The blog & portfolio of Matthew J. Rogers

Bliss & Highway

If you would be kind enough to donate for my work on these themes, please PayPal me (donate $1, $2, $5, $10). Thank you!


These Blackberry themes can only be installed on devices with Blackberry Operating System 4.1 or later (if you need help, see Installing OS 4.1) and with the Plazmic Theme Reader installed. If you encounter any problems with these themes, feel free to use the comment system below to let me know.

OTA downloads of both themes and wallpapers are available on my mobile site, http://mobile.rogersmj.com.

Bliss 2.1

This theme is loosely based on the Windows XP Luna look, with design ideas borrowed from em3′s excellent Luna Element Windows XP visual style. A mix of soft colors and rounded corners, Bliss aims to be pleasant to look at and easy to use.

Update to 2.1: Small and large font versions added. Minor bug fix with menu graphic background.
Download for desktop installation (size 6 small fonts):
7100 series | 7200 series/7520 | 8700 series

Download for desktop installation (size 9 large fonts):
7100 series | 7200 series/7520 | 8700 series

Download source THM file for editing in Plazmic Theme Builder:
7100 series | 7200 series/7520 | 8700 series


Highway 1.1

A combination of silver with a soft copper color, along with a (mostly) new icon set, distinguish this theme. Like Bliss, it is easy on the eyes and looks good without getting in the way. Note: unlike the “GPRS Test Network” in the first preview image, your network’s name (Cingular, Verizon, etc) should fit inside the silver graphic.

Update to 1.1: Added 7100 version, small and large font versions.
Download for desktop installation (size 6 small fonts):
7100 series | 7200 series/7520

Download for desktop installation (size 9 large fonts):
7100 series | 7200 series/7520

Download source THM file for editing in Plazmic Theme Builder:
7100 series | 7200 series/7520

Updated on October 29, 2008

117 comments

  • Kelly Carter February 10th, 2008 at 12:01 am

    I love the bPhone themes! Beautiful work! Please see my screenshots and review of these themes at http://blackberry8130.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/iphone-versus-bphone-a-theme/. And, yes, I donated–you should, too!

  • Kelly Carter February 10th, 2008 at 12:03 am

    @TJ (Post #95),
    It worked perfectly on my BlackBerry Pearl 8130. Again, see evidence at http://blackberry8130.wordpress.com/2008/02/10/iphone-versus-bphone-a-theme/.

  • Tracy February 13th, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    Love the bphone icons, so much better than the original pearl icons

  • Pia February 14th, 2008 at 12:13 pm

    LOVE LOVE LOVE the bPhone icons! My Curve looks fantastic with them! GREAT job on this!

    Thank you so much!

  • Kelly Carter February 15th, 2008 at 12:18 am

    Hey, those of you who search for free BlackBerry themes, apps, etc.–you may be interested in my FRAUD ALERT: http://blackberry8130.wordpress.com/fraud-alert/. Very disturbing!

  • jaytee February 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    I’m hoping for some help. I would like to make themes for my blackberry 7250 however when I make and export the theme in Plazmic Theme Builder it goes on to my blackberry but I cannot use it. I’m thinking I do not have the right Plazmic CDK, I have 4.2.2 do I need an older one?

  • StephDawg February 19th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    I love the bphone theme!!! its way better than the iberry theme. it makes me feel like i have a whole new phone thanks!!!

  • robert heun February 24th, 2008 at 12:47 am

    I agree the bphone theme is awesome just wish the fonts on the adress book were a lil bigger but the beauty of the theme is worth the sacrifice!

  • 1fly-azn February 28th, 2008 at 1:38 am

    hey buddy your stuff is pretty sick! I really like the different types of themes you created for the bphone…and you didn’t waste too much time on the themes’ b/c you made trillions of people happy ;p much appreciated and keep up the good work! Genius!

  • Andrew March 14th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    Hey, i got a problem with the themes on my 7290 bb, i installed rim 4.1, i installed plazmic reader 4.1 for rim 4.1, rebooted, then i installed app loader.after that i installed bliss and highway with app loader. when the phone restarted i can see the themes installed in applications but not in the Themes directory. can u pls tell me what i did wrong ? why dont my themes show up so i can activate them ? my mail is trancescend@yahoo.com thank you!

  • Andrew March 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm

    nevermind i did it with an update :P thanx for the thems they r awesome

  • BlackBerry Freeware August 5th, 2008 at 9:40 am

    Hello Matt,

    awesome themes! We just listed few of your works at our open BlackBerry freeware directory. You can find all your works under the Matthew Rogers developer profile. Keep the great work and let us know if you need any hosting or distribution support!

    Greets
    SFD Team

  • joshua August 14th, 2008 at 5:54 pm

    Hey I just want you to know that i love your work.
    I do have a question…. I own the blackberry pearl 8100 and I’m on os 4.2.1…. I downloaded the theme bphone icon and everything works great. here’s my question how do i get the font bigger in the messages folder, contact folder ect? I changed the font on the phone and it only effected the text message and a couple others areas. I don’t want to be ignorant i have done plenty of searches on this issue and the only thing i found was…That you might have a fie called source.thm. If so how do i get it on my phone? I would love to have the font a little bigger so that it doesn’t effect my eyes. I would rather keep this theme if we can fix it. thank you. Sorry if i sound ignorant.

  • Steve October 15th, 2008 at 7:56 pm

    Matt,
    First of great work… I was just curious if you had any other themes for the 8800 series

  • oriana November 5th, 2008 at 9:57 am

    hello to everyone… im a girl and i have the new blackberry which is the bold but in the curve size. it is blue (dark blue) and i appreciate you a lot for the theme of the b phone… it is so cute and perfect 4 moi and evryone… well
    oh and im 11 years old
    regards… haha me!!

  • KenBerry November 15th, 2008 at 8:15 am

    On the off chance this is possible….

    I notice that your locked screen is different than the desktop theme in the bphone version.

    Anyway to change that locked screen to something elses? I’d REALLY like the “Don’t Panic” or a Serenity / Firefly when locked.

    I know that for everything else, I’d be stuck with dimension-zen; but I gotta try!

  • KenBerry November 15th, 2008 at 8:21 am

    Oriana is 11 yrs old?

    Man, I had to wait until I was…ummm..29 yeah that’s the number – give or take a decade or so .. and work had to but it for me.

    Curses being cheap!

Leave a comment