TouchFLO interface
As we have said, the communicator HTC Touch, a special shell TouchFLO, which should provide a convenient control device without a stylus. In fact, the shell consists of three pages: 1. Multimedia. You can run standard applications, Audio Manager, and the program Photo-Video, which, depending on the selected item, opens the folder with pictures or videos.
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| TouchFLO: Multimedia |
2. Photo contacts. On this page you can configure 9 contacts to speed dial. If the contact is assigned to an image or picture, it is displayed on the screen.
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| TouchFLO: Speed Dial |
Also on this page, you can run standard applications: Phone, Call List and Contacts.
3. Application. On this page are commonly used (according to developers) program. The list of programs is not configurable.
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| TouchFLO: Applications |
Another possibility is the possibility of the TouchFLO scrolling through pages in Internet Explorer and Word Mobile, as well as scroll through lists, such as contacts, SMS-messages and so on. All this is pretty seasoned Today-plugin, which consists, again, of three pages.
Clocks, indicators of missed calls and unread e-mail and SMS / MMS. When you click on the appropriate icon, open standard applications Windows Mobile. Weather forecast for the selected city, with the ability to view forecasts for four days. Unfortunately, no detail of the forecast not only displayed the temperature and precipitation. Launcher. You can configure the nine frequently used applications or functions, such as screen rotation, adjustable lighting and so on. User experience
In general, TouchFLO - interesting and nice toy, nothing more. Yes, first impressions of a shell very nice: are leading a finger, everything revolves, is launched. Moreover, no significant "brake" almost no, TouchFLO is very thoughtful only when you run a large number of background applications, it is obvious that the processor has nothing to do with it, affects memory shortage. Convenience TouchFLO - a moot point, enough played enough, a couple of days of work with the Communicator of the shell to forget.By and large it is convenient to use it only for the speed dial, the other features are used quite rarely. The main reason - the inability to customize the program listings. You can certainly use the launcher from the Today-plugin, even though the plugin is also not without drawbacks. It occupies about half of the working area of the screen, while other elements available Today the remaining lower part of the display. If Today-ins do not fit on the remaining half of the page, next to a scroll bar appears. Probably not the best solution. The screenshots below you can see what we mean.
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Another strange feature TouchFLO - only support the standard, portrait display, it is necessary to rotate the image, like all the charm of the shell becomes inaccessible. Again, small glitch, but the general impression spoils.
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| Demonstration of TouchFLO (avi, 320 x 240, 7.65 MB) |
Below you can download a video demonstrating the work of the shell TouchFLO.
Total
Summarizing, we can assume that the control technology TouchFLO attract primarily users who use the work of mostly standard software Windows Mobile. The new shell quickly, and most importantly did not like the others, "WM to run embedded software. More advanced users TouchFLO, probably quite quickly get tired of all the same realization of the idea, at this stage is not the best. However, let's not forget that this is the first version of this interface, and if you remember, for example, the history of the application Task Manager (X-Button), then we can assume that after a certain time span TouchFLO become really comfortable and sophisticated. Part I: Overview of the communicator HTC Touch. The authors, translation:
