Spb Mobile Shell 2.0 at GSMA 2008
February 6, 2008 by colbert low
Filed under Announcements, Cellphones, Handhelds
Spb Mobile Shell 2.0 will be presented at the upcoming GSMA Mobile World Congress 2008 in Spain next week. I did have the chance to try this excellent piece of software on my ETEN PDA and it was pretty fast. Its a good shell alternative to the native WM5 and it packs more functions onto the main GUI. Catch it if you are in Barcelona next week.
The new Spb Mobile Shell 2.0 – is the next generation Windows Mobile user interface. It is adapted to the latest devices on the market, is more animated, more customizable, and a more graphically complete than ever before. This new version of Spb Mobile Shell will be first introduced at the Spb Software House booth at Mobile Worlds Congress, and will become commercially available on the consumer market by the end of February 2008. Among other innovations to be showcased by Spb Software House in Barcelona next week is Spb Catalog – an on-device catalog based on the Microsoft Marketplace technology, providing users with easy and manageable access to selections of popular Windows Mobile programs, games, ringtones, themes, and other mobile content.
Windows seriously has to do something better than this ! Everyone has now realized that the future of next gen Mobiles is Touch. Apple has pioneered its Touch based UI and now with even the new Symbian S60 apeing iPhones GUI, I think MS too has no way that going the apple way again !
Funny about your comment. I am not a MS defender but you have to give Cesar what’s Cesar’s. The only thing NEW about the iPhone is the iPhone itself and the great marketing, nothing more.
If you’re looking for a complete iPod entertainment experience that let’s you browse the Internet and make phone calls in a touch device buy and iPhone. But if you’re looking for a device that let’s you work and be productive then get a WM5 or WM6 device.
If as a user you switch to the iPhone based on “how cool it is” you’ll end up disappointed when you figure out the dozens of feature and functionality you lost while you flip your finger around the iPhone.
With WM you get tones of applications and customization and are not tied to proprietary software waiting for Apple to feel like releasing an update with the feature you really NEED to do your job