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Windows Mobile 7 screenshots leaked

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http://microsoft.blognewschannel.co...bile-7-to-focus-on-touch-and-motion-gestures/
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Ok, it looks REALLY great. If it's as fast as it looks, we may have a winner

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/what.s-w...ow-wm7-and-wm8-are-going-to-fix-it-333536.php
What you should make a note of is the things that it improves upon from all the previous ui's of WM past. I'll wait for 8.

When is WM7 due? It's not until 2009 is it?

Detailed picture gallery here as well..
http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2008/01/06/is-this-windows-mobile-7/
I've gone thru the entire gallery and if its truly able to deliver on what it can do.. Its pretty much gonna be good light years jump from what WinMo and all other platforms short of the iPhone and still good 5 years ahead of the iPhone itself...
They are really going big on movement based gestures and some of the concept is truly remarkable.. like if you see lets say, a name on the browser search. One can then tap and hold on it and start "shaking" the phone/device which tells the device to do a "smart search" where it'll "rain" down a bunch of animated icons that settle down to show the various things/files/pictures/activities related to that name existing in your phone etc... what a simple yet ingenious concept.
Although, I must say that this will open more questions than answers to why did MS have to make this Super-Quantum leap from WM6 and not have given us a good progression to it in the form of already having released such interface in WM5 onwards??!!?? After all, this kind of technology and its implementation could not have just been put together overnight within the last 6 or lets say 12 months subsequent to the announcement/release of the iPhone...
Good Ol' boy wizards Mr. Gates and Balmer holding back as usual I guess...
Oh well.. better late than never.
AJ

Will Windows Mobile 7 be available as an upgrade to already existing phones? I just recently bought my tilt and am wondering if I will be able to run this when it comes out? Thanks in advance.

For tilt maybe, but I don't think my old prophet can carry the weight... There was no WM6 update, so why should there be one for 7.
Depends on the Device.

ya i was really greatful at&t baked us a wm6 rom for hermes (8525), is 100% stable and runs awesome, but i still can't wait to try some wm7 fresh from the kitchen goodness!
wonder if the unit specs will ramp up much?

Trade my HTC S710 for a SE P990i... Would you do it?

I have an option to trade my HTC S710 for a friends P990i... I'm playing with the P990i right now and the large touch screen and browsing with the built in Opera browser is amazing.
I still don't really know if it's a stupid trade. I love my HTC S710 aswell but I've always wanted a touch screen.
The P990i has 3G and a 2mpx camera with autofocus aswell... It takes way better images than my S710 does.
Since this is mainly a windows mobile forum this might be the wrong forum to ask for an advice like this.
What would you do? Which device do you think is better??? I only have until tomorrow to decide...
Help me please!!!

I have no experience with touchscreen-less WM phones but I have both an HTC TyTN and an SE P990i and must say that I prefer the P990i because of it's better camera, better usability as a phone and that A2DP works perfectly without skipping and without draining the phone battery - at least when paired with a DS970 headset. And contact names are displayed in the headset display without the need for third party software!
The only issue I have with it is that the Media Player has a bug with the handling of very long MP3 files. I like audiobooks and the player is not able to resume properly after pausing and closing it in the middle of a book. Instead most of the time it skips to the next MP3 file in the book.
And of course the infamous memory leak issue that SE never wanted to admit existed before ending firmware development. You need to reboot the phone at least once every second day to avoid the phone doing so on its own while you're in the middle of something.

I've almost decided to keep the P990 and give him my HTC S710 now after I've been playing with the P990 for hours.
The P990 display is gorgeous and I've installed the Gdesk application and a WM6 design so it looks absolutely amazing and with swiss manager pro it's also very easy to close apps running in the background.
It's just that I'm afraid I will miss the whole WM community a lot!!!

I forgot to mention I kept the S710 aswell so now I have both
The next day I asked him if I could buy his P990 instead because I wanted to keep my S710 and he sold it to me for only ~$150, I guess it was a bargain after all?!...
I've made my P990 look almost like WM6 using the gdesk shell app...
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nice!
i like the p990i, but i use alot of winmo only apps for work and school and stuff

even here at the year 2014 id wish to keep my P990i ...because it was my joy of development , joy of creativity , and joy of life ,indead i loved it! this really making me :crying:

Switch Touch Pro 2 for Droid?

I purchased the Verizon Touch Pro 2 the day it came out, but I have never been happy with the phone. I have had some issues with two of them actually. I’m receiving my third new phone this Thursday. I’m going to sell it off on either Ebay or XDA or something, but I was curious to see if anyone else is jumping ship to the new Motorola Droid. Anyone? I think the droid is a great mixture between the customization of WM6.5 and the stability of Blackberry. What do you think? Anyone taking the leap? I think that will be my next phone. I was excited for the WM6.5 update and what not, but it my eyes WM will never be great until possibly WM7.
PS: If you’re interested in a new HTC Touch Pro 2, we can discuss that too! Just thought I would toss that in there…..

We have almost 20 TP2s. Everyone knows the Droid is coming, no one has asked. I have 10 more eligible for upgrades in the next 2 months, and most of them have asked for a TP2.

you say you have had problems? what kind of problems to go through 3 phones :\

I have seen videos of it and it is buggy. For instance if you go to scroll through contacts or a list you drag your finger and about a half of second later it decides to scroll. Plus I can't stand not having decent gps software.

Sweeny Russ said:
I have seen videos of it and it is buggy. For instance if you go to scroll through contacts or a list you drag your finger and about a half of second later it decides to scroll. Plus I can't stand not having decent gps software.
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are you talking about the droid not having decent gps software? The google maps on droid looks pretty damn good to me.

Be wary of "The Droid", last guy that thought it was a good idea to switch... well, it didn't turn out so well ...
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if you don't want the freedom of doing anything with a mobile device via mods, hacks, and forums (and I mean anything literally) but rather a very handy device that will perform well out the box...then I recommend the droid...but if you want anything you can think of on a phone...stay with the TP2. Pretty much, the TP2, you have to "fix" and "trick" out to see the "actual" potential of what you have where as the the Android OS, you get most of what you would want right out of the box but has limitations. I stay with windows personally cause if I need something, it's there either on xda or ppcgeeks, period. It's just a matter of finding it.

I say do it. The more people we have working on it, the faster we can root it and start modifying.
It looks like a great phone. I can't wait to pick it up friday.

No games for android says illusion labs :(

I'm a huge fan of illusion labs games for the iPhone and I was dissopointed to learn there were no games like TouchGrind or Sway for android, so I emailed illusion labs to see if they had any plans to port these games or something similar to android. This is the response I received:
Hello,
I'm glad you like our games. We have no plans at the moment to port those games to android at the moment. One of the reasons is that the performance is much lower on Android.
Best Regards
Marcus
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Low performance seems like a lame excuse to me coming from an owner of a beastly Samsung Vibrant. Also, my iPhone 3G under-performs most android phones by a long shot and plays these games perfectly fine. I think performance is a poor excuse with some of the top selling android devices having GPU's capable of pushing more pixels then the iPhone, like the Galaxy S line.
I think illusion labs is seriously underestimating android and the demand for high quality android games on the platform. My proposal? Show them there is damand! Download labyrinth (illusion labs only android port) rate it and leave comments demanding they port the other games! And email illusion labs at: [email protected]
Tell them how badly android needs quality games and how perfectly capable android is at games.
Some screenshots of what we are missing out on.
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Low performance? What a joke. Let them fall behind then.

Its probably due to iphone being optimized for hardware draws while anything below Gingerbread isn't (we also have JIT unoptimized for Froyo). Makes sense. Also don't forget android is fragmented when it comes to hardware, theres just too many dif configs. You should email the devs back and tell them that your vibrant basicly is a iphone 4 as we have almost the same hardware (but a teeny faster gpu but its basicly a hummingbird cpu/gpu combo) also did you know Samsung makes the cpu's for Apple? we basicly have iphone 4's with a unoptimized os.

Im sure they've seen the latest Ios/Android split for themselves.
Must be nice for them to have money to burn, Leave them to it..
The only app I fancied was the Tech Deck one and even that one I couldn't see myself playing tbh..

Customizing

Hi, I got a KF when it came out last year. I wanted to give it to my niece this year for her birthday. I'd like to put something other than the KF OS on it. Maybe CM9? That seems to be popular around here. Also I'd like to customize the screens so that a 4 year old can get to what they need and not get lost in all the extras.
Q1: Can anyone recommend an OS for it? CM7, CM9 or other. I don't need it to have all the gadgets or widgets. Just wifi, video, sound and the google market. Maybe I can strip down something already made?
Q2: I guess I would have to make some sort of custom theme for it. Does anyone know of one for kids? I want to get rid of the carousel and do maybe 3-5 BIG icons on the main screen. No extra screens (swipe to next screen). And a password protected settings icon.
I've done lots of windows and Mac programming before, but no android yet. I've got the SDK and have gone through several beginner tutorials ("Hello World", ect.)
Thanks.

Im using Cm7 currently, i suggest you to use the same! Very cool, smooth and fast.

Cm7 is quite stable, and its been fun customizing it to my liking.
Sent from my ADR6400L using xda premium

Ok cool. I'll start on CM7 then. Do I need to modify the source code to customize it or can I just manipulate the configuration files and graphics?

MIUI
I'm using MIUI.us, It's still quite buggy, but it promises lot!

If it's for kids, maybe the easier way should be:
Keep stock rom
Root KF. do not register in order to keep out amazon's further upgrades
Install the apps you like
Set another launcher as default and customize it as you like. Hide/unistall what you think the kids don't need
No need to flash roms, IMO

Put the MoDaCo Rom on it. It comes preloaded with the Android Market and uses the regular Kindle Fire OS. I've used it and I think it would be perfect for your niece!
Here's a preview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2QtQeOdOZg
He says in the video that the Rom is v6.2.1 (Gr2), but it is actually been updated to v6.2.2 (Gr6).
Here's the Rom: http://android.modaco.com/topic/350682-24-jan-gr6-622-modaco-custom-rom-for-the-kindle-fire/

CM7 is the only one that can do video for now. I recommend you use GO Launcher or the stock one. Don't go too overboard trying to make your own. Actually did one a few years ago for my brother to browse the internet.
Desktop VisualizeR lets you do "stickers" and put them where you please and then point them to an app. Kinda like this:
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That's a really nice screenshot you have. Is that with the stock KF OS? or did you put something else on? I've downloaded the app, but the icons I get are always small, even when I give it a big image. Do I have to buy their image crop app or another one of theirs to get mine to look as good as yours?