company.
(Click here for a larger view of Touch Commander)By the company's own admission, Touch Commander mimics the user interface in Apple's iPhone or HTC's
Touch. It provides three fully-customizable screens and a photo-enabled quick dial screen, according to the company. Presumably, however, the finger-enabled "scrolling, browsing, and spinning" is confined to the Touch Commander application rather than being system-wide.
Since it was introduced in June as a custom-made enhancement to Windows Mobile, HTC's TouchFLO interface has apparently become popular. Not only has
Sprint started offering the Touch, but HTC has also extended TouchFLO to another phone, the keyboard-equipped
Touch Dual, also sold as the
HT1100 by NTT DoCoMo.
Where Microsoft and its customers once prided themselves on the standard Windows Mobile UI -- just as a consistent UI is offered on most Windows desktop computers -- wireless carriers increasingly crave differentiation. For that reason, Microsoft itself has started
customizing Windows Mobile for carriers such as T-Mobile and Vodafone.
Touch Commander software costs approximately $15, and is downloadable in .CAB format, installable onto a device directly, or in .EXE format for installation via ActiveSync or Windows Mobile Device Center. Windows Mobile 5 users also need to install Microsoft's .NET Compact Framework 2.0, according to the company.
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