shell replacement so it still feels funny because its really just an overlay over Windows Mobile. But this is pretty cool! IMO this is what it needs:

1. Custom Wallpaper and Collor Theme (just because)
2. The middle part where the weather, tasks, clocks are, should be able to display today plugins (also should be able to have more than one plugin per "slide") Almost like a pocket plus but with slides instead of tabs
3. #2 would solve this. It needs a better app launcher. or an App Launcher "slide"

That would pretty much make it usable by anyone, it would become a Top Bar and Today screen replacement.

And then after that, if they are really abitious over there, they should have the app take over email and sms and also include a phone dialer.

[ppclover2]

its pretty decent actually...few tweaks here and there tho, overall i like it

[phidong]

Just tried it out, froze up on me and I couldn't exit it because it took over my phone and I couldn't access any other programs to terminate it.

Overall it seems polished for what is there, but at the same time there is a lot of stuff lacking (like customization.. and I'm not talking complete overhall, just something as simple as changing some options of the way it operates)

Trying to uninstall it now, will probably watch this to see if improvements are made.

edit: also the scrolling is not intuitive and none of my hardware buttons work when inside the app which really defeats the purpose of having something like this

[saecrow]

anyone know how to make pointui reference pocket informant's calendar rather than the built in wm5 calendar app on the ppc6700? is there are regedit i can do?
thanks!

[pdx77]

So I take it I'm the only one on here who actually likes this app?

For a 1st time release it's not bad, sure there's improvements that can be made and they are working on it. I mean hell, not even 2 days after it was released they already updated it.

[2manyphones]

Yes, for a first release this is very good - IMO. Considering I tweak the heck out of things, I had this loaded on my Touch XL, with the weather configured in about 10 minutes. With that kind of "out of the box" ease, the developers certainly deserve huge credit. I do use an iPhone for day to day use, so I can tell you this is as close as I have come to a stylus free interface - without hours customizing with wisbar, SPB or grumps iphone flash program.

Keep up the good work guys!

[Gilliland]

Originally Posted by pdx77

So I take it I'm the only one on here who actually likes this app?

No, almost everyone likes it. There are bound to be a couple of naysayers, but overall it has received very high praise. Clearly, it is in its early stages - there's a lot of room to expand it beyond its current capabilities. But as a UI, it is head and shoulders above anything else available for WM.

At the moment, though, it is quite limited in its capabilities. There's very little that you can do to customize it, and certain features (access to a Contacts list or a Dialer, for example) are glaring in their absence. I'm optimistic that these issues will all be addressed over time, and based on the responsiveness of the developers so far, it will probably be sooner rather than later.