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WARNING IPHONE HATERS... (semi-clone on board)
Details here.. http://iwindowsmobile.com/vito-mobile-shell.html
Looks like its open season on hacking this now.
If I can only get it to somehow show calendar events on a page, its a hit.
Interesting. The only thing that stil pulls the I-phone ahead in this race is the speed at which it can use thier shell. I still love my PDA more though. Thanks for the link.
Hmmm...can't wait to see some skinning for this.
*update*
DL'd the cab from the website listed. It hasn't asked for an activation code yet...found activation screen, 14-day trial.
It is fairly easy to run, doesn't seem to take a lot of memory. Very similar to iPhone icon UI, not as 'fancy' looking.
looks boring
There is definite room for improvement...not too bad for a 1st version but it's typical of Vito software.
Contacts can be set up with their own icon and can be mixed in with application icons.
I would like to see something along the lines of SPB Mobile Shell though...i.e. Clock page, calendar. Then again, I suppose that will just fatten it up and cause some memory drain like SPB already does.
I'll try it...
I'll try it for a few days.Thanks.
Looks good but why always duplicate the iPhone interface, come up with something better. The new Diamond interface is like a breath of fresh air. It lets us know there are other options out there that is also good.
the most boring thing about vito apps is how cheap they all look. ugly, ugly, ugly.
looks too generic reminds me of samsung gui
something unique would have been more eye catching!
Nice one
Cool feature, but why use it when I have this baby..
On the HTCTOUCH
dizzydix said:
Cool feature, but why use it when I have this baby..
On the HTCTOUCH
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Just curious but what is that?
**Update**
NM, I found this thread you were in...Is it WAD or WAD2 you're mostly using?
dealwagon said:
WARNING IPHONE HATERS... (semi-clone on board)
Details here.. http://iwindowsmobile.com/vito-mobile-shell.html
Looks like its open season on hacking this now.
If I can only get it to somehow show calendar events on a page, its a hit.
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What was the warning for? Another dumb iPhone wan-a-be.
it's actually pretty nice... it just needs some graphical tweaks in my opinion...
Seems ok to me. Granted its similar to the iphone layout; however seems fairly simple and straightforward.
I like the semi black background without it being too black.
Everyone will have a view on this latest interface/gui. What we should remember is that there are people out ther doing an awful lot of development work to give us a better interface/more choice on the WM platform.
Constructive criticism and good points, e.g the request for skinning, is one thing. Simply lambasting the tool is not good enough.
Someone on here the other day was asking for ideas for a new UI for WM. Should we not seize on opportunities like this one presented to us?
Just my dollars worth.
WB
Winterface
I like the iPhone-like interface, and the customizeability. Aside from that, I agree that the overall apearance of SBP Mobile Shell is better.
amen! If I wanted an iPhone, I'd get a damned iPhone!!
dizzydix said:
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is fine.... can you post?
I second WackyBanana.
It'd be great to have skinning sometime soon.
just my 2 cents worth, but iphone bashing is getting a bit droll, since we're all here on WM platforms anyways. You have to admit, Apple's UI's are pretty good, just really short on apps and customization.
So lets congratulate Vito and see if we can get some more customization options.
I would LOVE an option to turn off the Vito 'slide to unlock' option since I'm already using Slide2Unlock Pro 1.05...
like another person stated it looks boring! i wonder how well it will work? will it be speedy or sluggish?
is there going to be a wm equivalent for this
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is there going to be a wm equivalent for this
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I wish there is. I've been waiting for this for so long...
theres a program out there called SportsNut, that can grab the scores, news, etc...from ESPN, FOX, and Yahoo........i have installed, its nice, could use some tweaking and better graphics but it does the job
try pocket express, awesome sports scores upto date, follow favorite team and all sports. news, and alot more. and sport is just one thing on the app it a mobile media app. try it out you'll like it better then sportsnut, which looks like ****
thanks alot, its alot better, to bad we cant get a coder/developer that can develop something from both programs to pull the scores/news into something for 6.5, like a sports ticker or similiar
SportsNut
I installed Sportsnut and I kind of like it (I personally didn't like pocket express). I installed a cab that I found in ppcgeecks but it is for vga, does anyone know were to find a wvga version of it?
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thanks alot, its alot better, to bad we cant get a coder/developer that can develop something from both programs to pull the scores/news into something for 6.5, like a sports ticker or similiar
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I'm actually working on this now but I don't know how to do the custom panel/tab in wm 6.5to display the data. Any ideas?
maybe something like the stock ticker, or some panel that is broken down by nfl, nba, mlb, and espn top news stories.....where you would click on it and it would display the scores of that day....that could be a start ??
I noticed there is no weather app included with the streak.
Where can I get the EXACT same or even better weather app like on the HTC HD2 or the HTC Desire?
I looked yesterday in the marketplace for weather apps and there was nothing at all, just skins or different icons...
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I noticed there is no weather app included with the streak.
Where can I get the EXACT same or even better weather app like on the HTC HD2 or the HTC Desire?
I looked yesterday in the marketplace for weather apps and there was nothing at all, just skins or different icons...
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Fancy widget will do the job but i use weather and toggle widget
I found quite a good one that's easy to use and is accurate.
It's called AccuWeather.
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Fancy widget will do the job but i use weather and toggle widget
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Hi
I use the weather and toggle as well , do you know how to get weather to be displayed under the clock? on my screen is on the right side of the widget and it looks like it's squeezed. weird... I wonder if there is any solution for it
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I use the weather and toggle as well , do you know how to get weather to be displayed under the clock? on my screen is on the right side of the widget and it looks like it's squeezed. weird... I wonder if there is any solution for it
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I think thier are skins out in the market that will change it but i have not looked into it yet
I did try some of them but no matter which skin I use it doesn't look great as it should, maybe its not compatible with streak?
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I did try some of them but no matter which skin I use it doesn't look great as it should, maybe its not compatible with streak?
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Same here. The numbers of the clock arent displayed properly seither, but shifted to the right in every skin ive used this far... has anyone found a solution for that yet?
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Chirurg said:
Same here. The numbers of the clock arent displayed properly seither, but shifted to the right in every skin ive used this far... has anyone found a solution for that yet?
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I found a MUCH better program that worked for me!
It's called beautiful widgets. It's amazing and much better than the stock ones for the htc devices.
It's graphically much better and is much more accurate, try it out. You even get to change the look of your clock and can even download hundreds of others.
kanej2006 said:
I found a MUCH better program that worked for me!
It's called beautiful widgets. It's amazing and much better than the stock ones for the htc devices.
It's graphically much better and is much more accurate, try it out. You even get to change the look of your clock and can even download hundreds of others.
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That doesn't work for me neither. It's just not displayed correctly...
I'm using beautiful widgets. Awesome weather program for our streaks! When you tap the widget, it fills the entire screen with a gorgeous weather animation that encompasses the entire screen. Well worth the $2 Thanks for the tip kanej!
So I just found the fancy widget apk which imitates htc.s sense UI and..
It Looks awesome on my x10, but the widget doesnt display any weather information ¿
Do I need to install something to access this feature?
Thanks in advance.
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I had it before.. its pretty random.. it used to be on n off for me!!
Sent from my rooted 026 X10i using swype via XDA!!
Beautiful Widgets is better imo.
Aparently its been pulled from the market following a complaint by HTC?? Just tried to find it and couldn't so had a google.
http://www.androidzoom.com/android_applications/news_and_weather/fancy-widget_gztv.html
I just got Beautiful Widget yesterday and its lovely. Yes I had to pay 1.78 Euros for it but well worth it. Might be an alternative if you can't get yours working.
You may need to go to the fancy widget config screen and uncheck the location box at the top and then 'set location'
Will no longer be greyed out. Set ur location and it should work. Did for me neway . . . .
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You may need to go to the fancy widget config screen and uncheck the location box at the top and then 'set location'
Will no longer be greyed out. Set ur location and it should work. Did for me neway . . . .
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Can someone post a video of beautiful widget running on their x10? I want to buy it based on what everyone is saying but I don't know much about how it actually looks
To be fair its a bit pointless showing you any pics of it cos its soooo skin-able that it would take 100's of shots to show you.
Its 4 colums wide and two deep, you have large clock display, day, date temperature and picture of the weather. The clock can be either in its own box with background or a see thru one so it sits over your wall paper nicely (which is what I have got!) The clock font and colour is hugely changeable, you just download more skins to your phone - free once you've made the initial purchase. The weather pictures probably have a dozen different settings. The text colour for the day date bit is entirely your choice.
It is 'beautiful' and for under £2 its pretty darn cheap for what you get.
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To be fair its a bit pointless showing you any pics of it cos its soooo skin-able that it would take 100's of shots to show you.
Its 4 colums wide and two deep, you have large clock display, day, date temperature and picture of the weather. The clock can be either in its own box with background or a see thru one so it sits over your wall paper nicely (which is what I have got!) The clock font and colour is hugely changeable, you just download more skins to your phone - free once you've made the initial purchase. The weather pictures probably have a dozen different settings. The text colour for the day date bit is entirely your choice.
It is 'beautiful' and for under £2 its pretty darn cheap for what you get.
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Thanks for the great description
But with the imminent update to 2.1, is there any point in getting it now? We can just use the weather live wallpaper
Imminent do you know something we dont? Lol. Hadn't thought about that, but I'm kind of bad at waiting for stuff when I decide I want it. Typical impatient woman!
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Imminent do you know something we dont? Lol. Hadn't thought about that, but I'm kind of bad at waiting for stuff when I decide I want it. Typical impatient woman!
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Well by imminent I meant coming anytime before the world ends in 2012
I think I will wait it out. Thanks though
Hey killerskincanoe that fixed my problem, I jus entered my postal code and the rest is history. Thanks
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pngface said:
Can someone post a video of beautiful widget running on their x10? I want to buy it based on what everyone is saying but I don't know much about how it actually looks
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Are the screenshots in the link not enough.
pngface said:
Well by imminent I meant coming anytime before the world ends in 2012
I think I will wait it out. Thanks though
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Man it's like $2 wtf...people should help the dev community out more, it's a damn good app, so is Touiteur (LevelUp Studio as well)
I heard that Apple purchased Dark Sky and will be removing it from Android. The one thing I like the most about this app is that there is a widget that tells when it's going to rain and stop raining and it seems pretty accurate. Does anyone know any other weather apps that offer this?
Look here
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I heard that Apple purchased Dark Sky and will be removing it from Android. The one thing I like the most about this app is that there is a widget that tells when it's going to rain and stop raining and it seems pretty accurate. Does anyone know any other weather apps that offer this?
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I don't miss that app, for me there's so much better weather app like beautiful widgets or today weather
One thing missing from all these other apps that Dark Sky had was a widget that told you when it was going to rain next, the intensity and when it was going to stop. I have yet to find another program that offers this.
OverDrop has been cool.
I used Today Weather a while back, might have to circle back to that.
AccuWeather was always fine, as well.
Today weather is the best looking app, uses dark sky's server, for now.
AccuWeather has minute forecast, similar to dark sky,vtells when is going to rain and is very accurate.
Overdrop has the best widgets.
le0.br4zuc4 said:
Today weather is the best looking app, uses dark sky's server, for now.
AccuWeather has minute forecast, similar to dark sky,vtells when is going to rain and is very accurate.
Overdrop has the best widgets.
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I appreciate everyone's feedback but I already know all this. It still doesn't answer my question which is none of these other programs offer a simple widget that you can look at to tell when it's going to rain and for how long like Dark Sky has. That is what I was looking for.
Looks like you have 2 options.
1) use the alternatives offered as that is what is available.
2) buy an Apple phone and continue using Dark Sky
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steelersmb said:
I appreciate everyone's feedback but I already know all this. It still doesn't answer my question which is none of these other programs offer a simple widget that you can look at to tell when it's going to rain and for how long like Dark Sky has. That is what I was looking for.
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Then in that case you can do what everyone else is doing. Wait for apps to fill the gap left by Dark Sky, I hope someone steps up. As you do that, download and try apps for yourself
I'm in the same boat as you OP - everyone giving suggestions for alternatives with pretty UI and radar maps, etc.
I don't care about any of that - the built-in weather works fine for all of that.
The killer feature that many people who've never used Dark Sky is ignorant to, is the fact that a notification alert would pop up and let you know "Severe rain in 20 minutes" or "Rain stopping in 45 minutes".
It was super useful to let me know when to plan to leave the house to avoid the wet, etc.
Dark Sky even had an Android Wear app - which was cool until I went Tizen with my Galaxy Watch .
So to help you out, OP, I've tested a bunch of weather apps, and the only one so far that threw a similar alert today like Dark Sky was Geometric Weather.
It was about a half hour after Dark Sky's popped up, and it wasn't as exact (May ran in the next few hours), but it was better than nothing.
Hopefully by the time the rains get heavy again, we'll have a good alternative.
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I'm in the same boat as you OP - everyone giving suggestions for alternatives with pretty UI and radar maps, etc.
I don't care about any of that - the built-in weather works fine for all of that.
The killer feature that many people who've never used Dark Sky is ignorant to, is the fact that a notification alert would pop up and let you know "Severe rain in 20 minutes" or "Rain stopping in 45 minutes".
It was super useful to let me know when to plan to leave the house to avoid the wet, etc.
Dark Sky even had an Android Wear app - which was cool until I went Tizen with my Galaxy Watch .
So to help you out, OP, I've tested a bunch of weather apps, and the only one so far that threw a similar alert today like Dark Sky was Geometric Weather.
It was about a half hour after Dark Sky's popped up, and it wasn't as exact (May ran in the next few hours), but it was better than nothing.
Hopefully by the time the rains get heavy again, we'll have a good alternative.
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I get the "rain starting in so many minutes" alert on AccuWeather. I'll try to remember and get a screenshot next time I get it.
BTW, AccuWeather does not have a "pretty" UI, at best is acceptable.
I got an alert yesterday on AccuWeather that I didn't get on Dark Sky. It was regarding the power of winds or something like that, I didn't really pay attention. Before the "Severe Weather Advisement" I got on every app I'm currently testing
How about RainToday ?
Edit : not sure it still exists
https://raintoday.fr.uptodown.com/android/telecharger
looks like they already removed it from play store even though they said it would be july 1st
Yes, it was a great weather apk .... if anyone else wanted to use it ... until they completely shut it down on Android ...
Here... https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=XZTmJPkZrVqmmOc8al82NXfVnK8mKmjqxG6X
I totally agree with you OP. I think a lot of people have no idea how accurate Dark Sky & Arcus were for short term rain prediction.
The Dev of Shadow weather has said that it will offer these hyperlocal alerts but so far it isn't. Arcus say that, even though the Dark Sky API is available until 2021 they won't pay Apple to use it. Arcus works perfectly & it's a pity that someone doesn't adapt their app to the other available APIs.
Most radar data is free so it just need the app to read the rain radar & convert it into written messages.
I would pay a lot for an app that offers the same as Dark Sky & Arcus
I actually find the Accuweather Beta app pretty good but the widget sucks and it doesn't update often. There needs to be a way to set how often you want it to update and I wish it showed the 5-day forecast. As far as accuracy though, I find it spot on in my area.
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I actually find the Accuweather Beta app pretty good but the widget sucks and it doesn't update often. There needs to be a way to set how often you want it to update and I wish it showed the 5-day forecast. As far as accuracy though, I find it spot on in my area.
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But it doesn't offer anything comparable with Dark Sky or Arcus unless it gives notifications like " Rain starting in 20 mins stopping 8 minutes later" . AFAIK only Dark Sky & Arcus have ever offered this.
Yes it does, it has Minutecast and it will tell you. It works pretty well but like I said, the widget sucks.
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Yes it does, it has Minutecast and it will tell you. It works pretty well but like I said, the widget sucks.
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Trying it now
Does it give minutecast notifications ?
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Trying it now
Does it give minutecast notifications ?
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Works quite well but no sound notification so you have to keep checking the phone.