Windows Mobile design concepts
An advantage of having a UI that could certainly not be called the prettiest in the world is that it presents an irresistible challenge to design companies who want to fix it.
The Astonishing Tribe is just such a company, and besides designing the Sliding-Panels-like UI seen in the picture above, they have been trying their hand at attractive device locking software for the HTC Touch Diamond. Nothing they have designed is available yet (they are likely trying to sell to OEMs) but is certainly looks pretty and may inspire some of our developers to implement their good ideas more generally.
See their unlocking designs in video below.
Do any of these designs look practicable to you? Let us know in the comments.
Thanks marios96 for the links.
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is this windows mobile 7???
i lust
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December 22nd, 2008 at 1:57 pm
No, just a sign that we do not have to wait for WM7 for some eye candy.
Having said that – the sliding panels on WM7 is meant to look like the picture – I wonder if this company has any involvement in that.
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Novel ways to unlock a phone, but these aren’t really examples of a UI.
And to be honest, Apples “slide to unlock” is so stupidly simple it hurts to think that development time has gone into the above video’s.
The best lock/unlock feature I’ve come across is the Sony Ericsson P990i’s hard slide button on the side of the phone. It never failed and was instant to the touch (as in no need to look at the screen).
But I like the look of the panels in the top pick.
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December 22nd, 2008 at 3:34 pm
I think these are more than screen locking software – they are also password screens, and while slide to unlock is simple, the iphone’s password screen is annoyingly not. This would be much cooler.
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I think the first and third are quite practicable. Loved the idea!
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I really like this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T8xGp6xLsY&eurl=http://www.tat.se/site/showroom/prototypes_movies2.html
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I think the second video is the only one that makes sense or is useful. Chances are if I’m unlocking the phone I want to do something with it, and we get choices of media player, internet, etc with less button pushes
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These are amazing ideas
, any idea when these will be available and for how much?
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very nice
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