I'm glad to see a positive article among all those "******" reporters.
The Windows Phone 8 Start Screen Is the Best of Any Phone
The Windows Phone 8 Start Screen Is the Best of Any Phone
You always have the option to keep the look of the current Windows Phone by selecting medium size tiles.I find it ugly. Many people found the original start screen to be too much accent colour in one place, and here you will find even more. This is information overload, and it loses the beautiful asymmetry. Quite frankly reminds me of those Metro-esque home screen mockups you'd see popping up on the Internet either as skins for WinMo / Android or made by some guy who doesn't understand design.
I'd be satisfied if they gave the option to bring back the right bar (subsequently, all the tiles would have to scale slightly). Honest opinion coming from a Metro enthusiast, but I'll probably get hate anyway. Fire away!
The tiles are now comparatively larger because they stretch across the whole screen. You can pretty much only fit 6 medium tiles now; it used to be 8. If Microsoft provides the option to restore the blank bar to the right, I'm satisfied.You always have the option to keep the look of the current Windows Phone by selecting medium size tiles.
The tiles are now comparatively larger because they stretch across the whole screen. You can pretty much only fit 6 medium tiles now; it used to be 8. If Microsoft provides the option to restore the blank bar to the right, I'm satisfied.
I think it looks great, on the Lumia too. Engadget has their gallery of the Lumia running 7.8 here:
Visualized: Nokia Lumia 900 running Windows Phone 7.8 (update: full eyes-on!) -- Engadget
Don't think I will miss the gutter one bit. Cannot believe so many folks are so passionate about that tiny space
Although, I am curious to see how the live tiles would work with 3-digit email counts in the smallest size of icon. Would we have to sacrifice counts for size?