Pocket PC gets iPhone makeover
While skins to make your Pocket PC look like a little more like the iPhone are nothing new, they've got nothing on this full-on interface change an enterprising programmer created for his E-TEN M600 smartphone. Unfortunately, it doesn't do much to pretty up the exterior of the device, but it does manage to successfully emulate some of the iPhone's more notable bells 'n whistles, including its trademark finger-touch scrolling, its slide-to-lock feature, and its now-familiar menu system, all of which was apparently written in PPL (Pocket Programming Language). It also appears to have had the not unexpected side effect of bringing down its creator's site (linked below). Possibly as a result of past brouhahas, it seems that the software won't be going very far beyond that one lucky E-TEN anytime soon, although you can check it out in action in the video after the break.[Thanks, Joel]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Warren @ Mar 1st 2007 2:08PM
engadgetmobile should write like 10 more articles about iPhone skins on smarthphones and PDAs. It never gets old.
Randy @ Mar 1st 2007 4:32PM
Very cool Hack.
Micah @ Mar 1st 2007 5:25PM
This blows any other 'skin' out of the water. He's nailed just about every feature of the iPhone - smart guy.
The only thing it doesn't have (for obvious reasons):
Multi-touch
Safari (duh)
& Visual Voicemail.
The navigation is spot on from what Jobs showed us at Macworld.
Atanas Boev @ Mar 2nd 2007 4:30AM
"This video is no longer available" :)
Si @ Mar 7th 2007 5:37AM
but if you search through Google video, you can still find it ;)
looks pretty cool