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

By: Artie Merschman

Artie Merschman — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:16:06 +0000

amazing

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.

By: Wolfmore

Wolfmore — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:26:24 +0000

No way!... but I do want it to look more like the leopard OSX desktop. I think this is how Apple should have made the iPhone to look by default: http://s52.photobucket.com/albums/g22/dspiry/?action=view&current=252c1af3.jpg&evt=usermediashare

Leopard background with reflective dock & stacks at the bottom right. Twit me under Wolfmore.

By: thekevinmonster

thekevinmonster — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:15:28 +0000

The one thing I really would like is a native thing like intelliscreen. Being reminded of sms's, email, and my calendar when I unlock the device is very useful. Oddly enough, I never really used the Today screen for anything on my Windows Mobile phone.... I usually had something like MobileShell installed and used that instead! Now that I have an iPhone, I want a Today screen.

I'd also like a shortcut to a connection manager in the native OS, so I don't have to jailbreak to get it.

By: LDC_Mobile

LDC_Mobile — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 19:02:20 +0000

I'd like the ability to customize it, but I understand why Apple keeps it simple, b/c if you want only one button on a phone then it might make sense to not offer too much customization

By: Daje

Daje — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:59:43 +0000

This looks nice I like the windows mobile one.

By: cherryhead25

cherryhead25 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:54:54 +0000

I had winterboard and tried out the BB themes and a cool alien battery screen but winterboard slowed my phone down too much. It is cool to theme but not at the expense of my games.

By: sting7k

sting7k — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:24:59 +0000

If I wanted my iPhone to look like WinMo or BB then there is a pretty easy solution to that problem, by a WinMo or BB device. I think just speaks that WinMo and BB users are super jealous but will never admit it or that they secretly DO with they had iPhones instead.

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:20:29 +0000

I really like that blackberry look on the i-phone and sometimes doing something like that is fairly unique around friends who aren't internet geeks, but its a tad bit awkward to do it.

By: Miedwards72

Miedwards72 — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:56:09 +0000

I have an iphone cause I love the iPhone. Why change it to look like an inferior phone.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:53:03 +0000

If my iPhone resembled Windows or BlackBerry in any way, I'd shoot myself.

By: Sal

Sal — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:28:00 +0000

I would like the ability to have a customizable today screen.

By: rebo

rebo — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:14:13 +0000

For me, the "Slide to unlock" is one feature of the iPhone I would like to disable. it's a pain, as my iPhone is not typically in a situation where it will be turned on accidentally.

By: impaler

impaler — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:57:04 +0000

Eww...the whole reason I have my iPhone is to GET AWAY from those two boring platforms!

By: OmariJames

OmariJames — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:13:00 +0000

I had a blackjack 2 with 6.1 for a very short while. Even though I loved the new UI , I still envied the UI of the iPhone.

I don't know about 6.5 , I would have to see it for my self but even then I don't think I would change it.

By: Ant

Ant — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:47:25 +0000

I like the general look and style of the iphone's ui although I wouldn't mind folders so I can tidy up some of my apps.

And I'd prefer it if Notes and the, soon to be released, Voice Memo app were combined to save some space.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:43:25 +0000

You asked the question. The answer is NO!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:34:24 +0000

@iPhone Boston If you are jailbroken, there is a theme you can apply with Winterboard that will skin the keyboard to look identical to the Storm's.

By: iPhone Boston

iPhone Boston — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:12:41 +0000

For me a whole different look is not needed on the iPhone. what I would like.. is the storms keyboard skin. For some reason I just really like the way it looks. I wish the keyboard on the iPhone wasn't a dull gray that it is; I guess i just like higher contrast, like when the keyboard comes up asking for your itunes password, its a little darker and looks better.