Creative 1520 homescreen layouts

Here's my home screen after the first real attempt at laying it out how I think I'll most benefit from tile placement. All the extra real estate makes me wonder if I should place my "core edge" tiles closer to the middle section vs the top where I had them on my 920.

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This is my layout with Skinery Tiles Pro. They don't support 3 Columns yet so i had to make my own tedious little layout...Enjoy!

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It has been a challenge figuring out what to do with all of the extra real estate...here is my effort so far.
 

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I am going to spend my day today actually

1. Designing my Start Screen on my 1520
2. Designing my Start Screen on my Surface as well

I love these examples so far but how do you use SKinnery Pro
 
My first attempt. Not so creative, but it's a work in progress. I'm liking all the extra tiles, but aesthetically it's a step back from the two column view (just my opinion).
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GreyWolf...I am using WizTiles Pro for that...

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Each of your "live" apps comes with a small companion program (bundled in, so there's nothing for you to do to get them) that does the tile updating every 30 minutes (plus or minus a few minutes). The updates can only use a little bit of memory and have to finish quickly (under 30 seconds), so they don't have a great impact on battery life.

Are all tiles limited to 30 min?? I'm pretty sure my email tiles update more than that...
 
Here's mine. I usually have my contacts/email/me up at the top because they are most important, but I still want to at least attempt one handed use, so I'm I'm putting them closer the bottom so that I can reach them.




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It has been a challenge figuring out what to do with all of the extra real estate...here is my effort so far.

I actually had no interest in using that app to group the tiles with my other windows phones... but with this extra real estate on this big screen I might give it a go. Nice work!
 
Surprised to not see any layouts similar to the 1 I've always stuck with.
Obviously changing the medium tiles in the middle for the full ones, but leaving small ones down either side.
I don't like the look of the full size one being offset to one side.

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I'm surprised that you're surprised that people have different tastes than yourself ;-)
 
Came up with this after looking at some pics. Originally it was almost all small squares so I got Wiz Tiles and used the dark group theme. I also got Skinery but haven't played around with it. I like this, but any thoughts and recommendations are VERY appreciated.




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Are all tiles limited to 30 min?? I'm pretty sure my email tiles update more than that...
System in built settings provide you options of syncing content / live tiles for less than 30 mins, but for app developers, its restricted to 30 mins at least.
 

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