A phone theme or phone skin refers to the general look and feel of a mobile phoneâs user interface (UI). It includes color schemes for menus and highlights, background images and, for Series 60 (S60) themes, user and folder icons. A theme package contains graphics for one or many changeable components of a mobile phoneâs UI. Changing a theme only affects the look and feel of the UI and not the entire phoneâs functions or features.
There are many mobile operating systems which support themes as standard, such as Nokia phones powered by Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Blackberry. Although Google's Android operating system doesn't support themes as standard, there are applications that provide it.
There are sites that offer customization services for phone themes.