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Change your Windows Mobile 5 and 6 device’s system font

By: , IntoMobile
Thursday, February 21st, 2008 at 2:12 PM

Change your Windows Mobile 5 and 6 deviceThere’s nothing like a fresh update to Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional to infuse your WM device with a bit of that “new phone” smell. Unfortunately, that freshly updated smartphone of yours won’t be rocking any new font schemes. So, we’ll just have to take matters into our own hands.

Merlin_reloaded and g77 over at XDA-developers forums has put together an easy solution to change the fonts on your Windows Mobile 5.0 PocketPC and Windows Mobile 6.0 Professional (and possibly some WinMo Smartphone devices as well) handset. The font-changing procedure is as easy as downloading the .cab file of your choosing (there’s one each for Myriad, Calibri, or Segeo UI) and installing it on your smartphone. A simple restart of the WM handset should result in a system font change-over – try Segeo UI, it’s the default Vista font.

If you don’t like the font change, simply go to Settings>Add/Remove Programs and uninstall the font-package. You can then download and install another .cab font package and give that particular font a whirl.

Grab the .cab files here. You’ll have to register with XDA, but if you use WinMo, you should be registered there already anyway. There are instructions to upload Windows fonts to your handset, but if you want a quick-and-easy method, you’ll want to stick with the .cab files.

XDA-developers forum

[Via: WMExperts]

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Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...

  • Zak

    lol I love the new phone smell

  • Joe Taddei

    I have a Palm Treo with Window Mobile OS 6. I have visual problems. My Treo’s fonts are too small. I have enlarged them as allowede but Stioll I have problem reading words on the Treo screen. Are you aware of any possibility for me to download bigger fonts on my Treo? Thank you. Joe Taddei. Could you email me back to my regular email address? Thank you. joetaddei&yahoo.com

  • Prashant

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  • ramneek

    hoew to change Window Mobile OS 6 to vista xp in htc p3400i