Comments on: Winterface – Cool & Fresh Breeze in the World of Windows Mobile Interface

By: sit2k

sit2k — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:34:18 +0000

one other thing… this app is amazing for those that are constantly on the go.. i find it so easy to just use my thumb to call people while im driving.. split second looks between taps..

voice dialing does not work for me as i drive a convertible..

great job vito.. we just need to work on my suggestions and a background please

By: sit2k

sit2k — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:27:21 +0000

i think the calendar icon should display the events of the day the same way a contact displays all the contact info.

the contact info lacks the individuals address. they should work on a filter that picks up all the fields that have info in contacts instead of just telephone numbers and email.

weather icon should be there also and when tapped on should show weather like the contacts window that pops up.

in fact anything that brings up information should allow you to bring up a window like the contacts buttons do..

one more thing.. i would like the ability to change the background as black is a bit dreary and tiresome.

that would be awesome!

otherwise it’s my favorite plug in..

for the lazy… hit the end call button to go back to the today screen for the meantime for calendar :-)

By: Olya

Olya — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 05:00:05 +0000

Thanks for your feedback. I’ve put all your ideas and recommendations in wish list. We are going to work further on improving Winterface.
For those who haven’t decided yet wether to try Winterface or not read reviews by different reviewers. Here in blog http://blog.iwindowsmobile.com I put the links to different reviews.
For our convinience it would be great if you post your ideas on improvement of the program there.

By: Don

Don — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 20:31:31 +0000

I have been using it for about a day, and then went on line to read all of the comments/reviews – which are very much spot on. Great interface, but not quite ready for prime time. Biggest frustration is that I cannot delete/remove the program. I intend to come back in a few months, when hopefully the programmers address the deficiencies. Meanwhile, I just what to remove it – any help would be appreciated.

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By: Dr

Dr — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:08:40 +0000

Well, I mentioned that doing that arc swipe to start Winterface was difficult…. Lately, I’ve been having Winterface start, when I don’t want to… It seems that I make the arc when doing other things.

Again, it is a great start and as always, it takes a bit to get it polished.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:20:07 +0000

not a bad program but has a lot of kinks. not worth paying for at this point until kinks are worked out.

By: psionandy

psionandy — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:49:01 +0000

It’s not even close to mobile shell in terms of a full interface….

BUT it is only a 1.0 release, and it’s better than most of the iphone wannabe launchers. By the time version 2.0 comes along it may be worth looking at properly

By: KCMatt

KCMatt — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:24:01 +0000

I have to agree with j’s sentiment (6th comment) a little bit.

If I wanted to read through pages of comments to decide if I want to try a program or not, I’d be on xda-devs, not here.

Okay, I’ll be patient… I’ll assume if it can hold a candle to Mobile Shell, we’ll see a more thorough review on Tiltsite in the future. If I never hear about it again, I’ll assume it was crap.

By: Kristofer Brozio

Kristofer Brozio — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:04:19 +0000

oh, and FYI, the manual is now available on their site to download and check out: http://iwindowsmobile.com/manual/winterface/winterface.pdf

By: Kristofer Brozio

Kristofer Brozio — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:46:53 +0000

Holy comments Batman!

anyway, yes I noticed clicking the battery icon leads to sliding sounds, I was wondering about that myself..

to comment about the lock, yes it doesn’t actually lock the phone, I actually had to email them and ask how to lock the phone because I couldn’t get it to work, you don’t use the lock icon to lock it, you just hit your power button, which actually I kinda like

as for starting the program by drawing the arch, yes that does take a bit of getting accustomed to, but you can always just hit start and it’s there on your menu

and yes it would be very nice to be able to slide right or left with the menus

overall it’s a great concept but of course it needs work, that’s one of the reasons we’re doing this for input from our readers about the product, pretty much every type of software product needs to be tweaked or fixed after it’s been launched..

By: Li

Li — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:59:52 +0000

Here are my 2 cents:

Pro -

Extremly finger friendly, smooth flow, elegant design layout.

Low memory useage, fast start up anywhere in the OS.

Very intuitive interface, texts under icons are extremely useful, compare to some other apps who only incorporated icons.

Love to be able to mix and match the apps I need and put them in order.

Room for improvement -

Contrast of the default icons are rather low (The whites is a bit above mid gray)

Would be nice to flip from first page to last and last to first

Would have option to display non-clear type fonts

Would be nice to intergrate with SMS-Chat and FunContact and have no landscape orientation blank text input problem in windows mobile 6.1 (I would buy it if this were solved.)

By: Eric

Eric — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 06:04:58 +0000

I’ve been using it all night, so here’s my 2 cents.

* clicking on battery sends me to “keyboard sliding” setting. oops!

* deleted battery icon and added power icon. clicking on it does nothing.

* speaking of doing nothing, I’d prefer to see me battery life in percentage rather than a picture.

* color icons would be nice on the defaults. as would changing the skin colors.

* had no trouble with contacts but I use FunContacts (same company).

* love how the icons tremble like they’re afraid they’ll be deleted. Cute. also lets you know you’re in that mode.

* Since one of the designers obviously reads this, email program that looks like SMS-chat would be lovely.

* being able to choose the icon for your program would be cool.

Love your work. Keep it up.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:52:18 +0000

ok.. so i’ve tried this out for about 3 hours now and i love it….. and hate it.

it’s a great program. functionality, customization, and it’s extremely finger friendly.

the downside is that i can’t see my caller ID when someone calls and when i’m on the the phone, i must slide to unlock, select phone, and from there i’m able to end the call. just a little too much hassle for a simple man like myself. if anyone could help with this, that would be great because like i said, i really like this program. just needs some simplifying.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 04:22:55 +0000

Contacts leave a lot of slots blank with not enough short info being display on them. being able to run HTC Home would be fantastic…kinda mislead about the whole today screen plug in. color scheme is nice but not being able to run HTC is kinda a bummer. seems to take up a lot of memory to run the shell itself too.my phone is at 47% and the only thing I have running is the shell. be nice if you could load up unsigned applications like “mini opera’ and the like.