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Theme Highlight – Fring Theme by Fring

Yash Maheshwari — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:32:20 +0000

This week’s theme highlight is a light & bright colored fun theme by the developers of Fring, a Multi-Service IM app. If you, like me, become bored of the dark & solid color themes you use most of the times, this theme will definitely lighten you up. A highly recommended theme, which looks great on Touch phones & well as the S60v3 Non-Touch phones. Weighing at just about a 100kb, the theme is even light on resources & uses the default icon set of your phone.

Screenshots -

Touchscreen Phones

Non Touch Screen (S60v3)

Download : Fring Theme

Thanks to @sheridan01 for the N97 screenshots.

Reminder – If you are a developer or know any developer who develops for Ovi or Symbian and publish the content on Ovi Store, ask them to take the Ovi Developers Survey 2009.

Theme Preview : Evo (Bold) by Tehkseven Studios

Yash Maheshwari — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:20:27 +0000

After the impressive Fissure & Shi themes, Tehk from Tehkseven Studios has been working on his next featured theme, Evo. We have got hold of the Evo (Bold) version for you. This theme should be available for purchase from their website in a few days time. In the meantime, enjoy these screenshots of the theme.

Nokia N85 – S60v3 FP2

S60v5 – Touch Screen Phones

Theme Highlight : Fissure by tehkSeven Studios

Yash Maheshwari — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 23:42:19 +0000

One of the features which should have set the Ovi Store apart from the other stores is the inclusion of Personalisation content such as Themes, Wallpapers & Ringtones along with Audio & Video content in the store itself. But what the people behind the store don’t seem to be understanding is that merely adding support or making provision for such content is not enough. They need to make it easier for artists & developers to get their content published and made available at the store. At present, the high cost of getting the content published to the store is the biggest barrier stopping the artists from getting their theme published to the store.

Along with the cost of entry, to get themes published to the store, one has to be a “Premium Publisher”. I do not know what the criteria or requirements to become a “Premium Publisher” are, but I will certainly look into it.

Due to these shortcomings, there are very few themes available on the Ovi Store currently, with only 3 out of those being free themes.

But that does not mean S60 users do not have good themes available. There are a lot of really talented artists out there creating stunning themes. Most of these themes are free for use, but a few of them are premium themes, costing a few dollars. Starting today, we shall highlight a theme every week at our site. The theme could be a premium theme or even a free theme, but all the themes will be worth having on your phone.

The first theme to get highlighted is a premium theme by tehkSeven Studios called Fissure.

Fissure by tehkSeven Studios

Fissure is a dark theme with various shades of angled rectangular shapes that play with the concept of depth of dimension of the background wallpaper.

This theme comes in various editions – There are different editions for S60v3 N series & E series phones as well as a separate edition for S60v5 phones. Each edition is available with either the default icon pack of the phone or tehkSeven Studios’ custom Seven icon pack.

You can buy the default icon pack edition for €1.00 or the seven icon pack editions for €2.00. Or if you would like to buy the complete theme pack, it could be yours for €5.00.

S60v5 users would definitely want to try this theme out as I have used it on the Nokia N97, and can say that it looked absolutely stunning on the large screen.

Here are the screenshots of this masterpiece from tehkSeven Studios, which if you wish to purchase, you can do so from this page – Fissure.

Screenshots

Nokia E71

Nokia N85

Nokia 5800

Ovi Store’s first free themes : Beautiful works of Art by Carrie Chau

Yash Maheshwari — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:41:17 +0000

One of my biggest gripes with the Ovi Store has been the absolute dearth of free content in the personalisation section, which is but natural, given the cost of getting your content published in the store.

Finally, the store received it first free themes with illustrations by Carrie Chau released under the Wun Ying collection.

1. Theme: Dancing Queen-Elephant

2. Theme: Dancing Queen-Butterfly

3. Theme: Dancing Queen-Moon

All the 3 themes look really pretty on the phone. The bright and vibrant colors come out especially well on the OLED screen of the N85, which should be the same for N86 too. Users of both these phones should definitely give these themes a try.

I came across another nicety of the Ovi Store client while installing these themes. Once a theme has been downloaded and isntalled by the client, it gives you an option to set the theme as the active theme from the client itself.

Get the themes -

Theme: Dancing Queen-Elephant

Theme: Dancing Queen-Butterfly

Theme: Dancing Queen-Moon

Screenshots of Flashion Theme by ustwo

Payam Dastmalchi — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 20:04:25 +0000

If you’ve been looking for a theme that stands out and is “cool” and “refreshing”, then I suggest you download the Flashion Theme from the Ovi store. The theme which is designed by ustwo studio is 0.035 MB to download and will cost you $1.99 which is cheaper than most of the other themes out there.

More about ustwo studio:

ustwo studio which sells itself as the “studio of dreams”, is a creative design agency based out of London. They specialize in graphical user interface designs and create digital contents for mobile, TV and the web. In a brief email conversation with Matt Pollitt ( Twitter @mattpolls) , Mobile UI designer for ustwo, he stats they “have spent the last 4 years or so making GUI for one of the major handset manufactures, as well as our own projects over a number of different platforms , as well as consumer electronics“.

ustwo currently has another themes available in the Ovi store (search for Grid theme) and plan to release the third theme labeled “Cosmos” soon.

Exclusive look at the upcoming Shi theme from Tehk7

Payam Dastmalchi — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:27:35 +0000

I woke up this morning to a new theme in my inbox by Tehkseven and I was excited to have it installed on my phone. The new theme which is titled “Shi” encompasses a concept of darkness and distortion. The dark red color used in the theme is very deep and rich and makes a perfect theme for S60 devices such as Nokia 5800. I also think the color of red looks very classy on black phones.

Included in the package is the “Shi” theme seven icons for the 3rd edition, E series and 5th edition. If you’ve been following tehk7 on Twitter, you maybe aware that the release of this theme was delayed few weeks because of known issue with Nokia’s Carbide theming program. Since then Nokia has fixed the problem and Tehk expects to have the theme released on Friday July 24.

You can learn more about this theme and pricing options here.

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