Another free game that is recommended for everyone in the UIQ 3 community: SudoX. It's a free Sudoku / Kakuro application for those addicts out there. Although this game may not appeal to everyone, at the very least please give a hand to the developer FiendSoft, for making a bunch of excellent freeware applications.
If you want to capture screen shots, seeing that there was no built-in utility to do that on the phone, I recommend you to use The Open Screen Capture. This app was developed by Space Software Studio. It allows users to choose between 0 sec, 10 sec and 30 sec delay. The screenshots are saved in PNG format (smaller file size than BMP) on the memory card.
It performs a great job of capturing the screen - however it's still in the beta stage. The image file format cannot be changed (must be PNG), so keep that in mind when using the app. Don't be too surprised if the app does act up when you want to take a screenshot of a game or something (It never acted up on me when I've been using it though).
GNU Go, developed by the excellent SomeOne / AnotherGuest (who also ported Lemmings over to UIQ 3.0)
This is an open-source game so if you are a developer and find that the AI is a bit 'lacking', or "stupid" as most people put it, you can contribute to the game algorithm.
The game comes with 2 modes, you can play against the AI-GnuGo or play against another human opponent. Note that there is no wireless play, so you will have to cope with the more primitive method of sharing the phone as you play.
You can find more details and download the game here
LinkBoy provides up to 45 shortcuts to frequently used tasks, that can be optionally displayed on the standby screen. It seems like GDesk has just gotten some competition.
Similarly to GDesk, whats great is that the positions of the shortcuts and icons can be changed (the fact that UIQ 3.0 doesn't allow for it in the main menu still boggles me). The Captions under each icon can be changed as well. The standby settings are left intact on the screen, and makes it slightly more convenient than GDesk.
NEW in version 1.52:
- List of upcoming events displayed when executing the Event active item.
- Full text display of Note active items.
- New Active item type: Time and date.
- Support for passing application parameter from shortcuts.
- Selectable right softkey action for P990 in flip-closed mode.
- Improved behavior with the Standby application's Today menu.
- Numerous additional improvements and bugfixes.
It also has a menu to set transparency for the various shortcuts - something the iPhone users might be in awe about.
The software does not come for free, as opposed to GDesk. Costing at $14.95, it seems to be a high price to pay for to obtain a "stable version of GDesk". You can go here for the details.
Swiss Manager is one of apps that you must have for your P1i. It provides a task manager, file manager and system information viewer. I think it does the job better than the built-in task manager and I recommend you to install it for your UIQ3 phone.
NEW in version 1.70:
- Support for invoking functions from other applications (e. g. memory cleanup from within GDesk).
- Application setup command to configure applications not currently running.
- New options for instant display of Favorites.
- New option to perform cleanup on startup.
- New status icon format displaying large size text.
- Selectable display of time or free memory on status icon.
- Enhanced file copy operations.
- Improved performance and reliability.
- Numerous additional enhancements, optimizations, and bugfixes.
A pro version with advanced features exists for USD $29.95 but most users should find the free version adequate to their needs. Its compatible with all UIQ3 phones.
You can get the newest version here.
mShell is a free scripting tool for anyone who doesn't know what it is. Based on the easy-to-learn programming language M, it has a rich phone specific library, thus allowing many to fully explore the phone's potential.
The image on the right shows the screen when running mVNC, an application built using mShell. It's a software that allows the display of the phone's screen on a VNC viewer on the PC, so the phone can be completely controlled from your computer. The app also offers file synchronisation abilities, so scripts can be edited, tested, and executed on your computer before being downloaded to your phone.
If you like to program for your UIQ3 phone, I think mShell and mVNC is the good choice.
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