Windows Phone 7 is a beautiful mobile OS precisely because you can’t screw it up. Microsoft created something clean and gorgeous, and no phone company can slather their themed dreck all over it. However, if you’re a masochist, try this!
Themes for Windows Phone 7, a Windows desktop application, kicks all of the mobile OS’ aesthetic virtue squarely in the balls. Pristine, modernist tiles — smeared with a stupid goddamn picture of a grasshopper. Skins take all of the clarity and ultra-legibility of WinPho and rip it off, like live skin torn from your face, as you run around moaning in despair.
Luckily, this is an entirely unofficial piece of software that requires a rooted phone, so don’t blame Microsoft — blame the programmer with his head up his arse who want to offer a lift to the UI dark ages. [Engadget]
Single Malt
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 12:40 PMWP7 a beautiful OS? You lost me right there. It has all the aesthetics a home brand box of cereal. The 4-bit colour palette for the tiles makes it look like someone booted the phone into ‘safe mode’. There’s a choice of 2 whole colours for your background (black or white), and don’t forget the ridiculously oversized fonts and more side scrolling than Mario!
At least someone is trying to breathe life into an OS this is currently about as visually appealing as a hospital ward.
Josh
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 1:31 PMObviously beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
I also think it’s a beautiful OS even if it isn’t one that I would put on my phone I have frequently preferred the layout (with tweaks to the background) on my android phone.
It’s beautiful because it’s ingenious in it’s simplicity. It keeps everything easy to find, fast and uncluttered. Keep in mind that it is a phone and not necessarily a computer for the majority of users and I definitely think it’s a better design than that of any iOS device. But like I said before; eye of the beholder.
Kev
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 5:41 PMRegardless, of what people think look good – it’s 3rd party software. It’s hardly news that some 3rd party developer made a crappy skinning program for windows phone 7. I could understand it being noteworthy if microsoft released poor software for their own devices… but seriously. Are we gonna see rants on all the crappy apps that reskin PC’s aswell?…