Samsung's Broken Home Screen on the BlackJack II

[Mike Temporale]

I've been using the Xbox 360 home screen for a while now.  It's a great theme, but it lacks the quick calendar view that Samsung's built-in home screen offers.  (Now, if only it integrated with my actual calendar and showed that I had something scheduled on a given day) Regardless, I felt it was time to switch back to this calendar, at least for the next couple days until I found something new to use.

Imagine my surprise when I switched the home screen and was presented with this! I wonder how many people will notice the problem here.  I'll give you a hint - I took this screen capture today. Anyway, Great job on the quality control Samsung.   I guess I shouldn't complain.  Who actually relies on their phone to report the correct information. ;-)

[Mike Temporale]

I've been using the Xbox 360 home screen for a while now.  It's a great theme, but it lacks the quick calendar view that Samsung's built-in home screen offers.  (Now, if only it integrated with my actual calendar and showed that I had something scheduled on a given day) Regardless, I felt it was time to switch back to this calendar, at least for the next couple days until I found something new to use.

Imagine my surprise when I switched the home screen and was presented with this! I wonder how many people will notice the problem here.  I'll give you a hint - I took this screen capture today. Anyway, Great job on the quality control Samsung.   I guess I shouldn't complain.  Who actually relies on their phone to report the correct information. ;-)

[Prosper]

Wondering why it doesn't show Friday the 13th *evil* :P

[onlydarksets]

Methinks somebody is missing a leap year...

[Mike Temporale]

Originally Posted by onlydarksets

Methinks somebody is missing a leap year...

Ding Ding Ding!!! I wonder what April looks like....

Just checked and, big surprise, it's wrong as well. Guess I won't be using that home screen again.

[Prosper]

There's a plugin out there which displays such a calendar though, so you should be able to build a similiar homescreen

[Rocco Augusto]

I also thinks it's a little odd looking to have the month as a "3" instead of "March". It isn't as if they would have run out of room to put the full date there.

[Rocco Augusto]

I just checked, the same problem is on my original Samsung Blackjack. I can understand why they would mess up on something this simple, but you would think the homescreen would utilize the calendar tools that are already in the OS instead of building their own subpar solution

[Mike Temporale]

Originally Posted by Prosper

There's a plugin out there which displays such a calendar though, so you should be able to build a similiar homescreen

Well, I'm not much of a graphics guy. I can certianly provide direction on what I would like.

I'm guessing you're talking about Facade, eh? Could it display a basic grid calendar on the screen with a basic indicator of your schedule?

[Mike Temporale]

Originally Posted by Rocco Augusto

I also thinks it's a little odd looking to have the month as a "3" instead of "March". It isn't as if they would have run out of room to put the full date there.

Yeah, I never understood that either.

[jfreiman]

I use this home screen also on my BJII and I didn't notice the problem until you mentioned it.

Do you think they will send out an update? Maybe they will wait for the WM6.1 update? :-D

-John