iPhone graced with HTC's Sense UI theme, beauty ensues

Sure, Taiwanese HTC Magic owners might be happy today, being promised Hero's Sense UI via official channels, but thanks to the hard work from Redmond Pie deviantART member Justflikwalk, this very stylish skin has jumped species and landed on the iPhone. A jailbreak is required, but once past that hurdle, you'll get a new home page with the ever-so-classy time and weather widget -- which isn't always 73 degrees and sunny, we might add -- a quick launcher for apps / contacts, and of course some modified icons. All pertinent files for the theme and step-by-step instructions are available via the read. Care to gaze upon the awesomeness using the power of moving pictures? Video after the break.

[Thanks, David]


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[CJ100570 Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:45PM]

Awesome!

[saturnblackhole Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:56PM]

lol it looks like he's using windows 7 even before it comes out.

[CJ100570 Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:58PM]

I use Ubuntu as my daily OS but I've been running Windows 7 on a spare hard drive and it's pretty nice.

[loocas Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:01PM]

So?

[monkey with glasses Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:01PM]

+1 for iphone in my book, i hated the look of the previous UI



oh wait...-2 for having to jailbreak phone to make it better.

[Spar13 Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:01PM]

Other then the even more proof of battery life. He turns it on and it's at like 10%!

[saturnblackhole Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:02PM]

i not bashing windows i just pointed that out to state that no matter how hard microsoft tries is OS always get pirated.

that iphone theme looks nice also. i don't no why apple doesn't support widgets on its phone but implements them on there computers.

[aardWolf Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:02PM]

You do know ANYONE can use Windows 7 before it comes out, right? Like here...
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/get/download.aspx

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:04PM]

jay jay:

Heard of the Windows 7 RC? It's free. It's legal.

[jon Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:08PM]

@jay jay

It's not like the beta has been available since what, February?

And, before anyone says it, removing the watermark in the desktop isn't that hard.

[One Love Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:08PM]

Engadget, I think the "Highest Ranked" code has bug:

http://www.engadget.com/2009/08/16/wales-produces-exceptionally-graphic-educational-film-about-the/2#comments

[MarnBeast Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:33PM]

I've been using windows 7 RC for months, it's really easy to install. No watermark either. If anyone wants to try 7 before buying it, I'd recommend it.

[Switchbitch Posted Aug 17th 2009 10:02PM]

I have 4 words.

YOU
CAN'T
POLISH
SHIT.

Anyway, carry on.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 18th 2009 4:57AM]

@switchbitch:

You're absolutely right. Sense UI doesn't belong on the iphone.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 18th 2009 1:42PM]

He's my friend and class fellow and is using Windows 7 before release because he's an MSDN Premium member like I am. That's Windows 7 RTM btw, NOT Windows 7 RC.

[igeekone Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:47PM]

That looks perfect. Please Apple please!

[CJ100570 Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:48PM]

Yeah, you'd have an easier time convincing them to stop censoring apps. Lol.

[patsy Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:53PM]

$kevinm: Hmm, did you mean "Please, Apple, please!" or "Please Apple, please!" ? Because those two are quite different, you know!

[blitzkrieg Posted Aug 17th 2009 7:29PM]

For the first time, iPhone users do not believe that they have the best UI. This effort by Redmond Pie proves it.

[Bkm72 Posted Aug 17th 2009 8:21PM]

As an iPhone owner since 1st gen, all I have to say is ..........REALLY?
Backgrounds do what? Show me a pic when I hit the home button?

......Really? I cant have my own background?

Jerks.

[One Love Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:50PM]

LOLWHAT?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:51PM]

That does look really good. It sucks having to jailbreak your iPhone to enjoy features like this.

[Hexydes Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:53PM]

What good is an iPhone if it isn't jailbroken?

[One Love Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:00PM]

Maybe with the next version of the iphone will be open and allow you to install whatever you want. :)

[Khris Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:04PM]

Cha! Any monkeys might fly outta my butt!

[monkey with glasses Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:04PM]

@OneLove

OneLove has more chances.

[monkey with glasses Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:18PM]

@ProfessorDex

"Keep your ignorant and useless comments to yourself." Take your own advice doc.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:52PM]

that looks pimp

[jonbruc Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:52PM]

I've been good about not jailbreaking my iphone, but that is tempting.

[jellotime91 Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:59PM]

Trust me, when you actually install a theme like this, It's not worth it. The lack of consistency and continuity ruins the whole effect of the theme. The only reasons I jailbroke my iPhone and the reasons I will STAY jailbroken are QuickReply, qTweeter, and SBSettings.

[hondamx525 Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:52PM]

is this the first real imitation of another phone on the iphone?

sweet.

[jellotime91 Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:01PM]

Nope. check out the Palm Prefection theme. It actually is a little more consistent than this one. I used it but I had a problem with the Wifi/signal indicator getting in the way of the "launcher" text and it eventually made me uninstall the theme because it pissed me off so much.

[newjaruz Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:53PM]

LOL... Blame apple for making it more difficult with its app store rules and regulations. I guess the tides are turning. Every phone at one point or another found ways to emulate or imitate parts of the iphone UI and looks...but now it seems iphone is doing the imitation....

[Peter F Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:55PM]

Its been so long, the iPhones UI is stale and people are bored. It is just a bunch of icons in a grid. Sure it was better than other things at the time, but I bet even Apple will move back to a useful home screen that gives information.

[newjaruz Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:03PM]

Yeah... by no means am I putting them down but if you look at home screen screenshots from 1.0, 2.0, and now 3.0 on the iPhone there is no difference ... and in this regard they have failed to innovate. It is now starting to look very bland when compared some of the competition
so I have to agree with you Peter... customizable home screens and widgets are the future of smart phones... as well as multi-tasking which is another hurdle apple has to get over with iPhone.

[EpsilonNot Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:05PM]

The iPhone's homescreen/launcher always reminded me of the Palm OS homescreen/launcher...

Hell, even the "dock" of fixed icons reminds me of the physical buttons one usually sees underneath the screen on a Palm OS device.

[jonbruc Posted Aug 17th 2009 4:59PM]

I don't know if i'd use the big clock, but I love the at-a-glance weather, and I could use a calendar page listing today's events...

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2009 7:23PM]

That's what she sai...o wait I misread ur comment!

[phillyguerrilla Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:00PM]

iphones are so good they're ripping off htc ui's LMAO

[NaeemTHM Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:15PM]

*lol* This was fan made *endlolcommunique*

[Khris Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:03PM]

Keep your ignorant and useless comments to yourself.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 18th 2009 8:45AM]

Thats why we're on the internet, to keep our ignorant comments to ourselves.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:05PM]

A clumsy hack, at best -- see all the 'empty' icons wiggling on top of the clock as het rearranges the lower three icons.
The way I see it: If life hands you an Apple, drink the applejuice.
"Basically" he would have been better off buying a real Hero.

[dman Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:23PM]

Three words. iTunes app store. That's why he's better off with an applephone.

[Sublimewulf Posted Aug 21st 2009 3:52AM]

One word.... Cydia! O.O

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:05PM]

ProfessorDex:
Keep your ignorant and useless comments to yourself.

[MarkAnderson Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:06PM]

His ignorant and useless yet highly ranked comments?

[Ken J Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:06PM]

it says 74° :p

[MEAT Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:06PM]

Gentlemen(?), commence the lawsuits.

[NaeemTHM Posted Aug 17th 2009 5:12PM]

How? This isn't exactly officially officially sanctioned by Apple.