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T-Mobile wants you to create your own Sidekick 2008/Gekko shells

By: , IntoMobile
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 at 4:41 PM

Sidekick 2008 custom shell portalSidekick Gekko/Aspen/2008 fans eagerly waiting on T-Mobile 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.

Sidekick 2008 custom shell portal

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]

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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...

  • Babydoll

    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!!!

  • CupCake

    i CAN’T WAIT TO GET MY SIDEKICK B-CUZ IT LOOKS LIKE IT’S WORTH EVERY PENNY!

  • P1mpMonk3y101

    I got 1 question.How much will creating a custom shell cost for the new 2008 sidekick?

  • rachel anderson temu

    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

  • jamal

    How much will a customized sidekick 08 shell cost