Mobile Themes – Complete Customization of Mobile Phones

One of the most favourite pastimes of mobile phone owners is to customize their mobile phones with themes. Personalized mobile themes have grown into a multi-billion dollar business worldwide. People are willing to pay for and get mobile themes that come with different accessories, charms and even chic little holders to complete the hip look of their mobile phones.

The tools generally used to customize the mobile themes are ringtones, wallpaper, screensavers, skins, jewellery, accessories, downloads and settings, and others. These mobile themes customization tools can be briefly elaborated as:

• Ringtones - are the mobile phones ringing tones that one hears when someone calls.
  
  
• Wallpapers - are the background pictures on the main screen.
  
  
• Screensavers - are alternate screens which come on when the mobile phones are left on for certain duration of time. Mobile themes for screensavers can include photos, slideshows and other pictures taken from the mobile phone camera or downloaded from elsewhere.
  
  
• Skins - are stickers, which encase the mobile phones in an image or colour. They come in officially licensed versions for sports teams, TV series, cartoons, movies and more. Usually made of flexible vinyl, they can be taken off and used for customizing mobile themes.
  
  
• Jewellery – are frilly or bejewelled accessories in all shapes, sizes and colours used to enhance the beauty element of mobile themes.
  
  
• Accessories – are phone straps, neck straps or other carrying pouches or mobile phone cases.
  
  
• Downloads and Settings – are the mobile themes to provide the latest updates on weather, sports scores, horoscope and news according to individual interests.

Mobile themes are customizable as per one’s personality and sense of style. Many websites offer complete package of customization of mobile themes in one easy download. There are also available some exciting new tools to completely customize the mobile themes.

There are mobile themes available from various companies that facilitate customization of the mobile themes in one easy go. One such company is myTego, which brings the product that people can design entirely by themselves with their own custom images and designs. The customization in mobile themes is achieved with a TEGO skin, which can fit onto just about any mobile phone. This is a thin, tough, flexible vinyl covering that can be customized into any mobile theme one wishes for. These mobile themes can be used for devices as mobile phones, MP3 players, Camera Phones, PDAs, Portable Game Systems, etc. The TEGO skins stay put until removed. They also work with almost all brands of mobile phones. They can be completely embellished with all the mobile themes customization tools described earlier. TEGO skins can also be designed upon request, for individual devices. Usually the company can fulfil a request within two weeks.

 In February 2008, two different companies announced two different visions for customizing mobile themes. An Israeli company, Modu, launched a new GSM phone, which enables complete customization of the mobile themes. The core of this Modu product is a tiny phone designed to slide into special "jackets," which are phone exteriors with extra functionality, and software that instructs the phone about special colour schemes and other features. For example, a user may use a "jacket" with a nice camera in it for personal use, and then replace that with a "jacket" that is a QWERTY keyboard for business use. The company also has plans to launch jackets that are not phones, such as GPS devices.

The other company is an American company called zzzPhone. They have introduced the concept of made-to-order mobile phones, with completely customizable mobile themes. These phones would be made in Chinese factories

It seems that the concept of customization of mobile themes is slated to see many new happenings and witness many changing scenarios in the days to come.