Comments on: Pointui Home - Quick Impressions

By: pedah

pedah — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:21:41 +0000

I only just now found out it’s an australian company that released PointUI!

Fair Dinkum!

By: PatrickJ

PatrickJ — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:26:30 +0000

Ragart - thanks for a great first comment. Glad to hear it’ quicker for you after a hard reset - like you’ve said, that shouldn’t be needed, but hey I might give that a try if I decide to play with Pointui a little more.
Usability = again, glad to hear you’re liking it. I like a lot of the look and feel of it, enjoy the button bars extending across the screen and so on, but I can’t say I preferred it to Spb Mobile Shell plus iLauncher so far. Disabling iLauncher is a big ouch for now, but I agree it is very encouraging to see a quick update from the developers already.
Very glad to hear you’re enjoying JAMM - we’ll do our best to keep it that way

By: dgoldring

dgoldring — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 20:18:06 +0000

Ragart,

Thanks for your thoughts and welcome to the JAMM community. Glad to hear you are enjoying yourself here.

Doug

By: Ragart

Ragart — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 19:25:34 +0000

I’d have to argue against that. I’ve had enough time to play with my friend’s iPhone to get the gist of the interface. It is gorgeous. Big buttons. The keyboard works well enough (though I like PocketCM more). Everything just seems well integrated and pretty consistent.

However, I’d argue that PointUI is really taking a step in the right direction as far as improving upon the WM UI. To quickly address the points you made:
1) Slowness — It was slow when I first put it on my WM6 TyTN, but ever since I hard reset the device (users shouldn’t have to do this of course, but I wanted to) the software has been as fast as shown on the YouTube videos
2) Usability — I’m used to using SPB Pocket Plus and Pocketbreeze for all of my day-to-day task switching and PIM but I welcome the change that PocketUI brings about. I love how everything just looks good (the animations are fantastic) while maintaining basicaly lightning-fast speed. And the memory usage is still decent enough that I can run all my programs together, including Pocket Player 3.5.
3) Disabling iLauncher — yeah, it basically does. It seems to paint its top bar over the default start menu, which is where iLauncher lives. On this and the whole customization issue, i just put my faith in the dev’s. It’s january 2 now and they’ve released an update. I hope they can continue to support the product.

VITOs latest foray into the finger-friendly software certainly looks good, but it really is (even with version 2.0 of Contacts) too basic for my purposes when compared to ilauncher and PocketCM Keyboard. Then there’s all the cube mania that’s got the XDA devs forums in a tizzy — again, all of it looks great, but it’s still just one part of the OS and you leave it again very easily.

I love the consistency of PointUI in comparison. I never really feel like you’ve left Home with PointUI. That is, it rewrites the top bar and makes it so that you can always reach it with just a click of the top-left title menu. It makes the system feel different and fresh, somehow. And I feel like I’m someone who isn’t easily impressed by flashy software without any depth.

Anyway, I’ve been reading JAMM for months now and just thought I’d comment. I read the blog daily and enjoy what you people post.

Cheers.

By: pedah

pedah — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:34:39 +0000

[url="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/209178918/"]TechCrunch{/url] are calling it another case of iPhone envy

By: dgduris

dgduris — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 21:50:09 +0000

I was anxious to try it as well, but it won’t even run on my Tilt. I suspect it has something to do with the number of plug-ins I have running.

Like Patrick - having played with the iPhone for the last week - I covet a bigger - and flush-fit screen to make the no-stylus thing work on my WinMob phone.