Ideas for better Handling Manila and Windows-Mobile - Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General

Everything should be more in One and in one style and less than a puzzle-Operating-System. More handle, more flowing, more user-friendly.
0. There should be some possibility to Plug-In New Panels for Manila and to switch Panels Off. For example, I don`t need some weather-panel, cause i see this when I go in front of our house, some additional functions would make more sense:
1. Integrated RSS-reader/ news-plugin (like the Email-Overflow-View in Manila.)
2. Media-Player-Plugin for all kind of media (photos and Videos also like MP3, this should support Flv-Youtube-Videos and Livestream-Media too. The player should be aviable by browsing with the windows-browser, instead of mediaplayer and much more aplications.
3. Windows-Mobile-Browser: the scrolling-bar should be invisible! When you go right-edge of the screen with the finger over it, the scroll-bar should appear, it should have always the same size, finger-friendly fat and the background should be half unvisible (so that you see the bar visible in front of the window and the rest, in which the bar is moved, is blended over the window like glass.)
- there should be the possibility for saving Playlists by handling like in the core media player - direct, easy.
4. PDF-Reader: should be integrated in the opera-mobile-browser, scrolling and zooming should be possible also like in opera. The Opera-Browser should be aviable also offline for watching pdf-files. Some E-Book-Manager would make sense for Manila. It should be possible to set bookmarks for every PDF-E-Book with notes for them, which you can share later too and save common with the ebooks, it's uncomfortable to read ebooks with the Acrobat-Mobile Reader. That should be easy and flowing like the iPhone-View.
5. In Opera-Browser should be the function for saving a whole Websession (all opened Tabs in one boomark). You should can open more windows than 3 in one.
- there should be some integrated function, for printing webpages later wireless via bluetooth.
- There should be some possibility to syncronize opera boomarks with active-sync too.
6. It should be possible for the programm-panel to list every programm automated in the shortcut-view.
7. Also at contacts-shortcut, it should be possible to select, that every person has to be listed with a picture, not only some.
8. It should be possible at the phone, to select, that every answered call should be on loudspeakers opened. It should be possible, to select, that the scrolldown for viewing options while calling should be also on one view, without scrolling down, as a standart, so that scrolling isn't needed.
- Add a phonecall/ Number as an apointment should also be possible at Outlook.
9. The Option for Audio-Booster should be aviable also without using a headset.
10. There should be the option, to link the Youtube-Player shortcut at Manila with other Programms, there are Programms too, with which you can record and download clips.
11. Perhaps a shortcut for a painting-panel could be integrated too, so if you scroll to this, you can draw directly notes, like at a sheet of paper.
12. Listening to Music/ Watching whole SD-Card-Movies (insted of DVD) wireless over Bluetooth by streaming Audio and Video to your TV or the Home-Sound-System should be possible, also with Dolby 5.1 Quality and with HD-Movie-Quality (100HZ). That would be really cool to use the Pocket PC as Media-Player and for easy-connect to presentation-Systems like a video-beamer. For this there should be some better processors, better bluetooth, bluetooth-universal-media-stream-formate and recieving components for video and audio, who you can connect to your Home-System too.
13. For Fun, there should be some dejaying-programm for pda, for playing loops and sound-samples on the pda with different effects and on multiple bands at one time. And with synthesizers and a scratching-panel.

good ideas but most of them impossible unless you start programing yourself...
some solutions:
0. there is "manila 2d customizer" M2DC
3. if you meant the file explorer you can use resco's explorer its more functional & customizable
7. in contacts everyone shown with picture maybe you don't have pics for all ur contacts
8. with some programs its possible to set answered calls on speaker so probably there is some registry key for this & i didn't understood what you meant in "scrolldown for viewing options while calling" but everything while calling depends on dialer you have so you can install another dialer
9. for better audio install SRS WOW HD
13. dj programs exist i remember seeing something like this and there are also programs like cubase to make songs i dont remember names but if u search youll find
and the best solution to every problem is search...

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Any software requests out?

Hi, I'm a developer wanting to write an app/today plugin. Do you have any request?
Yea I've wanted this for long time and hope you make it for me. Program that like the watch beep or vibrate 30 min or hour and not turn the screen on?? so I can tell time without pulling the phone out.
Thanks for the opportunity, I was thinking about asked here.
Today plug in for Last call and Running Program as in O2 Plus. Both are nice features of O2 Plus but sadly hacked version has lot of issues to run on wizard and it's big prog to install only for those plugins. Thanks.
check this out http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=328317
I'd love an app that would allow you to get notifications of email that goes into folders other than inbox. Currently, there's no way to do that, and there are no rules you can set like in desktop Outlook to inform you when a message goes into one of those folders.
Hi Kartam, I use claunch, you can see it in my avatar there, I would love to be able to finger scroll the launch icons to the left or the right to quickly get to all my apps, configurable icon size of course. Outside of the today screen a finger friendly file browser is definitely waiting for development, something that has the look and feel of pocketCM but shows your files instead of your contacts, complete with favourites and filters for stuff like music videos or documents. It should also allow users to set a default action on selecting any given item.
funger friendly alarm clock?
Hi,
how about an alarm clock with numbers like a telephone pad, so you can easily type in the wake up time (regular cell phones allow this). I tried all sorts of commercial products, they are not good (snowtime, spb time, etc...)
Or how about a modern version od "pPod"? :-D
Good luck with all your programs!!
finger friendly alarm clock?
Hi,
how about an alarm clock with numbers like a telephone pad, so you can easily type in the wake up time (regular cell phones allow this). I tried all sorts of commercial products, they are not good (snowtime, spb time, etc...)
Or how about a modern version od "pPod"? :-D
Good luck with all your programs!!
Mine's rather Simple!!!!
...or at least I think it it should be.
All I want is an app (preferably that sits on the today screen) that can toggle the network selection between automatic, roam only, and home only.
Sometimes I need to roam to hold a proper signal, and in those places I like switching my phone to "roam only". Then, when going home, I switch it back to automatic network selection. Problem is that this is buried in many menus and takes several clicks to switch. Its a pain to do this 2x a day.
what do you think?
I actually think you may be able to do that with MortScript, I could've sworn I saw a script that did something similar on HoFo or another forum with one that did almost exactly what you described, but it might've been the WiFi radio in conjunction with a GPS puck...or something
I have multiple application using GPRS. My problem is that all those application are not using tha same APN (not sure of the name, I mean different GPRS connections). Each time I need to use one application or another I need to go to the parameters, change my setting click multiple times on OK.
It would be great (at least for me) to have an application on the today screen which permit to select the correct APN.
Regards
Stephane
cybersush said:
Hi,
Or how about a modern version od "pPod"? :-D
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What a great age we live in when a completely touch screen digital music player is not considered as modern!
Haha, you got a point there, touché :-D
What i meant was a more modern pPod skin (maybe more skins to choose from...?), a playlist manager of some sort (so you dont have to browse through all kins of folders until you find your mp3s), slightly bigger buttons, ....
I love the design and the simplicity of the pPod though, just a little tweaking would be cool. And yes, i did also try mortplayer and HTC audiomanager, both great programs, but both programs are too big for just playing music (in my opinion)
Actually a great program would just be a hack to have HTC Audio Manager use the ID3 Number tags to sort music instead of Alphabetical
Re the new ppod program - that'd be great - I've been refreshing the iphone media player thread like nothing on earth - cant wait to see what that turns out like... the HTC hack would be good tho.
ps you might want to check out Simple Tunes V1.61
Hi!
You can make a little program for me??
Here you can find a little CAB http://forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=49265&d=1188921933
They copy to the Windows folder a little executable, copy into StartUp folder a shortcut to it, and add few registry-entries....
Well, this program don't have any interface, simple start when device start...
The target is "improove" the quality of A2DP transmission (audio over bluetooth)
BUT, when this service running, the battery quickll drain!!
You can make a simple app (like a GUI) to enable/disable it??
To enable = write few registry-entries and copy a shortcut to the StartUp folder, then softreset the device
To disable = remove the same registry-entries and remove the shortcut from the StartUp folder, then softreset the device
Can you create an application that will let my Hermes roam the floor vacuuming!?
a2dp stereo auto enable
can you write (or is there out there) an app which enables the a2dp pairing with a bt headset so the stereo is enabled by default when the headset re-establishes a connection.
currently (for me) if i turn loose the pairing, ie if I charge the headset, then turn the headset back on for a2dp. I have to run the bt settings in control panel and click 'set as wireless stereo' on the headset.
note the phone headset is enabled straight away when it is powered up.
thanks
left/right scrolling today screen plugin
this would be a sweet today plugin....
Location based profile changer

Updated 3/26 : CEPhotoViewer - Small Photo Viewer

Folks,
I have created a small photo viewing application that I wanted to publish to the world. Key features are
- Native C code. No dependencies on .NET or any other library
- Tiny (just 25Kb)
- Full screen photos with gestures and hot-spots
- Slide-show mode
- Nice transitions (you can see them all in the slide show mode)
I have tested this on my GPS (CE 4.2) and PDA (Hermes) and it works quite well.
Gestures:
- Slide left to go to next photo in list (You can also use the wheel down for this)
- Slide right to go to previous photo list (You can also use the wheel up for this)
- Slide up to go to last photo in list
- Slide down to go to first photo in list
Hot Spots
- Top left to open a specific folder. Folder navigation is done by sliding up and down and select the <This Folder> to select
- Bottom left to open a specific photo. Again, you can slide up or down or go to a specific folder
- Bottom Right to start/stop slide show mode. Slideshow is 3 seconds. You can change the config file to specify different interval
- Top right to exit
- Right edge of screen to go to next photo in list
- Left edge of screen to go to previous photo list (You can also use the wheel up for this)
- Bottom edge of screen to go to last photo in list
- Top edge of screen to go to first photo in list
Configuration
CEPhotoViewer saves its configuration in CEPhotoViewer.cfg in the same folder as the exe. This file contains the last open folder and the slide show timeout
Startup
- On startup CEPhotoViewer looks for any JPG/BMP/GIF images in the program's folder. Else it prompts you to select a folder. Once selected the config file is created and subsequent runs, it will automatically pickup that folder
Bugs
- CEPhotoViewer uses native microsoft DLL to load a image. Depending on the speed of your CPU, this loading might be slow. Photos resized to the correct size (under 640x480) load pretty quickly. Large (2MP+) photos take a couple of seconds to load. Perhaps someday I will include native JPG loading codeDone
- CEPhotoViewer is built for ARM CPUs only. I can build for other CPUs but dont have a device handy
Looking forward to your comments. Im also working on finishing a MP3 player and a launcher (more appropriate for GPS devices)
Version history
- v0.67 (3/25/2008)
First public release​- v0.68 (3/26/2008)
Integrated JPEG processing. Much faster in loading big images (although the size tripled from 20Kb to 60Kb)​Added edge hot-spots to navigate in addition to slide gestures​
Feature Request
What do you think of adding in touch Pan, Tilt, Zoom, & Rotate? Also, it would be cool if it auto rotated based on the original pictures orientation.
Thanks,
Curious G
i'll give this a shot when i get home
curious george said:
What do you think of adding in touch Pan, Tilt, Zoom, & Rotate? Also, it would be cool if it auto rotated based on the original pictures orientation.
Thanks,
Curious G
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Forgot to mention, pictures are auto-rotated if they can fit better in the screen. Also auto-rotates if you change the display (like when I pull out the keyboard)
Nice but it wouldn't load my actual (2mp) photos. Sliding is a bit slow but very smooth. Wouldn't quit and at some point all corners stopped working.
Trekvogel said:
Nice but it wouldn't load my actual (2mp) photos. Sliding is a bit slow but very smooth. Wouldn't quit and at some point all corners stopped working.
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Loading large images is time consuming, sorry, thats the way microsoft has implemented JPG processing. The corners are not 'not responding', the program is still trying to load the image.
Im trying to compile ijl jpg library that can loaded scaled images, that way I only decompress the size I want
3/26 - Version updated
Guess I'm in the minority who resizes images to fit in PDA screen. Due to popular demand, I have integrated the IJG jpeg library to considerably speed up loading of large images (largely due to internal image scaling)
Also added edge hotspots to navigate images, rather than slides which are bit cumbersome
my personal opinion(i havent seen program YET):
any viewer, that cannot show gif/animgif/png/tga/bmp files is pointless.
it doesn't matter how "touch"-ed it will be.
so - i am gonna update opinion after tests..
nothin said:
my personal opinion(i havent seen program YET):
any viewer, that cannot show gif/animgif/png/tga/bmp files is pointless.
it doesn't matter how "touch"-ed it will be.
so - i am gonna update opinion after tests..
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It does show gif and bmp. Adding png is trivial (libpng can be compiled easily in CE, both PNG and TIF take about 100Kb each). My intent is to what cover 80% of the people would want.
Just tried it on my Trinity and, while the transition speed is nothing to write home about, the software works. Not sure if i prefer this or S2V, but it has to be said this is a nice application.
Edit
Could do with more space at the top when navigating folders, the directory path disappers under the "This Folder" button.
Please could we have screenshots?
iamwhoiam said:
Please could we have screenshots?
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It shows your photo on the full screen, so screenshots are not of any use
deedee said:
Just tried it on my Trinity and, while the transition speed is nothing to write home about, the software works. Not sure if i prefer this or S2V, but it has to be said this is a nice application.
Edit
Could do with more space at the top when navigating folders, the directory path disappers under the "This Folder" button.
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The main goal of writing this app was to have it working on all CE devices (including GPS that do not have the .NET framework installed).
Also, there are more transitions than just the slides that are visible when you are in slide-show mode
Amazing Program!!
I've just gotten myself a windows mobile phone. I looked everywhere for a simple photo viewer that could scroll through images by tapping on the left or right of the screen. I didnt understand why resco photoviewer or pqv or any of those other photo viewers didnt have this feature. It was so frustrating.
Also I wanted to browse folders starting at a pre-configured Picture folder. I didnt want the program to go scanning my whole PDA for pics including gifs and pngs for some other softwares.
Finally found this program and I'm really happy.
I wonder if you're still developing this program though? This thread doesnt seem to be active anymore. I hope you'll still continue developing this program.
If you're too busy, I'd be happy to help in some aspects of coding or improving the program. It really is that amazing to me.
Hope this program is still alive.
Lodd said:
I've just gotten myself a windows mobile phone. I looked everywhere for a simple photo viewer that could scroll through images by tapping on the left or right of the screen. I didnt understand why resco photoviewer or pqv or any of those other photo viewers didnt have this feature. It was so frustrating.
Also I wanted to browse folders starting at a pre-configured Picture folder. I didnt want the program to go scanning my whole PDA for pics including gifs and pngs for some other softwares.
Finally found this program and I'm really happy.
I wonder if you're still developing this program though? This thread doesnt seem to be active anymore. I hope you'll still continue developing this program.
If you're too busy, I'd be happy to help in some aspects of coding or improving the program. It really is that amazing to me.
Hope this program is still alive.
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Glad to hear that this application is working well for you.
I have not stopped development on this, added additional features like PNG, GIF decoding and automatic rotation.
This being a PPC forum, there is not much need for this app since there are multiple options (including built-in applications). I had made this app and many others primarily for GPS and other low end devices without the standard libraries.
I will update this thread with the latest version and also add other applications I have built (including native MP3/OGG player, simple shell, GPS dashboard etc), all totally skinnable and configurable
The program has been amazing. Loads huge pictures with no problem. It's definitely faster than Vito's EyePhoto.
But Coolsva, I have a question. Now call me crazy, but I want to be able to set it up so that when I click a jpg file in file explorer or total commander, it will open up in your photoviewer instead of the windows mobile default viewer (coz it sucks). What're the parameters to do so? I tried the normal parameter "%1" but it doesn't seem to work.
I'm glad you're still working on this program.
Cool program , but zoom would be nice feature
coolsva said:
I will update this thread with the latest version and also add other applications I have built (including native MP3/OGG player, simple shell, GPS dashboard etc), all totally skinnable and configurable
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Looks interesting, please do it !
Just now landed at this thread after spending a while checking out google results for "windows mobile picture viewer". Coolsva's prog sounds very worth trying, but I'm wondering if 0.68 is still the latest release?
HarpShot
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He had a photographic memory that was never developed.
Just saw this too, this could have real potential
I'm also searching for a simple photo viewer like Lodd mentioned

Recommended software?

I haven't bought any software for ages for WM, wondering what people think is a must have for the Touch HD?
Check out my signature for loads of games and programs
Also, some might not work due to the HD's VGA screen.
It depends on your needs and personal preferences really.
For me, among my favourites are:
1) SoftMakers for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation. This is a must have for me.
2) Meta Trader 4 - for real time share prices, commodity prices, exchage rates, etc.
3) SPB Mobile Shell for time, weather, sound profile change, message alerts, program launching, and photo dialing. Also an excellent way to put internet browing history and favourite on the desktop. Greatly enhance even the camera function.
4)AGEPhone for Voip Call
5)MobileGolfScorer for playing golf
6)Coreplayer for musics and videos
7)HiCalc as calculator
8)TomTOm 7 for navigation
9)Lexisgoo as dictionary
10) Audio Notes Touch for recording telephone conversations
11)Cash Organiser for expenses recording, investment tracking, etc
12) eWallet for keeping password, bank account details, software licence number, warranty details, etc
13)FtouchSL for making the entire winmo experience finger friendly and stylus free
14)GroupSMS and Flash SMS to provide added SMS funtionalities
15) GoogleMap for fun and occasional mapping information
16)MemMaid for memory housekeeping
17)MiniLyric for Karaoke and learning to sing
18)MoBlue to enhance the bluetooth file transfer capability
19)Netfront browser to complement Opera Mobile
20)Pocket Mechanics Professional for device housekeeping and management
21)PPCPimBackup for backing up and restoring contacts, appointments, etc.
22)PsShutXP - a neat little utility to shut down, reset the device.
23) Resco File Explorer - a must have. A finger friendly way to manage files and folders
24)Resco Registry editor - a finger friendly way to manage your registry
25)Resco Picture Viewer - for viewing photos
26)SKTools - for tweaking the device, such as hiding unwanted software keyboard, making time appear on every screen, optimise the device's performance, etc
27)SIPChange - for changing the default software keyboard.
28)Slick - for chats
29)SMS Chat - a finger friendly way to send and read SMS message. Also get threaded SMS features
30) Sprite Backup for backup and restore of device
31)SynchroTime - for correcting the time of the device
32) FdcSoft Task Manager - for disabling unwanted processes and speed up the device.
32)WM5torage - still one of the best way to copy large files to and from PC quickly.
33)Youtubeplay - for downloading files from youtube so that I can watch it again and again in a supersmooth manner. I can also play the video directly without saving it.
34)WMWifirouter - for making my device into a wifi hot spot.
35) Tengo is my favourite software keyboard.
There are many others, such as travel guides, wine guides, etc.
Hope this helps
eaglesteve said:
It depends on your needs and personal preferences really.
For me, among my favourites are:
1) SoftMakers for word processing, spreadsheet, presentation. This is a must have for me.
2) Meta Trader 4 - for real time share prices, commodity prices, exchage rates, etc.
3) SPB Mobile Shell for time, weather, sound profile change, message alerts, program launching, and photo dialing. Also an excellent way to put internet browing history and favourite on the desktop. Greatly enhance even the camera function.
4)AGEPhone for Voip Call
5)MobileGolfScorer for playing golf
6)Coreplayer for musics and videos
7)HiCalc as calculator
8)TomTOm 7 for navigation
9)Lexisgoo as dictionary
10) Audio Notes Touch for recording telephone conversations
11)Cash Organiser for expenses recording, investment tracking, etc
12) eWallet for keeping password, bank account details, software licence number, warranty details, etc
13)FtouchSL for making the entire winmo experience finger friendly and stylus free
14)GroupSMS and Flash SMS to provide added SMS funtionalities
15) GoogleMap for fun and occasional mapping information
16)MemMaid for memory housekeeping
17)MiniLyric for Karaoke and learning to sing
18)MoBlue to enhance the bluetooth file transfer capability
19)Netfront browser to complement Opera Mobile
20)Pocket Mechanics Professional for device housekeeping and management
21)PPCPimBackup for backing up and restoring contacts, appointments, etc.
22)PsShutXP - a neat little utility to shut down, reset the device.
23) Resco File Explorer - a must have. A finger friendly way to manage files and folders
24)Resco Registry editor - a finger friendly way to manage your registry
25)Resco Picture Viewer - for viewing photos
26)SKTools - for tweaking the device, such as hiding unwanted software keyboard, making time appear on every screen, optimise the device's performance, etc
27)SIPChange - for changing the default software keyboard.
28)Slick - for chats
29)SMS Chat - a finger friendly way to send and read SMS message. Also get threaded SMS features
30) Sprite Backup for backup and restore of device
31)SynchroTime - for correcting the time of the device
32) FdcSoft Task Manager - for disabling unwanted processes and speed up the device.
32)WM5torage - still one of the best way to copy large files to and from PC quickly.
33)Youtubeplay - for downloading files from youtube so that I can watch it again and again in a supersmooth manner. I can also play the video directly without saving it.
34)WMWifirouter - for making my device into a wifi hot spot.
35) Tengo is my favourite software keyboard.
There are many others, such as travel guides, wine guides, etc.
Hope this helps
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does al this software work properly on the blackstone if you dont mind me asking anyone
I use flexmail from webis every day!
I would be interested in hearing from anybody who uses email program that incorporates mailling list. What I hope we can do is to create containers that each holds as many email addresses as we choose. Then, when we create or forward mails, we enter the name of that container into the email address instead of enter all the emails individually.
Anyone knows of such an email program?
A lot of those feels a bit redundant on the blackstone. Can anyone confirm if FtouchSL works well together with touchflo3d?
I agree. I used to be a big FtouchSL fan but to be really honest I just don't need it anymore with the blackstone. THe list of "must have" programs for me has shrunk drastically after getting this device. I'm a business user and I mostly do TONS of e-mail and sms, a decent amount of web stuff, listen to MP3's at gym, and GPS nav. My "must-haves":
1. Touchpal, in landscape or protrait I am much faster with this than on my old hermes hardware keyboard, and compared to the miniscule keys on the touch pro?? No comparison... Touchpal also lets me go back and forth between chinese and english in the same sentence without clicking anything which saves me TONS of time
2. AE Button Plus or Magic Button- you'll need something to remap the volume buttons to scroll up and down, there are a couple of places where the touch-scrolling will just let you down on this device and annoy you, programs list and call history are two that come to mind.... I also prefer to map the back button to screen toggle so I can use landscape mode for typing, I find this to be faster at rotating the screen than the g-sensor based solutions (gsen, gyrator) and causes zero stability issues
3. HD Tweak- fantastic freeware from XDA's own, complies wth app to date so always has the latest tweeks and fixes, I like this better than Schaps old tool...sorry!
4. Total Commander- obviously the stock file browser still sucks in WM. I like TC, others prefer Resco.
5. PIM backup- when the inevitible ROM flash comes...you'll want all those sms, e-mail, and contact info to be easilly restored.
THis next one I don't consider "must -have" but it is pretty cool, though I don;t use it that often:
1. COre Player- why fiddle around with converting vids and all that? Just buy the darn player and watch the vids. I personally am never going to watch entire movies on this little screen but every now and then it's nice to be able to load some cartoons or something for a train ride.
That's all I've got on there now besides a few extra g-sensor games (my wife LOVES them) and to be honest, I am loving this phone more than any other device I've ever had.

HD Niggles

Hope you don't mind me dumping my list of niggles for the Touch HD, I've been using it now for over a week after forcing myself away from my Blackberry, Axim x50v, Samsung media player and Samsung mobile phone.. I wanted to have something that replaced them all..
Still use the blackberry, but haven't used the axim, samsung or my mobile phone since so far but here are some niggles that have been coming up with:
In no particular order:
- If the keyboard isn't on in the SMS text viewing screen it sometimes wants to keep closing it when you open it..
- Wifi seems to forget your secret passphrase every now and again whilst you are using it.
- freezing especially whilst you are in the sms text screen - it comes unstuck after a few seconds (I know from here I'm not alone!)
- the inclusion of RSS Hub the new name of Newsreader that I used on my Axim, liked the way you could use swipes to the right or left to shift through the news items. Pity you can't click on the download arrows whilst it is updating to get a progress indicator anymore though.
- writing txt's on the move - as there isn't any real tactile response I have to look at the keyboard to text which is bad for me as it takes my concentration of where I'm walking. I'm now waiting until I can stop and just send the message - I think this would be the same as other touch systems too like the iphone.
- holding down the end key even though I've got it configured to do so does not lock the device, it may be because I've got the information screen configured.
- the case provided is a bit awkward when you're listening to music and you put it on and unless you do it holding it up through the front and back you can mistakenly turn down or up the volume or switch the screen on
- if you have a third party calendar/task application that replaces the built in versions that the manilla/touch flo does not respect that it should use those instead without hacks
- Video playback for h.263 files that plays smoothly on my 3 year old Pocket PC 2003SE VGA x50v does not playback smoothly via Coreplayer even if you say show it 100% and tweak. I'm looking forward to the Coreplayers new version when it comes out that should rectify that.
- Because there aren't any hardware buttons it's a bit more awkward to skip ahead in coreplayer..
- Is there a way that would allow me to remotely control the player such as next, previous play and pause as well as take a call from the headphone jack? It looks like the only ones you can get use the USB connector at the bottom..
- new notifications such as texts indicator of how many new messages take a while to dissapear if you view them in the TouchFlo interface, you may have to open up the message for the indicator to clear.
- When browsing via the opera browser, some pages can't be scrolled to the full length of the page - it just doesn't let you unless you zoom right in even though the scroll bars indicate you can.
- Entering text via the keyboards with T9 mode, occasionaly it adds the word you previously typed but may have not pressed space on (even though it shows up on the screen).

[Q] Windows with Aero-Look

[Redaktion, can you please integrate the Attached Bitmap here? THX A Lot!]
Windows-CE Phone with Aero Glass Surface
Windows should look out more clear and attractive, serious. The Handling should be better.
1. For what do you need colored Icons, simple Elegance with Glass-Effect, like “professional” Windows-Desktop would look more professional. Tiles should be all the same Size and with common-Look of Glass and additional the Picture of your Choice, that you view in Standby-Complete, just with A Clock upside.
- Do you need -> Symbol? There is enough Place for 3 Raws of glazed Tiles.
- Do somehow miss Symbols of Tiles Function? Everyone can read Words.
When you beginn Minimum-Design, why not finish IT? There should be some Alternative for Business-People, that gives Difference to all the coloured
Phone-Toys!
2. There should be some
Taskmanager with _ [] X Symbols at the opened Windows-Tiles when you click on two Times.
3. Animated Icons help to overview running Applications. Some Flash-out-Effect should be there when you hold the Finger on A Tile filling the Screen, with the Preview of the Tiles Function. Example: opened Websessions, like this 1 from Windows-Desktop.
4. Also, i miss the original Fileexplorer - there should be additional some Upload-Client for Skydrive, FTP-Uploader and A physical Share-Function, with Bluetooth and via Mail. The Media-Explorer ignores all my File-Structure, Names, Formats. There is not Copy and Paste.
5. Tiles & Functions
A >>Pager<< could collect every Social-Networks together and RSS. There should be Updates for additional Headlines, Networks and for Developers Plugins. At the Market (-place) you can buy.
Library, is the classic Study-Tool I’m searching for! Please look at the Tiles on the Preview-Bitmap. This integrates A Function for re-viewing Bookmarks – also from Web-Sessions, view PDFs, also for Music-Playlists. Library should help to load Sessions fast.
More i put together:
- Calls/ Contact-Managing, take Photo, Video-Call
- Chat/ for “on-Phone” Contact-Managing, that is opposite to Social-Networks, because this Fun-Stuff steals much Business-Time, it’s sourced up to the Pager with all the other Headlines.
- Camera
- Calendar/ Appointments, take Pictures+ Barcode-Scanner, Notes
- collect and draw Ideas/ ---> #8, the Creativity-Studio (downside).
- Office is classic MS-Tools/ with Calculator, Countdown-Function, Light on Device,
- Navigation
- Browser
- Music
- File-Explorer
- Programs/ Applications, Tools, Entertainment (like TV, Gambling, Videos on Line)
6. There should be the Stylus again by exactly working Ballpoint-Top that is Pressure-sensible.&
7. Hand script-Recognition should be re-integrated. Modes of Recognition_
- 1 Script-Mode
- 2 geometric drawing
- 3 Symbols (search for Clipart online)
- 4 Math-Formula-Recognition.
R-M should switch automated.
- There should be Updates.
 
8. CREATIVITY - STUDIO
There, the best Ideas are on my Way, what i like most on Microsoft-Products is Completeness.
There should be some Design-Mode (look, Ideas-Tile), that unites
- MS-Paint, adds Geometric-Drawing-Mode, combined with
- MS Word and Excel, auto-recognizing Text-Boxs, Tables and
- organizes all Pages together MS-Powerpoint ready
- also with Youtube-Output, by adding Audio-Comments, that you reccord later.
9. No Borders, while-Brainstorming, when you collect Ideas!
Just the raw-Idea (on a virtual Sheet of Paper) should count. Idea, that you can simply start with
and the Device works like Content-Manager; it recognizes, asks and re-arranges your Draw and puts Ideas out later, in option-able Multi-Format of your Choice (Bitmap-Collection, Powerpoit, Email, Powerpoint and Video-Presentations, also raw-Web-Presentation with Photocollections).
You can edit all the raw-Stuff later, on your Desktop, (that’s for Homework).
10. Updates and Panel-Programs can be bought at the Market (-place, ---> Tile),
Example: with CAD-App.
Good point, but what is the sense of this ?
evas08 said:
Good point, but what is the sense of this ?
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damned if I know.
I found that very hard to understand, however from some of the bits you mention id like to point you to WM 6.5... that pretty much sums up what your looking for, course its crap at games but it nails everything else you want and can be modded to within a inch of its life
RIP WM

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