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The times are event names. (and the all day is the times, not that I can be bothered setting that up for every day hence all day) As my work changes day to day, would be a bit pointless calling it work, the colour by the side also tells me what is, different colour for days, nights, working away etc. it also flips and shows three lots of three (customisable).
Facebook I purposely took on a blank flip.
3 is the network(not sure why it shows that, didn't when I was on virgin), but would show missed calls, voice mail etc.
News shows the top news and again flips, so shows more than that as well as pics. One of the tiles I would like more customisable as well as the app in general.
Runtastic is also a live tile, but no active event, although it can also flip between old events.

So there's actually a fair bit of info there or potential info. Texts I don't see the point of seeing half a message so number is fine, same with email.

Then lock and glance screen(all phones should have this option) both show time, weather(lock only), emails, battery percent, texts, calls.

To show that much info on android requires a lot of different widgets and rarely looks tidy. as they all use different design, unless you skin stuff. And android widgets are usually big if you want decent amount of info as they rarely flip. Then you also have the customisation of how much data and battery the live tiles can use. So it's hugely powerful. Fluid and useful. Phone is for info not for a pretty pic. Or do you guys stare at a pic rather than just launching an app and getting on with what you wanted? Also if you really want a picture then in 8.1 you can and set the live tiles to translucent as long as it's been enabled by the developer. All the inbuilt ones are and the third party ones I would imagine will enable it.
 
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DAnDan said:
From that screenshot, there doesn't actually appear to be that much information on there though? Just lots of icons for apps?

You've got the number of missed calls (I'm guessing that's what the "3" on the phone icon is), weather for 5 days, and a calendar for three days which doesn't actually tell you what the events are, simply the times. Then one news headline.

That's no more information than on a standard android screen, which does it while looking far better.

I agree with you entirely about having lots of information there is nice, but there just isn't much there in that screen.
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To be honest most of these pages are filled with minimalist Droid icons with the odd music/ calendar Widget on the second screen.
Whilst the icons look really nice in some cases, they offer no info, then open that app up to a completely different design language that doesn't match throughout the entire system, this was my biggest gripe, if I have to do THAT much work out of the box, something's gone wrong IMO.
 
But that's exactly what Android is about, to make it your own, to customise and be unique. Some will look dire and some will look amazing.

In reference to that no other mobile OS offers that kind of flexibility so people can say their non Android homescreens are useful with information on tiles and icons and indeed that would be the case but there's nothing personal about it at the same time.

From a design point of view Android vs other OSes, they approach the user interface and experience completely differently.
 
mrk said:
But that's exactly what Android is about, to make it your own, to customise and be unique. Some will look dire and some will look amazing.

In reference to that no other mobile OS offers that kind of flexibility so people can say their non Android homescreens are useful with information on tiles and icons and indeed that would be the case but there's nothing personal about it at the same time.

From a design point of view Android vs other OSes, they approach the user interface and experience completely differently.
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Actually I find the opposite to be true, whilst you can layout and design android a lot I don't find it personal. As with the WP start screen when the tiles get all synced with Facebook and people your photos and all the info you want from various apps. It's very much all about you.
 
cu3ed said:
Actually I find the opposite to be true, whilst you can layout and design android a lot I don't find it personal. As with the WP start screen when the tiles get all synced with Facebook and people your photos and all the info you want from various apps. It's very much all about you.
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I've not tested this extensively, but I don't see how you can argue this point. I'm pretty sure you could fill loads of Android home screens with widgets and so forth that all plug into Facebook if you wanted to...
 
Robbo said:
I've not tested this extensively, but I don't see how you can argue this point. I'm pretty sure you could fill loads of Android home screens with widgets and so forth that all plug into Facebook if you wanted to...
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If you could do it in such a neat way and same design language UI when opening all the offering widgets, then I would like to see it.
 
cu3ed said:
If you could do it in such a neat way and same design language UI when opening all the offering widgets, then I would like to see it.
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But if you were told once you do it, you can NEVER go back to any other design, almost all of us here would say 'no thanks'.

Yes, it's quite a nice design WP has, but it's very limited. Simple as that for me. (And I think many others)
 
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Recently picked up the S5. I'm using the Business Calander widget that was mentioned in the thread, seems good. I'm after a better weather widget if anyone has any suggestions?
 
Microsoft are still struggling to incorporate a way to organise all your apps without going down the folder route. Damn all these overcomplicated WP8 home screens look terrible.

For me 4-6 live tiles on your home page was always the best thing about Windows.
 
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pretty basic will more than likely change it around in a few days
 
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