Maybe Windows Phone 7 can gain some presence with the help of the iPhone?s hacker community.
Recently released as a public beta, a new hack transforms the interface of the iPhone to mimic the main screen of Windows Phone 7.
So gone will be the springboard UI we?ve all grown accustomed to on the iPhone and Android OS, and in its stead will be the tile-based interface of Windows Phone 7.
Of course, the iPhone theme doesn?t work exactly the same as the real thing. The authentic Windows Phone 7 uses tiles to represent ?Hubs? containing the main experiences of the phone. So for example, the photo hub has your camera, and after you snap a photo it brings up another feature to share the photo on a social-working site or e-mail the pic. Microsoft calls these ?threaded? experiences.
The iPhone hack doesn?t replicate the threaded Hub functionality of Windows Phone 7. It�just repurposes your individual apps into Windows Phone 7-like tiles and mimics the process of adding or removing these tiles. Check out the video below for a demo.
Windows Phone 7 offers a fresh and brand-new UI compared to competing smartphones, but that hasn?t been enough to win over a large number of customers yet. Microsoft has been cagey about initial Windows Phone �7 handset sales numbers, but according to a new report by NPD, the OS is off to a slow start. Windows Phone 7 debuted with 2 percent of the smartphone OS marketshare, which is lower lower than the debuts of WebOS and Android, according to NPD.
So maybe you?ll more likely see an iPhone running this fake Windows Phone 7 theme as opposed to the real thing.
It?s a neat theme, and if you?re tired of the iOS UI but don?t want to ditch the iPhone just yet, this will be a fun hack to tinker with. Visit the ModMyi forum for a quick tutorial on installing. Jailbreaking is required.
From Gizmodo
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