Over the weekend YourFriendWayne from WJD Designs released his latest theme for the BlackBerry Storm, Clarity. Clarity follows up on the success of CANDi and brings with it a clean design that adds sliding screen action to a fully customizable dock. Features include:
5 Custom on Screen Docked Icons
32 Custom on screen Sliding Icons
Slide Selector Tool Helps you Know what Screen your On
Today Feature Enabled
Quick Code to provide quicker Performance
Fully Custom Icon Set
Plays well with 151 Leak and Many Others
Plays well with 5.0 Leaks
I absolutely love how themes are beginning to make use of sliding screen action. It really brings that feeling of having a desktop space that's larger than the actual dimensions of the piece of glass. Clarity sells for $4.99. You can get more info, see more screen caps and pickup Clarity at the link below.
...looks nice. If I had a Storm I would have to check this out. Maybe the developer could make a similar theme for the Tour?? Obviously the "sliding" screen would not apply, but I like the permanent icons docked at the bottom and the "extra" screens are nice to have and switch between. How about one for the Tour, maybe utilizing the traditional default icons??
Is there lag with this theme? Ive read where other themes made by this guy has severer lag. I admit it looks nice, but if it doesn't run then what good is it.
The user "tmp3150" goes around and flames on a lot of peoples threads - just look at his thread activity... he never purchased "Clarity" and loves to bad mouth products... Please be aware if you see him on any forum posts his views are not legit...
that being said if lag is an issue I would have more complaints.. and if I had more complaints I would fix to better the theme... I have many users that are very happy with this theme. This theme uses the same technique that iBerry uses for the animation transitions...
I hope everyone can make up their own decision... :)
From a technical standpoint, any theme that animates the motion of 32 icons will probably have lag. Whether the developer noticed it on his device is irrelevant when you're distributing the product to customers who could be booting with memory as low as 10MB.
iBerry with sliding icons suffers from lag as well, it's been noted many times by a whole host of customers.
This isn't the developers fault necessarily, it's a platform limitation but it's certainly one worth noting and something the developer should probably warn potential customers of before purchasing.
I loaded this on many OS brand new storms and old storms... no lag..( diff leaks from 148 to 230) may not slide smooth sometimes cuz of data but the theme does not lag... We all know how diff phones have diff affects... Im using this theme as my default theme... No problems... I dont have a magic processor? Ill be looking into maybe helping the others with different coding in the updates.. I ALWAYS help my CUSTOMERS...
This is a straight up copycat of Appleberry Dark Spaces from Hastings...his themes are second to none. And are very good on memory if you're using something post 151.
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whoa sexy :D
shame that i haven't enough money on my paypal for it :(
But these themes seem to always slow down my storm to the point it's almost unusable...
...looks nice. If I had a Storm I would have to check this out. Maybe the developer could make a similar theme for the Tour?? Obviously the "sliding" screen would not apply, but I like the permanent icons docked at the bottom and the "extra" screens are nice to have and switch between. How about one for the Tour, maybe utilizing the traditional default icons??
I will be making a tour version that is just like this one :)
Did anyone else notice that the animation showed the storm 2?
Yeah.. I saw that too. Sneaky!
Is there lag with this theme? Ive read where other themes made by this guy has severer lag. I admit it looks nice, but if it doesn't run then what good is it.
The user "tmp3150" goes around and flames on a lot of peoples threads - just look at his thread activity... he never purchased "Clarity" and loves to bad mouth products... Please be aware if you see him on any forum posts his views are not legit...
that being said if lag is an issue I would have more complaints.. and if I had more complaints I would fix to better the theme... I have many users that are very happy with this theme. This theme uses the same technique that iBerry uses for the animation transitions...
I hope everyone can make up their own decision... :)
From a technical standpoint, any theme that animates the motion of 32 icons will probably have lag. Whether the developer noticed it on his device is irrelevant when you're distributing the product to customers who could be booting with memory as low as 10MB.
iBerry with sliding icons suffers from lag as well, it's been noted many times by a whole host of customers.
This isn't the developers fault necessarily, it's a platform limitation but it's certainly one worth noting and something the developer should probably warn potential customers of before purchasing.
I loaded this on many OS brand new storms and old storms... no lag..( diff leaks from 148 to 230) may not slide smooth sometimes cuz of data but the theme does not lag... We all know how diff phones have diff affects... Im using this theme as my default theme... No problems... I dont have a magic processor? Ill be looking into maybe helping the others with different coding in the updates.. I ALWAYS help my CUSTOMERS...
but I just wanted to comment and say that this is how all themes should be displayed on the blog page, with that flash video playing, awesome.
was my idea - glad Kev was nice enough to include the flash and incorporate it in....
This is a straight up copycat of Appleberry Dark Spaces from Hastings...his themes are second to none. And are very good on memory if you're using something post 151.
Mine looks nothing like his - maybe in a technical stand point that he uses multi screens - I have more Icons then he uses..
He probably has a great theme as well but I am not here to compare or judge...
They say if you dont like it change the channel :)
Does this work with .167. If not does anybody know of any themes that work with .167?
I have had nothign but issues since downloading Clarity. It slows down the phone and locks it up on several occassion. I am about to give it up