Its called Home, made by a company called PointUI. It sits on top of Windows Mobile and allows you to control your device quite a bit without having to take out your stylus for every little task. It is a Today screen replacement plus application launcher and it looks like this .....
What I really like about this application are the following
1. very light, takes only 3MB during runtime.
2. Its not at all very CPU intensive because the ASUS doesn't have the best processor on board.
3. It extremely simple to use.
4. Very easy installation, can be easily stopped at anytime.
5. It uses the entire screen, which is important when your devices is a little smaller.
6. It seemlessly moves between its own shell and the actual windows programs once opened.
7. Works with the buttons available for navigation.
8. Believe it or not, its free !!!
The screen can be shifted by flicking right or left to move to your calendar items / pending tasks / Weather as can bee seen in the screen shots below.
It has a soft lock/ screen option located on the top left , that once activated looks like this ...
The next icon the top of the signal strength take you to the following Wireless Manager screen.
The next icon on the screen takes you to the screen where you can change your ring type to vibration / silent or your ring volume.
The battery icon on the top take you to this screen
The last icon on the top takes you to the configuration page where you would end up reaching by programs ---> Settings
To move between menu you need to flick across the screen
Navigation in any screen is by flicking up down on your screen as show below ...
That complete what are the option on the top of the screen, on the bottom you have Recent Calls / Email / SMS / Recent programs as the large icons with the Contact list and program below them, the Contact list looks like this ...
Navigation here as well is by flicking your finger up / down.
The last screen I am posting is of the program files to be used to launch applications.
What I really like about this application are the following
1. very light, takes only 3MB during runtime.
2. Its not at all very CPU intensive because the ASUS doesn't have the best processor on board.
3. It extremely simple to use.
4. Very easy installation, can be easily stopped at anytime.
5. It uses the entire screen, which is important when your devices is a little smaller.
6. It seemlessly moves between its own shell and the actual windows programs once opened.
7. Works with the buttons available for navigation.
8. Believe it or not, its free !!!
It can be found here http://www.pointui.com
The best experience for this product would be to try it, images can never truly represent the user experience.
The rest of the articles on this phone can be found here
http://p320.blogspot.com
Hope you found this article useful, do drop me a comment would love to heard from you. If your feeling generous you could donate a dollar via paypal
Is it compatible?
ReplyDeleteHow come from the Handango website there it stated that it is not compatible to P320?
It's really confusing...
Hi.
ReplyDeleteI saved a avi cartoon in my storage card, thinking I can let my kid watch the show.
However, it doesn't work.
The vendor copied a coreplayer into the storage card and that too didn't work. I know this particular topic is not about windows media player, but I was wondering, do you have the same problem?
@above
ReplyDeleteIts definitely compatible, I am using it every day for the last couple of months.
@Rawfoodie
I am sorry, I haven't tried to play video, but the device supports it. I have discussed with people above TCMP player, maybe you could try it. If I do get to try I will post about it here ...
I have tried installing the same, but ended up with unstable phone. It hangs very often. But I liked the application. Thanks for good stuff on your blog.
ReplyDeleteIt surprisingly stable on my phone, just a point, I hope you have installed it on your phone and not your storage card, such programs need to be on the device itself....
ReplyDeleteHow do you unlock once it is locked using the icon on the top left?
ReplyDelete@அஆ
ReplyDeleteJust run your finger down in the direction of the arrows :) It will unlock
bro can u mail me the copy of it..at girish_lokapure@yahoo.com...
ReplyDeleteHi Vikram,
ReplyDeleteI was not able to pick up this application from PointUI. Can you pls mail it to me at g_b@rediffmail.com
where will i get this application
ReplyDelete@above
ReplyDeleteGet it from here ....
http://download.chip.eu/en/PointUI-1.51a_3345734.html
Hello all,
ReplyDeletePointUI Home 2, the latest version is now available. Check that out
Dear Vikram,
ReplyDeleteIts wonderful work you are doing, I am thankful to you,
I just downloaded POINTUI from the site but I am unable to install in my Phone, after decompressing the files I copied it in Memory card and went to file manager and clicked on _setup.xml I saw a big page in IE but nothing happened, Can you please guide me how to install application with *.xml extension.
Sunil Vishwakarma
@sunil
ReplyDeleteThanks for the encouragement, the latest version of pointui is to be used as a today plugin. Suggest you copy the cab and install it on the phone memory and not the memory card. If you do this post installation when you go to the today plugins you should see home. Select it and say ok.
If you want to install it on the memory card, you need to search the pointui forum to find some registry changed you need to make to set the directory to the location you have installed it to for it to show up in the plugin screen.
Thanks a lot vikram, you are saviour for us.
ReplyDeleteI have installed free version of pointui home 2. i like it a lot can you let me know how can i crack it to enjoy complete feture.
it isn't free anymore
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