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Just saw this on Engadget, and figured everyone here will be interested in this. A swiss company made a user interface for all WM devices that emulates the look and feel of the iPhone interface. This company also tried to add "multitouch-ish" functions to the WM devices by simulating multi touch features while displaying photos and web pages. .
Looks pretty cool so far and it has potential. The article states that it will be available for download in May.
Engadget article:
http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/video-iswish-puts-the-iphone-ui-on-any-windows-mobile-phone/
Video of interface:
http://www.flicksoftware.com/research/index_files/Page350.htm
I am currently using SPB Mobile Shell but am willing to check out all other UI apps out there and this one looks promising.
looks very good. hope this will commin soon for us
its best iphone copy i´ve ever see
cant wait it
Looks good actually. I'll be keeping a watch on them as well as here for a download.
iZoom looks promising as well, even if Swish isn't available when Zoom is released.
This look sick , very sick. Ive never seen any iphone clone this much fluidy
Looks cool; see here http://www.flicksoftware.com/research/index_files/Page350.htm for details about joining the beta....
this looks cool, got myself on the beta when i saw the engadet post
hmm..reminds me of the Freestyl application that I really didnt like. Hopefully this one is much better. Going to try it out.
Update 03/May/2008:
We would like to thank everyone for their support and for Joining our Beta program. We have received over 2000 requests and we will be breaking them into 3 tiers with an increasing number of Beta tester in each one. The tier 1 will be selected late this week and will only be about 10 people, if things go well then late the following week we will expand to 100 and before months end over 1000.
Lastly to answer the number one question we have had, yes we do plan to start testing the iSwish development kit in the next 30 days. This will allow any designer to add iswish capabilities to their own windows mobile/PPC/CE applications. If you are a developer and interested in beta testing this please e-mail us at “[email protected]” with the subject “iSiwsh development environment Beta” and your company, name and current development environment.
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i hope this makes the light of day in a released piece of software!!
I'm in for at least trying it out. I'm a sucker for eye candy crap like this.
It looks like it enables dualtouch in WM?
New iZoom video for iSwish
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOMJuuWePY
udgn said:
It looks like it enables dualtouch in WM?
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True with iZoom...dualtouch is now possible on a singletouch interface. Look at the youtube video just above my post...they even installed dualtouch on a 6yr old device.
I guess it's a kind of dualtouch, though it seems that one point has to remain fixed when in this mode. Still could be quite useful I'm sure.
Looks promising but overall I think the idea is silly - I would of just bought an iPhone
digitalninjas said:
Looks promising but overall I think the idea is silly - I would of just bought an iPhone
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ok so just by one then...
you will end up with no GPS, MMS, Video recording, Bluetooth, SD slot, 3G etc etc etc
you will have a phone with a nice screen...thats is...I like the iphone but I dont like the actual phone....feel me ?
Exactly. The iPhone is nice looking, smooth, sleek and shiny, the Kaiser is big heavy and some have said ugly. But compare the features. The iPhone is a million miles away.
I briefly considered the iPhone before I got my Kaiser and I made the right choice. The clincher for me was the commercialism surrounding the iPhone. Too many people have jumped on the bandwagon and it's just not that cool anymore. Personally I don't think it ever was - a phone for show-offs who just want to impress people. The Kaiser is different. It may not look the best and the WM interface may not be to everybody's liking. But it can be a SatNav or a GameBoy, a notepad or a Webcam. The possiblilities are almost endless. And if you really can't live without the iPhone's inteface, you don't have to look far to get something similar, or even better.
Anyway, off topic, but that's my rant. I feel better now...
Macedon2000 said:
ok so just by one then...
you will end up with no GPS, MMS, Video recording, Bluetooth, SD slot, 3G etc etc etc
you will have a phone with a nice screen...thats is...I like the iphone but I dont like the actual phone....feel me ?
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ah, I get where you're coming from.
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matmaneyre said:
Exactly. The iPhone is nice looking, smooth, sleek and shiny, the Kaiser is big heavy and some have said ugly. But compare the features. The iPhone is a million miles away.
I briefly considered the iPhone before I got my Kaiser and I made the right choice. The clincher for me was the commercialism surrounding the iPhone. Too many people have jumped on the bandwagon and it's just not that cool anymore. Personally I don't think it ever was - a phone for show-offs who just want to impress people. The Kaiser is different. It may not look the best and the WM interface may not be to everybody's liking. But it can be a SatNav or a GameBoy, a notepad or a Webcam. The possiblilities are almost endless. And if you really can't live without the iPhone's inteface, you don't have to look far to get something similar, or even better.
Anyway, off topic, but that's my rant. I feel better now...
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I agree completely, but after buying an iPhone and using it for a week or so, I really loved the interface. I love the screen and how easy it is to navigate through everything. The browser is ten times better than PIE, and although you can get Opera or Skyfire, on the 2.8" screen they are still really difficult to use. In the end I chose to keep my kaiser over the iphone because I couldn't get used to typing without a hardware keyboard, but in all honesty I really loved the iphone interface.
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Hello Beta Tester,
We will have an update for you later this week on iSwish, but I thought I would point you all to the new video one of our developers posted last night showcasing the iZoom in full multi-touch with an interesting twist at the end. There was a measure of disbelief in its authenticity, so we hope this clears that up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icOMJuuWePY
What are you guys using to view images on your device? i am using root explorer to browse around my sd card, but whenever i try to open an image, it launches the gallery, and it either freezes or crashes.
Any Suggestions?
john10101 said:
What are you guys using to view images on your device? i am using root explorer to browse around my sd card, but whenever i try to open an image, it launches the gallery, and it either freezes or crashes.
Any Suggestions?
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Quick Pic or JustPictures are great.
lyam23 said:
Quick Pic or JustPictures are great.
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I second QuickPic.
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I second QuickPic.
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Yeah, best so far.
Fish Bowl
Huge fan of Fish Bowl. I'm a photographer so I end up with thousands of pictures (it's nice to have a portable portfolio when meeting new clients) and Fishbowl has an interface that basically just makes one big image card for each of my galleries so I can swipe through hundreds of pics fast and click on the one I am looking for.
Only downside is it's not multitouch but doesn't affect use really, just trips me up sometimes when comming from other apps. The last time I sent an email off to the Dev he had my suggestion in the next build a few days later so I feel guilty asking for multitouch now when it's already a really good app.
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Huge fan of Fish Bowl. I'm a photographer so I end up with thousands of pictures (it's nice to have a portable portfolio when meeting new clients) and Fishbowl has an interface that basically just makes one big image card for each of my galleries so I can swipe through hundreds of pics fast and click on the one I am looking for.
Only downside is it's not multitouch but doesn't affect use really, just trips me up sometimes when comming from other apps. The last time I sent an email off to the Dev he had my suggestion in the next build a few days later so I feel guilty asking for multitouch now when it's already a really good app.
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I'm a photographer too and use my Nook often to show proofs and sell shots. Thanks for the tip on Fish bowl, I'll give it wirl. Do you find it can reproduce decent quality jpegs fast? I do resize my shots appropriately for the Nook, but of course I want the best resolution possible. I have found Quick decent and I prefer the 3D Gallery's interface but not the speed or quality.
Thanks again for the tip on Fish Bowl, I'll give it a shot.
Edit: Photo Gallery (fish bowl beta) is sweat! Just about knocked my socks off, a great recommendation.
Yeah I had the same reaction when I saw Fish Bowl the first time too. I was pretty sure I was going to have to buy an iPad just to get a presentation system that looked polished and ran silky smooth but this app just does what I need it to. Now I'm thinking I'll pick up a Asus Transformer with the larger, higher resolution and great viewing angle screen and be able to show even bigger pictures without having to shovel money into Apples coffers.
wow thanks for the suggestions i tried just pictures, and quick pic last night they seemed to work well. im very interested in fishbowl now.
Fishbowl is awesome. Thanks guys
Anyone know anything about this program? I looks pretty cool. Maybe you can take a web page and chop it up into a widget. That would be my hopes for it....
http://www.appsgeyser.com/
Wow, zero replies. Guess its not a very good post.
Looks to simple
Ill give it a try and see how it goes.
So far the web Grabber is not working
"Unable to clip content"
Still trying More.
Looks like an easy way for someone to rip off someone else's hard work. Honestly, they even tell you to just copy the code for a widget into it and create an app from it. No mention of intellectual property anywhere.
Yeh pretty much.
Good for people that want website code as an app.
But to be honest its pretty crap...all it does is load a Frame with the webcontent in it.
Here is one i "made" for weather in Perth WA.
http://www.appsgeyser.com/19699
It also doesnt make widgets.....it lies..
roguey said:
Yeh pretty much.
Good for people that want website code as an app.
But to be honest its pretty crap...all it does is load a Frame with the webcontent in it.
Here is one i "made" for weather in Perth WA.
http://www.appsgeyser.com/19699
It also doesnt make widgets.....it lies..
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Wow, that is some brilliant programming you did there, LOL!
Seriously, you are right. For that use it is almost decent (although their ad banner is a bit large). I just created a couple to check my area traffic cams with, much easier than opening the browser and going to the sites.
Could be fun to mess with.
it would actually be cool if it did what it said it does...
ie make Widgets...
But it doesnt..
Yah, i finally got a chance to try it out. Im sure there are some people who might like it. Its not what i had in mind though. I really need something that will display web content via a widget. Not an app, thats for sure.
I agree that it doesn't do as advertised, but it can really be handy. Just created an "app" for my favorite streaming radio station. Another for Hulu. It works really well!
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I agree that it doesn't do as advertised, but it can really be handy. Just created an "app" for my favorite streaming radio station. Another for Hulu. It works really well!
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Great Radon,
Im glad you found a use for it. Im sure i can figure something out for it. What I really want is a widget for Yahoo Sports. It would be nice to have the scores and news all on one widget.
Hi guys,
My name is Andrew, I'm CMO at AppsGeyser.
roguey, I really can't find where you saw that we talked about making widgets for mobile? Please point me.
we convert web widgets to apps, but we don't make mobile widgets. We do not offer anything that we are not really able to do, that's no any sense to start business on lie.
Our platform is not for someone who can use Eclipse and make an app for Android. We help those who have a website and barely or strong enough know HTML. You can quickly build an app. Some users use our platform to build proof of concept. Some just wrap up website and have great results, we constantly publish case studies on our blog.
nunjabusiness, we care about IP and sure we have a mention in our terms that users have to have all required copyright on all content they submit. If we have abuse from legal content owner we are shutting down the app.
roguey said:
Yeh pretty much.
Good for people that want website code as an app.
But to be honest its pretty crap...all it does is load a Frame with the webcontent in it.
Here is one i "made" for weather in Perth WA.
It also doesnt make widgets.....it lies..
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You are correct, it was the OP that said it, and i assumed it was what it said on the website.
That is my fault. I take it back.
Anyway you can make it do widgets?
That would make it 500 times better!!.
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Hi guys,
My name is Andrew, I'm CMO at AppsGeyser.
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nunjabusiness, we care about IP and sure we have a mention in our terms that users have to have all required copyright on all content they submit. If we have abuse from legal content owner we are shutting down the app.
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Hi Andrew, welcome.
Yes, I did eventually read the T&C and see that you covered that. That is good. Problem I had is that IE9 really doesn't like your site and until I used Firefox I wasn't even able to get started in the creation process to see the T&C. Maybe put a small disclaimer on the main page?
Roguey, sorry but it is a WAY different process to widgetize an app. What they are offering is the opposite, which I honestly can't see any real value in at this point. I (and thousands of other people) would also like this ability and if it were easy, there would already be a way to do it. My understanding is that it is almost as difficult as writing the whole app from scratch.
I do, however, like the ability to turn a website into an "app" even though I could not get the engine to clip anything of value. I was limited to whole sites only for some reason. I am sure it is website-specific and the way the page is set up may keep them from properly capturing the part of the page I want.
It doesnt matter if its a different process.
Its possible, they just need the time do it...
Hi roquey,
Thanks for this brilliant idea, we'll definitely consider it.
What content you wanted to see as a widget?
roguey said:
You are correct, it was the OP that said it, and i assumed it was what it said on the website.
That is my fault. I take it back.
Anyway you can make it do widgets?
That would make it 500 times better!!.
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I would like the abilty to make my own widget to show weather, ie capture a frame from a weather site. Have the option to Have the widget refresh from the net every 15 minutes - hourly, depending on what you want.
Its pretty endless really, Basiclly what your app does now but show it in widget form.
Prob keep the widget size to 4*2 in size, or if u can let the user choose, depending on the size of the frame that is needed to be captured.
There are already more than enough weather widgets, IMHO.
However, a resizable widget that will display (and auto-update) a definable segment of a web page is absolutely something I would pay money for.
Web Clip Widget Trial claims to do this, but I cannot get it to actually display any pages for me yet.
Andrew - It seems to me (a non-programmer) that embedding a webview with the webkit browser engine should be pretty easily doable. The key I think is to be able to snip a section of the page to display with no extraneous graphical elements.
I found this example code http://mobile.tutsplus.com/tutorials/android/android-sdk-embed-a-webview-with-the-webkit-engine/ in fact, I found a ton of tutorials to show how a developer would do this ... but no actual downloadable widget to accomplish it.
From what I can gather, you usually call webview with a specific url to display something in the app so I guess the hardest part would be making an interface to pass that info to the widget and then refresh on interval.
+1 for web clipping widget.....that works.
nunjabusiness
And it matters that there are lots of Weather widgets because???
That would be what i would use it for...i know tons of websites that **** all over fancy widget and the like.
It wouldnt be just weather widgets aswelll...
1. Got the HTC One from AT&T yesterday. Though I don't take too many pics with my phone, but i still wanted a phone which could take atleast half decent pics. And with HTC One, I'm terribly disappointed with the pics. My old iPhone 4 had much much muchhh better picture quality than One!
I'm surprised how this camera is compared to Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 when iPhone 4 takes better pics than this!
I donno if I'm missing some setting, as of now I'm using the cam with all default settings (Scene mode-Normal, etc).
2. Coming from an iPhone, another most important "loss in quality" feature is mail/gmail app! I'm shocked to see how ultra crappy gmail app is on android! I can't believe that Google was not able to build a half decent mail app for android.
I was trying the Mail app of HTC and when I configured my mail as Gmail, it din't send me the push notifications. When I tried to configure as Microsoft Exchange, it kept giving me some "Please try again later" error. Also, the mails were only displaying text and no images (despite selecting 'Maximum Size' in receive mail settings), kinda reminded me of my 10 year old Sony Ericsson phone which used to display mails without any images.
3. Why can't i take pics using volume keys?!
After almost 2 days of usage, these are some of the MAJOR quirks and I hope can be solved.
I actually looked at your two other posts on XDA and I don't *think* you're trolling. I think you just don't like how some of your first few pictures came out. And some other stuff. You know, coming from iOS to Android is going to take some adjustment generally- instead of rushing to XDA to post a thread about 'I'm overwhelmed with how much this sucks' maybe just take one thing at a time.
Anyway, as for the camera, a) be specific with what you don't like [ie maybe it's just you] and b) did you check software version [ie maybe it's just the software]. Everyone seems to think the camera got better with version 1.29 . If you've already got that, not sure what to tell you. If everything's functioning as intended and you still hate it, return it. Life is too short to hate your phone.
RockstarSR said:
1. Got the HTC One from AT&T yesterday. Though I don't take too many pics with my phone, but i still wanted a phone which could take atleast half decent pics. And with HTC One, I'm terribly disappointed with the pics. My old iPhone 4 had much much muchhh better picture quality than One!
I'm surprised how this camera is compared to Galaxy S4 and iPhone 5 when iPhone 4 takes better pics than this!
I donno if I'm missing some setting, as of now I'm using the cam with all default settings (Scene mode-Normal, etc).
2. Coming from an iPhone, another most important "loss in quality" feature is mail/gmail app! I'm shocked to see how ultra crappy gmail app is on android! I can't believe that Google was not able to build a half decent mail app for android.
I was trying the Mail app of HTC and when I configured my mail as Gmail, it din't send me the push notifications. When I tried to configure as Microsoft Exchange, it kept giving me some "Please try again later" error. Also, the mails were only displaying text and no images (despite selecting 'Maximum Size' in receive mail settings), kinda reminded me of my 10 year old Sony Ericsson phone which used to display mails without any images.
3. Why can't i take pics using volume keys?!
After almost 2 days of usage, these are some of the MAJOR quirks and I hope can be solved.
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Re. #2:
You can download the gmail app from the play store if you don't like the built in htc mail app...
I find that the HTC mail app out classes the mail app for iOS by a long shot. I hated the mail app. On iOS. I never liked the Gmail app on either platform though.
Also you have to be joking about the iPhone 4 having better picture quality. I've done many test shots between the two and the iPhone 4 produces so much noise it's insane, sucks in low light, and even didn't get as much detail as say photos. Don't know how you are even getting remotely close results with the iPhone 4.
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Look you have a steep learning curve to go! Not all the best apps are loaded on the phone. There are tons of camera apps to make contrast better and brightness. Best to question how to improve your phone experience. Not complaints! Android is about your freedom of choices not the most user friendly experience.
Same post at Android Central.....?!?!?
Maybe I gave him too much credit..
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what software version do you have? 1.29 was supposed to bring camera improvements
All such posts should always have accompanying pictures as proof ... generally when you switch from smaller to bigger phone, hands will shake during picture taking
how the hell can you "select all" photos from this app? as it stands, if i take 50 photos, i need to go through one by one and select them to send them somewhere or move them? this is absurd.
I agree. Try piktures from the play store. That's a good gallery app
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indianajonze said:
how the hell can you "select all" photos from this app? as it stands, if i take 50 photos, i need to go through one by one and select them to send them somewhere or move them? this is absurd.
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This is probably the one thing that made me say WTF. I'm going with cyanogenmod gallery from the play store.
Use quickpic it's like the stock gallery from KitKat
This is the thing that bugs me about Android. They got rid of perfectly good standalone apps and want to tie everything in with their services.
I don't want Play Music -- I want to go right to my songs and playlist with one click.
I don't want Photos App -- for the same reasons above.
I don't want Email to be bundled in with Gmail.
It's getting to the point where soon I will have to replace all of the built in apps with apps that simply work better.
QuickPic is defatenaly the way to go.. nice find!
Baldilocks said:
This is the thing that bugs me about Android. They got rid of perfectly good standalone apps and want to tie everything in with their services.
I don't want Play Music -- I want to go right to my songs and playlist with one click.
I don't want Photos App -- for the same reasons above.
I don't want Email to be bundled in with Gmail.
It's getting to the point where soon I will have to replace all of the built in apps with apps that simply work better.
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they took away the beautiful ASOP browser and replace with their stinking chrome.
bloody google decision.
bradputt said:
they took away the beautiful ASOP browser and replace with their stinking chrome.
bloody google decision.
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Yep. Gallery, Messaging, Music Player and Browser are areas where OEM's like LG and Samsung, etc.., def have a major advantage over Google's Android decision and design team.
I just tap and hold on the first picture, then tap all the other pics I want to move. Then hit the share button
Quickpic is what I use. Cm gallery isn't half bad though
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I just tap and hold on the first picture, then tap all the other pics I want to move. Then hit the share button
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which is fine for 2-3 pics. but for 78? not so much. its a terrible design choice, especially when batch select was available in the stock gallery app
Pilz said:
Use quickpic it's like the stock gallery from KitKat
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quickpic is a great find for sure.
If you use the light theme with Quickpic, it pretty much looks like a built in Android app anyway. Even has the latest material design.
I actually like the G+ pictures app and was using it before I got my N6.
I have to say that I am also extremely disappointed with Google's photo gallery app. It sucks indeed. I am coming from the LG G3 and their gallery app was awesome. The layout was wonderfully displayed and user friendly. Not to mention all of the great features it offered, such as add albums, move photos and videos around and also to hide and then lock selected albums. If we could get that on the Nexus 6, that would truly be an epic win for us all.
Use Motorola Gallery (bundled with Motorola Camera), available in this forum or in the Moto G section.
johnny grep said:
Use Motorola Gallery (bundled with Motorola Camera), available in this forum or in the Moto G section.
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Doesn't allow photo manipulation. (Moving, etc..)
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indianajonze said:
how the hell can you "select all" photos from this app? as it stands, if i take 50 photos, i need to go through one by one and select them to send them somewhere or move them? this is absurd.
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stop crying about this. did you even google for the gallery apk? it is in the nexus 6, in any aosp build. it works on the nexus 6 just fine. all you had to do is google for the apk and install it, instead of crying about it. btw, here is the gallery apk, just install it like any other app http://goo.gl/cfB8ak
+1 for quickpic here
Google Photos blows
simms22 said:
stop crying about this. did you even google for the gallery apk? it is in the nexus 6, in any aosp build. it works on the nexus 6 just fine. all you had to do is google for the apk and install it, instead of crying about it. btw, here is the gallery apk, just install it like any other app http://goo.gl/cfB8ak
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i mean i was complaining about the new stock app. you're suggesting something that's not the stock app. i did lots of googling and am well versed in the alternatives i've found and what was suggested here. does not change the fact that the stock app sucks. not really crying either. i find your hostility odd...
anyway, i've been using quickpic. it's pretty outstanding