iPhone UI given a retro makeover with iOS ’86 concept

Unless you jailbreak your iPhone, the customization of your device is pretty much limited to changing the wallpaper and alert sounds. It would be pretty cool if Apple allowed us to skin and theme our iOS but until that happens, jailbreaking will have to suffice, either that or this conceptual rendering courtesy of Anton Repponen.

Dubbed the iOS ’86 concept, what he has imagined here was to give iOS a retro makeover which is hark back to 1986 with the look and style of the original Mac OS. This includes a monochromatic theme along with the use of the Chicago bitmap font. Pretty cool, huh? We wouldn’t be surprised if such a theme didn’t already exist or if it isn’t already in the works, but until then we can only keep wishing that Apple would just let us skin and theme our iOS devices already!