Today screen and software
After turning on the handset, we won’t see the Today screen, but the SPB Mobile Shell, as that’s installed on the phone. This is a very easy to use shell, I think the only better is HTC TouchFLO, so E-TEN made a good choice when they’ve put this on DX900. The program can be controlled with icons and finger motions as well, for example we can access Today with an icon in the lower right corner and a vertical stroke as well.
Mobile Shell’s Now menu is permanently running in the background, this is what we see when we unlock the keypad – of course if we don’t like it for some reason we can delete it. The software has three main views, the first display basic information like the current time, missed events, the calendar or the current weather. From here we can get to the quicklaunch panel with a stroke: here there are twelve icons on top, these can be used to launch our favorite applications. We don’t have to put everything here, there are six larger icons on the bottom, these are the applications’ folders. It’s important to note that the SPB application has very cool animations, we can see nice scrolling motions when selecting a menu item, the whole concept is built on a cube, the submenus appear as if there was a cube rolling out from the selected menu item, and we get to see its opposite side.
The last tab is for speed dialing with its own phonebook view: this is not much better than the factory default one – which can be accessed if we don’t launch the contact list from the Now menu. As I have already mentioned we don’t have to use this animated part, SPB’s software allows us to put a quicklaunch icon bar on the Today screen, where we can categorize our applications. I think there are two thing missing from Mobile Shell: a good task manager (that sets the X button to shut down running programs) and a scrolling routine, which is included in Pocket Plus 4.0.
Besides Mobile Shell we have the usual E-TEN programs as well, they can be found in the Start menu, organized in folders. The most important ones are: GPS locator, Location SMS (send our current coordinates in an SMS), a really slow image viewer (it’s really funny, if the amount of free memory drops below X MB, it restarts the phone…), a backup software and the voice command app. We have no internet browser besides the default Internet Explorer, which is undoubtedly one of the worst software available on this platform.
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