Unlike all the previous versions of SPB Mobile Shell available exclusively for Windows Mobile smartphones with touchscreens, version 5.0 is to be released for Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian. SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 – Key Features:
The first complete 3D mobile phone interface, offering an extremely fast and natural user experience. User interactions become much more intuitive in a real 3D environment.
Single place to access all smartphone features: combining traditional widget based homescreen and application launcher via stunning 3D homescreen.
Fast switching between screens with a single gesture.
Supports almost any mobile operating system by means of a platform adaption layer. It currently offers support for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile and is porting for more.
The first mobile UI where widgets have been implemented correctly, enabling users to convert any icon to a widget in just one click.
The app planned to be released to OEMs and carriers, SPB have not announced a consumer purchasable version of the app yet. SPB will be hosting a SPB Mobile Shell 5.0 Roadshow to launch the product, which starts today in San Francisco and will include cities such as London, Tokyo, Taipei, Moscow, Sao Paulo, Cape Town, Berlin, amongst others. Please contact partners@spb.com if you are interested in arranging a product demo and executive meeting.
MSkip ProPlus Windows Phone 7 Theme for Mobile Shell 3.5.3 kudos to fuzemobility.com for the find.
+ All new layout with invisible buttons at top of Home Hubs for Carousel (top left) and menu (top right).
+ Links on right side of Home Hub 1 to main functions (top button to sound profile, middle invisible button to connections profile and bottom invisible button to task manager) which can easily be changed if desired.
+ 2 Home Hubs (slide up and down to scroll between them) which you can populate with a selection of panels or make up your own.
+ Panels are mostly made up of shortcuts and custom shortcut skins so easy to change images or look (if desired).
+ New menu bars in mobile shell screens.
+ All Screens fully set up for LandScape mode.
+ Lots more that I cant think of right now. Find out for yourself
[TUT] How to make up a panel to an spb screen on the Home Hub?
1. Goto Menu, Add Widget, Shortcut, Spb Menus and select from the list.
2. click on the widget that has been added to the screen and then ‘Change Skin’ to your desired panel image. Example: Add a shortcut link to ‘Favorites’ and then change its skin to ‘Hub People (WP7)’.
[TUT] How to make up some of the custom panels.
Agenda Panel: Add an Agenda Shortcut (or whatever program you want it linked to) with the Hub Agenda Skin, then add the Agenda widget and change its skin to ‘Agenda Hub (WP7)’.
Digital Clock Panel: Add a Spb Clock Shortcut (or whatever program you want it linked to), change its skin to ‘Big Box Hidden (WP7)’ and move it where you want it on the screen. Now add a Digital Clock Widget, change its skin to ‘WP7 Hub’ and place it over the Blank panel. Lastly add a Current Date Widget, change its skin to ‘WP7 Hub’ and place it over the Blank panel.
[TIP] The Background image wont change on the Home Hub..
Change the wallpaper as normal, then go into the program files, spb mobile shell folder and delete the background.dat file. Soft reset and the wallpaper will be changed. This will change the wallpaper on the Home Hub, the Games Hub and the Lifestyle Hub. Unfortunately you cannot set separate images for each hub.
Vostradamus Widgets 2.12 offers customization mods and widgets for Spb Mobile Shell 3.5 and supports all major resolutions(QVGA/WQVGA/VGA/WVGA). Installation instructions included in a doc file inside the zip.
Clockworks is an analog clock widget for use with Spb Mobile Shell 3.0.1 and 3.5 on a Windows Mobile. The parts of the clock inside move, so you don’t always have the same look. Installation process requires advanced mobile shell 3.5 knowledge (instructions after the break).
matthewhypolite from xda-developers has released a new SPB Mobile Shell 3.5 hack , more like a better Widgets for Mobile Shell 3.5. Its only for WVGA at the moment.
If you like to theme your Mobile Shell Application then you might wanna head over to MobileSpoon, they have posted a bunch of SPB Mobile Shell 3 Themes, may be you will find something that you like.
Work-Life Balance with Spb Mobile Shell 3.0: New Version of World’s Bestselling Mobile Application
St. Petersburg, April 21st, 2009 – Spb Software, a leading maker of mobile software, releases Spb Mobile Shell 3.0, the next-generation user interface for Windows phones. According to Handango Yardstick, Spb Mobile Shell was the world’s number one bestselling application of 2008 among all mobile platforms.
Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 accounts for two different smartphone use scenarios: at work and at play. The application offers distinctive ‘professional’ and ‘lifestyle’ desktops, integration of picture contacts with Facebook, account-sensitive email indicators, handsome time and weather screens, widgets, responsive kinetic scrolling, signature 3D animation engine, and other appealing assets that change the way a Windows phone is used altogether.
Previous versions of Spb Mobile Shell were shipped by a number of innovative phone makers, such as Acer, O2, Pharos, Sony Ericsson, and Toshiba, have won numerous awards, and have been the choice of millions of customers. “It was challenging to design 3.0, as customer expectations are quite high,” – comments Yaroslav Goncharov the Spb Mobile Shell Product Manager and CTO at Spb Software – “On the other hand, this level of success gave us confidence in our basic ideas and design philosophy, and we certainly feel that Spb Mobile Shell 3.0 has all it takes to be the strong foundation for a host of new and immensely popular Windows phones.”
PADDY: Thank NOOK for something this cool and slip looking. I was losing hope for Windows developers :S [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
schlubadub: Yawn, they should think about extending Nook to other countries first. I can’t get any of this in Australia (even via web). [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Nick: Nice work, cool ideas. Now, let’s hope MS has something to say in the joint-venture since B&N is not paying any attention to designers. In some ways, MS Reader was ten times better...
fatfingur: I’m not saying this mockup is legit or real. My only point is that using comic sans does not make you unprofessional. Balsamiq is a professional wireframing tool used by pros....
simphf: One paragraph reads ‘NOOK for Android’. Ha [Posted from the 1800PocketPC app]
Hog: Almost forgot, are you going to enter the Nokia X Challenge for over 2 million in prize money? The info.is at Nokia Conversations and with your IT background. Lots of ideas swirl around in my...
Hog: Very nice. I’m not familiar with the Nook at all for content but I really like your design. I hope the Barnes app is made available for all windows phones also. [Posted from the...
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