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Two new themes for Spb Mobile Shell 3.5.3 have popped up: Sketch (above) and GTX Sense (below). Intended to resemble an artist’s sketchpad the Sketch Theme (from XDA users DOC3000 & Warhammer83) includes several cool widgets, including an analog clock, black temperature, weather, sound profiles, notifications, lock, SPB Menu shortcut (elephant or tree drawing), and link backgrounds (note or sketch).

You can download the Sketch theme for Spb Mobile Shell from the XDA forums here.

GTX Sense is a port of the GTX theme from the HTC Sense UI, now made for Spb Mobile Shell. This theme, also from DOC3000, is not released yet, but you can keep track if the development  of the GTX Sense Theme for Spb Mobile Shell here. Looks very cool

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This nifty little shell switcher has just been released in beta over at XDA forums. According to the developer, the ShellSwitcher utility lets you switch between well known shells like SPB Mobile Shell, Titanium, Touch Flo 3D, HTC Sense and the classic today screen. ShellSwitcher will automatically detect the shell UIs you have installed and allow you to choose between them from a menu.

The app is in beta, so be warned! You can download the free ShellSwitcher for Windows Mobile from the XDA website.

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Here’s another video tour of the HTC HD2, this time from an official HTC guy. He shows off the Opera browser, some pinch-to-zoom stuff, and a few HTC Sense panels.

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HTC has done a great job of making Windows Mobile a little more bearable over the past few years with its custom UI, TouchFlo, and the successor, TouchFlo 3d. HTC is about to retire the TouchFlo line and replace it with their new Sense UI, which is already out on Android devices and is launching on the HTC HD2, launching soon.

This in-depth video gives a detailed tour of Sense… enjoy.