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I decided today I would fool with my phone, a Motorola MPx220 smartphone running Windows Mobile 2003 Second Edition. What began as a bit of experimentation with wallpaper turned into an XML circus.
Here’s the results of said circus – a lot of work, but it was worth it!
Here’s an example of the default home screen for an MPx220, unceremoniously ripped from O’Reilly:
As you can imagine, I’m quite pleased. =) In addition to editing the wallpaper, I changed the iconbar color, made the MRU list’s icons smaller (so I could get up to 8 frequently used apps – yes!), rearranged some of the homescreen plugins, added the “owner name” plugin, edited all the menu colors, enabled ClearType, and hacked in the Segoe Condensed font from Windows Mobile 2005.
Yes, I did a lot of it by hand. I started with the Ruttensoft Homescreen Designer demo, but as most WYSIWYG tools do, I quickly found it didn’t give me the anal-retentive options I always seem to require. 
Tomorrow I’ll return to things I was supposed to be doing – sometimes a diversion is healthy.
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Cool.
Yeah, that is pretty nifty, actually. Good job.