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Exclusive: download the new Turquoise theme

Nokia S60 applications - September 29th, 2006 - Written by Tommi Vilkamo

Our excellent Jade team (Nokia internal name for our graphics team) wanted to give you a little gift:

Download: Turquoise.sisx

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This is the Turquoise theme that will be used in forthcoming Nokia devices based on S60 3rd Edition FP1. But since the Jade team was so kind, all you S60 3rd Edition owners can now use it too. Giving away the theme might sound like a small thing, but this is the first time our application team delivers software directly to end-users. With luck, this might be a “small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind”.

In my opinion, the theme is just beautiful. Beautiful - and really usable at the same time, which is quite rare in the world of themes.

What do you think? Please share your thoughts, the Jade team is listening. In addition, please give a star ranking with scale 1 = worthless crap … 5 = the best theme I have ever seen/used.

…and please feel free to give the theme to your friends and your own blog readers!

Bonus link: Getting rid of visual clutter, our previous discussion about themes
—
ps. the idea to give away the theme came from my boss’s boss Mika L. Thank you Mika for your open-mindedness in encouraging this kind of experiments!!
pps. can we participate the e61life.com Theme Contest 2006 with this one?

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Comments(89)

  1. Ditch wrote September 29th, 2006 at 4:01 pm

    Beautifully designed theme! Passes my no.1 criteria for themes. You can still easily read all the useful information available on the standby screen?

    You should definately enter the contest with it!
    ;0)

  2. horia stanescu wrote September 29th, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    Tommi,
    thats a hell of a weekend gift!
    Thank you so much.
    Relaxed wkd to everybody here in Finland:-)

  3. Ditch wrote September 29th, 2006 at 4:11 pm

    ps. REALLY glad to see it uses the Nokia squarish analogue clock. Why do so few theme developers make use of it? It’s by far the classiest clock out there IMHO
    =0)

  4. pratik wrote September 29th, 2006 at 5:39 pm

    really nice theme.excellent colour.can your team be some extra generous,then why not release this theme for 2nd edition devices as well.there are still large no. Of devices.

  5. Momchil Karabulev wrote September 29th, 2006 at 5:41 pm

    looks great on my E61. my new favorite theme!
    thanks

  6. Daniel wrote September 29th, 2006 at 6:37 pm

    Tommi, as long as the theme is not commercial. If not you are free to submit it :)
    Thank you for both posting this theme and mentioning the contest.

  7. trat wrote September 29th, 2006 at 6:48 pm

    Hmm, I still prefer the E-series demo theme.

  8. rivviepop wrote September 29th, 2006 at 6:56 pm

    Tommi, thanks!

    Your Apache is configured to send this as “text/plain” mimetype; it doesn’t download correctly on the phone (at least not on my E50). Add this to your Apache config / .htaccess file:

    AddType application/vnd.symbian.install .sis .sisx

    I have a few more tips (jars, wml, etc) in a short post here:

    http://rivviepop.wordpress.com/2006/01/27/configuring-your-apache-for-cellphone-browsing/

  9. Nick wrote September 29th, 2006 at 7:13 pm

    Nice, theme but is still uses 1.4m more memory than the IGBase white theme, and Ditch I hate the square clock :-)

  10. vioccc wrote September 29th, 2006 at 9:39 pm

    Very nice theme indeed. And very readable too. I love the look of the menus and dialog boxes. It’s a real shame that the clock looks so bad though.

  11. Ditch wrote September 29th, 2006 at 10:02 pm

    OMG! All this abuse for the square clock!! :-0 Haven’t you guys heard that minimalist is VERY in right now? ;-)
    Okay (without hijacking this thread) what is the coolest analogue clock then? :-p ;-) Point us to some screenshots examples.

  12. Antony Pranata wrote September 29th, 2006 at 10:12 pm

    I like this new theme. It looks “fresher” than the previous theme. I just found a little bit odd to have green color as selection because the background is dominated with blue/white color. Anyway, it’s nice theme… :)

  13. Frode wrote September 30th, 2006 at 12:55 am

    This is a great theme, less is more!

    Also I cant help but notice the date in the screenshot, have to take that as nod from our neighburs in the east ;-)

  14. Neil wrote September 30th, 2006 at 6:49 am

    Can we get it saved for S60 Second Edition? It looks great…

  15. Hardeep Singh wrote September 30th, 2006 at 9:41 am

    this theme looks very good, i’d love to have it on my phone. Too bad it wouldn’t work on my n70.

  16. JD wrote September 30th, 2006 at 9:51 am

    I like this theme. I have always loved the simple clock! :D
    Thx.

  17. PrinceOfThieves wrote September 30th, 2006 at 9:58 am

    No matter how it looks, which is a matter of personal taste, this theme is unusable on Asian language phones such as my HK-bought N80. When you use pinyin to type Simplified Chinese there is no contrast in the window, you do not see what you type and you do not see what different pinyin match your key combination.

    Nokia shall correct this issue and re-release ASAP.

  18. Jukka Eklund wrote September 30th, 2006 at 12:49 pm

    PrinceOfThieves: we shall look into it, and take necessary actions.

    Keep in mind though, if this problem is specific to 3rd Edition non-FP1, it might impossible or too much trouble to fix.

  19. Bruce wrote September 30th, 2006 at 6:31 pm

    Tommi and Mika, thank you SO much for this new theme. I have been looking for a new theme for my N80, and this is just what I wanted. I have a Chinese N80 (Singapore) too, and the contrast is OK for me when typing Chinese, so that issue may vary from user to user. The green selection color is cool and makes things super-easy to read. As for the clock, it’s fine with me — I like round a little better, but it’s not big deal. Thanks again for sharing. Please thank the whole Jade team for me!

  20. Flash wrote September 30th, 2006 at 6:35 pm

    thanks for the theme guys,
    but I just don’t like that color :D

  21. Valmore Leon wrote September 30th, 2006 at 7:28 pm

    Thanks a lot for sharing the theme with us already Nokia smartphone users, it would be a really good gift if you make a theme like this but in blue and that work fine and correctly in NOkia E-61.
    There is only one theme that fits perfectly this phones and some of the themes made by users outside of Nokia are fine but it does not work properly on E61.

    Regards

  22. rivviepop wrote September 30th, 2006 at 8:34 pm

    Jukka & Tommi -

    Is this going to be an optional theme, with the existing one (from E/N) also there? After using it for a day, it’s really anooying on the eye, the colours. I honestly don’t think it’s anywhere as usable as the current one. It also looks a little less professional (like when you hand your boss your E phone to use), but that’s my opinion.

    With the current one I don’t feel the need to go out and find a new one, it’s colours and style are completely fine on the eyes. This Turquiose, though, really starts to get harsh.

    $0.02 USD. :)

  23. karen wrote September 30th, 2006 at 9:54 pm

    Wow, thanks Tommi/Nokia for sharing this cool theme! I put it on my N73 and it looks great! :-)

  24. Farhan wrote September 30th, 2006 at 10:08 pm

    like you said Beautiful Just Beautiful replaced the black theme on my E 61 now it looks more bright

  25. Bruce wrote September 30th, 2006 at 11:10 pm

    Tommi,
    Your post rank widget isn’t working because of a MajikWidget issue, so people can’t vote anymore. I thought you would want to know.

    http://www.majikwidget.com/mw/2006/06/post-rank-widget-resolve.php

  26. vioccc wrote October 1st, 2006 at 12:10 am

    To Ditch:

    If you like minimalist designs, check out the analog clock used in the Fire theme: http://www.e-series.org/wp-content/uploads/TScreenshot0128.jpg It’s minimalist yet looks really nice and modern unlike the clock used in the
    Turquoise theme which looks like it comes straight from a 10 years old mobile.

    But one of the best analog clock i’ve found must be Aqua’s one: http://www.e-series.org/wp-content/uploads/Today.jpg
    It would look gorgeous with the Turquoise theme.

  27. agwe23 wrote October 1st, 2006 at 11:11 pm

    tommi!

    beautiful theme!!!

  28. ZafaV wrote October 2nd, 2006 at 12:07 am

    Nice theme Tommi!
    But where is all business themes for E-series?
    I mean sometihing simple and easy-to-use…

  29. Lauri Humina wrote October 2nd, 2006 at 10:49 am

    E70

    Very fresh theme, gives ‘minty’ feeling.
    Text looks much more sharper compared to default theme.
    And the calendar is fantastic now, so much better than default theme.
    Music player looks fine.
    Overall great theme, I’ll use it from now on.

  30. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 2nd, 2006 at 3:32 pm

    Thanks everybody for your comments! Glad to hear you liked it :) —

    pratik: I’ll ask from the Jade team.

    rivviepop: thanks for the tip, I’ll ask Phil if he could fix it.

    PrinceOfThieves: please send me a screenshot. Others too - if the theme gets broken in some circumstances, please send me a screenshot and we’ll look into it.

    rivviepop(2): it’s not going to be the only theme. Products and product families will most probably have additional themes of which you can choose from.

    Bruce: darn… I knew there was something wrong with Majikwidget. What voting widget should I use in the future?

  31. DGR wrote October 3rd, 2006 at 9:42 am

    Nice theme, thanks for that… But I notice this theme has 7 active standby icons in the screenshot. Is this because this screenshot is from S603rd FP1?

    Since my N73 has ‘only’ 6 active standby icons… Or will it then simply show just those 6. Just wondering :) Tnx again though!

  32. Ditch wrote October 3rd, 2006 at 10:11 am

    vioccc

    Thanks, for the links. You’re right, that clock in ‘Fire’ is VERY nice & very minimalist! ;0)

    The red flock wallpaper takes a bit of getting used to (I feel like I’m in Sherlock Holmes’ smoking lounge) ;0) but FIRE does seem to give the best text/background contrast I’ve seen in a theme for a while.

    Cheers,
    R

  33. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 3rd, 2006 at 11:22 am

    > Also I cant help but notice the date in the screenshot,
    > have to take that as nod from our neighburs in the east ;-)
    Heh, I must admit that it was a pure coincidence. I assume you are talking about Norwegian Constitution Day? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_Constitution_Day

  34. mischock wrote October 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 am

    Hi guys!
    Please tell me will this theme appear no the screen of 7610 device?

  35. Darla wrote October 3rd, 2006 at 11:23 pm

    Tommi and Mika,

    The theme is beautiful!! Even though my selection of themes is a bit more “noisy” then most as Tommi so pointed out in his post on visual clutter, sometimes I prefer tranquil backgrounds. This theme definately defines that. Oh and for the record… I am a HUGE fan of the square clock!! Hmm, this would like nice in pink also :)

  36. Valmore Leon wrote October 4th, 2006 at 12:45 am

    Hi, as per I said above this theme is very nice; but, it would be nice from Nokia to put in the support section under phone software the dark stripes and steel too themes in order for the people that have the E61 could enjoy them too, my E61 just came with the Nokia default theme.

    Regards

  37. akash wrote October 4th, 2006 at 1:47 pm

    good

  38. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 5th, 2006 at 10:48 am

    rivviepop: thanks for the tip! It’s now fixed.

  39. edmond wrote October 5th, 2006 at 11:14 am

    Thank you so much for sharing :-) regards edmond

  40. diego wrote October 6th, 2006 at 2:28 am

    Hi, really nice theme, just a question, installing this theme on E61 locate a flash file that suppose to work like screen saver, so how to configure like that?

    Also, is any chance to obtain themes that comes by default (dark stripes and silver) with the E62?

    Thx.

  41. Valmore. wrote October 6th, 2006 at 3:23 am

    Hello,

    Same question than Diego, would that be possible?

    Regards

  42. Johnny wrote October 7th, 2006 at 6:10 am

    You can’t see what character when input in msg (Chinese input). anyway this is the best theme i saw so far. well done.

  43. anina.net wrote October 7th, 2006 at 11:28 am

    http://anina.typepad.com/anina/2006/07/s60_v3.html

    i have tried to make themes, and even had other nokia champions send me the files that are missing, but still i cannot publish this theme. do you have any solution?

  44. PrinceOfThieves wrote October 8th, 2006 at 6:31 am

    Hi, I posted the “Chinese trouble” screenshots on allaboutsymbian.com . Thanks a lot
    PoT

  45. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 9th, 2006 at 9:00 am

    Thanks PrinceOfThieves! We’ll look into it.

    Anina: check out http://blogs.s60.com/s60multimedia/2006/06/signing_applications_for_s60_3.html

  46. Peter Pavek wrote October 11th, 2006 at 11:56 am

    Hi Tommy, the theme looks great. Could I suggest that you swap that green selection color for magenta? That would go well with the turquoise color and stands out well, as a selection color should.

  47. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 11th, 2006 at 11:12 pm

    “Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?”
    - the boss in Fight Club

    Heh… I asked about versions of the theme with different colors, but I think it is unlikely you’ll get such, at least this time. Sorry.

  48. Nam wrote October 12th, 2006 at 5:31 am

    Hi Tommy, the theme looks great. Please guide for the way to set sreensaver “Tuaquoise screensaver”(extract from themes as flash lite) for my N80 !

  49. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 12th, 2006 at 10:03 am

    Nam, you cant: http://blogs.s60.com/tommi/2006/10/turquoise_screen_saver.html

  50. Nam wrote October 13th, 2006 at 6:07 am

    Thank you about your link. I’m very love the theme, but i don’t like the grey colour of option box, if the change grey colour by colour background, i think the theme will be very nice and suite.
    Ohh.. the further you and your team will issue the new revision of this theme?

  51. TJ wrote October 19th, 2006 at 9:16 am

    Hi Tommi!

    This theme is really nice, but it doesn’t work with the Golf Pro Contest game that Nokia gives away free here: http://europe.nokia.com/A4151182 . When using this turquoise theme and playing GPC, the clubs and strike angle cannot be seen on the bottom part of screen. -TJ-

  52. MK wrote October 29th, 2006 at 9:32 pm

    Thanks Tommi, great theme! Very generous to give it away.

  53. Ali Omar(Oman) wrote October 30th, 2006 at 1:33 pm

    seems Realy very nice.

  54. Tommi Vilkamo wrote October 30th, 2006 at 9:02 pm

    Thanks for your kind words. I had today a chat with the theme creators, and as we briefly talked about your feedback, they smiled a lot :-)

  55. Mambo wrote November 1st, 2006 at 4:26 am

    Simply the best..
    It is perfect and very elegant. Wonderful, thank you very much!

  56. Johnny wrote November 6th, 2006 at 5:43 pm

    just wanna know when the Chinese input text and background will be fix, i can’t see what both are white in color? i real like this theme,…

  57. AZIZ wrote November 10th, 2006 at 9:00 pm

    The green selection color stands out a little too much. Otherwise, one of the best themes I’ve seen.

  58. Stefan Constantinescu wrote November 26th, 2006 at 2:46 pm

    this is now my default theme on my e61, thanks

    it’s just easier on the eyes it seems

  59. richard wrote November 26th, 2006 at 3:26 pm

    this is what being used in my phone alternatively with the original default ‘nokia’ one. love the black text, beautiful color and background, even the Chinese text input problem exists:)

  60. richard wrote November 26th, 2006 at 3:33 pm

    one more request: why did you leave the bottom bar color so harsh instead of blending with the main section like the top bar? I like the original ‘nokia’ theme because the color change so gradually from the top till the bottom with no noticeable color division line.

    and could you make it possible that the analogue clock have several options? the nokia original square one is simple and conceptual, but difficult to tell the exact time when needed sometimes.

  61. Tommi Vilkamo wrote November 27th, 2006 at 1:16 pm

    Thanks Richard for the feedback. But as far as I know, we won’t publish different versions of the theme (for example, with different clocks) this time.

  62. Johnny wrote November 28th, 2006 at 5:35 am

    too bad to heard that, but i think at least have the Chinese text input color fix.

  63. Tommi Vilkamo wrote November 28th, 2006 at 10:04 am

    Johnny: I can’t give you any details, but based on what I heard, the problem with Chinese text input color was not in the Turquoise theme. That is, we can’t fix it just by releasing a new sis file. And I’m not sure has this been fixed in new firmware releases yet.

    In any case, sorry about this.

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  65. Роман wrote December 22nd, 2006 at 2:10 pm

    мдаа по прикулу темка, а где еще таких скачать?

  66. Ahmed wrote January 30th, 2007 at 2:13 pm

    when can we expect more themes, your list has not been updated in a long time ,

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  68. owziee wrote March 10th, 2007 at 1:46 pm

    Please give us the Dark Stripes theme which is available for some E-Series devices. It’s so lovely, would look great on my N73. Why not make original themes available for all devices? Would be a nice move from Nokia!

  69. Valmore wrote March 10th, 2007 at 2:36 pm

    I completly agree with owziee.
    Thanks

  70. Tommi Vilkamo wrote March 14th, 2007 at 1:35 pm

    > Why not make original themes available for all devices?

    Good question. I forwarded it to the people behind Nokia themes, let’s see what they think.

  71. Tardolus wrote March 16th, 2007 at 7:00 pm

    Hi from Finland. Is there somewhere just Turquoise wallpaper? JPG, PNG? That theme would be nice convert to S40 theme =)

    THANK YOU!

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  76. Alex wrote June 28th, 2007 at 11:55 am

    http://gallery.mobile9.com/f/107247/ - for s40 3rd ed. BUT PEOPLE, WHAT ABOUT N70? Why anyone not interested in porting it?

  77. Jim wrote July 2nd, 2007 at 4:34 am

    Has anyone tried to install this theme on a Nokia 6290? I get the “can not install; the component is already built-in” error. It installs fine on my N80 and looks great.

  78. Jukka Eklund wrote July 2nd, 2007 at 11:26 am

    Kim, the error message sums it up correctly: that theme is already installed. It’s called Nokia theme if I recall correctly.

  79. Jim wrote July 2nd, 2007 at 11:55 am

    Jukka, The Nokia Theme (called Nokia Theme) that comes preinstalled with the 6290 is a Blue Theme.

  80. Nick Morley wrote July 28th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    Hi,

    Is it possible to change the icons for active standby applications?
    E.g. I have 3 web links on my A/s list, which all come up with the same icon.
    How can I edit this please on a N73.

    thanks, Nick

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  82. aytac wrote August 3rd, 2007 at 9:04 pm

    Ohh very nice, thanks.

  83. Nick Morley wrote August 4th, 2007 at 2:27 pm

    Hi, when i download and try to install this psiloc software my Nokia N73 says “Installation of (application name) is not supported”.

    ANy ideas?
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  87. Always Online wrote April 5th, 2008 at 4:16 am

    Sounds nice,TKS.

  88. Huseyin Celik wrote April 17th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    Thank you so much.

  89. the internet guy wrote October 1st, 2008 at 4:42 am

    Hey, thanks for this theme, yeah text is sharp, calender looks good, makes my phone feel fresher

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