New theme, new personality, more fun!

Published by Rafe Blandford at 7:09 UTC, October 10th 2007

What better way to give your smartphone a new personality and a new lease of life? Lavish a gorgeous new theme on it - go on, you know you want to, and it won't cost you a penny! In this feature, Steve investigates the idea of themes for S60 and UIQ, notes some things to watch out for and suggests the best places from which to download them.

"Unless you're an utter smartphone virgin, you'll be well aware of the concept of 'themes'. Don't confuse these with a simple 'wallpaper', a personal image (e.g. your friend or pet) that can be displayed on your phone's standby screen. A theme is a consistent set of graphics, encompassing wallpaper, title bar/dialog element replacements, status icons and sometimes even replacement application icons. And, once installed, most applications will use some or all of these new graphics. The end result is a smartphone that looks totally different and will be, for a while at least, graphically fresh and exciting.

A full theme for S60 3rd Edition, including replacement icons A full theme for S60 3rd Edition, including replacement icons A full theme for S60 3rd Edition, including replacement icons

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Platforms: Series 60, UIQ, General, N-Gage, S60 3rd Edition, UIQ 3

Categories: Software, Miscellaneous, Editorial Thoughts

News Discussion

Izzard
That theme at the top of the article is nice. Where can we get that one? :)
Ashlar
How come the S60 themes look a lot better than those for Symbian? And there's a lot of variety as well!

Love the S60 themes shown here. Wish UIQ would create more more and more.
malerocks
For free themes I would suggest zedge.com. Good themes available there.
slitchfield
Izzard: the theme Day without Rain is from PiZero, see further down in the article for a link.
Guess Who
You were succeeded to select the crappiest themes to illustrate the article.

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