T-Mobile to let users craft their own Gekko shells?

by Chris Ziegler, posted Jul 16th 2008 at 12:00PM

Geckos don't have shells, but Gekkos will -- and it looks like T-Mobile is going to be serving up an unprecedented level of customization for its latest Sidekick. Hiptop 3 is showing mockups of what appears to be T-Mobile's shell creation site, a special little place on the internets where users will be able to design their own Gekko (aka Gecco, aka Sidekick 2008, aka "please just release this thing already") skins, which in turn will likely be outsourced to Skinit for manufacture. Considering the Sidekick's line wild, crazy, and creative target demographic, it seems like a great idea and a potential gold mine of secondary revenue for the carrier. Who's going to be the first with an Engadget shell, hmm?

Filed under: Sharp, T-Mobile, Danger, Accessories

Tags: danger, gecco, gekko, hiptop, sharp, shell, sidekick, sidekick 2008, Sidekick2008, skin, skinit, t-mobile

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Kumar @ Jul 16th 2008 12:56PM

Those are cute and all, but where is the Wing replacement?

I'm off contract and so ready to fly over to either Sprint of AT&T, whichever gets the touch pro or xperia first.

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TheSuburbanWhiteBoy @ Jul 16th 2008 2:41PM

Um, it's probable that T-Mobile will be getting the Xperia 1 first... their 3G bands match up, but they also would work on ATT. Just a though

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nick fulp @ Jul 16th 2008 2:08PM

The sidekick 2008 launches July 30th in all channels.

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med1320 @ Jul 16th 2008 3:25PM

That's right T-Mobile, keep selling stupid add on's for phone and not bringing in top notch phones to sell. I really can't wait till my contract ends.

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