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Hey guys. I've been watching the development of this project for a while and they released a beta. Thought I'd let everybody know.
http://www.whoneedsaniphone.com/
It's probably the best iPhone style skin/program I've seen yet. Check it out, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Ps. And no, I'm not affiliated with them. They've just got something solid. The alpha that was released works pretty well on my T-Mobile wing, with my wisbar advance and WAD skins still running in the background.
Mi|enko said:
Hey guys. I've been watching the development of this project for a while and they released a beta. Thought I'd let everybody know.
http://www.whoneedsaniphone.com/
It's probably the best iPhone style skin/program I've seen yet. Check it out, I'm sure you won't be disappointed.
Ps. And no, I'm not affiliated with them. They've just got something solid. The alpha that was released works pretty well on my T-Mobile wing, with my wisbar advance and WAD skins still running in the background.
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Wonder why they used Flash lite 2.1 instead of flash 7. I believe lite 2.1 will remove 7. Is that correct. I would not be willing to lose flash 7 for this. I did have this program running on my device though. Seemed ok. I liked itask better, and it has alot of the kinks worked out. The only problem with itask is, the developer won't make the screen look more like the iphone and I am not fond of the layout of the screen. I have requested if he could make one that looks like the iphone. He said its not hard for him to change the layout but he he just wont do it. Even offered to pay him for it. But he still refused. I think I will be sticking with my WAD iphone theme. It looks identical to the iphone.
I think if you can get A_C, Thundershadow14, tene, Slither2006 and some other developers in one to make the ultimate app interface that we will ever see.
Count Schaps in. He is working on such a project now too.
I'd love to be involved with the KILLER WinMo app too if possible. My strength is in UI/Graphics design, and I've recently released my VistaMobile theme to the masses. It's been downloaded a fair amount of times. Would be nice to create one "super-shell" without the need for Wisbar/FTouchFLO/S2U2/etc., but of course still having all of that functionality!
I know there's that "PointUI" app coming out, but I still think it could be better (it's in beta of course, so things may change)...
Hopefully 2008 will be the year that Windows Mobile puts the competition to sleep. Now we just need HTC to bring us the OMNI, or any dream hardware that goes above and beyond the Universal!
This is what I was thinking of doing. We have most of these apps in development we just need to add them all together. I know some of these apps are in different coding programs. I am sure we can find away to do it? I am a UI/Graphics design also but the more help is welcome b/c then each of us have a app to design but of course we all need to agree on the design too. I hope everyone that i mention in the first post is down on doing this. Also getting help from other developers too. if i didn't mention you that doesn't mean i don't want you to help i just don't want to mention everyone.
Thanks,
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OK PointUI pretty much took my idea on what i wanted to do with the finger scrolling!!! Darn Darn Darn. Anyway if we all put all our heads together I think we can come up with something unique.
Come on TENE, say something at least!!
and AC etc...
SPEAK OUT!
Don't forget two big developers from the early days Molski and Faria. started developing ROM's for the Wizard. And see Anichillus at www.anichillus.net/. he's working on a vista interface for the ppc.
A vista interface?! About time.I used to like eXPerience http://www.digitalexpedition.com/main/index.htm when I had the JAM. Maybe somebody could work on that app too....
I think we can all work on the PointUi project and make it the new interface for WM6.
It could be the ultime interface if we can replace the old interface of WM6.
baallrog said:
I think we can all work on the PointUi project and make it the new interface for WM6.
It could be the ultime interface if we can replace the old interface of WM6.
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My thought as well!
PointUI is simply amazing but it still needs a lot of development to be done.
SuperDevelopers > PointUi
PointUI - future app!
working together
well i need people to pm me if they are interested in doing this. i want to know if everyone wants to work together on this development. Now that pointui is out and winmo 7 just news release it maybe to late but i have seen lots of development of the new screen shots like schaps(today screen) , tenes(pocketcm) , a_c(s2u2) , thundershadow(PocketMelody) and slither(cube) that is in development but i cant mention everyone. if we can add this all in one Gui think this will be great app.
Vodafone only Samsung F700 phone. Looks great interface to me.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=66801&stc=1&d=1200941281
(Sorry if this is late post and others have seen this)
I googled it but it doesn't look like it has Windows...
Thats a shame. Love the look of the interface
Yeah, it looks pretty slick. I did some reading on it, and I guess it was supposed to Samsung's answer to the iPhone. For some odd reason, they left out WiFi though. I'd still like to gvet ahold of one and play around with it, though...
Ahh...to be obsessed with phones... ; )
Any update / videos be good. If nothing else might help to inspire a coder more talented than me to make another great WM app!
I think the hardest part your going to have in getting this ROM dumped is that it is on a Samsung!!!! Is there even any Samsung ROMS out there now????
From Expansys:
It supports GSM, EDGE, 3G/WCDMA and also HSDPA going up to 7.2Mbps. The phone comes with a full HTML browser, Bluetooth, a microSD expansion slot. The phone doesn’t run Windows Mobile or any other smartphone OS, but it seems to have all the features that any smartphone user would need, except of course, the ability to install new applications.
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Just a phone ma'am...Just a phone.
Has anyone started working on a wm6 port for the iPhone? Man, that'd be great to use this fantastic hardware with some flexability, upgradability, etc... Don't get me wrong, this is a great device, but let's face it: all it is, is an iPod with a phone built in and a few bells n whistles. You can't play with it the way you can a wm device!!
Any takers???
rofl.
this is quite funny - 2/3 of posts is about iphone solutions, and now i can see this post
i don't think thats possible...
who knows if the chipset is even compatible.
the only thing i would like to see ported from the iPhone to WM6 is the Safari Browser... that would be the only thing.
I can live without "Kinetic" Scrolling.
I have to agree with nothin its funny over 3/4 of the latest additions upgrades and themes all have the iphone touch to them and theres this guy asking to port our crappy MS interface to an iphone?? (BTW i love my crappy MS interface cuz theres so much i can do with it unlike the iphone which is "what u see is what u get" there aint much extra u can do with it)
Yeah but once you port WM over to the iPhone - you can skin it to look like an iPhone! If you figure this out, we outta all chip in, buy two iphone and send a fully skinned WM6.1 iPhone to Billy G (Stevie B now?) and Steve Jobs - maybe MS will get the hint to make cleaner better looking programs and Apple will take the hint to allow it's user's greater flexibility!
Quite frankly though, I suspect you'd have an easier time installing something like XP Embeded on it but that's just my 2 cents!
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... unlike the iphone which is "what u see is what u get" there aint much extra u can do with it
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Not true if you're willing to void the warranty and risk the issues in OTA upgrades. Not THAT far from how Verizon sees things, in some ways.
The *nix aspects of that thing are amazing. Unlock it and aim it at the internet and get MENUS of things to load with no "where's the cab file" or "how do I install this thing" issues.
A super-geek at the office got one and had all that stuff going while still running over WiFi (I guess, since he hadn't activated it yet). Impressive looking stuff if you're *nix savvy.
OpenBSD is indeed powerful and i would rather have THAT on my XDA II instead of WM6 on an iPhone.
The iPhone is a piece of useless crap unless you jailbreak it, and that does not conform to my understanding of freedom & flexibility.
In WM6 i just drop CAB's onto my Memory Card, execute it and then i'm good.
Maybe i could have looked over these shortcomings if the price was REASONABLE... which it's not.
I can get a TyTN II here in Germany for half the Price of the iPhone (around 160 Euros) with a contract.
If you try to get the iPhone without a contract, then it rips a 999 Euro Hole in your Pocket... and before i do that, i'll just save my Money for a TyTN II.
jadephyre said:
If you try to get the iPhone without a contract, then it rips a 999 Euro Hole in your Pocket... and before i do that, i'll just save my Money for a TyTN II.
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untrue. in Herne a guy sells iphones without contracts for 450 €.
All I was saying when I started this thread is the iphone hardware is better than anything we have on the market now, and I like using WM6 because it's so flexable and you can have some real fun with it, and I'd like to join the two. If you enjoy your iphone the way it is, then this thread isn't for you...
Impossible? Compatability issues? HA! Me thinks not!!! That's what *DRIVERS* are for. They just need to be written, that's all. Good grief... WM6 is SOFTWARE, and so is iphone OSX. If some hardware, or firmware or software concept works under one, it can BE MADE TO work under the other. Just takes some imagination, some want-to, and ignore they nay-sayers.
docnas said:
this guy asking to port our crappy MS interface to an iphone??
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No! Not the interface... THE ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM!!! And while we're at it, lets make a totally new interface, like HTC's TouchFlo, so it's not so crappy, ey?
docnas said:
(BTW i love my crappy MS interface cuz theres so much i can do with it unlike the iphone which is "what u see is what u get" there aint much extra u can do with it)
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MY POINT EXACTLY!!! Thanks dude
Anyway, I for one would love to run WM6 on the iphone, and no, I wouldn't skin it like an iphone. I don't want my WM6 pda to look like an iphone, even if it is one. I'd much rather see a totally new solution, like HTC did with the Touch, only way better than the Touch or the iphone. Not impossible... Y'all take care now...
mate. if the best developers here, who ahve years and years of experience cant write drivers for the kaiser and other similar devices hardware video acceleration, when if im honest, theyve been working on pretty similar devices for years.... how on earth are they meant to write drivers for an unknown chipset unknown processor, a touchscreen which no windows mobile device uses and a bunch of other stuff...
and its not like an iphone developer rather then a wm developer could write the drivers, because
a) the platform is very young, closed and nobody has much experience even writing programs for it, let alone drivers.
b) why would they want to, all iphone owners are fanboys and hate wm just because its wm.
Plus..... even though the real osx has been ported to pc's, it doesnt have many drivers at all, no wlan drivers and many other things missing... And, pc driver writing is so much more established than ppc writing, but they cant write drivers for the full osx, how will it be easy to write them for a downsized osx...?
Im not setting out to flame, its just to point out that its not exactly commonplace to port an os with full compatibility to another device which was before incompatible...
Rory
docnas said:
(BTW i love my crappy MS interface cuz theres so much i can do with it unlike the iphone which is "what u see is what u get" there aint much extra u can do with it)
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GREAT WORDS!
exactly!
hi, i searched up 'iphone' in this forums and found a lot of iphone themes. i think the Torx-Development one and iFonz from ssj5trunks are the best. can you tell me which one looks and acts more like the iphone?
do you have to launch a program to make the theme work or does it start automatically hen i start the phone?
can you change the backgrounds of the themes?
thanks
Vapourstreak said:
hi, i searched up 'iphone' in this forums and found a lot of iphone themes. i think the Torx-Development one and iFonz. can you tell me which one looks and acts more like the iphone?
do you have to launch a program to make the theme work or does it start automatically hen i start the phone?
can you change the backgrounds of the themes?
thanks
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I like iTask for the complete iPhone effect. Jus my opinion
Alkhal said:
I like iTask for the complete iPhone effect. Jus my opinion
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I would have to agree with you. The animation when the icons are pressed is near identical to the iPhone's.
My opinion? Don't try to emulate the iphone on your PPC.
I own both an Iphone and an HTC Trinity, and i can tell you no program can come close to the incredible interface of the iphone. First and FOremost, the screen size, not to mention the smoothness of the animations.
So - either you get an iphone (Like I did), or you live with the "uglier" PPC GUI, but get advantage of much more functionality.
Just my 2 cents
Honestly, I used to be obsessed with making my phone look like the iPhone because I was planning to get one, but 3 days before it came out I got an 8525 instead because the iPhone was missing to many features that was important to me. So then I was skinning it to look that way, then it just got boring. I would reeally really reccomend SPB Mobile Shell 2. I really think its the best thing around, because it sex's up the hell out of Windows Mobile and makes it totally finger friendly and smooth. Plus with all the advances people are making customizing it, its becoming even better.
But if you absolutely had to, use iFonz.
can you change the keyboard and EVERYthing in itask to look like the iphone? or can i use resco keybaord and othe third arty plugins?
my family has an iphone, but im using windows mobile because of the more features
it started out as a little project for myself, and myself only.
i feel like the iphone ui is very intuitive and simple with a visual style thats pleasing.. theres nothing wrong with trying to mimic an easy to use interface.. and its to hold me over until att gets its network straight, and a 3g iphone is released.
thank you.
TorxT3D said:
it started out as a little project for myself, and myself only.
i feel like the iphone ui is very intuitive and simple with a visual style thats pleasing.. theres nothing wrong with trying to mimic an easy to use interface.. and its to hold me over until att gets its network straight, and a 3g iphone is released.
thank you.
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I am also waiting on that 3g iPhone. Was that, no video recording, and PTT that kept me from purchasing. I expect those features on the next iPhone release(except PTT) and I will be buying it then.
Super EmericAn said:
I am also waiting on that 3g iPhone. Was that, no video recording, and PTT that kept me from purchasing. I expect those features on the next iPhone release(except PTT) and I will be buying it then.
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****...the Sony Ericsson Xperia is going to blow the iphone away
...and AT&T is going to carry it. Cha Ching