[EVO 4G Themes and Apps] Manicmobileaddict:
bored with Android

I don't even have my phone yet and I'm already so freaking bored with Android.

I did buy my son a hero so I have played with Android, but haven't upgraded him to 2.1 yet. Tried, but the download from HTC on the first day got corrupted and crashed my computer somehow. Back up and running now, but not going to try it on mine again. Will do it on my old one.

If it weren't for the phone and the wimax and the fact that I'm on Sprint and long overdue for an upgrade I might rethink this choice. Just hoping someone will come up with some decent customization so that I can have a home screen more like Winmo. If not the slider at least more info than just time and weather.

Android just seems like a menu like on an mp3 player except with a desk top for shortcuts or a few widgets or folders while Winmo seems more like an actual computer os except with a very customizable dashboard instead of a desktop.

I never have been a fan of shortcuts on a desktop. I tend to keep my hands on the keyboard instead of using a mouse and use 2 monitors, the Windows key, arrows keys, tab/shift-tab, alt-tab/shift alt-tab a lot so I can work faster with outlook open so I can have my email (2 company addresses), tasks and calendar right in front of me along with excel, about 8 websites and at least 6 sessions of a proprietary app at one time on a typical day.

Winmo reminds me of that except yes it would be more like using a mouse on a touch screen phone, but on one screen on Winmo you can see your usual phone notifications, time and weather along with all your open apps (wktask), # of missed calls, # of voicemails, # of sms/mms, # of emails, # of tasks, appointments, one touch/swipe access to 15 or so fullscreen widgets (on the hideable slider), one touch access to 3 to 5 hideable links (for apps, folders, documents, contacts, websites...) or flick up for a whole grid (2 touch access) and then swipe sideways for up to about 80 links. Tap the task bar for a little drop down to control and access those notifications, switch open apps (wktask)or open the task manager and you have two programmable soft keys on the bottom bar. Tap start for apps and folders and you have a file explorer. It can copy and paste, it supports outlook (actually office) and the sd card better.

If you don't like Sense you can revert back to Titanium or even use the 6.1 style plugins. Hell, you can use 2 at once (actually all 3 with Touchflo detacher and tab for the 6.1 plugins). You can use Second today, ilauncher, clauncher, Ultimate launcher, Throttle launcher, Touchexperience, Ftouch, SPB...

It makes you wonder what Microsoft was thinking, but then again they never said they killed it and just 2 days ago preorders for a new LG Winmo phone started. Winmo is their mobile computer system while wp7 is their computer controlled phone appliance system created to compete with iphone and Android that sells so well with the ignorant masses (yes, I've said that before and yes I do consider iphone and Android in the same class. Ok, Android is a little better than iphone, half way to Winmo capabilities.).

Too bad Winmo just didn't have the app market iphone and Android do, but then again can I really use 30-150 thousand apps that fart and make other silly little noises or do other trivial things to use up the memory on my phone?

Yes, I've become a fan boy. Save the Winmo. And put it on my Evo when I get it. Watch, HTC will announce a new Winmo phone the day before I go get my Evo. That's what happenned the day before the T-mobile HD2 was available, they announced the Evo (same thing happenned when I was going to get the TP2, they announce the HD2). Gotta stop waiting for the next best thing and get something at some point.