[Touch Cruise ROM Development] schaggo:
1st Upload quick review

Hmm... feels nice, mixed feelings about the IN YOUR FACE experience of the htc home clock font though ;)

What's in - The default Polaris stuff

All the HTC specific stuff and the stuff originally in the Polaris ROM is baked in, which is Adobe, Audio Booster & Manager, TouchFLO & Cube, Camer Album, Bluetooth Explorer, then we have Comm Manager, FM Radio, I-Net sharing, Java, the Win Live suite, QuickGPS, Streaming Media and such.

Add-Ins - What got added on top

'New' HTC Keyboards - the round key light gray ones bepe used

Separated Large Startmenu / Large Title Bar - Independently manageable

MSFT Voice Command

File Dialog Changer - make default file-dialog browseable

ROM Settings - handy quick-tuning tool

Soft Key - edit today screen softkey mappings

Call Firewall - Call filtering app?

Group SMS - mass SMS sender

mccMobileFinder - yay, a swiss tool ;) device finder, device will play alarm tone upon special sms reception

NbtstatCE - networking tool

PIM Backup - backup sms and pim data

putty - remote console tool

RegEdit - registry editor

Screen Capture

SMSNotifier - auto-sms-answer to missed calls, put missed calls in calendar, ...

SynchroTime - sync devices time over internet

TaskManager - advanced task/process manager

Total Commander - file manager

vncview - VNC client

zsIRC - IRC client

AppToDate - ROM version update online checker

Google Maps

Opera

Pocket RAR

Remote Desktop

TCPMP

TomTom

vxUtil - SSH client

WkTask - taskmanager

OneNote Mobile

Initial verdict

As you can see, the apps selection is nice, a lot of hany dandy tools which can come in handy. But, and big but, I'm a terrible keep-it-nice-and-tidy-freak thus it's too full for my taste. My credo is, if I want additional stuff, I get and install it myself. Keep in mind, these are my personal feelings.

Speed / Feel - Probably most criticized part of the Polaris

Totally unscientific test by scrolling around in the settings panel and programs folder shows mixed results. While the settings panel is absolutely smooth the programs folder feels as on a stock Polaris: icons dont build up, everything lags a bit, you know what I mean. As I switched to Navigon Mobile Navigator I dont have any TomTom maps at hand, I can't test the well known TomTom simulation performance.

IE has the usual lag when loading large pages (http://xdaforums.com), once the page is loaded, the scrolling is ok. Better than what I've seen from other ROMs... I don't like and thus don't test Opera, the xda-dev forum loads and scrolls fine though. FYI: it's some Opera 9.5 build...

Memory

After that quick fiddling around (and closing everything again!) I got roughly the following numbers in the memory panel:

124MB storage, 113MB still free

100MB RAM, 53MB free

My very personal very incomplete verdict

IMHO the ROM is looking good, it feels ok but I think there is still room for improvement. Till now, ASerg got the fastest (not best I said!) ROM feeling wise, dunno how he did it though. The graphics are quite nice, very modern and in-your-face style as mentioned at the beginning, but nice. The apps could be usefull, I just happen to be a stupid guy so it's a turn-off for me knowing all that stuff is laying there... But you know... I reckon, if there will be a Vanilla-ish or nice light/naked/basic-ish version of this ROM, I'll become my ROM of choice. But we'll see, we'll see...

@Master Pawel

My personal, previously mentioned provision.zip issue: it's the 'wrong' one included, the outdated one. I guess I'll tell you the desired result and if you care/want/can you can test it yourself: In Switzerland provider Sunrise there should be 2 entries created, Sunrise MMS and Sunrise Internet. If there is Sunrise MMS, Sunrise GPRS and Sunrise GPRS WAP it's the wrong one. The ArcSoft config should be WAP 2.0 on port 8080.