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Dashboard widgets coming to a jailbroken iPhone near you

Categories: Applications, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 AM

Adding a Dashboard-like widgets to your iPhone is a neat idea, or is it? The way I see it, iPhone’s UI is pretty much widgetized by design and adding an extra “widget-like look and feel” may make the device less intuitive to use — after all, every app is already few clicks and/or swipes away. On the other hand, I do admit I love Samsung’s widget friendly TouchWIZ user interface, but is it really needed for the iPhone?

Anyway, this is still work in progress and as soon as it hits Cydia we’ll certainly have more to report about it. In the meantime, we have a video demoing the mentioned “widgetized UI” on the iPhone. Any thoughts? Does this looks like something you would want to use? Comments form is all yours… And now the video.

[Via: Gizmodo]

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Dusan Belic

Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.

  • Cammy

    You forgot to give Steven Troughton-Smith (the developer) some credit.
    At least mention his name or something :|