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Have you ever found yourself bored with the standard interface of your phone? Or perhaps what the manufacturers thought would be useful differs from what is useful in practice. Most phones don’t allow you to customise all that much about the way things look. If anything, you can change the functionality of a few pre-defined buttons, or create some shortcuts. GDesk takes things to the next level, allowing you to have extreme control over how your phone’s desktop looks and feels.

One of the best things about this is that if you don’t have time to make your own “design”, you can use one made by somebody else; there are plenty available for download.

The first thing that strikes you is the ability to completely change the way the phone looks and behaves. All the above images are from the same phone running GDesk with various designs.

Of course, this opens up plenty of possibilities for cloning an interface. Have you ever wanted an iPhone interface?

You can even get an application that simulates the iPhone’s keypad lock.

The design process is extremely simple. You start with a blank canvas, where you can add (through a simple drag-and-drop interface) a wallpaper, icons or applets. Applets provide some function other than linking to an application, such as a clock that shows the time, or a system monitor. You can add multiple pages of icons, applets and wallpapers, and you can link between them in any way you wish! You can even customise the way things in popup menus look.

GDesk can be downloaded free of charge for UIQ and Symbian S60 from http://gdesk.wetpaint.com/page/GDesk+versions

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