SPB Mobile Shell

ummm....I'm on 3.5.3 ...what happen to 4 ??....lol

4 failed miserably so they decided to just skip to 5 to save the embarrassment. Just kidding. I used 3.5 a few times on my Incite. It is a very nice UI and I hope 5 will be redesigned to be even better.

They had to go multi-platform.

Good on them too.


WR

Are you sure it's SPB MS 5? :-p

I'm using SPB MS 3.5.3 and the one in the video looks very much like SPB MS 3.5.3 with a little more 3d eye candy and some different icons. even the layout is the same. Nothing so revolutionary to justify skipping a major version.

Kev, if you're willing to spend time to customize the UI, you can try some of the titanium plugins, just search on XDA, there're a bunch of them. but if you want something that works well, I strongly recommend SPB MS 3.5.3. I use it with mSkip's widgets to get prettier widgets, search XDA there's a thread on all available mods/skins for SPB.

You can try it out first, the trial I think is 15 days, if you like it then get it from handango they have coupons (just google search) once in a while so you don't have to pay the full price of $29.95, you'll also earn points on SPB store, enough to get a free copy of Quads (you can buy from handango and still get the points on SPB store). Also goto the SPB user forums there's an app to let you customize the launcher menus (which arguably should have been included in the standard version in the first place but wasn't).

Before I settled with SPB MS I tried other shell /homescreen replacements like PointUI and ThrottleLauncher as well as some titanium plugins and also looked up a couple more, some of them are free, others aren't. None of them really looks as nice as SPB MS out of the box, at least not with a lot of customizing, installing this and that plugin. Some only look good on the surface, underneath the configuration menus and stuff don't look good and may have tiny UI controls.