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Has anyone tested this SPB Shell 3D launcher (the final version) with our Fascinate phones? Is it worth the $15?
Check it @: http://spb.com/android-software/shell/
Let me know what you guys think? Will customizations be coming??
Looks way too fancy for me. I think the "neat" factor would wear out pretty quick. But that's coming from someone who used to use HelixLauncher. Besides, $15 is a bit outside my budget for an Android app, especially when it offers no additional productivity.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=994809&highlight=launcher
There are a few people in this thread that have tried it.
Tried it with the setup in my sig. No luck, blank screen then fc.
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I used the beta for a bit, it was alright - definitely not worth 15$ in my opinion.
I like having an app drawer and just 3 homescreens to keep things clean and simple.
The coolest things in it were the animations/graphics and adjustable widgets. The novelty wears off pretty quickly and I went back to good old launcher pro after a few days.
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I tried the beta for an hour or so. I thought it was kind of neat that you could reorder home screens pretty easily, but mostly to me it seemed like eye candy only. I do remember SPB being the bomb for other folks in my Omnia days, but that was comparing it to Winmo...
LauncherPro + is $3. SPB is $15. Hmmm...
$15.... and does not make coffee? Thats a shame.
Too expensive for me plus im sure its loose its flavor in a few days or weeks like everything else.
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adw ex is a much better option and you could buy it 4x over
or use free launchers
its neat but at $15!?! that screams steal me on 4chan or something
I'd rather put $15 toward helping a dev hack it. I used the beta and it looks cool but...
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Spb will cash in on the former winmo user base though. Not from me though.
good day.
I used the beta for a few hours. It was pretty cool but got old fast. There is no way I would pay $15 for it though.
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I used it on my Omnia 2 in my winmo days. With so many good alternatives available now in android, no desire to use it in my droid days.
Not very good app.
First load is very slow. take very long time.
Really cool, but not $15 cool. Maybe if it were $4.99.
Alternative agenda..
Everything I've read points to the fact that they are hoping to get picked up by a manufacturer as a UI like Sense, Blur etc. This may be more of a feeler effort to see what the community thinks. But the $15 price tag is a bit over my beta testing tolerance lol. I mean really...15 dollars? (not to mention most people around here bellyache over apps costing a dollar or two so I don't understand their reasoning as far as pricing goes.) It is "pretty" but as far as increased functionality I don't see any benefit and all that prettiness has to be a resource gobbling monster. I'll stick with LPP does all I need and more.(especially when fede is doing a complete rewrite to LP )
pretty cool, no where near being worth $15 imo. The fact that you cant delete other screens as far as I can tell is really a deal breaker for me. I have no need for more than 1 screen though.
Guess I'm the only sucker who bought it. lol.
They made a lot of improvements over the beta. You now have 5 buttons on the bottom, two are changeable. There is an app drawer finally, and they fixed the screen reorganization and renaming issues. They also added a few more widgets, and the boot time is faster.
There's a lot I like about it, and a few I don't care for. Will be interesting to see what improvements they make from here.
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Guess I'm the only sucker who bought it. lol.
They made a lot of improvements over the beta. You now have 5 buttons on the bottom, two are changeable. There is an app drawer finally, and they fixed the screen reorganization and renaming issues. They also added a few more widgets, and the boot time is faster.
There's a lot I like about it, and a few I don't care for. Will be interesting to see what improvements they make from here.
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From what you said, I can not imagine how slow the beta version is, as the release version is still too slow!
Guys i am waiting for the android to be rooted but till then experimentation of the ui with apps is under process !!
The excellent launcher i recently used unofficially is SPB Shell 3d .. got a link lying around somewhere (Google)
http://www.spb.com/android-software/shell/
Here's the official link ofcourse !! this app has a license as in if your wifi or internet is on this app will say that you need to officially buy the software !!
Basically when you install it with an apk !! and press the home button it will ask for htc sense / spb shell 3d in our htc incredible s and down will be a tickmark saying set as default .. check that tickmark and launch spb shell 3d !! and use it as full version with wifi and everything !! if you want to clear defaults it can be done from Settings->Applications->SPB shell 3d !!
This is just for usage and trial purposes !! if you like the app go ahead and buy it ! Njoy !!!
ive played with it allready and i dont like it at all....
it is not very user friendly, and it sucks up allot of memory...
and yes ive played with the full version...
IMO, sense is nicer than this! i have spb on all my devivces
even i lovee sense itself !! but its good to have a change sometimes
@nikhil007mmus, you should look at go launcher its nice and clean and has a lil more options than the regular one
@Hawkysoft Surely il try go Launcher !! thankss !!
Yeah... I tried too.. But HTC Sense is looking better comparatively, and moreover I found that on HTC 3D mobile, they have a 3D user interface which is much cool than SPB Shell.. If they release the same for Incredible S too.. it would be awesome...
May be I am day dreaming a lot these mean days...
htc sense is enoughfor me
i like MIUI's GUI,the others are just so so
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htc sense is enoughfor me
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Here the same. (I used spb shell on my last phone, blackstone)
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It is so tacky and cheesy. The 3d carrousel looks good but all the bezels for widgets and folders are just 10 years out of date.
seems very cool, have a try ~~~
If you want to see how good this could be been, and could have looked, look at sense 3 on the sensation or flyer.
using live wallpaper already take enough CPU time....and the 3D does not do any good
love the sense
I tried this, looks cool and doesn't lag but wished it had more customization capabilities, reverted back to launcher pro plus
I like sense 3.0 much better than spb
There is nothing as good as LauncherPro
allchannels99 said:
There is nothing as good as LauncherPro
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For its simplicity and speed only
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awsome!! it looks great, i like it.
thx 4 sharing!!
This used to be cool. Back when I had my N95 8gb but in my opinion they are just selling the same old over priced crap
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hi I'm currently using spb shell 3.5 but I saw that there are very beautiful skin also for wad2. so my question is which is better between this two program??? i saw spb shell is more expensive than wad, but I want an opinion from those who have used their which is the most customizable? which is the lightest at the startup?
thanks a lot
I used both. Each of them can be customized and there are plenty of themes floating around for both of them (a bit more themes for wad). I sticked to spb mobile shell cause it seemed a bit faster on my device (HTC Touch HD WM 6.1) and i think it's more eye-candy than wad
THROTTLE LAUNCHER!!!!!!!!
keep going back to it every time!!!!
and check out my themes for it...
Trekfan422991 said:
THROTTLE LAUNCHER!!!!!!!!
keep going back to it every time!!!!
and check out my themes for it...
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THROTTLE LAUNCHER is too heavy... spb is much faster becouse my viva doesn't have the 3d graphical accelerator, the cpu have 264 Mh and little ram, so it work slow (very slow) but i really like it
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THROTTLE LAUNCHER is too heavy... spb is much faster becouse my viva doesn't have the 3d graphical accelerator, the cpu have 264 Mh and little ram, so it work slow (very slow) but i really like it
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depends which theme you are running....
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depends which theme you are running....
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i'm using the default theme that i found when i downloaded the program from the web site but it's very slow.... it takes 5 seconds only to switch between windows, if you have a faster theme i will try it
Like I said... throttlelauncher.com. click themes.. find a nice n simple qvga theme... I suggest switchblade. I think it is for qvga
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Like I said... throttlelauncher.com. click themes.. find a nice n simple qvga theme... I suggest switchblade. I think it is for qvga
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it doesn't exist :'( so when your theme (LACUNA 3.0 ) will support qvga version i will try it
In my opinion spb shell is absolutely the best...especially if you use it with a sense theme... but i've never tried throttle launcher
Willy89 said:
In my opinion spb shell is absolutely the best...especially if you use it with a sense theme... but i've never tried throttle launcher
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SPB MObile Shell cannot be customized very easily, and one cannot create new widgets. Throttle Launcher is very easy to customize and also new widgets can be created easily.
claus1953 said:
SPB MObile Shell cannot be customized very easily, and one cannot create new widgets. Throttle Launcher is very easy to customize and also new widgets can be created easily.
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going back to the main question: WAD is very good customizable but SPB mobile shell is faster.
I have been forced to live SenseUI free and have returned to some of my old skinning apps that I used pre-Sense. One of those is Wisbar Advance, made by Lakeridge who also makes WAD.
My recent experience with Lakeridge is they are dead. I made a few posts there and received no replies. My last post was a request for updated skinning info which has been there, unanswered, for more than a week. The forum is flat, there is no support there anymore and no one is skinning it anymore. Worse, all the links to old skins are all dead. Only a small pittance of skins that have been posted to Lakridge's forums are still available for it.
Because of this I created a skin myself, ironically enough. I actually released it today. Its here. Gratuitous plug: here is the promo flyer for it. But, I think no one is interested given the lack of activity around Lakeridge's site itself.
So a big caution with WAD. Its a dead end. Personally I've never liked WAD, I found it very buggy, but this was like 2 years ago. I have always liked Wisbar Advance though, and used it extensively before I got a HD2 and Sense.
That is not to say that SPB is any better, though. The difference is SPB abandoned their customers long ago, so nothing much is different. See the conversation I had with Vostradamus in his thread towards the end. Maybe because of this, the skinning community for Mobile Shell is very much alive here at XDA.
Now that I have been using Mobile shell for a few months, I have to say, thanks to the great artists at XDA, I find I like Mobile Shell far more than I like SenseUI. I will never be going back.
i like both...especially SPB mobile shell
So I've been using Go launcher ex, and like it. I've used in the past LP+, and liked it.
I was pondering on purchasing SPB shell 3D launcher after the couple of highly regarded reviews.
So I started looking at some videos of other launchers. I found Nemus launcher and Claystone launcher to look pretty cool. I tried Regina launcher after watching a video and didn't like it at all.
Would like to see other launchers others have used that they have liked or didn't like.
modded TW launcher for all devices.. MY FAvorite... one of CHoice... recommended
QQLauncher.. pretty good
MIUI LAuncher 3.1.. just like miui no app drawer dont like the style... but runs well
netfront lifescreen.. cool idea... not super useful or intuitive
he Launcher 1/ he launcher 2... can make it look like stock GB or Froyo or any flavor of sense or Touch wiz
Itching Thumbs... like web os with task switching and killing
just to name a few.... just google em... to lazy to provide links and pics... haha
I'm using Go Launcher Extreme right now and think its the best thing ever.
SPB Shell 3D is a serious waste of money. Its all eye candy with limited features and I regret buying it every time I go to the Market.
LauncherPro was nice for its time, but feels and looks outdated.
ADW is similar to LauncherPro in this regard, but the EX version shows promise.
lol i use the spb shell 3d launcher and its juuuust fine for me. smooth and fast and very cool.
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So I've been using Go launcher ex, and like it. I've used in the past LP+, and liked it.
I was pondering on purchasing SPB shell 3D launcher after the couple of highly regarded reviews.
So I started looking at some videos of other launchers. I found Nemus launcher and Claystone launcher to look pretty cool. I tried Regina launcher after watching a video and didn't like it at all.
Would like to see other launchers others have used that they have liked or didn't like.
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Free:
Adw- great dependable launcher. Has improved so much in performance. My recommendation for free launchers. If you get into the settings this launcher will go toe to toe with any free launcher.
LauncherPro-was my launcher of choice for a very long time but its developement has slowed almost to a halt. Still probably one of the smoothest launchers on market, especially for lower end devices due to the memory settings.
GoLauncher-eye candy. Its smooth and has plenty of nice animations and has themes. But, it lacks in performance compared to some of the others. Buts it not so bad that you shouldn't give it a try. And its a Go app, so you wont have to worry about support. These guys put in work.
Payed:
LauncherPro Plus-same thing but adds ability to resize Widgets and adds some nice themeable Widgets built in.
Spb shell 3D: $15!!!! But hey, think about it this way, it basically has a handful of apps you MIGHT have otherwise payed for with a different launcher built in and integrated seamlessly. Its beautiful and its super smooth. It puts itself in memory and appears to stay there so there's never any lag. If you're a constant themer or on a ramen noodle budget , avoid this one. I personally love it (and I went in skeptical about it).
A final note: those are just the ones I've tried for any amount of time and can remember. try em all. Mess around with em. On a high end device like this you don't need to worry about which one uses a little more memory. If you had a lower end device and a launcher you tried before didn't run so well, try it again on this device. The Thrill is beast enough to run any launcher well. If the launcher doesn't run well on this phone then its just a poor app. On my Aria I had to run launcherpro to get the best performance because I could tweak its memory setting to optimize it for that device and it actually out performed adw. On the Thrill adw blows lpp away performance wise. All these are better than the stock launcher IMO.
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agreed with aria. as far as loving the spb shell 3d i double agree with him lmao
go laucher +1
Seriously try the modded TW 4 launcher for all devices..
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I just downloaded that SPB 3D launcher and it is QUITE sexy. It's more than I would ever need at one time (world time, weather with current temperature, recent texts in a rolo-dex form, etc) but it was quite responsive. It DOES take up more memory than some would have you believe (try 60+ megs).
Go Launcher EX seemed to be everything I wanted in a launcher. Responsive, able to customize anything, and the ability to skin widgets was very nice.
I've tried it spb launcher for free..
I suggest to download it from a torrent.. put it in your sd card, turn on airplane mode, and then play with it for a while.. see how you like it.. The reason why you turn it on airplane mode is because the android market will detect that you did not buy the item so you wont be able to use it.
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I've tried it spb launcher for free..
I suggest to download it from a torrent.. put it in your sd card, turn on airplane mode, and then play with it for a while.. see how you like it.. The reason why you turn it on airplane mode is because the android market will detect that you did not buy the item so you wont be able to use it.
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dude, come on .... no warez guides...
Trekfan422991 said:
dude, come on .... no warez guides...
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Ahhh, the use of the word warez is waning. Nice to see it again. Hi warez how you been?
But, yeah, this is not a place for warez or warez guides. We develop and release open source and free only, I am sure everyone would like to keep xda as clean as possible since this is sort of our playground. No broken bottles of warez by the slidez please.
i REALLY like qq launcher, its fast ans looks more sophistiacated than the any of the others. regina is too, but it takes up a LOT of memory so its kinda laggy on the thrill.
I think the Guy who mentioned downloading spb for free was just suggesting a way to try it out so it wont be such a huge waste of money if you dont like it, as someone else had mentioned before because it is a bit expensive at $15 for a launcher
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got to try go loauncher extreme
For something a little different I just started trying life screen. Its interesting. I really like go launcher ex so far the best one I have used.
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Try tfs shell its a really good launcher there is a video of it on YouTube
Has anyone tried the ics launcher?
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Has anyone tried the ics launcher?
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Which one?
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
It's simply called ics launcher in the Google play store
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So i am sharing this cause i am very very tempted to buy it haven't yet but look absolutely amazing someone buy it and tell us how it is.. Youtube video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYzYQ6YtepU&feature=share
market link: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.tsf.shell
That is a sweet launcher, I'd like to know if anyone has tried it since it's rather pricey. A few reviews mentioned it didn't have all the features that the video showed.
yah for what it does 16$ is a little much i mean it kinda reminds me of SPB shell but SPB shell does something very nice by organizing all of your apps and stuff into separate areas to make it easier for you.
i wonder if this new launcher does that too...
I bought it... It's not up to par yet. Has bugs and no swipe to next screen, it's all in the bottom left icon... Will be great if devs continue to release
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yah for what it does 16$ is a little much i mean it kinda reminds me of SPB shell but SPB shell does something very nice by organizing all of your apps and stuff into separate areas to make it easier for you.
i wonder if this new launcher does that too...
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Yes similar to sbp however this is much smoother and more features invougjt as well
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