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Originally Posted by Andy Sjostrom
Jorgen Sundgot, infoSync, has written an interesting article about the Smartphone 2002. One of his comments: "Like with PPC 2002, it's possible for SMP 2002 users to personalize their device with ringtones, color schemes, home screens and profiles.
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Couldn't agree more.... and let this be a message to application developers also. There's nothing worse than starting a Windows application, written by someone who hasn't considered the fact that people
customise their environments, resulting in something like....
Like you, I'm glad I use a customiseable OS on both mobile and desktop environments, colours and WAV event sounds (ringing, FAX, Error) do make a (if somewhat geeky - though people are impressed when a Star Trek communicator or Enterprise whistle sound is heard as an SMS or telephone call arrives
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But it's not enough for the OS to provide customisation, the developers must also learn to take advantage.