With respect to Kokkos and the tremendous amount of work he's done with his skins and themes, I hope anyone interested in skin dialing and having a larger dialer keypad, incoming call skinning, portrait and landscape support, will check out this thread. Works on my xv6700.

All credit goes to Jackroe007 for these pics and instructions. The original post can be found over at Howard Forums, reposted here for convenience, and because i think everyone should check this out. Here is an example of the default skins provided by Pauly:


*****************Brief intro*****************

I've played around with a bunch of different dialers and the E-Ten original is my favorite, with lots of nice polished looking skins to choose from. The only drawback is that the smartdialer (the small drop-down list of phone numbers as you're dialing) is non-existent. Personally, I haven't missed it at all. The combination of having voice command and the much bigger keypad of this dialer far outweighs the negative of no smartdial. Plus, it works beautifully in portrait and landscape. I downloaded the gray skin and it's really sweet looking and a nice compliment to the black today theme+Vista_lite theme for Wisbar Advance, but all the colors are nice and polished and should fit your today theme of choice. The changes to the in call layout are also a huge plus IMO. The keypad also seems more responsive too, as others have confirmed. Anyway, check it out, and while you're results may vary, I've been able to uninstall this dialer and try others without issue. Many kudos to Jakaroe808 over at HoFo and other who worked on this. Check ou this site at www.paulya.com These skins will be updated and added as available.~Chris

************Installation Instructions (reposted from HOFO)************
Here is how you do it..

You will need the Eton Phone Dialer .cab file and install it on your Phone. This install will change the layout of the keys and active touchable areas on the screen. This will also replace your default Microsoft keypad, so be warned. Please read the notice at the bottom of this post.

Get the E-TEN_Dialer_Install.cab

Download the .cab to your computer and place it on your device with you PC's browser. Once there, use your Pocket PCs File Explorer to navigate to it. Run the cab and install to your Device Memory. The Eten Dialer install comes with a nice blue skin, but if you want to use mine, you'll have to download it here or below.

Get the Pauly-A_Skin_Classic.zip
Pauly-A_Skin_Grey.zip
Pauly-A_Skin_Red.zip
Pauly-A_Skin_Lime.zip
Pauly-A_Skin_LiteBlue.zip
Pauly-A_Skin_DeepBlue.zip

Once you have zip file of the skins you want on your computer, unzip it and drop all the contents (BMP Image Files) into the "\Windows" folder on your device. It will prompt you with the question: "Would you like to replace the existing file?". Click "yes to all".

Soft reset your device and enjoy.

*****************Screen Shots of the Alternative Skins*****************



Please do this at your own risk. I have followed these steps with my xv6700 & 8125 and have had no problems, but I can not guarantee that you wont.