Anyone else hate the windows 6.5.1 / Touchflo3d look?

#1 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 12:50 AM

i applaud microsofts attemp to really give windows mobile a facelift with the oversized bottom bar with better graphics, but i cant help notice that it does not do touchflo3d any justice regarding the look and feel of the homescreen. The bottom bar is basically the same size as the slider and it really takes focus away from it making it not mesh well and give it a uncomfortable, cramped look to it. am i the only one who feels this way? i fear for the leo manila roms coming soon and that most likely the cooks will want to use the latest wm builds.

k_semler · #2 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 01:03 AM

Unless you're running your phone as a pocket PVR, hooked up to your TV, (as I do), the "focus" of what you are doing on screen will not be an issue in normal usage. Normal usage is only the owner of the phone, and nobody will know. As long as you don't hook it up to an external video source, you only have to deal w/ your own mind. Even then, it is common practice to use the phone screen until you reach a point that it is reasonable to transistion to a large screen display. As a normal user, as long as you know what you're doing, who cares?

**ou2mame** · #3 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 02:36 AM

i actually really like the direction ms is going in. they should have done this 5 years ago.

k_semler · #4 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 02:45 AM

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Originally Posted by ou2mame

i actually really like the direction ms is going in. they should have done this 5 years ago.

Windows 7 RTM v Windows Vista RTM v Windows XP SP3. v Windows 2000 Professional RTM v Windows NT4 SP6A. Skip a generation, and you see significant changes. However, the differece between XP SP3 and Win 7 RTM are miniscule, (even w/ no hardware changes. (BFD, you can search from the start menu, and you lose real directory listings, and instead have gradual changes that are unnoticeable from one generation to the next, (AND need to skip 1 generation so you see any difference).

theclerk74 · #5 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 03:05 AM

I noticed it too. I guess the more I use it, the less I really think about it though. It makes it look maybe a little... Lop-sided. And they do kind of clash. A widget type home screen would be perfect. all the functionality of Manila without the bottom slider. I've tried so many home screens, and still keep coming back to Manila. And with the 2.5 port hopefully just around the corner, it just keeps getting better to me. Hopefully someone will be quick to make a mod that hides the bottom slider in portrait like the way it is in landscape for 2.5.

nmhusa · #6 (**permalink**) 09-22-2009, 09:57 AM

Isn't TouchFlo3D something HTC came up with and Windows Mobile 6.5.1 a purely Microsoft endeavour ? Why then would you expect them to work well together ? I think you should be comparing WM6.5.1 with Titanium rather than TF3D, as Microsoft is not designing WM6.5.1 for any third party apps/mods to the interface.

Just my 2c