Archive for July, 2006

07.29.06

K800i and a smoking gun

Posted in General Ramblings at 2:04 pm by kkj

It is summer, vacation time, and unusually hot: Too hot to sleep.

Last week I got a new cell phone, the Sony Ericsson K800i, which among other nice features sports a 3.2 mega pixel camera with built-in flash. A truly cool gadget, and I confess to having sneaked away on several occasions to check it out. So it was that I discovered the concept of themes, which allow you to personalize the look-and-feel of your phone, its menus, and ringtones. My last phone, a Nokia 6230, had a silver bullet as background, and obviously my new phone had to improve on that so there simply was no away around it: had to do my own theme.

The nice folks over at Sony Ericsson have made a little tool for exactly this purpose, the Sony Ericsson Themes Creator. Armed with this utensil and Adobe Photoshop, I burned the midnight oil yesterday and came up with a western style Silverbullet theme complete with shrapnel hammered letters and a smoking gun. The background texture is an animated GIF, composed picture by picture in Photoshop and rendered via Stone GIFfun, which you can get for free as well.

The result: Judge for yourself below or go grap the western style Silverbullet theme for your own K800i. To download directly to the phone, follow these instructions:

  1. Open the webbrowser and navigate to http://vaportrail.dk/presentations/Silverbullet.thm
  2. The phone may complain that the content type is not supported. Proceed anyway.
  3. Once the theme has been downloaded, you will be prompted to install it. Do so.
  4. Enjoy



The K800i theme preview in Sony Ericsson Theme Editor