[Windows Mobile Development and Hacking General] XTREEM|RAGE:
Ok my first impression of this nice app (few hours playing only though)!

Nice application that runs very smooth on my HTC Touch Cruise. And it looks very nice!!

Top Section of the screen:

The lock works great, I just need to touch it and it locks the screen + hard buttons. When you lock it, there is a nice way to unlock it. You need to slide your finger over the screen and it will unlock it ;D. The operator status icon, is also nice. When you touch it, it will go to the comm manager (you can change the default comm manager into the pointui comm manager :D). There are also more status icons, like the Bluetooth/wifi/data/clock. They are all grey-out (except the clock) when they are off and when they are on you can see them of course ;).

When i press on the volume icon, I will go to the volume settings. And in there you can change the volume or put it on silent/vibrate. If i press on the battery status icon it will goes to the battery settings. Where you can choose 2 options: Power Settings and Backlight settings. But when I choose one of those, nothing happens.....So this should be fixed! :P. When I press on the system icon, nothing happens. Only when i use my hard buttons of the HTC cruise. I don’t know if this should be happening, but I don’t like it like this. once you used the hard buttons you are able to change some things to Pointui and some system things.

Mid Section of the screen:

The first thing that I see is the time, when I press on it nothing happened. It would be nice to see my alarm(s) or that I could set them when I press on the (digital) clock.

When I slide to the weather screen it goes smoothly. But I can only see what is the weather for 2day and tomorrow, would be nice if I see the next 4/5 days when I press on the weather system!

When I slide to the appointments, I see me next appointments. But it launch the build in wm agenda not the one that I have installed pocket informant (pi). It would be nice if could replace that without going to in the registry. Or I didn’t saw that yet ;). For the tasks, it's the same as for my appointments. Would be nice if I could just put my own task application PI.

When I slide a little bit further, I see the entire month. Nice but...when I have an appointment it would be nice to see those dates bold!

Bottom Section of the screen:

First you will see a phone icon. If you press on this you will see the last person that you have called/received calls. And how long ago you made/received the call. When you go to the next screen, you have the ability to call the person or send him/her a text message. It would be nice to send an email to the persons that are in your contacts with an email address.

The next icon, is an envelope. That’s the email application, for some reason it won’t notice the new email messages I got on my account that I have created. It looks only in the outlook account for some odd reason. Didn’t saw how I could change that yet.

The next icon, is a kind of message bubble. And this works great compared to the email applications. It notify me when I have a new message. And how much messages I have received that I didn’t read yet! Too bad PointUi don’t have there own application like contacts.

Next is an star…yeah Patrick the starfish :P (watched 2much spongebob omg >_<). Here you will see in short the start menu. This doesn’t work that great IMO, because sometimes I can use my touch screen and sometimes I can only use my hard buttons(this applies to almost all menu’s). WTF!!!

Next you will see contacts (no icon). This is PointUI own app, not the one from wm/htc/pi. I really liked this one, really finger friendly! Better then the PI one, imo. When you touch an contact you will see his information and you can touch the desired phone number to make an call

The last one, will be the application button(no icon). When I click on this, I will get three options: New, Applications and Currently Running. If I choose new, I can make a new sms/email/appointment/document etc. Nice, but it would be better if I could customize this so that I can use PI to make new appointments instead of the build in. Applications is like Start->program and you can choose the application that you have installed. Currently running is like the task manager. Here you can see what programs you are running. But when I click on it, it starts the program. It needs to be like SPB Mobile shell, that I have the options to close that program, activate it(opens the program), close all programs or something like that. Not directly to the program!

This was tested with WM6 on a HTC Touch Cruise. Sorry for my bad English ;). Overall I’m very pleased with this program, but there are a few things that bothers me. That I can’t customize like in SPB Mobile shell. Well not that you customize a lot in SPB mobile shell but a lot more then in here. And sometimes it won’t let me use the touch screen, so I need to use my hard buttons. Small things but those things can be annoying. But the best of it, it’s free (for now). If they fix those things and keep it free, it can compete with SPB mobile.