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what's up guys at CJ lips true from pocket now calm and today we're excited to show you a new windows mobile user interface called Mac sense now over the past few months we've been keeping you updated with cookies Home tab which modifies HTC sense 2.5 with some much needed enhancement but overall it still looks like sense 2.5 well max ycy from XDA Developers has decided to tear down the sense interface and rebuild it with a completely new design he's also thrown in a bunch of new features and the result is mighty impressive I believe he's created a monster and I mean that in a positive way let's check it out okay so at first glance you can already see this is going to be a totally new Sense experience let me give you a rundown of what we're looking at here starting from the top we have a taskbar replacement and obviously there are a ton of icons up there so we'll start at the left where we have a windows flag this will pull up your traditional Windows Mobile's start menu the next item will pull down this drop-down menu and this one is for tasks the next one allows you to toggle airplane mode this one will allows you to turn bluetooth on or off and access some settings same with Wi-Fi network settings signal strength info disconnect data and here we can switch the different sound profiles so we have silent vibrate and automatic and when it's on one of these other modes you'll have an option for normal battery info battery backlight adjustment and battery power settings and here we have some time options so you might be concerned with a how cramped the taskbar is and how finger-friendly that can be well I can assure you that Max has figured out a way to easily use your finger and switch between all these items I'm pretty surprised I go to any item I want to without any miss it's it's pretty nice so if we tap the active icon we can exit out of there and at the very right we have our shortcut for task manager so below the task bar we have some widgets here we have a clock clock widget and next to that we have a weather widget so if we tap on that it will actually take us to the sense 2.5 weather tab so we're starting to see some sense integration into the user interface here so we have our soft keys which are the same soft keys but obviously done up a little bit and if we tap on this home icon it'll take us back to the home screen as you can see the weather animates over there below those widgets we have some program shortcuts that I've set and below those we have a notification bar so as you can see I have some emails that I haven't checked yet so this little window over here pops up and lets me know that I have something waiting and if you switch between the different categories you can actually see the the last SMS or the last call or your last email in this window so I'm going to click out of there and now when we tap on those same icons it takes us directly to their respective sense 2.5 tabs so a nice touch and here we have our SMS tab and right here call history tab and this is the the default home screen but as you can see by these little indicator dots there are actually two more home screens of widgets so that's pretty nice and you can see that we can navigate easily between these screens and it's quick and responsive which is great because this is a touch pro 2 and it has an aging 528 megahertz processor so it shows that you really don't need a powerful device like an hd2 to run this interface so let's go back to the first screen and check out the the widgets here we have a slide clock and it's called that because it has sort of a slot machine effect as you saw right there when the digits change under that we have a music player I'll press play play some Metallica okay and next to that we have another program shortcut so i'll go ahead and assign it to a program just to demonstrate how easy it is I'll go with Facebook okay and down here this is an interesting widget because it actually takes your favorite contacts from your people tab and consolidates it into one simple widget so we can just swipe up and down and we can check out all of our favorite people so pretty cool and if you tap and hold for a second it'll pull up the contacts card next to that we have some communications widgets we have Wi-Fi Bluetooth and airplane mode moving on to the last screen we have another digital clock over here internet search bar for googling keywords and under that we have an appointments widget as you can see you can either collapse or expand the appointments and this can look up to a week or more in advance so pretty handy and in the settings yes you can customize these widgets you can actually show choose to show up to five appointments like I said these widgets are customizable you can rearrange them you can move them around and remove them or add some more but these are all the ones that come with the first release of this interface I'll show you a second how you can customize the widgets but before we do that let me actually show you the max sense settings okay so here we can change the color of the bottom arrow and text color to either white black red green blue or gray I'll stick with white and the taskbar here's a great setting you can actually right now it's set to maximize but we can actually switch to minimize which will cut down all those icons we saw earlier and basically just show your traditional you know sound profiles and battery status and stuff like that so it cuts out a lot of the clutter and if you really want to you can actually hide the taskbar completely to have sort of a clean-looking Sense experience so I'm going to go with that you can disable the weather animation for sense 2.5 enable auto rotation using the accelerometer so you can get some landscape action going enable auto lock so when you put the phone headfirst into your pocket it'll actually lock the screen so we'll click done and as you can see we don't have a task bar anymore so it looks really clean I like that a lot ok so moving on let's go back here we can actually change the home wallpaper and edit widgets so we'll go ahead and edit widgets and now we're in the widget editing mode so we can move widgets around the screen sort of just put them wherever we want to or you can tap on them and we get a number of options so some of them have more options than others but this one as you can see we can either remove the widget or show it we can also change background settings so if you want to have the default sort of semi-transparent squared off background sitting behind the widget you can have that you can hide that background or you can set a custom background which allows you to set a picture to rest behind the widget which is pretty cool we can change the text color here's one that I like you can resize the widget so if you don't want to have a widget that's too small or too large you can resize it here and it really allows you to cater your widgets and their sizes according to the amount of real estate screen real estate that you have available so that cool we can change the layout this weather widget has three different layout choices original graphics we can have that checked or if we uncheck it will have some custom graphics I'm going to go ahead and uncheck it and we can choose to hide the temperature or show the temperature again many of the widgets have different settings and I don't have enough time to show you all of them so I'll just go ahead and reconfigure all the widgets and come back to you in a second and show you a different look to some of these widgets and we're back and we're still in the widget editing mode but let me just show you before we finalize it that you can add widgets by going here and here we have five different categories clocks alerts quick links communication and others we've already showed you all of them but that's how you would add some more widgets and let's just finalize it so now you see I have a different look here I increase the digital clock i added a background behind the weather and also change the graphics that it uses i didn't change the missed calls and SMS widgets because i wanted to show you that you can actually have a different layout here as you can see with this email which it's sort of a longer bar and when you press the plus sign you can see the latest email also i remove the text from these programs shortcuts so pretty cool over here you can see i put a custom background behind the slide clock I made the music player a little smaller increase the sizes of the communications widgets and also made the favorite contacts widget much larger alright so let's go to the last one I change the analog clock to a different style there's a third style as well but i'm not going to show you that in this video i also changed the color of text for the search widget and the appts widget like i said before you can change these to a multitude of colors to make it more personal I also made these a little smaller so those are the widgets of max sense and how you can customize them but that's just half the story really for this interface and I say that because there's a lot more here than just the three home screens we'll start with this star over here this pulls up an action screen which allows us to quickly compose an email SMS MMS create an appointment task a note added contact Wi-Fi and Bluetooth options stuff like that so that's for quick options for the power user in us oops let's go back and here's what I was talking about before this home icon isn't just to get back to the home screen if you swipe over here you actually get shortcuts to all of your sense 2.5 tabs all in one screen so that's pretty cool we can go to contacts messages email internet shortcuts as you can see it works really fast too here's the e-reader tab that HTC created for the tmobile hd2 album here's the moves music tab calendar stocks footprints documents the Twitter tab whether we saw earlier the custom Facebook and calls call history tabs created at XDA and the Settings tab so yeah we get to use our sense tabs so if you want to go back you can hit the home icon and if you swipe the other way you get 25 icons on one screen for your quick links and if you swipe over you get 25 more swipe over again 25 more for a total of seventy-five so you're probably not going to run out of shortcut links and if you rotate your screen as you can see landscape does work and you'll get the screen while you're on any of the home screens over here but say if you're in maybe contacts and you rotate it you'll get the Manila tab in landscape it's pretty cool all right before we close let me just show you a couple things that I forgot you can actually reorder these tabs hide some or show the ones you want just by tapping this little icon over here and you get the sense homescreen tab personalization options over here so that's that and also for these quick links you can move them around by tapping and holding on anyone you can switch them or you can remove them and add some more so this was a first look at the new max sense interface unfortunately the initial release will only be available through custom roms so if you're not familiar with flashing roms onto your device now may be a good time to learn how look for soon on devices like the touch pro two touch HD HD two and other popular HTC windows phones of course it all depends on who's doing the cooking for example this rom was packaged for a cdma touch pro2 by big and it's called Big Macs sense as you can see it's a windows mobile 6.5 point X rom according to the start bar being at the bottom and it's been beautifully skinned and has some pretty cool features to boot so comment below with your thoughts let us know if you like what you see in max sense and if you do what you like best about it maybe you mention what other widgets you like to see added in the future or maybe even comment with which roms you'd like to see the 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