Now this is patently silly. And yet curiously cute and quirky at the same time. WPEmu puts an obviously fake and yet partly working Windows Phone front end onto a Symbian device, as shown below. Part novelty, part attempted replacement front end, you'll have to fork out a quid or so to play with WPEmu at all - which is why you may want to just browse through the screenshot gallery below instead!

The opening scrolling set of tiles is convincing enough - smooth and with most of the tiles you'd expect to see on a Windows Phone. Not everything is as it seems though. Although 'Phone' has a functioning dialler and 'Messaging' links through to Symbian Messaging, 'Profile' sneakily links to Symbian Profiles, rather than a person-centric set of data! 'Store' and 'Web' are obvious shortcuts to the original Symbian applications, of course.

Yes, there's a full, fake Windows Phone lock screen - at least the date and time are right! Disappointingly, the applications list is largely empty - I'd have expected a full scrolling list of the Symbian apps available at least.

The 'People' hub shown at the top, complete with thumbnails of people you don't know(!) links, as do several of the WPEmu tiles to groupings of suitable applications, irrespective of whether you've got these installed on your Symbian phone. Two of these are shown above - 'phonebook' is a shortcut to the normal Symbian Contacts application.

WPEmu can be found here in the Nokia Store, currently priced at £1.50, should you feel the urge.... Personally, this is a novelty only, I can't imagine using it in real life!