Friday, June 15, 2007

Make Windows Mobile look like an iPhone

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Whether we admit it or not, we're all at least a little in love with the iPhone. However, a lot fewer of us are $500-in-love with the iPhone. If your clunky old Windows Mobile phone is just sitting around collecting iPhone jealousy dust, you can either scrounge together 500 leafy Sacagaweas, or you can customize your Windows Mobile phone to emulate several of the iPhone's more interesting features, like the iPhone's home screen, flick-scroll contacts, and the fancy slide-to-unlock.

Today I'll highlight a couple of methods for skinning your Windows Mobile phone to look and feel like an iPhone.* Hit the jump to see some videos of the Windows Mobile iPhone's in action and to find out how to achieve the same results.

* NOTE: No, no matter what you do, it still won't be an iPhone, and I agree, you shouldn't try to make an orange into an Apple (har har). But some of the iPhone's features as implemented using the methods described below are, frankly, are either better or more intuitive than the Windows Mobile default, and I'm thrilled to bring even an ounce of that usability to my smartphone.



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