iPhone theme sullies Vista's good name

For those with identity crises, great senses of humor, or serious cases of Vista Fever, Spec-Works' VistaPerfection theme for the iPhone brings all the splendors of Windows Vista -- well, the important visual aspects, anyway -- to your pocket in a way that we can safely say Microsoft never intended. If the wow hadn't already started, ladies and gentlemen, it certainly has now.

[Via IntoMobile]

[Fara @ May 20th 2008 2:50PM]

That is wrong on so many levels.

[helloUser @ May 20th 2008 2:53PM]

Yeah, why would anyone buy an iphone in the first place?

[fred @ May 20th 2008 2:53PM]

Nah.

Theming your device to look like another is as old as....well the early 90s.

You have to try it once.

[UKNigel @ May 20th 2008 3:00PM]

Fortunately most people stopped doing it after they realized how bad it really looks. It's just never quite the same as the real thing.

[Vidit Bhargava @ May 20th 2008 3:10PM]

it makes iphone look so cool

[frauhottelmann @ May 20th 2008 3:51PM]

Hm I think my WinMo 6.1 phone looks better. And without an iPhone skin^^

[Phil B. @ May 20th 2008 4:47PM]

I wonder if this means that our iphone's will now suffer from the Blue Screen of Death. :P

[electron @ May 20th 2008 2:51PM]

Dude, that is so cool.....and pretty messed up too

[Dolemite @ May 20th 2008 3:20PM]

Yes, that is called "camp".

And that is why I love this thing. Totally camp, totally awesome.

[electron @ May 20th 2008 3:47PM]

?

[Dolemite @ May 20th 2008 4:42PM]

Sigh.


"Camp is an aesthetic in which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_%28style%29
Camp (style) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Reid @ May 20th 2008 8:27PM]

Definitely pretty cool.

[initialxy @ May 20th 2008 2:53PM]

WOW pretty neat. i almost thought it was a real windows vista.

[Todd @ May 20th 2008 2:53PM]

Replace that Windows icon in the lower left with an egg and you have a winner!

[slarity @ May 20th 2008 2:54PM]

Id download it in a heartbeat if it would give me full access to my iPhone.

[JJV @ May 20th 2008 2:57PM]

Isn't It the other way around? Vista sullies iPhone's name????

[Le Master @ May 20th 2008 3:16PM]

The author of this article was trying to be witty and funny--he failed.

[MeatyPi @ May 20th 2008 3:32PM]

Yes, it seems to be a requirement to work at Engadget "In your posts attempt to be "clever" and "witty", preferably using tired cliches, but NEVER actually succeed in being funny, this is of utmost importance."

[striggity @ May 20th 2008 4:02PM]

I'll never understand those who take the time to insult something that they are not forced to participate in.

[Fara @ May 20th 2008 4:14PM]

@striggity: they're just jealous they didn't think of it first. It's like those who rag one the posts made by engadget saying "this isn't news".

[MeatyPi @ May 20th 2008 4:22PM]

@striggity
I actually like Engadget, i just find the writers to be lame, and they really try too hard sometimes.

@Fara
Oh yes, I'm so jealous of their clever banter, and no it's not the same as the people who say Engadget posts aren't news, duh man it's a tech blog, Stupid comparison.

[striggity @ May 20th 2008 4:41PM]

@ Meaty Pi...

I'm not saying there's anything WRONG with you downing the writers...I just don't understand it. It's a tad oxy-moronic to like a blog but not like it's writers. lol. It's like liking a singer but disliking their entire catalog. But I digress. :-)

[Le Master @ May 20th 2008 5:54PM]

@striggity

Actually, it's the other way around. Like a blog and disliking the writers is akin to liking a band's songs but disliking the members.

[GenBanks @ May 20th 2008 6:44PM]

well I thought it was funny. I like my blogs to be tongue in cheek, even if it's not 'rofl' funny.

[Joe Commisso @ May 20th 2008 2:58PM]

Which version of Boot Camp Mobile is this?

[Dave @ May 20th 2008 2:58PM]

wow!

no, seriuosly, i can't see why anyone would trade this for apple's nice and tidily arranged icons. but maybe that's just me

[helloUser @ May 20th 2008 3:03PM]

those icons look pretty 'nice' and 'tidy' as well.

nothing wrong with vista in terms of appearance.

[Quikboy @ May 21st 2008 12:02AM]

@Dave : Maybe you never noticed this, but WinMo has had "nice" and "tidy" arranged icons. It's called the "Application Launcher". Not on the homescreen, but that's where all the neat programs are.

Apple just used more pretty icons with rounded corners and a glossy theme, and called it "innovation".

[rock99rock @ May 21st 2008 3:54PM]

Well played Quickboy:

Welcome back to PocketPc 2002 :)

[Coy @ May 20th 2008 2:59PM]

Nicely done! You have to appreciate that even if you don't like Vista.

[Pochi @ May 20th 2008 3:00PM]

Why is everything stretched vertically?

[helloUser @ May 20th 2008 3:05PM]

because the iphone's touch screen isnt very accurate. so its difficult to press anything and expect a response you would want.

hence the need for big buttons.

this gets more complicated for the 33% of US Americans who are obese....lol

[Pochi @ May 20th 2008 3:14PM]

Big buttons have nothing to do with vertical distortion...

[Fred @ May 20th 2008 3:16PM]

The iPhone's screen is extremely accurate. The only thing that makes it tough is when lard drips off of my giant American banana fingers onto the screen.

[Kaiser-Machead @ May 20th 2008 4:01PM]

@hello user,

I take it you haven't actually used one. The capacitance display used on the iPhone is actually rather good, and I personally find it way better than the run-of-the-mill pressure sensitive, stylus-dependent displays that most phones still ship with. That said, this is a hacked up skin, so this has no bearing on the accuracy of the display.

[IT-Accountant @ May 20th 2008 3:02PM]

Actually, that's pretty cool. People (myself included) are always trying to make Palm OS and Windows Mobile look like the Iphone OSX, it's kinda funny to see someone doing it the other way 'round.

[Guillermo @ May 20th 2008 3:07PM]

OH NO!!!!! Can someone do this to his own iPhone?? Please!!!

[Dan @ May 20th 2008 3:07PM]

Now this is what Windows Mobile should look like!

[w00t @ May 20th 2008 3:40PM]

You've got a point there!
This looks way more modern that windows mobile 6.1, and if the rest of the interface was consistent it'd be great!

WinMo 7 Maybe?

Not a chance since MS loves to recycle, but I don't doubt for a second they could produce something great if they ditched the legacy crap and started from scratch - something similar to the OS9 --> OSX transition!

[h8rain @ May 20th 2008 4:55PM]

I have to agree.

It's actually ironic that a theme for the *Apple* iPhone looks better than the actual Windows Mobile product.

[d840 @ May 21st 2008 12:24PM]

@w00t:

Microsoft ditched a bunch of backwards-compatibility with the xp-->vista transition and look how pissed everyone got about that!

[dBs @ May 20th 2008 3:10PM]

FINALLY! A reason to buy the iPhone!

[Vidit Bhargava @ May 20th 2008 3:11PM]

saw this on another site...the locked screen of the iphone looked so sexy with this theme.

[Fred @ May 20th 2008 3:13PM]

I'm thinking Vista would have to have a good name in the first place for it to be sullied?

[Fletch7 @ May 20th 2008 3:16PM]

This gives me a glimmer of hope that one day the windows theme on my windows media device will look as nice as the windows theme on the iphone.

[Quix @ May 20th 2008 3:17PM]

And 10,000 Redmondites erupt with joy at the prospect of finally (maybe) being able to get away with buying an iPhone and dumping their WinMo turds.

[Haro! @ May 20th 2008 3:17PM]

I think I just threw up in my mouth a little.

[retro77 @ May 20th 2008 3:40PM]

Ya its hard to tell with all that Apple crap rolling around there all the time.

[Pradster @ May 20th 2008 3:18PM]

You know what, that looks good!

[Derek Bradley @ May 20th 2008 3:23PM]

I wasn't aware there was a way to make the iphone worse, guess i was wrong...