Monday, March 31, 2008
HTC Manila: Custom WM6.1 Interface
Posted by Nurhisham Hussein in "Pocket PC News" @ 03:00 AM
"For those that don’t know, HTC’s "Manilla" [sic] is basically a customized interface that’s on top of the standard Windows Mobile 6.1 Professional OS. The actual screen shots a good friend provided us with are from a "cooked" X7510 ROM with the "Manilla" part thrown in from an unreleased VGA device HTC is working on. Also we’ve been told that "Manilla" is not technically TouchFLO 2.0, TouchFLO 2.0 just has a few updates to the scrolling part of it and the cube, nothing more than that."
Another interface? So what's new? Well for starters, unlike TouchFlo, the interface covers more applications and not just the Today screen - from the screenshots, it appears all the HTC-developed applications feature the new interface. Dare we hope that this will be the standard interface for the x7510? And that it gets propagated to all other new HTC devices? And somebody hacks it so those of us with "legacy" devices get to enjoy it too?
Another interface? So what's new? Well for starters, unlike TouchFlo, the interface covers more applications and not just the Today screen - from the screenshots, it appears all the HTC-developed applications feature the new interface. Dare we hope that this will be the standard interface for the x7510? And that it gets propagated to all other new HTC devices? And somebody hacks it so those of us with "legacy" devices get to enjoy it too?
