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iPhone Lust Comes to Other Phones

Thursday, January 25th, 2007 at 8:40 AM - by

To totally munge an old saying: Interface hacking is the sincerest form of flattery. For some, the six-ish month wait for the iPhone is just too much, so the iPhone interface hacking flattery has begun.

mobile magazine found an interface hack for the T-Mobile SideKick III. It doesn't make the SideKick function like an iPhone, but it does at least offer a basic resemblance to the icons Apple used for its interface. You can see the SideKick iPhone theme at the sk3themes Web site.


An iPhone look for the SideKick. Sort of.

Palm Treo users can get the iPhone look, too, thanks to iPhony - If you can find it, that is. This interface hack was removed from the Brighthand Web site after Apple's legal team said it had to go.

Apple isn't looking on iPhone interface hacks as compliments to its innovative design - It is actively hunting down sites that are hosting the files. Earlier this month, the MoDaCo Web site received a letter from Apple stating that a link to an iPhone hack for Windows smartphones needed to be removed.

The aggressive stance Apple has taken on protecting its iPhone interface means that the hacks smartphone users are hunting for will last only until the host sites get a letter from Cupertino.

[Image courtesy of sk3Themes]

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Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:33 pm

Methinks Apple heard the thundering hooves of competition and pre-released the iPhone 6 months early. But then on the antisocial scale, the iPod (and similar) rank only second -- behind the cell phone! These 2 are the most obnoxious devices ever created by humans. Humbug.

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Thu Jan 25, 2007 1:08 pm

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Methinks Apple heard the thundering hooves of competition and pre-released the iPhone 6 months early.

Don't think so, the FCC "outing" the phone before it can be demoed does make to most sense. Besides, themes and hacks are hardly competition. It's about functionality and none of these items are replacing that. The only thing I've seen come close to the iPhone is the Prada/LG release but that won't get to N. America till 2008 and even that doesn't look as feature packed as apple's product AND it's more expensive. I gues we'll see how things stand in 6 months ( or as my widget says, 140 min : 22h : 51m : 33 sec)

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Thu Jan 25, 2007 6:15 pm

Websnap wrote:
Guest wrote:
Methinks Apple heard the thundering hooves of competition and pre-released the iPhone 6 months early.

Don't think so, the FCC "outing" the phone before it can be demoed

The FCC doesn't "out" anything. Get serious. The FCC doesn't even see it. A test lab sees the product and they sign confidentiallity agreements all the time. Every Macintosh gets tested for FCC compliance. You don't see that testing outing the new models do you?

You didn't hear about the Razor from the FCC did you?

c'mon, the FCC as a leaker argument is crap.

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Fri Jan 26, 2007 1:35 pm

Guest wrote:
Websnap wrote:
Guest wrote:
Methinks Apple heard the thundering hooves of competition and pre-released the iPhone 6 months early.

Don't think so, the FCC "outing" the phone before it can be demoed

The FCC doesn't "out" anything. Get serious. The FCC doesn't even see it. A test lab sees the product and they sign confidentiallity agreements all the time. Every Macintosh gets tested for FCC compliance. You don't see that testing outing the new models do you?

You didn't hear about the Razor from the FCC did you?

c'mon, the FCC as a leaker argument is crap.

You're very wrong about that, actually. Go over to the hardcore cellphone community, at sites like PhoneScoop or MobileBurn- they post on leaked FCC approval photos and specs of upcoming phones pretty frequently, actually.

You sir, are obviously not a true cellphone geek.

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