New Point UI Xperia panel – beta available for free now

I am glad to see something new in WM interfaces, however, this just does not make it for me, at least with this version.

My main complaint about PointUI 2 is that the screen usage is rather poor. First It’s obviously a quick port of a vga layout. Don’t be fooled by the screenshot above by xperiancers which shows a somewhat neatly agenced screen in vga: on your wvga screen, it renders absolutely the same, with a lot of wasted space at the bottom instead of enlarging the applet space and giving more information.
The applet selector (middle “ribbon”) takes a lot of space too: huge layout for such tiny icons you can’t even clic on. You have to credit touchflo3d here for merging the concept of applet selector and notification icons.

Navigation using traditionnal keypad is not usable at this moment as it is plagued with incoherent schemes. There are hundred examples like “if I hit right key from one task item, it does not do the same as hitting the same key on the task item just below”.
So, it has to be a touch interface, right? Not really: too much small icons lie everywhere. Just try to open pocket outlook with this small “+” icon for example.

Important features are missing:
phonecalls/message notifications at a glance
quick access to your agenda
quick access to browser

Then I understand this is beta, but there is a real whole lot of bugs, ranging from display glitches (email and task applets strangely refresh when selected) to showstopers (My applications panel loose application paths when restarting the panel forcing me to reconfigure all application shortcuts each time I launch the panel).

Finally, but this is more a matter of personnal taste, I’m not really fond of black and white interfaces.

Seems to mee there is still a long road for PointUI to win my heart.

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@razma, I’m surprised – I found it very easy to use and haven’t had the problem with the apps being lost at restart.

One issue I have found is that in the all contacts screen, I can’t use my hardware keyboard to select a contact, and can’t make a software keyboard pop up either. Do you have the same problems?

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I’ve had the problem with the keyboards yeah, although aswell have not had any problems with loosing apps at startup.

One thing I do notice which is quite enoying, is that when going from portrait to landscape, this sometimes messes up the application possitioning, and to the right of the main focussed tab, you can see a combination of other windows bundled…

Generally though, i love it!! Im new to windows mobile, and pointUI has made it for me, interface wise.

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the panel is amazing, and running smoothly but still it needs to be enhanced and as others said it has some missing features like links to browser and some notifications and alerts

waiting for the final version

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[...] limited functionality compared to what the full version will include, but gets a thumbs up from Xperiancers. The beta app is described as being easy to navigate and well laid out. You can compare the pro [...]

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I cant see how you can like this panel, I think it sucks! Ugly and not the quick-links I wished for.. Although Im looking forward to the pro version..

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Can anyone tell me how can i download themes for Pointui panel? is it safe to download these kind of private themes? thanks in advance

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To,
Pinank: Just click on 2nd paragraph’s 4th which is (download in panel from) highlighted on arrow then it would be.

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X1 is worse in the word, coz it’s too small to read when you sent/received SMS. Maybe it’s good for teenager.

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Hi Nomi,
Thanks for the reply. I have loaded Pointui Panel on my X1, however I am unable to download themes for this panel. I checked Pointui.com website but same result. it would be great if you can tell me source for the themes

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Thanks

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The best.

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Thank you……

great post, I am interesting in it!…

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