Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition

Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition aims to assist Symbian phone owners in personalizing the appearance of their handheld device by designing graphical theme packages. Providing a comprehensive and intuitive working environment, this application comes with a set of tools that work together in order to help you generate appealing themes for your handset.

The built-in wizard is ready to guide beginner users throughout every necessary step for creating a theme for a specific phone model. Series 40 devices are supported, while a dedicated plugin allows you to generate themes for Symbian Belle phones.

The wide and varied collection of predefined objects allows you to create professional-looking themes. A wide range of component types are available for use, such as background images, highlight areas, program icons, pop-up windows, indicators, scroll bars and lines, colors, sounds and effects, applications and multimedia-related content, with the possibility to customize each item according to your preferences and import third-party objects.

Based on the Eclipse development platform, the program allows the fast creation of graphical and sound elements for your theme. Is offers support for third-party editors, which means that you can link to other installed image and audio editors in order to work in a familiar environment.

The color editing tools bring together all the hues you used so far, while also allowing you to update multiple colors with a single operation.

Each screen can be previewed using the “Gallery” section and the generated theme can then be packaged and signed. Along with  Nokia Suite, Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition allows you to proceed to the deployment and testing of the theme.

In conclusion, Carbide.ui Symbian Theme Edition manages to impress through the diverse object library and the ease of use. Its range of tools and features offers you the possibility to focus on each element and generate original themes for personalizing your Symbian phone. The computer’s performance might be affected from time to time, yet the response time is good.