Guest Paul (MVP) Posted February 6, 2007 Report Share Posted February 6, 2007 Spb Software House, MoDaCo Plus partners and purveyors of such fine software as Spb Pocket Plus, Spb Diary, Spb Weather etc., have just released their latest application, 'Spb Mobile Shell'. Spb Mobile Shell is a cross between the mother-of-all Today plugins, and a brand new menuing system, with a 'now' screen (that displays on startup), a photo contacts plugin, a contacts picker, a weather plugin, integration with a bunch of other Spb applications and a whole lot more thrown in too. In their own words... Spb Mobile Shell introduces the next generation user interface while keeping all advantages of a Windows Mobile device. Enjoy your Pocket PC! FeaturesThe most important information at one screenPhone style menuWeather forecastsPhoto speed dialWorld timeLauncherBig dynamic tabs on TodayColor based themesSmart contact searchAuto-hide mode for Today plug-ins I've just started having a play and have literally scratched the surface, but I already know it's an awesome application that is destined to stay on my device! Head over to the Mobile Shell homepage to find out more, or to download a free trial. I'll leave you with some SpbMS eye candy :) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pna Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 I have an imate sp5. Downloaded this app from the web to trial it as it looks like exactly what I'm after. However, it fails to install. Any ideas why this could be ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pisquee Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 I have an imate sp5. Downloaded this app from the web to trial it as it looks like exactly what I'm after. However, it fails to install. Any ideas why this could be ? Isn't the SP5 a smartphone, and not a pocket PC? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Correct... this is a Pocket PC application. P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pookiecheeks Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Correct... this is a Pocket PC application. P hello all, ..yes, and ONLY windows mobile 5 at that ! :) pooks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syphon Filter Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Guys, Is it possible to have the "Now" screen on ALL the time and have the device locked etc? Also, can you customise the items that are in the "Home" tab? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Guys, Is it possible to have the "Now" screen on ALL the time and have the device locked etc? Also, can you customise the items that are in the "Home" tab? Yep everything is customisable Syphon Filter. And yes you can have the Lock in your today Items and after a while a really nice analogue clock appears, Its a bloody great piece of kit inded, The contacts dialer is ace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Lenny Jr Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Fantastic software its exactly what im looking for thumbs up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mavisdavis Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 (edited) in the 3hrs Ive had it installed on my M600 with nothing else running (just played around with the menus & setup) my battery has gone down from 50% to 31% AND ITS BEEN PLUGGED IN TO MY PC !!!! Has anybody experienced this shocking discovery??? EDIT : After a couple of resets and a bit of playing Its all OK now.. PHEW! Hats off to SPB for this one. guys at work have been really impressed wth my new look ;-) Edited February 8, 2007 by mavisdavis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted February 7, 2007 Report Share Posted February 7, 2007 Not seen that myself :) Love the app, it needs more customisability tho... P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest FragMeister Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Ohh, I Like! I see a great opportunity for i{Phone}-esque skinning with this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlanJC Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hmmm, I have only recently purchased SBSH iLauncher and PocketBreeze, as I preferred these to the SPB versions. I wonder if SBSH will be doing something similar. This looks remarkably similar to the jgui app that came out a few weeks ago though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syphon Filter Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Yep everything is customisable Syphon Filter. And yes you can have the Lock in your today Items and after a while a really nice analogue clock appears, Its a bloody great piece of kit inded, The contacts dialer is ace I have an unregistered version running on my M3100, I cant see the options to change which items are available in the tabs etc. Do I have to purchase to get full functionality? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'd like to be able to have the 'now' screen as my today screen :) P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syphon Filter Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'd like to be able to have the 'now' screen as my today screen :) P Yeah you and me both!! That is exactly what I would like too. Also, what I mean by customisability is that I want to chance the items that appear in the "home" tab of of the mobile shell plugin etc... It would be great to be able to switch between a normal today screen and the "now" screen properly...as paul says...having the NOW screen as the today screen would rock. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pisquee Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 Agreed, as at the moment it is like having two home screens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kurtfhouse Posted February 8, 2007 Report Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'd like to be able to have the 'now' screen as my today screen :) P If you want something like that why don't you try Wisbar Advance 2 and Wisbar Advance Desktop? You could get something looking a lot better with a bit of tweaking as its totally customisable. Take a look at the forums over at: http://www.lakeridgesoftware.com/forum/index.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AlanJC Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 I'd like to be able to have the 'now' screen as my today screen :) P Hmm, how about rlToday + either SBSH iLauncher or SPB PocketPlus with their respective weather plugin as the first tab. That way you get a nice clock and calendar, the weather, you will see your default notification icons for missed things anyway, and have quick easy access to your other tabs for launching things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stormuk Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 To get the most out of it it feels like you have to add the rest of the spb software liabrary to replace each dumbed down tab options. Which is a shame if your trying to reduce the resource overhead... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syphon Filter Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) To get the most out of it it feels like you have to add the rest of the spb software liabrary to replace each dumbed down tab options. Which is a shame if your trying to reduce the resource overhead... What do you mean? It works just fine as it is. One gripe I have, its not really that customisable. How do you change the items that appear in the "Home" tab for example? Why can you not make the "Now" screen a more permanent feature? I paid $30 for it and its not half as customisable as I hoped it would be. Edited February 9, 2007 by Syphon Filter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stormuk Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) Home Tab - Only 12 Large Icons even though if its the only app on the homepage there is room for lots more, its not easy to get them in any personal order and no simple way of pining them on via a directory - resolution by spb Today Weather Tab - Unable to change to any other city than the predefined ones - resolution spb weather. No actual dumbed down Diary tab so need to get spb Diary to get any. Alarm - okay this is fine as it is (well it is for me) but if you want more spb Time Contacts - not enough contact slots - though I admit on this one spb dont have an alternative to make this better (unless its in the pipeline) Dont get me wrong though I love it just wish it was just a little more able to stand on its own two feet Edited February 9, 2007 by stormuk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syphon Filter Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 (edited) Ok, heres what I want. 1. Adjustable the height for plugin, fixed can be restrictive 2. Customisable "items" in the "Home" tab as opposed to just most recently used 3. More than 5 dial/picture contact things 4. As mentioned before "Now" screen as Today or better yet...a "Now" tab. 5. Missed Calls etc in a "Phone" tab 6. A proper messaging tab to show emails, voicemails and SMS Now, I understand that this is a shell application and most of the above can be achieved by using 3rd party apps and then having the tabs in loaded in the shell. But a bit more flexabilty is definitely needed. Edited February 9, 2007 by Syphon Filter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest shanedean Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 It would be nice if 'Now' screen would appear after a certain time as a screen saver type thing...or does it do that already? Haven't noticed if it does! And if it had a 'seconds' hand too. Has anyone else spotted that the little analogue clock tab actually tells the correct time? I think that's cool...you know what they say about small things and all that... :) I agree in part with what others have said about the 'Now' screen being a little basic and not customisable enough but I'm sure SPB will work on it and take our comments on board. Besides, you wouldn't want it too crowded would you? Had a quick look at that rlToday link. Nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paul (MVP) Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 stormuk - you mention 'SPB Today' as the answer to issue 1 - how does that work? re: "no actual dumbed down Diary tab so need to get spb Diary to get any", you can insert the standard diary plugin as a tab no? re: "Contacts - not enough contact slots - though I admit on this one spb dont have an alternative to make this better (unless its in the pipeline)", would you like a scrolling list then? P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Syphon Filter Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 (edited) SPB Today?? Whats that??? Can't see it on their site... Edit: Found it...its just a collection of all the apps in a bundle?! Edited February 10, 2007 by Syphon Filter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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