http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/ Engadget Comments for PTPT shows off wild Android UI skin, we go hands-on http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
This works nicely as an experiment but I couldn't see anyone really using this day to day as their phone UI.]]>May 26th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/Yea, you clearly took time to think through that reply.
]]>May 26th 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
Sense can be the greatest UI ever, TareG still has a very good point: Custom UI's shouldn't be a reason to delay an update (very long) or don't update at all.

I prefer the new stuff from 2.1 and 2.2 above being stuck on 1.6 or lower because of a custom UI like sense.]]>May 26th 2010 7:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/That said, I think Sense is terribly outdated (except for the overview addition, maybe). It was nice and sweet a year ago, with Android 1.6 which looked like a cheap cartoon. But post 2.1, it's all sharp and elegant. I don't need this awful "+" sign to add widgets on the homescreen, lingering there all the time. The phone icon? Solved in 2.2.

Let's just move on and keep Android 2.2 on all devices from here on. It'll save companies a lot of time and money, and devices will be able to ship with the most advanced version of Android.]]>May 26th 2010 7:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 7:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
Fail.. No one will ever use this..]]>May 26th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
that's what home replacements are for - custom ui's shouldn't be built in to the firmware, but released as plug-ins]]>May 27th 2010 3:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/"we"? does this mean you made it?]]>May 27th 2010 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/Oh, crap nevermind, you're the CEO... How dumb of me...]]>May 27th 2010 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
This UI would work fantastic for Hollywood but I cannot think of any real life task it makes simpler. Super to play with for a day I guess. Then you wish you had your windows, folders and scroll lists back. ]]>May 26th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.androidtechnical.com/romlib.html]]>May 26th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/Yeah it's barely even watchable...
Kind of disappointing imho.]]>May 26th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
I was more irritated by the reflection of the lights on the ceiling actually but this combo is a fail indeed.]]>May 26th 2010 7:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 7:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/Can we get the engadget staff some better gear please?]]>May 26th 2010 6:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
I'm pretty sure you've been trolled, Engadget.]]>May 26th 2010 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
ROFL, I didn't even notice that. I just saw a middle eastern name that I didn't want to try to pronounce and skimmed over it.]]>May 26th 2010 6:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/If i used my last name, you wouldn't be able to pronounce it.]]>May 27th 2010 5:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 6:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
also, awesome effort from the new startup guys.. but it did not excite me much . .]]>May 26th 2010 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
Is it me or did it just seem forever to find Joanna's name?]]>May 26th 2010 7:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
i like how now with these new UI features, like in Sony Ericsson's timescape feature, you can get a lot of information simply by clicking on a contact...does the software allow for, say, dragging a contact into the time bar and viewing all pictures, videos, IM messages, etc related to the person? a simple feature that (i dont know exists elsewhere off the top of my head) i think is powerful would be able to tag photos you have stored (like in facebook) for easier, filtered access later

but the problem with this system is that increasing the amount of data = more cumbersome on processor = sluggish software]]>May 26th 2010 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/And yes, you can "tag" everything, e.g. dragging out your pictures from your car and associate them with a thing that represents your car. By this you can re-retrieve them very easily. All of this using your finger and no context menus, query languages whatsoever.
The problem of clutter is actually the one that we're trying to address. Our current system runs with well over 20000 entities (emails, music files, pictures, websites). With PTPT we're trying to address the information and data overload that everybody has. And we don't want to have "mindmaps", "search fields", "folders" and so on, we want it simple and universal. ]]>May 26th 2010 9:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 8:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 26th 2010 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/
Just terrible.

Seems like it would only slow me down, and kill multitasking anyway.]]>May 27th 2010 1:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/26/ptpt-shows-off-wild-android-ui-skin-we-go-hands-on/May 27th 2010 1:09PM