We here at GS thought it was a bold, yet welcome move when we saw Toyota release an official Toyota Scion theme for distribution in the Cydia App Store. Apple on the other hand wasn’t too thrilled. In a forum post detailed over at ModMyi, forum owner and repo admin Kyle Matthews claims to have been contacted by Toyota’s advertising agency “Velti”. The story is that Apple contacted the ad agency more or less demanding the ad be removed from...

If you’re eagerly awaiting Honeycomb to land on your device, or for an upcoming Honeycomb-powered device to launch, why not get in the spirit early? Install the Google Chrome Honeycomb theme and get touches of the new sleek UI enhancements that Android 3.0 provides right inside your browser window. Download: Honeycomb Google Chrome Theme Via: ...

Apple may know a thing or two about designing beautiful, intuitive user interfaces, but that doesn’t mean other competitors don’t get it right every once in a while as well. Windows Phone 7 in particular is more or less the polar opposite of Apple’s mobile OS. Instead of bright and flashy, WP7 is subdued and extremely minimal in design — truly unique in the modern smartphone world. It is so unique in fact that many people want to port the...

The once great king in the mobile world, Symbian, is dying a slow, painful death. Among the many upgrades the platform needs, the most easily visible one is the UI. It’s old and stogy (of course, that’s what Maemo is supposed to fix). But thanks to the easily customized nature of the platform, 3rd party skins and themes can be easily installed. On that note, if you’d like to get the HTC Sense UI theme running on your Symbian S60 or S^3 device, a quick...

While the iPhone 4 may be my current device of choice, I put in many months with a Moto Droid and came to appreciate the platform overall. During that time there were a few apps that really stood out, particularly Launcher Pro. Say what you will about the so called performance of the stock Android launcher, but at the end of the day the harsh reality is that it sucks. I’ve seen phones ranging from 528MHz up to 1.5GHz overclocked display shakey, stuttery homescreens....