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100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers
Few products have generated the kind of hype that the iPhone has. Its beautiful design and large multi-touch screen are irresistible. Although its interface is beautifully designed, some of us want to put a little something extra in it to suit our style, personality and profession and to further beautify this magical masterpiece.
Here, we proudly present the 100 Beautiful iPhone wallpapers, designed by some of the finest and most creative artists around. The wallpapers are 320×480 pixels in resolution and are usable on the iPod Touch as well. In this post we cover typography, nature, retro and vintage, illustrations and artwork, Apple wallpapers, abstract, space. Other topics will be covered in next posts. All of the images are clickable and linked to their source. You can explore further artistic treasures and more wallpapers by using the links.
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- Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
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Covers fresh, original and creative wallpapers. - Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop and Web Design
Covers Web design-related wallpapers, and has dozens of references for Mac fans. - 35 Space and Nebula wallpapers
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Typography iPhone Wallpapers
ILoveTypography iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of typography-related iPhone wallpapers.
Tylor J. Reimer’s iPhone Wallpapers
A collection of various wallpapers, from TV shows and music to nature and abstract.
Poolga iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collectio of beautiful wallpapers created by various designers across the globe. Typographic wallpapers there are just amazing.
‘We Made This’ iPhone Wallpapers
A series of iPhone wallpapers by Alistair Hall James White.
Veer iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers by Veer.com. Registration is required to download the wallpapers.
Various typographic iPhone wallpapers:
TypeNuts iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers related to typography.
Nature
AlliPhoneWallpapers
A huge selection of various wallpapers, and very beautiful landscape wallpapers.
Interface Lift iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers, currently almost 400 wallpapers are available in the resoultion 320×480 for free download.
Interface Lift iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of iPhone wallpapers, currently almost 400 wallpapers are available in the resoultion 320×480 for free download.
Retro and Vintage
Cosmic Retro iPhone Wallpapers
A series of iPhone wallpapers by James White.
iPhone iTouch Wallpaper Pack
By GabO-GarabO. The vintage look rocks, baby!
Airbag iPhone Wallpapers
Two beautiful sets of iPhone wallpapers, created by Greg Storey.
The Antidote iPhone Wallpapers
Poolga iPhone Wallpapers
Very original, beautiful and creative iPhone allpapers from various designers across the globe. Very impressive.
Illustrations and Artwork
Camilo Bejarano’s iPhone Wallpapers
l’Amour iPhone Wallpapers
2 love-related iPhone wallpapers.
CMYK Lovers
Created by Guilherme Marconi.
Glennz iPhone Wallpaperse
A collection of very beautiful iPhone wallpapers (mostly illustrations).
Painting
A collection of cute painted wallpapers designed by Atelier 302.
Coffee iPhone Wallpapers
A collection of twelve 320x480px Coffee Sketchtoon illustrations. These wallpapers are free for personal use on your iPhone, iPod touch or Palm OS device. Designed by Mike Rohde.
Vladstudio iPhone Wallpapers
A collection of original and beautiful iPhone wallpapers, designed by Vlad Gerasimov.
Smart iPhone Wallpapers
A couple of beautiful Smart iPhone wallpapers.
Pedro Dale’s Collection
A collection of iPhone wallpapers related to art and culture.
Pixelgirl iPhone Wallpapers
67 various iPhone wallpapers, mostly cartoons and illustrations.
Iconfactory iPhone Wallpapers
86 various iPhone wallpapers, mostly cartoons and illustrations.
Various illustrations and artwork for iPhone:
Piktorama iPhone Wallpapers
Designed by Rodrigo Braga.
Apple iPhone Wallpapers
Abstract
Sarah France’s iPhone Wallpapers
iPhone Wallpapers Storytellin
30 various iPhone wallpapers.
Abstract Waves iPhone Pack
6 abstract iPhone wallpapers.
Fractal Wallpapers iPhone Pack
11 abstract iPhone wallpapers.
Abstract iPhone Wallpapers
A huge selection of abstract wallpapers.
Cosmic & Space
Space iPhone Wallpapers
8 space-backgrounds for iPhone/iPod.
Cult
Sources and Resources
Here you’ll find links to further related articles and resources:
- iPhone at Mo
- Apple Are iPhone Wallpapers
- thememyphone.com
- iPhone Wallpapers Flickr Pool
- iPhone – Wallpapers Flickr Pool
- iPod Touch Wallpapers Flickr Pool
- Quality iPhone Wallpapers
- sciphone.net
A growing collection of iPhone and iTouch wallpapers. 25 categories, thousands of wallpapers. - The Apple News Tree iPhone Wallpapers
Thousands of wallpapers in over 30 categories, including gaming, abstract, textures, sports, space, nature, military, cars and architecture. - Quality iPhone Wallpapers Flickr Set
- 320×480 iPhone Wallpaper Flickr Pool
- AirBag iPhone Candy
- PixelGirl iPhone Wallpapers
67 various wallpapers for iPhone. - Iconfactory iPhone Wallpapers
- alliPhoneWallpapers.com
A growing collection of various iPhone wallpapers. - AisleOne Typographic iPhone Wallpapers
- Poolga iPhone Wallpapers
A growing collection of unique, beautiful and creative iPhone wallpapers. - Flickr Pool: iPhone Wallpapers
- 55 Most Beautiful Apple iPhone Wallpapers
Collection of beautifully designed Apple iPhone wallpapers for your desktop. - Tutorial:iPhone-Style Icon
- 15 Best iPhone Icon Sets of 2008
- Create iPhone Wallpaper Using iPhoto 08
Shows how to create iPhone screen-sized wallpapers using iPhoto 08. - MorgueFile iPhone Wallpaper Pack
47 iPhone wallpapers, mostly textures and photos. - Make your own iPhone Wallpaper
Adobe Photoshop tutorial on creating iPhone wallpaper. - 370 iPhone and iPod Wallpapers
Download 370 iPhone wallpapers in this pack designed by manicho. - PhotoWalls for iPhone
35 iPhone wallpapers in this pack - InterfaceLift iPhone Wallpapers
Related posts
You might also want to take a look at the following posts:
- (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
- More (Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers
- Selected Wallpapers For Your Desktop
Covers wallpapers, dev kits, Flickr pools, widescreen and HD monsters and even wallpaper-related social communities and wallpapers for gamers. - More Creative and Beautiful Wallpapers
Covers fresh, original and creative wallpapers. - Selected Wallpapers: For Desktop and Web Design
Covers Web design-related wallpapers, and has dozens of references for Mac fans. - 35 Space and Nebula wallpapers
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Vailancio Rodrigues, born and currently living in scenic beauty of Goa, spent most of his childhood in art and creativity. At present a college student who likes to try and do different things at every moment. Also a webmaster, web designer and developer.
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January 6th, 2009 10:10 amWow. Just wow… I’m going to go make some now, I’m inspired. Thanks!
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January 6th, 2009 10:21 amHoly shit! Amazing!
thanks for sharing
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January 6th, 2009 10:21 amGot any for the G1?
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January 6th, 2009 10:29 amI love the designs, but there’s not much point in these wallpapers as you only see them when your screen is active but the phone is locked. Apple certainly went full-of-function over pointless form on their interfaces!
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April 20th, 2010 7:49 pmYou can use Cydia Software that come when you unlock phone in that winter board application you can see the wallpaper behind your application
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January 6th, 2009 10:30 amnext problem… explaining to my daughters why I had to replace their picture with HAL 9000
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January 6th, 2009 10:32 amWonderfull & very funny wallpapers! Personally love the Daft Punk wallpaper from James White! Thank youw!
Lol at fijis, yeah that one is cool too, someone should make App for that with sounds and stuff! Maybe really capable to have a sort of a conversation ;)
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January 6th, 2009 10:41 amGreat list! I forwarded it to all my iPhone user-friends.
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January 6th, 2009 11:52 amiPhone wallpapers is not really “inspirational”, I find.
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January 6th, 2009 11:58 amvery smart post, with things like these i will come more often with my iphone ;-)
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January 6th, 2009 12:12 pmFYI: The Pixelgirl iPhone Wallpapers link (in the post) is wrong, it links to IconFactory. Thanks for featuring my Robot wallpaper btw.
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January 6th, 2009 12:16 pmThe Wii wallpapers are hilarious lol
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January 6th, 2009 12:38 pmThe description bellow #1 is wrong – it’s referring to Veer’s link ( #6) instead of TypeNuts.
Great post, definitely will lose some hours downloading iphone wallpapers :)
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January 6th, 2009 12:56 pmCool…but sorry I got no iPhone.. LOL
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January 6th, 2009 1:08 pmVery nice.
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January 6th, 2009 1:14 pmizzz nice!
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January 6th, 2009 1:35 pmJust awesome pictures!
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January 6th, 2009 1:58 pmCongratulations for all the artists
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January 6th, 2009 2:03 pmHey there, thanks for featuring our wallpapers – the We Made This set. You’ve credited them to James White, but they’re by Alistair Hall.
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January 6th, 2009 2:31 pmohooo really really cool wallpapers!!
massive big up to the artists!!! and for you for putting them together!! :D:D
cheers!
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January 6th, 2009 2:35 pmExcellent timing as my xmas present (to myself) gets the number swopped over tomorrow and goes public :)
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January 6th, 2009 2:36 pmHey, thanks for mentioning of my Sketchtoon Coffee iPhone Wallpapers, I’m very honored to be included in the top 100! :-)
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January 6th, 2009 2:42 pmAs always, Smashing kicks out another great post! If only I could choose which one of the 30 I like the most to put on my iPhone… Decisions, decisions.
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January 6th, 2009 2:44 pmYou forgot the big source of iPhone Wallpapers in the planet
http://www.flickr.com/groups/iphonewallpapers/pool/Open to everyone, nicely organized with tags.
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January 6th, 2009 2:57 pmThat was crazy. I was just thinking about changing my iPhone Wallpaper and thought: “let’s check out if there is something on the smashing magazine.” I typed in the url and what did I have to read at the first headline? “100 (Really) Beautiful iPhone Wallpapers”. You guys are just awesome. Allways the right thing at the right time! Thanks!
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January 6th, 2009 3:32 pmTerrific Collection, well done!
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January 6th, 2009 5:51 pmMmm, lots of win here. It’s interesting that the most compelling ones (for me at least) happen to be nature and astronomy related.
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January 6th, 2009 6:36 pmi really like this collection.
my favorite though is the violin one – though, as always, they are all smashing, - 31
January 6th, 2009 9:36 pmI love the Daft Punk one!
most of them are amazing, but it would be great if you could do something similar for other resolutions
I mean 240×320, which is more common than the applemobile toyiPhone. I am suggesting some themes for Nokia‘s :-”
[which I probably will never get on this kind of site :( so... skip this comment ] - 32
January 6th, 2009 10:06 pmgreat designs
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January 7th, 2009 12:43 amouhh yeah : a great collection of wallpaper but I still not have an iphone !
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January 7th, 2009 2:46 amGreat Post!
Keepit up!
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January 7th, 2009 2:47 amI think these are really cool. I wish you had cited who all the artists were though. I know you linked to the original compilation sites in the titles, but I would have thought clicking on each image would take to me to the page with the artist’s name.
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January 7th, 2009 3:02 amAmazing designs…excellent collection of iphone wallpaper. !!!
Just great keep the good work going. - 37
January 7th, 2009 3:47 amThe HAL9000 is awesome… and I love the DaftPunk one.
I just need a iphone now! >.< - 38
January 7th, 2009 5:14 amDamn! I need to get an iphone… now!
the 18 hours of work were worth it… really… =)
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January 7th, 2009 5:30 amlove the clown fish. good observation
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January 7th, 2009 6:30 amGreat stuff. Sadly I got no iPhone but I edited all of ‘em to my 240×320 phone screen and all are looking good :D
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January 7th, 2009 6:40 amAwesome post! Love it!
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January 7th, 2009 7:49 amFantastic article, i’ll be exploring some of those sites in alot more details.
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January 7th, 2009 2:58 pmCongratulations! – on Alltops Design you were the most read article via popurl.
Thank you for kindly adding my designs, I am very flattered.
Best,
Sarah France - 44
January 8th, 2009 5:41 amThanks Guys
This is amazing, N1ce Work!!!!!!!!! - 45
January 8th, 2009 6:07 amAwesome wallpapers, love them all !!
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January 9th, 2009 4:51 amthanks a lot!! loving iphone n Smashing magz more and more each day!
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January 9th, 2009 12:33 pmThe Twitter.com Fail Whale is up there… that’s not really an iPhone wallpaper… it was stolen from another website as a screenshot. HMMMM….
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January 9th, 2009 3:09 pmMy iPhone really thanks you …
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January 10th, 2009 12:07 amNice!
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January 10th, 2009 3:26 pmWow… They’re awesome!!! I have a lot of walls but defenitely they gonna be on my iPhone screen ;)!!
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January 12th, 2009 12:23 pmi must say gorgeous!
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January 12th, 2009 6:05 pmGreat!
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January 13th, 2009 8:48 amThis is a great collection thanks.
The only problem is, this page (and most smashing magazine posts) are painful to view on the iPhone or iPod Touch even on wifi because they’re so long.
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January 23rd, 2009 3:20 amVery nice! Thank you!
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January 25th, 2009 9:38 amVery cool, thank you! :D
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January 26th, 2009 7:02 amSo what about other mobile phone user who do not own i-Phone…? =(
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January 29th, 2009 1:51 pmThese are great, but when are ya’ll going to do a post with wallpapers for the G1 (or any other phone for that matter)?
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January 29th, 2009 3:37 pmMajority of these are awesome…just pure awesome. :D
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February 1st, 2009 5:03 amawesome, thanks a lot
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February 3rd, 2009 4:53 amPlease, do us all a favour and skip the “(really)”´s in the subject. Seems to me like every 2nd new blog entry start with “xx (really) beautiful/useful/meaningsless/… yyy”. We all know – you really _do_ great lists on everything.
Cheers!
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February 5th, 2009 11:20 amGreat collection, thanks!
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February 6th, 2009 6:34 amThank Youu…*I Love These Kinds of pictures*
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February 8th, 2009 9:12 pmIt’s really really awesome collections. Thank You!
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February 15th, 2009 11:20 amamazing, Great collection, thanks!
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February 15th, 2009 12:23 pmlove the fact that the iphone in Sarah Frances pictures says “4:20″ , i lol’d..
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March 14th, 2009 1:24 pmSerious?
Some are ok, but they’re sure not the greatest. - 67
March 15th, 2009 6:22 pmWOW!!…Beautiful set of iPhone walls :o) check mine out here: http://inspiks.com/2009/02/09/iphone-wallpapers-gallery/
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April 10th, 2009 7:32 pmI really like some of these. Many of them seem a bit cliche and typical. You can download wallpaper patterns for your iphone or ipod touch at Farmidable.com
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April 17th, 2009 10:16 amjust matchless
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April 20th, 2009 12:55 pmVery nice selection. Nature ones look the best. iPhoneHDR.com has a bunch like that if you like those kinds of wallpapers.
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April 25th, 2009 2:19 amWow, most of these are fantastic. Having just started a graphic design course, these wallpapers are very inspiring.
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May 14th, 2009 10:18 ammuy interesantes las imagenes, nos brindan muchas ideas y nos dejan mucha enseñanza. widu
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May 24th, 2009 6:51 pmvery artistic!
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May 26th, 2009 11:08 pmThanks very much ! You’re the best and they are the best ! Thanks a lot!
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May 29th, 2009 6:15 amThank you for the great backgrounds. The expanding choices for the i-Phone is simply amazing. Some really cool choices here!
James
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June 11th, 2009 9:23 pmPlase, SM, you really need and iphone theme. I cant load more than one quarter of the page, cause my iphone doesn’t habe more memory
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June 12th, 2009 12:29 amCool! Thank you so much Smashing!!!
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August 1st, 2009 9:53 amThanks for mentioning sciphone.net, we’ve got over 7600+ Wallpapers and growing now :)
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August 7th, 2009 12:38 amg8 work dude.just now bought a iphone.really smashing magazine.
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August 7th, 2009 11:29 pmGreat wallpapers…thanks for the post. Came across a site which had some pretty cool wallpapers.
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October 1st, 2009 10:47 pmthey are GREAT THANKs ;)
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October 15th, 2009 9:50 amThanks so much. Just keep up the good works! go strong and keep going! Thanks!
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December 4th, 2009 9:13 amvery very mindbloing wallpaers goog job every
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December 27th, 2009 9:57 pmMy iphone is extremely greatful! =)
Happy holidays!! - 86
January 8th, 2010 1:20 amWOW! Amazing designs and excellent collection of iphone wallpaper. !!!
Just great keep the good work going. great article… - 87
January 8th, 2010 1:22 amWOW! great collection of iphone wallpaper. Just great keep the good work going. great article…
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January 9th, 2010 7:21 pmThese are soo amazing!!! I don’t really know who posted them but …. Whoever did? ….. I love you!!!!!!!!!! Thank you so much. I am so appreciative because I’m sick and tired of having to use blurry or usual wallpapers. AND! These are so beautiful. Thanks SO much!
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January 14th, 2010 9:04 amAwesome collection of wallpapers. I wish the iPhone had an auto rotate feature.
I have also found some great ones at: designeriphone.tumblr.com
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January 14th, 2010 2:40 pmthere is a monopoly of this post in its category!
ya,its true…… - 91
February 2nd, 2010 1:14 amits great of wallpapers of iphone but this is bad because its don t have category
thanks! - 92
February 5th, 2010 1:20 amI’m using an app called “iWallpapers” also contains many high-quality wallpapers(more than 16000 I guess), you could search it on app store.
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February 7th, 2010 2:56 amTHIS IS SOOO NICEE !! I love them all !!
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February 11th, 2010 1:05 ami just can say NICEEEEEEEEEEEE,
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April 12th, 2010 6:39 pmC hit!
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April 13th, 2010 7:40 pmHi. I came to this site through itouch and could see oly comments. Why so? :-(
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April 19th, 2010 9:24 amnice stuff.. i njoyed…..
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April 22nd, 2010 9:33 amGotta love these wallpapers. Love the free stuff for the iphone.
Get all the latest news and apps at 3gipadtablet.com/ all for free.
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April 24th, 2010 3:54 amI enjoy from your Art…
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May 9th, 2010 7:37 amGreat to share.
Guy you also can visit
Nature Iphone Wallpaper
http://www.keanhui.com/archives/946 - 101
May 9th, 2010 9:21 pmTruly beautiful! This site never disappoints me!
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May 10th, 2010 8:50 pmgreat ! thanks a lot
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May 12th, 2010 5:46 amGreat wallpapers thanks i downloads lots of wallpapers thanks you so much
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June 6th, 2010 11:03 pmNice post. Thanks for sharing this valuable stuff.
Guys you could also get wallpapers for your iphone @ iphonevilla.com - 105
July 1st, 2010 4:08 amAwesome collection! Check out my post I made a few iPhone HD wallpapers for download @ http://bradfordsherrill.com/web-design/iphone-4-wallpaper/
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July 7th, 2010 3:24 amAll wallpapers are really beautiful, especially wallpapers made by Veer.com, AlliPhoneWallpapers and Interface Lift. I love them. Thanks for sharing.
You can also check http://www.coolwallpaperfree.com/ to see more iPhone wallpapers. - 107
August 3rd, 2010 9:59 amwow!!!!!
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August 10th, 2010 2:17 pmThose are really nice iphone wallpapers.
You guys might want to check out this website for Pad Wallpapers http://www.ifullscreen.com. They have a crazy selection already. I was overwhelmed just with their celebrity section. There’s even tutorials on how to make your own ipad wallpaper! - 109
August 18th, 2010 5:44 pmwow! this is what I’m looking for! i love the set, specially the paintings, and the wallpapers from vladstudio.. sweet!
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September 5th, 2010 11:34 amThank you
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September 6th, 2010 12:24 amthose are really beauuuuuuuuuuuutiful! thanks so much:))))))))
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