Looking at the adverts for SPB Mobile Shell, it seems to me that it offers everything that HTC Home does, plus a cube-type interface.
Does anyone have any experience of this software? Do the benefits over HC Home justify the cost?
I use Mobile Shell 2...I like it for the flexibility of it.
I don't use the today plug in at all. I mainly use it for the dialer tab that I embed in Pocket Plus and I like the SPB contacts better than the standard contacts.
Plus there is the cool factor of it.
JIm
I really like the Mobile Shell 2. It goes smooth.
One disappointing thing is that it is still a shell. You always end up with window mobile apps. for doing your things. You need the stylus again.
Bacchusius
Bacchusius said:
I really like the Mobile Shell 2. It goes smooth.
One disappointing thing is that it is still a shell. You always end up with window mobile apps. for doing your things. You need the stylus again.
Bacchusius
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That's why I use Pocket Plus for my today screen. Give me a sec and I'll give you some screen shots.
Jim
Here's shots of my setup.
Last one...
sorry to ask but what is the difference between the pocket shell and pocket plus. they both look the same to me.
naveen said:
sorry to ask but what is the difference between the pocket shell and pocket plus. they both look the same to me.
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Pocket Shell
- Limited Tab customization
*Tab thumb sizes are fixed
*Tabs only support Today Plugins
*Only 1 plugin per tab (if I remember it right)
- Comes with built-in extra plugins
*Dialer Plugin (like HTC Home favorites, but better as you can click-and-hold to select SMS instead of just calling, pictures are bigger and prettier)
*Time Plugin (only to show alarm clocks from the WM6 OEM clock settings)
*Shortcut Plugin (for favorite apps)
-HTC Cube alike thingy... ya... like the HTC Cube
Pocket Plus
- Very extensive tab customization support
*tabs can have multiple plugin and shortcuts
- No built-in plugins like in SPB Shell
- Adds touch-flo like feature
- Adds features to File Exploer
- Adds battery meter slim bar on top
I personally dont even use tabs. I use SPB Pocket Suite for the Dialer plugin (takes less space than SPB Shell's dialer) and SPB Diary under it and WeatherPanel for the weather (a lot better than SPB Weather).
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I Used to have HTC home and played with it constantly trying to get it just right. Then I tried SPB Mobile Shell, with SPB Time, SPB Weather, SPB Diary & SPB Pocket Plus. You don't necessarily need all of them. Just play around until you find which best suits you.
They appear to be much more stable and flexible than HTC Home.
My only annoyance is that I have to go back to the Today screen occasionally.
I personally dont even use tabs. I use SPB Pocket Suite for the Dialer plugin (takes less space than SPB Shell's dialer) and SPB Diary under it and WeatherPanel for the weather (a lot better than SPB Weather).
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What's SPB Pocket Suite like? Is their a need for it if you already have Mobile Shell?
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Wow, a truly awesome set of screen shots!
Just to get this straight, are you using Pocket Plus AND Mobile Shell?
If so, how did you go about configuring your device? i.e. Did you load Pocket Plus first and then Mobile Suite, or vice versa?
Looking forward to emulating your screen shots.
Hissing Syd said:
Wow, a truly awesome set of screen shots!
Just to get this straight, are you using Pocket Plus AND Mobile Shell?
If so, how did you go about configuring your device? i.e. Did you load Pocket Plus first and then Mobile Suite, or vice versa?
Looking forward to emulating your screen shots.
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I have both MS 2 and Pocket Plus loaded.
I am using TNT Lite for my ROM.
I also have loaded:
SBSH PocketWeather 2
SPB Phone Suite
IM +
Pocket Informant
SplashID
Resco Explorer
SKTools
Pocket Digital Clock
MobiReader
And some other programs.
I install Pocket Plus and MS 2 last.
I also use the silver icon packs from the SPB forums.
With MemMaid, I have the devide optimized for speed.
Typically I have between 13-17mb of RAM.
Been running like this for about a week now...no hard resets, no hanging boot screens, no frozen screens....been running perfect.
I'm at work right now on a 24 hour shift, so I will upload the icon packs when I get home tomorrow afternoon and post some more on it.
Thanks for the compliment; glad you like it.
Jim
hi,
how do you embed mobile shell into pocket plus tab?
ruffiQ said:
hi,
how do you embed mobile shell into pocket plus tab?
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Long press the tab you want to have MS2 and then you will see a drop down menu, hit plug ins and look for the "Home Tab". That should be your MS Home Tab.
alkizmo said:
Pocket Shell
*Dialer Plugin (like HTC Home favorites, but better as you can click-and-hold to select SMS instead of just calling, pictures are bigger and prettier)
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If you press and hold your favorite contact in HTC Home, it brings up the full contact details which you have to option to call/sms
Do u know how to put 1 tab that shows calendar only, another tab to show just tasks.. just like in pointui.
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If you press and hold your favorite contact in HTC Home, it brings up the full contact details which you have to option to call/sms
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I know, but I often try to dial while driving or walking in a crowded place or in a shaky subway, and I wont manage to tap & hold 50% of the time, resulting in calling the person instead of opening the contact details, or calling the wrong person or simply NOTHING to happen, etc etc
IN OTHER WORDS : I can't use the D-Pad to click&hold to open the contact details. I need to be able to use the D-Pad
Also I like to have a big clock at the same time as my contacts. With HTC Home, it's one or the other
I changed my plugins from what I said before.
1- Digital Clock plugin
2- SPB Pocket Plus (only 1 tab makes it without tabs, and in that tab is shortcuts for "SPB Diary Contact" You need SPB Diary)
3 - SPB Diary with tabs, one tab is WeatherPanel
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Hey Guy,
What kind of today plugin you use? SPB Mobile Shell 2?
I don't think so.
Or you change something such as the skin.
Could you please tell me where could I find that software of skin?
Jacky Wang
thank you very much
I would like to display two analogue clocks each showing a different time zone in my Spb Mobile Shell Leisure Today screen on my Touch HD. I'm also running Spb Time and expected Spb's integration to allow me to do this.
A while back I got Spb Time so that I could display dual time zones on my HTC Trinity Today page - this was exactly what I wanted.
So now I've upgraded to an HTC Touch HD and Spb Mobile Shell 3 (and Spb Time). So I now want to display dual time zones (i.e. two clocks) on my Spb Mobile Shell Leisure Home Page.
Can I do this via Spb Time, is there an MS3 configuration setting I've missed, is there some other MS3 widget I need to download from somewhere, or do I need to go back to basics and find another app?
I'd appreciate anyone's advice on this, as I haven't been able to find any references in xda-developers or Spb's forum. Thanks in advance.
Same issue..also have a Touch HD - weather integrates ok even if you have to 'click' through to get the detail. I liked the plug-in on the windows today screen for spb time - I'd like to remove the day/date display below the calendar appointments and replace with a time plug-in but I haven't found anything to configure that. I guess the alternative would be to have a lifestyle screen with a widget to display this and the weather.
I came from a 6800 and had it just about perfect for me. The TP2 is my first time using TF3D. Is Manilla basically custom versions of TF3D?
I was also using many SPB apps. Phone suite, Pocket Plus to name a few. Pocket Informant for my calendar. Will I still be able to use these with TF3D?
The widgets are like add-ons to get it the way you want?
"Manila" is the codename for TF3D. Basically these terms are often interchangeable.
TF3D is essentially a Today Screen plugin. If you have it enabled, you will not be able to see other Today Screen plugins. So, Phone Suite will work but you won't be able to easily access it's settings. Pocket Plus would not be very useful if TF3D is enabled. Not sure about Pocket Informant and how it integrates into the default Calendar app, so I'll let others get into that.
Not sure about your last query about widgets...
Hi:
I have finally configured my TP2 on WinMo 6.1 with everything that makes me happy (MTP which allows the old style Today Screen on a TF3D Tab, SPB Pocket Plus and SPB Diary abd STQ stock ticker on that tab, among other things).
Is it worthwhile for me to install 6.5 and erase everything? Will I be gaining performance, or any other plusses?
Thanks
Steve
yes. WM6.5 is nice. WM6.5.1 is even better.
The official roms will be plain WM6.5 with the start icon at the top. WM6.5.1 uses the new interface and is a joy.
WM6.5 is a good mix between WM6.1 and WM6.5.1. I like the latest though. I have pictures of my Fuze rom in my pics which depicts the new style.
I've flashed the official German Vario V 6.5 upgrade and am happy with it - the Rhodium was barely usable before as it kept choking on lots of apps. Now it appears stable (keep fingers crossed) apart from HomeScreen ++ which prevented in- and outgoing calls.
Robert
Does it show tasks on the Home screen? Soes it have a today screen that I could show SPB Diary or SPB Pocket Plus?
I may not have found out the full potential, but it's just showing the next 5 appointments using the dumbed-down HTC-Calendar that is also used on the calendar tab. If you tap one of the appointments, it takes you to WM's appointment view where you can edit etc. it - but you can't move "back" to the full WM calendar.
In my opinion you'll have to use MTP again.
Robert
and.... where do you find the 6.5.1?
Hi!
I'm looking for a application that would add program shortcuts to the basic WM 6.1 home screen. Just 6-10 shortcuts, no tabs needed. Something like HTC Home or SPB Pocket Plus (annoying tabs, too many unneeded features).
I tested a few programs like this, but they made too many changes to the start menu.
And it would be cool, it that or another application would allow to quickly change phone profiles (normal/vibrate/silent) either by a programmable button or better by shortcuts on the home screen.
Please recommend, thanks.
Resco Conact Manager comes with a plugin for what you want
http://www.resco.net/pocketpc/contactmanager/indepth.asp#TodayPlugin
That looks very internesting, thanks for the tip!