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From the pocketgear.com site...
"This program was designed for Microsoft Smartphone devices with landscape screens, basically.
There is no reason at all, to not use it in other mobile devices with Windows Mobile system.
Specially, because it doesn't use touch-sensitivity screen for daily operating, but hardware keys only."]]>Feb 2nd 2007 8:17AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/Feb 2nd 2007 10:50AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/
Other than that I agree, shame on Microsoft.]]>Feb 2nd 2007 3:18PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/
The design and layout is smooooth:-)]]>Feb 5th 2007 5:34PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13430&highlight=jgui]]>Feb 3rd 2007 11:51AMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/Feb 3rd 2007 3:41PMhttp://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/02/01/jgui-crafts-vista-skin-looks-better-than-crossbow/
That said, it definitely is taxing on the Blackjack's resources. I downloaded JGUI's gray simple theme to run as the actual system theme and keep theme overhead to a minimum (since this is really a program running on top of the actual interface, it's not just a simple skin). This helps considerably - don't try running a complex theme under this thing.

I have it set to cover up my standard home screen, but I had to disable the "cover up incoming call screen." The cover incoming call option uses too much of the system resources when someone calls and makes it so you can't really get the phone to respond to a command to answer the call.

The lack of resources also seems to make scrolling through the different screens (weather, news, etc.) fairly clunky. And that's with no programs running in the background.

Someone mentioned they couldn't dial numbers with this. You can, but you have to hit the green button first to bring up the dialing system. It's a little annoying and improvements to the integration would help a lot.

Other than that, it does look cool. The English could use some revision.

I think this guy is really onto something and should look into either getting Microsoft to adopt this as a native interface (although I don't see how he can sell them their own look and feel - if anything, he's infringing on Vista copyrights) or ditch the windows logo in the bottom left and get a larger-scale developer to back developing this into a more tightly-integrated modification for WM devices.]]>Feb 23rd 2007 1:00PM