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Idea: How hard would it be to create an S60 launcher?

Categories: Ideas and rants
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, March 5th, 2007 at 11:07 AM

When I had a Handspring Visor Deluxe (Palm OS running PDA) there were these programs around called "application launchers."

They were essentially apps created by people who didn’t like the default look and feel of the Palm OS. They decided to write their own interface.

Here is what the default Palm OS looks like:

Default

With a launcher you could make it look like this:

Pal1

Or like this:

Launcheriii2

Or even like this:

Cmd1

What I’m trying to get at: Is it possible for developers to create their own S60 UI?

Call me geeky, but I’d love to constantly see the date, time, free amount of RAM, battery life in terms of percentage, more shortcut keys, etc.

Do such applications exist and I’ve yet to discover them?

Can one make a UI in something like Flash Lite to be equally as slick as the LG Prada?

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Stefan Constantinescu

Stefan Constantinescu (@WhatTheBit on Twitter) has loved technology since as far back as he can remember. It started with computers, but in the past few years his passion has turned to mobile devices. As a mobile phone enthusiast who lives and breathes devices that connect to the internet, he knows he is not alone with this radical fascination of all things wireless. He is strongly opinionated and enjoys a good debate so leave comments in his posts and he’ll get back to you! Stefan began blogging as a hobby in the fall of 2006 and joined IntoMobile in the summer of 2007. Later he got a job at Nokia in March 2008, but as of June 2009 he has rejoined the IntoMobile team. He is currently based out of Helsinki, Finland.

  • Jonathan Greene

    I use Handy Taskman from epocware… you can type in a name and have it find your app to launch, see running and recent apps and get some good memory details.

  • Stefan Constantinescu

    could you post some screenshots?

    maybe even a mini review on your blog?

  • Wozik

    the same thing, handy task is a mus have app. it works instead of symbian task manager (responds to symbian button). screnns are good, but the app itself is better – check mail ;)