Microsoft designs the T-Mobile Shadow home UI
There was a lot of talk last week about the T-Mobile Shadow (a.k.a. HTC Juno) user interface, some couldn’t believe it was still Windows Mobile. The Shadow sports a new homescreen codenamed “Neo” designed by Microsoft in collaboration with HTC and T-Mobile to make the mobile user-experience friendlier. The group at Microsoft responsible for the design is the Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Beijing China. It’s a little known fact they also worked on the user interface for the Microsoft Surface.
Whilst most of the news coverage and reviews about the Shadow talk a lot about the new interface, there are some less-than-desirable pictures of the interface itself. Which is why I went straight to the source to get some high-resolution screenshots and concept images of the “Neo” interface. They look so much better than the photos.
Now only if they paid as much attention to every Windows Mobile phone instead of just this one. But one step forward is better than not moving at all. I have high hopes for Windows Mobile 7.
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#1. March 22nd, 2008, at 2:42 PM.
I own a T-Mobile Shadow, I really like everything about the design of the phone especially the look and feel. I can type so fast on the keyboard it’s not even funny.
It has a HUGE problem though, it needs be hard-booted just about every other day, this thing cannot be counted on as a phone (or anything else, but I have never had an unreliable cell-phone).
Even with this unreliability (I keep blaming myself someway or another even though it happens every day or every two days… I have to remove the battery to get it to turn off) I still really like this phone. I think that speaks volumes for the design, that I would put up with the unreliability.
I think this phone is the “real news” and not the iPhone or the $500.00 Windows Mobile phones. I’m sure the reliability issues will be ironed out, I cannot conceive of having a “non-PDA” phone after having had this phone.
And another thing: The packaging is stellar, and the included stereo headset, and nice belt-clip-case is very nice and it is “above and beyond” that they include all of that within the $150.00 package.
They’ll get it right. The price-point is amazing, and if I weren’t so geeky the unreliability would absolutely be a deal breaker though.