The 1800PocketPC app - Next Level concept
The 1800PocketPC app V3.2 was just updated and here is some ideas and proposals for the next version. I very like the 1800Pocket PC app, but there are always ways to improve.
What do you think about new icon :)
The 1800PocketPC app - new icon and splash screen
I like the menu hub and the new Metro live tiles. I think under the tiles to have only twitter, facebook and settings. The settings tab will combine the current settings, contacts, about and achievements. I think that way will be more compact and in order. I also made some rearrange of the news – there will be 3 main views – main (with several recent articles), more (with older articles) and selected article view – I suggest this will be applicable for all categories, not only for news.
The 1800PocketPC app - news
The next part is for the games reviews – I suggest here to be more juice. Also I suggest all links to youtube, gallery and others to be in the menu part, not in the main page – it’s more clean. But then is need possibility to read whole or part of the articles inside the app – not only to view pictures or video. Also in the article preview I think the Mail option is unnecessarily button and can be added to share menu – share via twitter, FB, mail, Windows live, etc.
The 1800PocketPC app - games preview
It’s will be nice to have possibility to favourite items (account related). If some of the ideas are applicable, will be happy to see them. You can give suggestions in the future, and possibly the author will include them.
Gavin Bondurant
Schlubadub
Sweet
WinPhan7
den
Mischa
Vernon Smith
Me
Siddhartha Kumar
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Awesome :) [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
+1 [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Looks good! [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
personally I like the current logo , but you gotta love that games preview page with the background image :)
Thanks. Looks like I don’t have luck with the logo :)
You win some and you lose some ;)
Like the ideas…..other than that logo :S . The current logo is so much better than the proposed one. [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
The app is doing a good job in improving with each update [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
I gotta say, Im impressed, theres some pretty good ideas here.
Personally I like the icon, but weve only just change the site logo, so it would be too soon to do so again. (Plus from the comments, it seems people like the current one)
I like the home page layout, it definitely looks a lot more informative than the current one. The only problem is the fontsize on the news tab, thats waaaay too small to be seen, so instead that would have to be in a larger font, but limit it to a smaller number of characters (at the moment, the app limits it to 150)
The game review page layout is great. Using the background image is a fine idea, however, the reason the youtube videos and galleries are shown inline is because its much cleaner than putting “youtube video 1″, “youtube video 2″ in the menu when theres more than one. Im quite tempted to alter the browser page to something like this, but work on a better look for the gallery/youtube buttons.
Still, overall it looks pretty damn awesome :)
Thanks. Leave the logo as is – Looks like I don’t have luck with making the new logo – this was my second try. If there is a way to help you with some design stuff for the future versions – I’ll be happy to do it.
Sure, some help wouldnt go amiss. If anything comes up, Ill give you a shout.
Im curious though, what do you make these in? Is it a photoshop job or are you using something else?