Folders

missionsparta

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First off.... LOVE THE NEW FOLDERS. They animate nicely, the work better than I could hope, they still show most of your love tile updates (or what can be shown in a smaller view), etc.

The only suggestion it have is about something I have seen others complain about and agree with. With the new "triple" wide home screen (ability to go two medium tiles wide, four small, or one wide) is sometimes your folder tile will show blank spots because it cane be hard to symmetrically fill the folder. It would be easier if there were to "wide tiles". One that took up the width of the screen, which is essentially two medium tiles....and another that was a smaller wide tile that would essentially be two small tiles and take up half the width of the screen. Would love to see that size added as a forth, because it would make it much easier to fill in the blank areas on your screen without having to compromise other tile sizes.
 
I have a stopgap solution which may not work of you really like small tiles and blank spaces:
Emulate the WP7 Start screen layout.

And, I really think that the small wide tile would be a great addition. I'd like to have the name of the pinned item beside the tile design.
(To see how they're handled, it's being implemented by UC Browser.)
 
I have a stopgap solution which may not work of you really like small tiles and blank spaces:
Emulate the WP7 Start screen layout.

And, I really think that the small wide tile would be a great addition. I'd like to have the name of the pinned item beside the tile design.
(To see how they're handled, it's being implemented by UC Browser.)

Very good suggestion, but it still requires me to either make an app that makes good use of the wide tile, smaller or turn a small tiles into larger ones, when the app really doesn't use the real estate of the larger live tile to its potential. It just becomes a puzzle sometimes of compromise that would be made a lot easy with the smaller wide tile.
 
WP 8 OS has full width tiles on my Lumia 822. I use the full width lively live tiles to show off the Windows Phone to my friends. Very impressive.

I don't like the smaller "large tile" in WP 8.1. Are the small tiles then just like the size of icons on apple and google phones?