This one's for all of you Meizu fanboys out there: To tide you over while you wait for the M8 3G launch in March 2010 (with a possible M8 3G S planned for Smarch 2043 or thereabouts) the company's announced that the handset will be getting a UI refresh with its firmware 1.0 release come August.
What's more, Redmond wouldn't be letting third parties use this new UI -- Pink would be manufactured only by Sharp or Motorola, who've made Sidekicks in the past.
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They need a UI ninja that will be able to direct the whole look and feel of the UI so that everything acts consistently in just one way no matter the mode or app that the handset is in at that moment in time.
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The iPhone will ultimately be remembered as the UI that made mobile computing possible.
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We found the speed at which you move through the very basic UI to be somewhat maddening.
It certainly gives the Z10 something that is different, but as Microsoft has found out, sometimes your UI can be too different to be accepted.
It will be brilliant if the UI is right.
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Windows 8 was expected to be far worse because of the UI change and its .0 release status.
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Both Android and the Sense UI adorning it will be familiar to you already, but there are a couple of fresh additions that merit discussion.
The quality of Amazon Instant Video is inconsistent, and Netflix, while awesome on tech and UI, seems to be getting less of the new movies and TV shows.
Parental control options can finally be set when using the HD UI, but still isn't as full featured as it was with the old UI and is a far cry from KidZone.
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So, tomorrow, Tuesday, February 23rd, the new group started by my friend Mary Bottari, BanksterUSA.org, is staging a National Day of Action to Save Unemployment to make clear to Congress that UI benefits need to be extended until the end of 2010.
Consumers willing to sacrifice hardware controls for a touchscreen-driven UI won't be missing out on much else -- functionally, the EOS M is a near-clone of Rebel T4i with the same 18-megapixel APS-C CMOS sensor, DIGIC 5 processor and 3-inch touchscreen.
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And that would be a lot easier with a consistent UI and developer APIs.
Apigee Insights is a recognition in essence, that a fourth tier must be introduced into applications in addition to UI, Server, and Database.
Both are incredibly slick and well built, feature some nifty new calling features and UI tweaks, and will be upgraded to WM 6.5 for free when the time comes.
The Qt framework makes it really easy to create powerful applications, or to take an application you have for a different platform and be able to port it with a UI that has the features of Sailfish.
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For example, if access to contacts is authorized or not determined, then a UI button to pick a contact can be displayed.
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Once they've passed a UI certification, devices and apps will be billed as "plugged into Skype, " but don't expect to see anything happen too quickly: the SDK is Linux-only at the moment, with Windows and Mac desktop versions forthcoming, and Skype will be testing apps and devices before they go live.
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Lets say a person chooses one of the NeoLink servers on the network from the home screen, they will be taken to those servers files via a clean and efficient UI.
Given how in-your-face HTC's new Sense 5 UI is (its BlinkFeed home page manages to be reminiscent of Flipboard, Blur and Windows Phone), we feel a bit silly kvetching about something as unobtrusive as carrier bloatware.
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Perhaps Microsoft's Windows chief, Steven Sinofsky, will have more to say during his appearance at the D9 conference next week -- Winrumors is reporting that he may even be set to demo the company's Windows 8 Tablet UI.
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This week will be a critical one for millions of Americans surviving on unemployment insurance (UI).
The email UI is built out of elements Google calls fragments, which will supposedly be easy to transition down to smartphones, so thumbs up all around.
With many companies still making the transition to Windows 7 and many consumers happy enough with the current Microsoft operating system, it may be difficult for Windows 8 to make a big splash, even with the overhauled UI.
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Applications may also switch to a tablet style UI in landscape, but this is not as important since they will more often be used in portrait.
Naturally, we went searching for that Facebook integration that we just saw rolled out in the Windows version, but it's nowhere to be found at the moment, and Skype tells us it's focusing on video and UI tweaks for the Mac version.
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The new M8 Firmware 1.0.0.1 beta has been demo'd on video, and seems to be taking some new cues from Android and Windows Mobile -- along with some original and sexy UI elements of Meizu's own devising -- that really set it apart from its iPhone-aping days of yore.
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Packed with speakers, an array of wireless sensors and the ability to send video signals to your TV sans cables, the concept docking station is meant to stylishly hold your KDDI handset (lots of 'em will be compatible in due time) and beam a blown-up version of your phone's UI onto your television or LCD monitor.
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In fact, the game sounds like it should be a very strong offering, with an overhaul to the server engine, the graphics engine, the UI, the gameplay, and just about everything else.
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