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Hip Up Your Symbian Homescreen & Menu With HipLogic

By Dotsisx on January 27, 2010

Lately, there has been a buzz of applications that aim to modify the Symbian Homescreen, by adding social media aspects, news and weather, like vHome and Flyscreen. The latest such discovery to fall under our radar is HipLogic.

When launched, HipLogic brings a full new UI to Symbian, with the regular date, battery and reception notifiers, as well as Search, Widgets, Notifications, a new Menu and a Dialer. Included widgets are WeatherBug, Twitter, Facebook, Clock and Finance, though you can only choose to display one at a time on the homescreen, which is silly on S60 5th Edition devices and leaves the screen almost empty. Search engines are Google, Wikipedia, Yelp and Yahoo! and are easily accessed from the top of the homescreen. As for the Dialer, it includes your favorite Contacts, Call log, Messages, VoiceMail and a list of your contacts, with the option to type in any number and call or message them.


HipLogic also includes a full new Menu layout, with some bundled applications, like WeatherBug, Finance, Twitter, Facebook, Sky Sports, SkyNews, Times, MTV UK, and more, as well as an RSS Reader. The Twitter and Facebook functionality are rather limited compared to standalone offers, but they could be enough for the casual user. As for the different other news apps, they work really well and let you choose what category to cover, as well as send notifications to your homescreen when something new is published, a feature that I’m totally loving!





There’s also a bundled App Store where you can download more applications, like Nimbuzz or a custom Disney application. The Settings area lets you control HipLogic’s connectivity options, alerts, and other aspects of it.

The Menu layout of HipLogic is also fully customizable, and supports transition effects. You can add icons to any of your other 3rd-party applications, as well as remove some of the existing ones if you want.


You can watch a demo of HipLogic running on a Nokia E71x to view the different features in action:


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HipLogic is free for you to get, so head over to m.hiplogic.com to download it from your phone. It works on S60 3rd Edition as well as Symbian^1 touchscreen phones, and supports either a landscape or a portrait orientation.

I’ve been running HipLogic for a few hours both on the Nokia E72 and the X6, and find it has amazing potential. It’s a bit slow and sometimes needs to reset due to low resources, but the UI is beautiful and refreshing. If these small issues were fixed, and the homescreen got multiple widget support, this could be a real killer software.

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Dotsisx, aka Rita El Khoury, joined Symbian-Guru.com in September of 2007, and has been writing awesome content ever since. Rita often explores the normal user aspect of Symbian-powered devices, and offers in-depth thoughts on various topics. You can follow Dotsisx on Twitter at @Khouryrt

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  • http://www.mobileitalia.it/2010/01/hiplogic-una-nuova-home-per-i-dispositivi-symbian/ HipLogic: una nuova home per i dispositivi Symbian – Applicazioni Symbian 3° Edizione –  » MobileItalia.it – Software, applicazioni, temi e news da tutto il mondo della telefonia mobile e non solo…

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  • mbrett

    My only issue real issue with HipLogic is it's enforced load on the C: drive for N97 users. Does this mean that any added apps you install for it also only install on the C: drive. Who knows maybe v21 FW will change all this tomorrow and make the C: drive suddenly grow and make these issues go away. That would be nice.

  • Rohan

    Nice… Installing on my E71x right now..

  • Rohan

    Weird.. It says on m.hiplogic.com that my phone, an E71x is not supported.
    Downloaded the installation via the pc website. Google chrome and Opera dont seem to be supported.

  • http://iUnlock.com/ Adam@iUnlock

    Hiplogic is a rather nice concept but it needs a lot of work. In just fifteen minutes of playing around with it I have found it to be way too frustrating and slow to use. This is not a resources issue. I rebooted after installing it and I have 175MB of free RAM. Yet still it is occasionally zippy, often slow, and sometimes it locks up for 10-15 seconds and you just need to wait.

    My biggest complaint is anything that requires use of the onscreen keyboard. It already takes a while to load, but once you think it is ready to use and you start typing, you realize you just made a HUGE mistake. Half the time if you start typing letters on the alphanumeric keypad “too early,” they come up as numbers instead. A few times I have also had a button get “stuck” so that the phone kept typing a long string of 4's (when I thought I was typing G) and wouldn't stop until I quit the program. On the few occasions when the keypad worked perfectly and I hit the checkmark to close it, Hiplogic took a few extra seconds to load what I had written into the text box.

    I realize that these issues are likely the result of a lack of testing for the i8910, as many S60 developers don't bother testing for anything but Nokia. That is understandable. I really wanted to like Hiplogic, but in its current incarnation I could not possibly use it.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com khouryrt

    I had the slow speed issue on the X6 too, so it's definitely not a processor or RAM thing, it's the app itself that needs a ton of time to load something. But I didn't have any of the keyboard problems, so it's probably what u said: i8910-related.
    What I like abt it is the notifications system for Twitter/FB/RSS/other news apps, and the widgets system. It cld easily replace a good part of the UI if the speed/stability issues were fixed and multiple widgets supported.

  • http://www.symbian-guru.com khouryrt

    I had the slow speed issue on the X6 too, so it's definitely not a processor or RAM thing, it's the app itself that needs a ton of time to load something. But I didn't have any of the keyboard problems, so it's probably what u said: i8910-related.
    What I like abt it is the notifications system for Twitter/FB/RSS/other news apps, and the widgets system. It cld easily replace a good part of the UI if the speed/stability issues were fixed and multiple widgets supported.

  • thewinchesterau

    Thanks for mentioning the enforced C install issue for the N97. I was liking the idea of this app until I read your comment – will give it a miss for the moment.

  • rob25

    thanks for your comments and experiences. saw its potential too and was ready to go.. but i searched first several blogs on ppl who had experience installing it. was just too cautious about having it as i did a hard reset on my cp last weekend (home screen was screwing).. hope they fix this problem (i.e., memory issues, slow app as a whole)..

  • Le_PoUnT

    I just try it on 5800, and I noticed that my contact list is not displayed in full.
    Apart from that no problems preventing the use of the program. Messaging and music player are not recognized in the applications menu, but we can add them manually.
    It also lacks the ability to organize the applications menu … and customizable wallpapers (because it's really ugly :( )

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