I love my O2 XDA II Mini S (wow what a mouth full) and have had it now for over 18 months. My only 3 quibbles are:
- Battery Performance sucks – I average 2-3 days before needing to recharge
- Camera sucks – 1.3 Mega pixel is blurry, out of focus and useless in low light
- Windows Mobile 5 is Slooooow
Well point 3 looks like its going to be remedied pretty soon, and I dont mean Windows Mobile 7 (which probably will be too hungry for my little XDA Mini). What i am talking about is PointIU.
Most people are harping on about how PointUI is a potential iPhone killer and to be honest, I don’t think that’s too much of a challenge what with the XDA’s already having more features than the iPhone can shake a stick at. What is nice is the finger based UI (User Interface) with some nice touch ‘n’ slide menu systems to navigate around… I admit its not as clever as the iPhone (yet) but this is open source and seems to have the support of the community.
What I Like
- Finger Friendly (I recently lost my stylus and have been using biros for around 6 months now – Donations anyone?)
- Jumps in and out of WM5 quickly
- Replaces WM5 task bar and looks much better
- Nicer power meter
- Nicer volume settings
- Easy access to comon apps
What I Dont Like
- Touch-slide works back to front (up is down, left is right?)
- Cant customise the initial tool options (I dont want email or Media Player)
- Some common tools are tucked away
- Doesnt auto-start easily
- Needs to integrate interface into phone, txt and other standard services (hey I know this is only an early beta but lets look to the future)
Overall PointUI is amazing and deffo a step in the right direction. I’d like to see a development roadmap on the company website to stop people bleeting on about the same old feature requests on the forum.
Heres a Youtube Video (more static images on Flickr).
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