T-Mobile wants you to create your own Sidekick 2008/Gekko shells
By Will Park on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 4:41 PM PST In Applications, Developer, Services, Sharp, T-Mobile
Sidekick Gekko/Aspen/2008 fans eagerly waiting on T-Mobile (NYSE: DT) to finally go live with the latest Sidekick offering to sport user-swappable face-plates/shells have one more reason to drool over the upcoming HipTop. T-Mobile is reportedly working on a Sidekick 2008 customization portal that gives the user a chance to custom-design their own Sidekick shell.
The screenshots you see here are renderings of the actual T-Mobile Sidekick-customizer webpage that’s still in development. We’re hearing that the custom skins/shells/face-plates will be sourced from SkinIt. The website will apparently feature a Flash-heavy interface with a social-networking aspect that lets users browse and vote on others’ creations.
Given all the press-materials we’ve been seeing with piles of Sidekicks sporting customized shells, it makes sense that T-Mobile launch a Sidekick Shell customizer portal. All you creative Sidekickers will finally have a say over your Sidekicks’ looks.
Of course, we’re going to have to wait for T-Mobile to get real with the Sidekick 2008 before we even see any Sidekick shell-customization page up and running. And, with 2008 quickly winding down, T-Mo would do well to launch their Sidekick Gekko/2008 sooner rather than later.
[Via: HipTop3]
I just wish that it will get video cause my new tmobile mp3 just got stolen and i just got it and it had video and that phone cost less so when i get this one i hope they add hell stuff on it!!!
i CAN’T WAIT TO GET MY SIDEKICK B-CUZ IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S WORTH EVERY PENNY!
I got 1 question.How much will creating a custom shell cost for the new 2008 sidekick?
I want to use my own image to make my own side kick shell. Please contact me my phone number is 4802971940
Thank you its me Rachel Temu
I’ve had my phone since the merger……I LOVE IT!
I’ve got custom themes with hinges that play music & keyguards…..ringbacks (a.k.a CallerTunes, which you have to sign into tmobile.com to do them) and custom themes at http://www.sklxthemes.com, the LX themes have WAY more choices than sk08themes.com, AND they still work on the 2008 ‘kick!
Put music on my phone, got a new 2GB MicroSD card, have 15+ themes, 40+ songs….made a custome shell at http://www.sidekickshells.skinit.com and now i’m bout to start making my own custom themes!
Anybody need help with ANYTHING at all, hit me up on my website!
How much will a customized sidekick 08 shell cost