Found an original Focus semi cheap while I'm waiting on the 32GB Galaxy Nexus and the 900 to be released. So I'm moving back here for at least a couple weeks. Last time I was on WP was just when Mango dropped. Looking around YT and our WP app section. I feel like a kid in the candy store. So many users and new apps. Good to be back, I really really enjoy this OS.
Anything cool I should check out? (Vable Browser looks Chrome-ish!)
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Found an original Focus semi cheap while I'm waiting on the 32GB Galaxy Nexus and the 900 to be released. So I'm moving back here for at least a couple weeks. Last time I was on WP was just when Mango dropped. Looking around YT and our WP app section. I feel like a kid in the candy store. So many users and new apps. Good to be back, I really really enjoy this OS.
Anything cool I should check out? (Vable Browser looks Chrome-ish!)
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Depends - what you are looking for? games? navigation? tips?
Play with tellme some. Ask it weather in san fransico. Say start app. Say find "insert address here) and you'll see the map program come up. Say find pizza (or if indoors and no gps find pizza (your city name)
There is so much to play with - you have to give us an idea where you want to go 1st.
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Depends - what you are looking for? games? navigation? tips?
Play with tellme some. Ask it weather in san fransico. Say start app. Say find "insert address here) and you'll see the map program come up. Say find pizza (or if indoors and no gps find pizza (your city name)
There is so much to play with - you have to give us an idea where you want to go 1st.
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Anywhere dude. I'm really missed "Hello everybody I'm George Ponderer for WPcentral." Listened to everything on thier YT channel last night. I just went back into my WP account and cleaned that up. Looking for a decent TBT Nav app. Got a couple browsers listed to try. Put Ziggy on the list. What's cool? What apps do you have on your WP?
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Anywhere dude. I'm really missed "Hello everybody I'm George Ponderer for WPcentral." Listened to everything on thier YT channel last night. I just went back into my WP account and cleaned that up. Looking for a decent TBT Nav app. Got a couple browsers listed to try. Put Ziggy on the list. What's cool? What apps do you have on your WP?
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I'm an app whore lol.
The best offline TBT would be navigon. It's 3d also and the most expensive. For 2d, turn by turn works good (online one is pretty cheap) Built in bing works great also but doesn't auto voice announce.
Grab an app called AppFlow.
It will show you the trends and has good recommendations.
Freda is good ebook reader
Keyring for keeping shopping barcodes
Urban dictionary is hilarious along with I LOL'D
theChive is good
xda forum app of course
The most used ones that i use for keeping up with WP7 and technology are WP7 News (Which rocks as it scans like 2 sites for news) and Tech news now
If you like four square, 4th and mayor is the best.
...I'm a WP7! rocks
Amazing weather or weather channel are great weather apps.
Forward contact is great to share contacts with via qr code and scanning with bing vision (no bluetooth needed to share a contact)
Titan is a great FREE game.
That is just some i could think of.
If you're into twitter check out Carbon (other thread about it)
The devs are planning a sweet update too.
If you're looking for a beautiful weather app use Weather View (former called Vädret).
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If you're looking for a beautiful weather app use Weather View (former called Vädret).
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Very nice. I like that.
bmstrong said:
Found an original Focus semi cheap while I'm waiting on the 32GB Galaxy Nexus and the 900 to be released. So I'm moving back here for at least a couple weeks. Last time I was on WP was just when Mango dropped. Looking around YT and our WP app section. I feel like a kid in the candy store. So many users and new apps. Good to be back, I really really enjoy this OS.
Anything cool I should check out? (Vable Browser looks Chrome-ish!)
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Welcome back !!!
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Welcome back !!!
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I'll be around longer if the rumors are true about the 32GB.
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Ok so... I have tried many apps for our touch HD but none has kept me entertained for long enough!!!
So suggest something interesting-- anything games, apps, cool features--something for fun and to spend time!!!
Please when suggesting apps add some links to the app(but remember no warez)
Ill try to make a list in post 2!!!!!!
Ill list the apps here!!!!
;;Games & Fun;;
-PocketSand : http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-pocketsand-v0-82.html
-Xtrakt : http://rapidshare.com/files/2100699...r6415_-_Menu_softkey_fix__-_090227_signed.CAB
-PDAcraft paint : http://www.pdacraft.com/paint.php
-Pocket Artist : NOT FREEWARE : http://store.conduits.com/pocketartist.html
-NFS Undercover : NOT FREEWARE : :use www.google.com;
-Omniano The Band : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=477002
-hdWobble : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=522179
-Midomi (music recognition app) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=4290681
-Warcraft : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3491567
-Transport Tycoon deluxe (TTD) : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=3491567
;;Other software;;
-Pointui2 : http://www.pointui.com/products/home-2/
-Gremote : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=427097
-S2P & S2U2 : http://ac-s2.com/
-QuickMark : http://www.quickmark.cn/En/basic/download.asp
You name the rest!!!
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You look a bit nobbish in your avatar.
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thats offtopic and the pict is about a year old!!! -- and the pict has been resised from 7.1 MP- when the pict is in its normal size its normal!!! and why the hell do you care???
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You look a bit nobbish in your avatar.
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What's your problem mate?? I'm sure you ARE pretty nobbish in real life.
Kristaps-K9-Lv, don't feel you've got to change your avatar because some fool doesn't like it mate. If you like it, that's all that counts
@Sideburnt, let's see a picture of you so we can all have a laugh.
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You look a bit nobbish in your avatar.
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Because I'm a style policeman.
The world needs more heroes not more tracksuits. Be the man you know you are... live in a world without tracksuits, its beautiful dude.
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What's your problem mate?? I'm sure you ARE pretty nobbish in real life.
Kristaps-K9-Lv, don't feel you've got to change your avatar because some fool doesn't like it mate. If you like it, that's all that counts
@Sideburnt, let's see a picture of you so we can all have a laugh.
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Lets leave the childish behaviour in the playground shall we!!!
@Sideburnt - Why ask a silly question like 'You look a bit nobbish in your avatar'? Was there any need for that? Keep that attitude up and your one step away from being banned!!
This is a community based are sharing knowledge where people have the freedom to express views and opinions on phone related topics, not on avatars and peoples names. Lets leave the childish behaviour in the playground shall we and get back to doing what we enjoy most....playing with our phones!!
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Lets leave the childish behaviour in the playground shall we!!!
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Once again Spartan takes the high ground, when I stupidly get annoyed by the school bully being mean to the new kid and retaliate by knocking the bully's lunch on the floor... When will I learn?
WTF?
Stop fooling around guys, this thread is really good.
I suggest erasing this one and making a new one with the same topic.
I would also like to know if anyone came across some good stuff...
I am personally checking almost every day if there is something new.
But still nothing that is that much of interest.
Lately it was PointUI2 - I really like it but I am gonna stick with SPB Mobile Shell 2 for some time. But PointUI is really nice and has good functions.
So who's next?
Anyway way back to topic, anythink interesting for touch HD that stays interesting for more than 5mins. I would recommend Music ID and the default youtube app
Music ID = http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=439974
Fairplay. The least I can do is make a constructive addition to this thread.
And that is.... Drum roll.... PDAcraft paint http://www.pdacraft.com/paint.php
A very cool little a painting/drawing app that works on the HD. Hours of fun
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Fairplay. The least I can do is make a constructive addition to this thread.
And that is.... Drum roll.... PDAcraft paint http://www.pdacraft.com/paint.php
A very cool little a painting/drawing app that works on the HD. Hours of fun
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OFF TOPIC
Truth be told I wasn't really getting at you mate, though I couldn't help the dig
ON TOPIC
Another really good app is NTF Undercover with g-sen enabled. Definately worth a look
I still think the best apps are infact the cooked roms which you flash, no app compares!!
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Truth be told I wasn't really getting at you mate, though I couldn't help the dig
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I knew you wouldn't be able to resist
And back to the topic at hand... There is a slightly better version of PDAcraft paint called Pocket Artist http://store.conduits.com/pocketartist.html But it's not freeware.
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Because I'm a style policeman.
The world needs more heroes not more tracksuits. Be the man you know you are... live in a world without tracksuits, its beautiful dude.
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Now this really p****s me off!!!!! GET SOME GLASSES OR BUY A MAGNIFYING LENS!!!! That even wasnt a tracksuit!!!! --- White jeans, white jacket with a hood and some golden graphics!!!!
dum***s...
thanks for supporting me guys!!!!
OK --- should we continue this thread or make a new one?????
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OK --- should we continue this thread or make a new one?????
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Naa, I think we can stay here now it's all calmed down
A better question might be, what exactly do you want your phone to do?
Other than the built in stuff, (the camera, the mp3 player, video player and internet tablet... is there something more that youare after?
GRemote: is **** hot... allowing you to control media player on your PC.
Music ID: is essential if you have even a passing interest in music.
An RSS reader: to have all your news delivered to your phone just in time for breakfast and/or lunch breaks.
"MYplayer": is worth a try if you are having trouble with the getting iplayer to work.
omniano: is good for a laugh, but without multi touch very limited
S2P: is nice to flick through your album covers...
Google maps and live search maps: do what they say on the tin.
Also Microsoft voice commander is quite fun... at times even useful.
Microsoft Recite is good too - a dictaphone with speech search (altho not touchscreen which is annoying).
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A better question might be, what exactly do you want your phone to do?
Other than the built in stuff, (the camera, the mp3 player, video player and internet tablet... is there something more that youare after?
GRemote: is **** hot... allowing you to control media player on your PC.
Music ID: is essential if you have even a passing interest in music.
An RSS reader: to have all your news delivered to your phone just in time for breakfast and/or lunch breaks.
"MYplayer": is worth a try if you are having trouble with the getting iplayer to work.
omniano: is good for a laugh, but without multi touch very limited
S2P: is nice to flick through your album covers...
Google maps and live search maps: do what they say on the tin.
Also Microsoft voice commander is quite fun... at times even useful.
Microsoft Recite is good too - a dictaphone with speech search (altho not touchscreen which is annoying).
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could you post some links to these apps!!!!
ill try to find some links but i cant find all of them!!!
hey guys !! how is it going ???
hoooooooly cow, whoa there, just whoa.
seriously buddy, I wasn't ripping into you you started off with a pretty mundane post and in my infinate bordeom I wrote a simple lame observation and then had fun with it, and as for the others jumping in suggesting that I get banned, thats...thats insane thats not 'attitude' your reading its light heartedness quit jumping on the 'troll TROLL TROLLL!!!' bandwaggon its overreactive and very offputting to those of us who enjoy this forum and want to inject a little humanity into it.
Anyway this has surprisingly turned into a semi interesting post;
QuickMark http://www.quickmark.cn/En/basic/index.asp has been fun, it scans in barcodes and you can link it to a central database such as upcdatabase.com, it can re-encode QR codes into url's and contact information etc. great fun to make your own QR/Barcodes.
Scrobble http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=474373 is so far the best port of Scrabble on the WM platform, the guys done a cracking job and allowed custom dictionaries to be used.
I think Xtract has been mentioned, I lovely little game, but painfully short and easy.
Fair enough mate, you clearly didn't mean to offend the guy. That's the problem with making jokes in writing. It's very easy to missinterpret. If you look back at what you initialy said, you can see why we might of thought you were just being out of order rather than tounge in cheek.
Anyway, apologies if I reacted a little harshly myself. I got a bit carried away
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live in a world without tracksuits, its beautiful dude.
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this gave me a good laugh. shame about the over-eager bashing replies - i reckon it's not just typographic confusion which text creates, it's national too. it's pretty much the job of British people to lightheartedly take the piss out of each other all the time.
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this gave me a good laugh. shame about the over-eager bashing replies - i reckon it's not just typographic confusion which text creates, it's national too. it's pretty much the job of British people to lightheartedly take the piss out of each other all the time.
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Especially in God's own County (Yorkshire)
Anything in the horizon? Anyone been thinking about it? We're days away... would love to get in the 21st century and leave the Excel spreadsheets behind.
Ai
Hello there!
I'd like to inform you about a pretty sweet app, which does about everything u want and imagine of such an app.
The site where I found it:
hxxp://yyy.mobilepractices.com/2010/06/world-cup-2010-application-for-windows.html
Not marketing or something, I'm just not sure if it came from XDA DEVs or not.
Might be an idea to make such an app run in the background on low fuel consumption, with an alarm function to set for your favorite matches haha.
It's a pretty nice, well working, if I may believe what's been writen, revolutionairy app!
Have Fun!
Yeah mate there's definitely already at least 2 world cup 2010 apps... jump onto windows marketplace, there's one there for like $0.99 or $1.99... something like that.
There's a touch of Metro in the new Android Marketplace... More importantly they now have a Books section which I hope will come to exist on WP7.
http://pocketnow.com/android/walkthrough-of-revemped-google-android-market-video?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+pocketnow+%28pocketnow.com%29
Yup, definitely metro inspired. I quite like it. I wonder if it's coming to my Android tab and how it'll look?
Casey
doesn't look good at all.
the books section is hodge podge, movies is better... netflix shot itself in the foot this week so timing is good....
that, and google+ is very polished for a beta. wow, just wow.
interesting, gave out 100/101 g+ invites, and now I have 100 more. sweet !
The books section is great just for the fact that it gets books away from the other apps. They are increasingly annoying in the WP marketplace.
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The books section is great just for the fact that it gets books away from the other apps. They are increasingly annoying in the WP marketplace.
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Amen brother ! Couldn't be more right.
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The books section is great just for the fact that it gets books away from the other apps. They are increasingly annoying in the WP marketplace.
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That's why I'm convinced that Microsoft will address that can give it an own section in the marketplace.
I like it!
Even though it's metro inspired, it's way better than it was before.
I think Google redesigned the new market that way to get a jump on WP7. The WP7 market needs to be improved and I was thinking it needed more apps per horizontal space...like 2 or 3 side by side...just a little while before the new Android market appeared. I bet Google saw that same need and figured they would jump on that style and design before MS had a chance to because the new Android market is exactly like how the WP7 market should look.
Did anybody else notice that they misspelled "revamped" in the URL?
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I think that Googles UI design overall has become a bit Metro inspired. I shouldn't say that I'm complaining though
so now alot more ppl like metro UI..... and other OS are following MS lead....
The WP7 marketplace has a books section
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The only Metro-Like inspiration there is one page with squares.
Just to detract from all the hater posts on here lately, I just wanted to say that I just came onboard from android and, aside from the lack of good games, I really do love my wp7.
I have been extremely happy so far!
Which phone did you go with?
I played with the HTC Surround (what was HTC thinking?) with Mango on it and it was nice. Can't wait til I get one.
I traded my HTC incredible s for an lg quantum and haven't looked back!
nice and welcome! have had my focus for over a year now, and enjoy it every day I've had. which is pretty remarkable since people get bored of phones so quickly.
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nice and welcome! have had my focus for over a year now, and enjoy it every day I've had. which is pretty remarkable since people get bored of phones so quickly.
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thank you!
The focus is a beautiful phone, I do love my physical keyboard.though.
It is seriously a welcome change, I love metro ui
Another happy WP7 user. All it takes is for people to use one in a context of owning it and they will be hooked. By the way, there are some excellent games. You just have to browse through them. You can try many of them that are paid. I have a large selection in my collection and can list them for you if you need.
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Another happy WP7 user. All it takes is for people to use one in a context of owning it and they will be hooked. By the way, there are some excellent games. You just have to browse through them. You can try many of them that are paid. I have a large selection in my collection and can list them for you if you need.
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I would appreciate that!
What i miss the most is a good first person shooter
I can live with the lack of games though, everything else makes it totally worthwhile imo..
Never any lag, and I don't feel like I need to constantly flash or tweak my device.
Makes me much more productive in other areas of my life hahah
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I would appreciate that!
What i miss the most is a good first person shooter
I can live with the lack of games though, everything else makes it totally worthwhile imo..
Never any lag, and I don't feel like I need to constantly flash or tweak my device.
Makes me much more productive in other areas of my life hahah
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A FPS will come eventually. But the closest right now is The Harvest or Assassin's Creed. There's a new one I just saw called Fusion: Sentient that looks promising.
Anyway, here's what I enjoy and these are pretty much top quality. I'm super casual gamer and most of them will be super simple so keep that in mind.
XBOX Live games:
Angry Birds
Assassin's Creed
Bubble Town2
Fable: Coin Golf
Fight Game: Rivals
Flowerz
Fruit Ninja
Hydro Thunder GO
I Dig It
iBlast Moki
ilomilo
Kinectimals
Need For Speed: Undercover
The Harvest
Tiki Towers
Women's Murder Club
Indie games
Ace of Dynamites
Apples Meet Durians
Bubblo World
Bump Out
Catscade
Chain Reaction
Chalk Master
Chromatic
Countdown
Cubed
De-BUGS 2
Doodle Fit
Droplets
Falling
Frog Sling
Frost King
Jigsaw Guru
Peg*guin Solitaire
Physi Bricks
Pumpkin Smash
Purity
Skee Ball 7
Sky Stryker HD
SkyBox
Solitaire
Starzzle Free
Top Truck
Traffic
Traffic Jam
Trick Shot
Turbo Tiles
Wizard Of Words
Woolensheep Free
...............
I've had my HTC trophy since it came out in the spring/summer on vzw. i had a droid x before, and I don't miss android. Every month I would have to flash my phone so it would be fast again. Not needed with wp7. I love the OS, but the phone could have better specs.
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Welcome on board!
I would recommend pro evo soccer but then I guess football isn't everyone's taste would be good to see some other sports games, I think baseball could cross to phone really well and cricket. Could also do American football and rugby in a similar way to pes could use swipe controls for kicks and scrums etc to add extra elements.
Ps welcome onboard I to came from android and love it. Android still has a place in my heart but more in tablets now. =)
+1 for Flowerz.
It is a challenging game if you put your time in it
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+1 for Flowerz.
It is a challenging game if you put your time in it
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It can be. I usually play to about the 10th level and then restart. I like it up to the 10th level. After that it becomes a pain and un-fun.
Finally a thread without bad karma getting quite rare now...
And welcome to WP7 Apps that I recommend:
AccuWeather - has the best LiveTile for weather right now
kik/whatsapp
weave - good news app
LazyTube - best youtube app
TuneIn Radio - best radio app with background streaming
Appflow - quite a must have
CocktailFlow - very nice app for making cocktails
imdb - for movies, obviously
for games:
Arcane's TD Free
Chicken Story Plus
Broken Wing Plus
Bobble Biker
FastBall 2
Jewel³
Krashlander Free
Monster Stack
Square Off Free - very nice one
Pulse, best news app ever. Best live tiles too.
Lazytube is ok.
I can't recommend a game yet.
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Lazytube is ok.
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nicksti said:
Which phone did you go with?
I played with the HTC Surround (what was HTC thinking?) with Mango on it and it was nice. Can't wait til I get one.
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Please reply via PM as I don't want to be accused of derailing the thread but are you actually saying you don't own a WP7? Because that would explain some things...
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Pulse, best news app ever. Best live tiles too.
Lazytube is ok.
I can't recommend a game yet.
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Pulse has a live tile? I know it has background updates.
I've just spent 11 hours on fusion: sentinels. It is everything a cellphone game should be and its integration with my 360 is amazing. Highly recommended.
hey guys
I love WP7
I own one from 27/12/2010 omnia 7;;
until now and I love it
But a little disappointed with the new devices..
I was waiting something big from Samsung here in Europa but still nothing
IM going to give my omnia 7 to my gf she is crazy about it
but i dont know what is next for me ..
I just wanted to share a video of the Chameleon Launcher. Overall the Launcher is nice but in its Beta form it is limited in wallpaper and widgets. Couple points listed below but watch the video to see in action
Only Chameleon Widgets Allowed (Limited Right Now 5)
No Folder Support
No Apps Shortcuts in the Main Screen
Works in Landscape and Portrait
Home dock selected based on Time of Day, Location, and/or Connected Network
Overall Appealing and Smooth Design
I feel it has great potential
Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUI2oPNqBW4&hd=1
I just got an email from the Chameleon team saying that I should be receiving instructions on how to activate my pre-order of the Chameleon launcher this week. It's different from any other launcher that I've seen and I'm really excited to finally be able to load it up on my N7.
Just got my beta invite.
Activated and launched.
So far I like it. It will take some getting used.
Definitely has some great potential.
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I personally didn't like it much. Too limited ATM, but it has some great potential.
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I personally didn't like it much. Too limited ATM, but it has some great potential.
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will wait for the official pack then purchase.
So Far so Good
I got my invite and install today and I can gladly say that I am pleased with it! For a pre-beta I only had it crash once or twice while pushing it through a lot. It has so much potential and is going to get so very great! I would say by mid-September this will be complete and ready for a full release. My only problem with it right now is that it is a little odd having only 6 spots on a 7in device for my widgets (other users, you will understand). But my N7 is rooted and Parandroid is looking good, so with more time and tablet ui really expanding I can't wait to force the app into a larger dpi! That should give us more options!
Cheers,
Vanka
Just installed it and played around with it for a bit. It's too buggy and crashes all the time. And every time it crashes, my widgets mess up so I have to redo them.
Twitter widget only let's you read them or click links in tweets. Can't reply or do anything. Email widget only shows NEW email instead of all email.
I'm sure they'll iron out the kinks.
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I just got an email from the Chameleon team saying that I should be receiving instructions on how to activate my pre-order of the Chameleon launcher this week. It's different from any other launcher that I've seen and I'm really excited to finally be able to load it up on my N7.
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Same here. I'll give it a shot once I get the the activation email, but I don't expect much since it's in beta. However I hope they frequently update, I'd be happy to see improvements every few days.
as stated above, not much use at the moment, but has potential
Where, exactly, is the potential benefit you guys are seeing beyond already available launchers and modifications?
Just looks to me like they figured out how to get $10 out of people for something they could do for infinitely less and about the same time commitment.
The beta launcher is nice,.. but i dont want to buy 8$ for a beta launcher
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The beta launcher is nice,.. but i dont want to buy 8$ for a beta launcher
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Unlike Minecraft, which costs 7 bucks and has been in beta for about a year now, teknision stated the official version of Chameleon will be released in late Sept. So backers and preorders are getting the beta a month early. I have a feeling they are going to charge more once it's officially released.
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Where, exactly, is the potential benefit you guys are seeing beyond already available launchers and modifications?
Just looks to me like they figured out how to get $10 out of people for something they could do for infinitely less and about the same time commitment.
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I kind of view the potential like Google Now. Which learns basic things and aggregates some information that it thinks useful for you, whether it be baseball, directions getting home, or the weather. If they can effectively achieve a user interface that can evolve to your day, and present the information that matters most to you on the homescreen, it could be really neat. Right now it doesn't really show that and is limited.
The other thing that really interested me and they showed in one of their concept demo but it seems was removed (anyone confirm?) that you could have multiple user profiles and have a login screen. Which especially on a tablet that is used by myself and others, I would love to have. The other thing they showed is to stream media from your tablet to your tv, but while this is streaming you can still use your tablet, the streaming is in the background. Again it seems this feature is not going to be included, but perhaps enough friendly :angel: nudges from the community can put them back on track
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Where, exactly, is the potential benefit you guys are seeing beyond already available launchers and modifications?
Just looks to me like they figured out how to get $10 out of people for something they could do for infinitely less and about the same time commitment.
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THe widgets are HTML5. So if you can code HTML, you can make a widget for it when the API is released. People who haven't developed for Android in the past will be able to develop widgets for this without having to know Android code. Plus with the way the app and widgets are designed, you won't have those funky size widgets that don't fill the space, so you end up with the edges of the widgets not matcng up and it doesn't look too good.
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arrjaytea said:
Where, exactly, is the potential benefit you guys are seeing beyond already available launchers and modifications?
Just looks to me like they figured out how to get $10 out of people for something they could do for infinitely less and about the same time commitment.
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sleeplessninja said:
I kind of view the potential like Google Now. Which learns basic things and aggregates some information that it thinks useful for you, whether it be baseball, directions getting home, or the weather. If they can effectively achieve a user interface that can evolve to your day, and present the information that matters most to you on the homescreen, it could be really neat. Right now it doesn't really show that and is limited.
The other thing that really interested me and they showed in one of their concept demo but it seems was removed (anyone confirm?) that you could have multiple user profiles and have a login screen. Which especially on a tablet that is used by myself and others, I would love to have. The other thing they showed is to stream media from your tablet to your tv, but while this is streaming you can still use your tablet, the streaming is in the background. Again it seems this feature is not going to be included, but perhaps enough friendly :angel: nudges from the community can put them back on track
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You can have multiple screens that the app can automatically switch to depending on various factors. Like you can have a morning screen, ten when you go to work, it can switch to a work screen. There was never multiple "profiles" unless that is what you consider a profile to be.