Thanks to the Community members and Xperiancer for providing feedback on our previous releases. The 1.0.08 build of Phone see some new features, settings and fixes. If you want to be cool like everyone else who’s using it head over to the Phone product page and give it a try.
In our second preview video we have some calls going on between three phones.
The first look at our dialer replacement.
We received some wonderful Twitter applets and after some tough deliberation we finally have our winners.
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1st - TwitUI by joelaloose
2nd - PointSense Twitter by alienworkshop
3rd - HomePlus Twitter by gronostaj
Thanks to everyone who entered, we really enjoyed seeing what the Community could do in such a short amount of time and hope to see more of this fantastic work continue.
* Winners will be contacted directly regarding prize money.
We’ve been busy working on a few things and while we didn’t plan on releasing any major updates we couldn’t help but sneak in a few things and simplify the product distribution.
The 2.1.06c build sees some nice additions for those wanting to tweak the memory usage and not display script errors (even though they’re important) and the default theme is Tinted with the addition of 7even as an option within Cusotmize > Change Theme.
We have also consolidated the builds so we distribute only one build for the respective screen sizes (and X1). The functionality that was known (and loved) in the Free version of Home 2 is the default functionality for the release. So it is clear that you are using the version that can be activated the version information that displays in the about screen will display ‘Lite’. Upon purchase of Pro you now simply enter your serial number and unlock the Pro functionality, no more downloading another release and upgrading.
We no longer have the intention to distribute any updated builds of Home 2 Free. The only difference between the Free version and the Lite version is a screen displaying that it is the Lite version and Pro features aren’t available unless you buy Pro. You can continue to use the Lite version for as long as you like, there is no time limit, but you should really go Pro, seriously, everybody is doing it.
David K of Fuze Mobility has an article and poll up asking you, What’s Your UI… we’re in amongst it and beating the standard UI! Yay for us, but seriously, don’t vote for the Standard UI.
In what started as a great initiative by Strages (of the Pointui Community) is now an offical Pointui competition. Community members Strages and Zelendel are generously donating copies of Home 2 Pro for the Applet Competition - Social Networks. Not to be outdone Montecristoff will be designing a new t-shirt for the entry awarded the most creative.
Pointui will be donating prize money for the top three applets.
Strages has been kind enough to take on the management of the competition, please head over to the official contest details page to read more.
Home 2 Build 2.1.04 is now online. This release sees an improvement in animation speed and some bug fixes and updates. Head over to the Home 2 product page for the links to download the Free version or to buy Pro.
Please post any comments and feedback about the release in the Community (registration required, its free).
We’ve had some great feedback and suggestions from the community with our 2.1 release. We have implemented some suggested functionality and fixed a few bugs, 2.1.02 is now available. Release notes are in Docs for those interested.
If you’ve been following our Roadmap then your wait is finally over, 2.1 is here. If you’ve just joined us then great timing, 2.1 contains a healthy list of enhancements and fixes along with a new default theme.
Pro customers can update from their phones or in the link originally provided when they purchased Home 2 Pro. As there have been changes in the default theme we recommend you backup your current copy and do a fresh install.