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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE!
For more information contact:
Olga Shtaub
VITO Technology
Tel/Fax +7 383 3320013
olya@vitotechnology.com
Winterface to win your hearts
New version with numerous improvements
August 13th, 2008 – VITO Technology releases a new version of one of its best-sellers – Winterfcae. Winterface is a Windows Mobile shell that helps you to organize applications and settings at your PocketPC the way you like. The start gesture “rainbow” was replaced in new version by upside down tick ^. Moreover, it has become possible to add to the main screen not only applications, settings and contacts but also any files on your Pocket PC. Besides, calendar and tasks now can notify you about upcoming events, appointments and tasks. Minor bugs have been also fixed.
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The new version 1.1 of Winterface includes numerous improvements. The major one is that we’ve changed the start gesture, now the application is started with the help of the upside down tick ^. This gesture is unlikely to interfere with other applications so that Winterface couldn’t pop out each time you slide the screen. Drawing the gesture "tick" or letter "v" on your screen can close any application you are working in.

Other improvements are concerned with tasks and calendar. For most of users their Pocket PCs are organizers and reminders. Therefore Winterface now have red indicators with numbers above Calendar and Tasks icons to show active tasks and upcoming events. When tapping Calender you can see a semi-transparent window with all events. If you need to edit time or event you can go to the calendar if not you may return back to the screen. As for the tasks, pressing the icon you are put straight to the Tasks to look at them and to edit.

At one of the sites where we had great discussion with our users we were strongly convinced by the advanced WM users that they definitely need quick access to separate files. Therefore "Files" was added to the menu of the program that affords you to add any file to the screen. Moreover, we've made a possibility to switch off the lock screen.
Winterface now looks whiter as most of the standard icons were replaced by super stylish winter-like icons. You will be amazed by the cool looks of your Pocket PC screen.

Some of the bugs were fixed like: it is now impossible to delete Menu and Running icons of the program, some of the icons are not doubled any more (like Phone). The bug on HTC devices with battery icon was also fixed.
NOTE! If you need to backup your settings, you only should rename file pages.db (for example, pages_old.db) in the Winterface folder. Then you should uninstall the old version of Winterface, rename it back from pages_old.db to pages.db after that install new version of the program. All other updates that are higher than version 1.1 won’t need this operation as the program will do it itself.

Winterface is available for $19.95 at www.iWindowsMobile.com/vito-mobile-shell.html.

VITO Technology Inc. is known for its high-tech products in the field of Windows Mobile and Symbian software, GPS navigation and custom projects. Introduced in the present article Winterface is a mobile shell for Windows Mobile.
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chch
Interesting but it is just a shell right?
I mean when you close appications it goes back to the home screen and not this interface?

Doesn't PointUI have a solution to replace your devices reference to going to the home screen with going to there own UI?
Can this be done with Wintershell?

I ask these questions because I am running SPB Shell and apart from coming out of satndby you have to manually envoke the SPB menu summary page thing.

I like the fact that Winterface changes the icons. If I use a greater contrast background so that my phone is easier to see in sunlight then my icons look awful against the dark background. Can anybody comment on using this interface in sunlight?
chch
I have read the manual for the new version and it takes me back 2 years .... how many interfaces have I looked at with no WiFi applet!

They have a bluetooth applet but no WiFi or Data connection applet!

Winterface takes away the information bar and replaces it with applets that completly forgot about WiFi and Data Connections.

I am not sure if you could even add icons for tuning WiFi off and on. Certainly looks like you can't see the WiFi or data connection statuses.

chch
A new version is out 1.14 with a free weather plug in
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