A little something for the Iphone user in some of us
They’re a lot of people that look at the Iphone and say “wow I want that”, well now you can have the good parts. A developer(a_c) has released an update to his S2U2 system that is an Iphone like lock screen for the people who still do not like the original lock screen and want a multi purpose lock screen.
This little lock screen application is 1 of 3 Iphone like application this developer has. There is also S2P which is just like the Iphone’s music player, just not as smooth and good looking.The third is the S2V which is like the Iphone image viewer, just not as good or as appalling as HTC’s album view.
S2U2
This is one of my favorite and the most popular from what he says. It looks great, it is very fast, It does a lot of things all in one and is looks while doing all of these things, for example. This application can; Alert you of appointment, missed calls, missed text, missed emails, it can control the music player, the background can change every min and it does these without breaking a sweat. It is free, give it a go Here and tell me what you thing, I recommend this if you want the iphone look without the actually not so smart, smartphone as your main phone.
S2P
S2P is the music player version of the triple play Iphone themed application. There is not much to say about this one, but its pretty good, fast and looks great and I think its worth giving a try if you want a Iphone like music play that take a little bit of program memory and works with the lock screen. This is a great in a room with only Windows media player mobile. Get it Here.
S2V
This is just another alternative image viewer, no the best. Get it Here.
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My opinions:
1) Was never interested in the lock screen.
2) Image viewer is one of the most peculiar I've seen. It doesn't seem to recognize a lot of my folders such as my memory card. I tried it twice and unistalled it twice.
3) I like the default media player.
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WMPerson Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Which media player do you have, I like my HTC media player, Not WM media player
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wreiad Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 3:58 am
I hardly listen to music, so I still have the default windows media player. Only player I’d use instead is a Zune player:)
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l3v5y Reply:
November 4th, 2009 at 9:17 am
I have the WM music player, and it should receive an update at some point in the future…
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I agree w/Wreiad on 2 and 3
2) Never had any luck w/S2V on either my Touch Cruise, or my X1… and I didn't bother trying it on my Pure. It is so slow at reading large collections of images, and images with large file sizes.
3) I much prefer the Sony X1 Media Player, HTC Media Player (which now unfortunately only works with TF3D…), and even super unfriendly WMP if anything b/c it supports Genre's, indexed quick searching, A2DP, and ratings.
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I use S2U2 on my TP2– not bad once you have it properly set up (why does the settings app try so hard to copy the iPhone UI, and unsuccessfully so?), but it's still sluggish and quite buggy (e.g. the landscape mode results in graphical corruption about 95% of the time, it doesn't accept different background images, applied settings sometimes don't actual work (or work inconsistently)). But given that there's not much else out there on WM 6.1, it's a necessity. On 6.5 devices, I mostly just use the stock lock.
Gave S2P and S2V a shot- both were too buggy or inconsistent to use. Encountered several issues with A2DP, graphical corruption, etc., not to mention indexing problems and such.
I just use the stock HTC Media Player, which is good enough for song playback (video playback is a bit futile on a TP2). One easily correctable gripe though– none of the app's lists (songs, albums, artists, etc.) have the iPhone-style right-side alphabetical shortcuts that TF3D's other lists (e.g. contacts) do. As a result, it takes an eternity to scroll down to most songs.
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I find all 3 apps unstable, unreliable and slow.
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Personally, I've been a big fan of the unlock app for a while now. I've had few problems with it on my TP2 (the landscape corruption that "rad" mentions never bothered me and is one of the things specifically fixed by yesterday's new 2.10 release).
When I upgraded to Win 6.5 I thought I might stick with the stock lock, but found that I couldn't work out how to configure it the way I wanted:
- don't lock when on power
- auto-lock whenever I go into standby
- only ask for password after being "locked" for 5 minutes.
Given I couldn't get the stock lock to do this for me (in particular, when I was on power, it would lock automatically), I just fell back to S2U2 and haven't had any concerns.
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Personally, I haven’t had a lot of luck with S2P. Visually it’s a very attractive player, but the functionality seemed a bit too simplistic and rigid. Plus, I hated that it always automatically starts when I plug headphones in. I never could figure out how to disable that so I ended up disabling it by uninstalling it.
S2U2 is also nice visually, and does integrate well with S2P, but on 6.5 devices it forces you to use the old style PIN pad. The 6.5 unlock function isn’t quite as pretty as S2U2, but it’s pretty enough and better than the old PIN pad. S2U2 also uninstalled.
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