Comments on: Do You Want Your iPhone to Look Like a Windows Phone or BlackBerry?

By: imuggle

imuggle — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:07:16 +0000

Blasphemy. I like my iPhone to look like….an iPhone! : )

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 14:25:29 +0000

Apple doesn’t want people having their own themes because they don’t want their product looking like ghetto trash cr@p to others who may be thinking of buying. It’s modern and sleek the way it is. Why do people want their icons hidden within busy grass backgrounds and photos of their children spitting up?

By: Joseph

Joseph — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:08:00 +0000

No no no noooooo.

By: takdog

takdog — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 03:45:13 +0000

my blackberry 8830 looks like a Blackberry 8830………..and I’m STOKED that it does.(i-phone is a wank:)

By: Fr8nkE

Fr8nkE — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 01:03:58 +0000

Wished apple would just have given users of the iPhone the ability to change the look freely without having to jailbreak it. I’m with Crack and have my phone looking like OS X which to me is better than the stale standard look. How many users have different cases for their iPhone? Well, just like changing cases depending on how u feel, I like to change the look of the iPhone UI.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:05:24 +0000

Actually I would be interested in a Touch FLO theme for my 3G. There’s been a couple of efforts but they are incomplete and no work being done on them.

By: crack

crack — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:20:48 +0000

"But here’s the thing, if you’re running a Windows Phone or a BlackBerry, why would you want it to look or behave more like an iPhone?"

Look: Because Apple is good at making things look pretty.

Behave: I don't.

Disclosure: I run a BlackBerry Storm. Though I actually have moved beyond the point of wanting it to look like an iPhone now, because I realized I can make it look like OS X instead, which is even prettier.

By: Eric S. Mueller

Eric S. Mueller — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:18:25 +0000

I just switched to the iPhone 2 1/2 weeks ago after years of running Windows Mobile. I'm about through with it. The only thing I miss about Windows Mobile is a centralized Today screen where I can get a glance of everything going on all at once. I wouldn't even need a Today screen, just an app that shows me all my status indicators (email, text, calls, voicemail, appointments, tasks, etc).

I tried to make my last two WinMo devices look like an iPhone, but both had square screens and none of the iPhone skins worked right on them. Plus, they made an unstable device more unstable.

I'm running an iPhone skin on my work-issued BlackBerry 7130e. I like the way it looks better than the BlackBerry themes I could find.

I know the iPhone is missing a few things found in other smartphones, but to be honest, I don't miss them much. I just like not having to reboot it all the time like my Samsung Epix. I also like that none of the features on the phone feel like an afterthought. Everything is pretty well designed.

By: frog

frog — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 20:24:23 +0000

If I woke up and my iPhone looked like Windows Mobile – I’d bin it, and go and buy an iPhone :/

By: Bob G

Bob G — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:46:31 +0000

Some of us want it all. We want the beautiful and intuitive GUI of the iPhone, but we also want a fully functional smart phone. Even when iPhone 3 comes out this summer, it will still only do about 80% of the things that BlackBerry, WinMo, and Palm could do 5 years ago.