11-25-2003, 08:11 PM
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Executive Editor
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 29,160
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Symbian UIQ Dresses Up as a Pocket PC
This software gave me a good chuckle - it's certainly saying something when one OS has an app that makes it look like another OS. I understand why this app exists though - every time I tried a P800, I was bewildered by the UI! So many widgets and icons - sheer chaos on the screen. In my opinion at least. :wink:
"This is the most detailed Tracker 3 skin ever created. This skin basically gives the Pocket PC user interface appearance to a Sony Ericsson P800 or P900. All of the most popular Pocket PC features, icons and menus have been ported over to run on your phone. Whether you're a fan of the Pocket Pc software, or just need to spice up your phone a little, this skin is worth taking a look at..."
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11-25-2003, 10:33 PM
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Mystic
Join Date: Jul 2003
Posts: 1,768
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Ease-of-use jealousy
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"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." -Edmund Burke
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11-25-2003, 11:26 PM
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Thinker
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 444
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Being someone who started out with a Psion Series 5 (running EPOC r3) I like Symbian OS and do like the UIQ interface. I personally do not want a tracker skin that would emulate the Pocket PC. Than again, I would not want a "skin" on my Jornada 568 to emulate UIQ.
Why try to make something into something it is not?
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11-25-2003, 11:56 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 797
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Re: Symbian UIQ Dresses Up as a Pocket PC
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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I understand why this app exists though - every time I tried a P800, I was bewildered by the UI! So many widgets and icons - sheer chaos on the screen. In my opinion at least. :wink:
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I actually agree with you. Way too much going on, and way too much of it buried behind a menu. I'm sure it's something that can be improved upon.
Isn't it funny, though, that we get a chuckle out of this while at the same time bemoaning the lack of meaningful UI enhancements to the PPC? :lol:
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11-26-2003, 03:48 PM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 252
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Well theres been a dashboard theme for ages that simulates the original EPOC 6 UI so they're only getting their own back. :wink:
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11-30-2003, 08:42 AM
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Intellectual
Join Date: Dec 2002
Posts: 131
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It took me about a day to "learn" UIQ, I didn't find it that hard at all (and I was used to a PPC).
Besides, the skin only works using an app called Tracker. You can't operate the whole OS with that skin(or app)...
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