Video: New HelixLauncher 2 Coming Soon.

[kellex]

Check out the beta we just received of the new HelixLauncher2 which should be coming out for the stock 2.1 update soon...

[video=youtube;P3JxcWJakio]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3JxcWJakio]YouTube - HelixLauncher 2 Beta for the Motorola DROID[/video]

And if you want to check out the beta, we've got a link to Faruq's donate page which will give you access. After donating of course.

http://www.droid-life.com/2010/04/10/video-new-helixlauncher-2-in-action/

 

[natediddy1120]

Sweet.... than kellex for sharing a great find!!

 

[huskur]

Very nice. Maybe blackdroid will already have this for his V10

 

[Telerding]

I happily donated and tried to download version 1.3Beta. I got an error message on the droid that said "Cannot download. The content is not supported on this phone."

I am running DroidMod and have not had this problem before.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

 

[J*Bishop]

very nice!!!! should i uninstall helix 1??

 

[JCo352]

Lovin this new helix launcher

 

[kellex]

I happily donated and tried to download version 1.3Beta. I got an error message on the droid that said "Cannot download. The content is not supported on this phone."

I am running DroidMod and have not had this problem before.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance

The version in the video is Helix2 V.07Beta. You also need to be on 2.1.

 

[JCo352]

Is it recommended to remove everything off of Helix1, if I'm going to be using helix2? I already did it, but I'm just wondering if it matters.

 

[brando56894]

Not bad, I like the ability to hide the notification bar.

 

[kappadappa]

This is the url for Helix versions: Donators' Repo » Home

I was able to download Helix 2 v7 beta2 for free there. I donated after I got it working on UD9.8.

 

[DIRTYDOGG]

just curious of what the reason would be to jump from Helix to helix2 ?

I know its a noob question but some one had to ask it lol

Thanks for the replys

 

[kappadappa]

For me, the reason is that I love the way it switches from screen to screen. I don't love the 3d launcher, but if I'm on the 7th screen ( all the way to the right) and I double-tap to bring up previews and then select the 1st screen (all the way to the left) it snaps to that screen very quickly, without the laggy animation of the original Helix.

Optimally, I would LOVE to have that snappy-ness of Helix 2 home screens along with the fast scrolling of the non-3D original Helix app drawer. But, with 7 home screens, I don't need to use the app drawer much.

 

[Threepio]

Cool. i enjoy helix launcher 1. And will look forward to putting helix 2 on there soon.

 

[JMU_Droid]

There doesn't seem to be much of a difference from Helix1. The most obvious is the reworked shortcut bar and the 3d app drawer (which is a nice design, but it scrolls slower). So far, Helix2 is working fine on my phone.

Here's the only complaint I have so far. I like being able to hide the status bar, but I wish there was a quicker way to bring it back aside from going back into settings and changing it. That was one thing I liked about Home++.

 

[fdkatz]

So what is the advantage of HL2 over HL1? The multiple screens are a treat.