By Yash Maheshwari on August 30th, 2009

Theme Highlight : Fissure by tehkSeven Studios

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