Gadgetory

hey guys it's Brandon minimun from pocketnow.com if you have a Windows mobile device but you really like the way that the the iPhone icons allow you to scroll from pain to pain and then you can tap and hold to move them around on the screen then there's an interface out there by veto technology that you may like a lot it's called winter face and I'm gonna show it to you now okay right now I'm running winter face on an HTC touch pro but this should work on any Q VGA or VGA windows mobile device haven't tested it yet with a device like the Touch HD though it should work so we turn it on and we get a slide to unlock screen so we just slide our finger across and here we get a screen that just like the iPhone has a row of icons and we can flip to the right and see on the bottom where we are along with the icons now the skin that you see here is actually a skin that I downloaded from xda-developers and I'll post a link on how to get that for free if I go up to menu and options we can change the skin to something else and let me show you what bite looks like this is what light looks like so much larger icons don't like it as much so I'm gonna switch it back to the other one that we had on the screen unfortunately it's really just a an application launcher it's really nothing more than that it doesn't go deeper than that except for the contacts as far as I could find so far if I click on the name of somebody I've added as a contact you get their contact information here and in within the same interface which is kind of nice and you can you know have people's pictures on a screen if you want to have the first panel all filled up with people that you call a lot with their pictures you can do that too now to move around icons you tap and hold and just like on the iPhone the the icons will jiggle and you can tap and hold another icon to drag it around on the screen or if you get it just right you can slide it to the panel on the right although it's not working for me right now let me try that this way yeah so goes to the first panel you can drop it you tap on the d-pad to stop them from jiggling now something else that this does is it lets you do access the winter face interface quite easily if you're within a program so you do a gesture the gesture is a upside-down V like so let me try it see it goes right into winter face so that's a really good addition I think so that you can get back into the program launcher if you're in a program in addition the winter face program has a second gesture that allows you to close programs with a regular write your regular V so just like that and the application will close so just a little bit of enhancement I think to help with some basic windows mobile functions so overall I think winter face is a good program launcher and by the way it works in landscape which is good that said it costs $20 which i think is kind of high for something that simply launches programs I think a good price for this would be ten dollars and then it would be worth it but at 20 dollars I think it's a little too expensive to to be to be worth the price so that is winter face version 1.3 that's it for now