Alistair George
20-07-2008, 05:35 AM
This might be a useful contributory thread to those who are considering building a ROM.
For me:
Phone - primary use
Messaging - primary use
Other applications/utilities - all useful, but secondary use.
Phone: Desire most functions by hand rather than pen in the easiest and fastest way.
Messaging: same as above. Keypads are not a problem there are nice softkeys out there such as Touchpal.
Unfortunately with current GUIs its really easy to slip your finger on to an unwanted icon and action say the calendar when that was not the intention.
A nice GUI is 'pointui' but development on that has ceased for the moment. Its GUI is hand friendly, but many features are not fully functional, or are flawed eg alarms do not work while its running. Address book limits scrolling to an address, not quickfind one.
Please suggest what you place highest in functionality. It might be useful for the ROM cookers here.
For me:
Phone - primary use
Messaging - primary use
Other applications/utilities - all useful, but secondary use.
Phone: Desire most functions by hand rather than pen in the easiest and fastest way.
Messaging: same as above. Keypads are not a problem there are nice softkeys out there such as Touchpal.
Unfortunately with current GUIs its really easy to slip your finger on to an unwanted icon and action say the calendar when that was not the intention.
A nice GUI is 'pointui' but development on that has ceased for the moment. Its GUI is hand friendly, but many features are not fully functional, or are flawed eg alarms do not work while its running. Address book limits scrolling to an address, not quickfind one.
Please suggest what you place highest in functionality. It might be useful for the ROM cookers here.