What Do Your Start Tiles Say About You?

[awesumjon]

I was a Gamestop the other day, at the cashier, when the guy next, at the next cashier over, me had his phone out. It was a Tmo Nokia Lumia 710. I got his attention and showed him that I had a Windows Phone too (the HD7). He told me how that piece of "eye candy" (and I admit, seeing it in person, it was) caught his eye and that he really liked it.

When he held it up to show me I saw his upper tiles (From here on Start Tiles). It was Phone-Messaging-[3rd party I didn't know]-Linked Inbox-IE-Alarm-People. Those are the ones I saw at least, but that says a lot about the kind of person he was. Probably a busy person, but one that likes to keep in touch with people.

My Start Tiles are Calendar-Phone-People-Messaging-Music-TV Show-Weather Live. I'm not exactly sure what that says about me. Some tell me what you think.

So, What do your Start Tiles say about you?

 

[jfa1]

My start page tiles are the first eight tiles that were already on the phone when I bought it. Added several more. To me it says this phone works for me the way I got it with some other programs added that is use also. The things I look at every day are right where i can get to them quickly and get things done!

 

[IanLorenc]

I try to strike a balance between tiles that are useful for me to see quickly and tiles that look good, if I get the opportunity to show off the phone to other people.
My current first eight visible tiles are:
Messaging/Emails
People/Me
XBox Live/FFFFound
Pinned group of celebrities I follow on Twitter/Words By Post

If I show off the phone, upon unlock the People tile starts to flutter through my friend's FB pictures and the Twitter group tile starts flipping through celebrity pictures, then regales you with the last tweet. FFFFound shows up the latest photo entry (occasionally slightly risque but you takes your chances!) and my avatar starts nudging his head into shot on the XBox tile.
Small but effective and delightful surprises for people unfamiliar with WP, to see.

 

[Pronk]

Phone, messages
Me, Carbon
Weave, Weather
IE, Mail
Pictures
Xbox, Facebook
Nokia Maps, Nokia Music
engadget, The Guardian
Prime TV, Wikipedia
Marketplace, Settings

They're basically all there as they're the apps I use the most by far. Luckily the arrangement gives me some colour - roll on WP8 and the ability to have different coloured tiles for different apps (hopefully!).

 

[dannejanne]

My startpage. I'm a bit more for looks than function. But phone/messaging needs to be quickly accessable for me as well as a calendar because my memory sucks. The rest of the social tiles are right below where the screen ends so I don't have to scroll too much to access them.

 

[Big Supes]

Phone | People
Calender
Yell.com | Settings

New Group - "Social"
Me Tile | Messaging
Linked Inbox (Hotmail and 3 pop business accounts) | Whatsapp
Skype | Kik Messenger
Facebook | Carbon

New Group - "Media"
Pictures
Zune Music + Videos | Marketplace
Youtube Pro | TV Guide

New Group - "Games"
Xbox Live | DC Comics
Nofoto | Amazon Kindle

New Group - "News"
BBC News | The Weather Channel
WP Central | Engadget
Vouncher Cloud | Groupon

New Group - "Tools"
IE9 | Office
Supertimer | Perfect Scan
Lists | Flashlight

 

[SteelSteve]

Phone, People
E-mail, Messaging
Pictures
Stocks, Weather
Nokia Drive, Local Scout
IE, Marketplace
Calander
Xbox Live, Connecivity Short Cut
Slacker Radio, Ask Zippy

 

[Winterfang]

Me|People
Phone|Text
Calendar
Friends|Work
Internet|Email
Pictures
work schedule|Calendar
Music|Games
Marketplace|Settings

etc....

I put people first.

 

[Judge_Daniel]

Phone|Messages
People|Me
Family|Friends from my Hometown

HTC Weather

Outlook|Personal Emails

Music|Speak To Play

Games|Carbon
Marketplace|WPCentral

Office|Wifi
IE9|My Verizon

Calendar
HeyTell

I guess it is pretty obvious that I put connectivity first. I love seeing the most recent stories from my family members and friends. I also Use my phone for music a lot, so it makes sense that I put them that high. I rarely, if ever, use the calendar, and HeyTell is just too new for me to move it up yet. I find it a little odd that I have IE9 so far down, since I feel like I use it a lot.

 

[TheDarKnight]

Phone - Messaging
Me - Fiance's Tile
WPCentral - WeatherMaster
Pictures
People - Family Group
IE - Live Mail
Work Mail (Outlook) - Lync 2010
Office - My Notes (OneNote)
Calendar
Music + Video - Games
USA Today - Goal.com
Alarm - Cellular Data
Marketplace - Settings

 

[darthhen]

Mine is pretty plain, my tile ordering:

Phone Hotmail
Messaging Outlook (for work)
Wifi setting Web
Data setting BT setting
Calendar (this is the wide tile)
Pictures (this is the wide tile)
Math Calculator Evernote
CNN OneNote

 

[red grenadine]

Visible startpage:

Messaging | Phone
Linked Inbox | People
Zune | IE
Calendar

 

[brad4560]

my home is all about friends & me LOL

phone - people
messaging - Hotmail
outlook - me
office -weather channel
pictures
xbox live - IE
music - videos
friends I contact most

 

[mprice86]

Phone | Contact group
Messaging | Email
Me | People
IE | Zune
Calendar
Marketplace | 4th & Mayor
Skype | Facebook
Toggle | Settings
Pictures
6 Week Training | My Fitness Pal

I guess that says that I like to keep in touch with people and up to date with what's going on with them, but also have time to be entertained. If I have a busy schedule I bump the calendar up so its in the first 8.

 

[black_lion]

Phone | People
Messaging | Linked Inboxes
Wife | Me
Zune | WeatherMaster
Calendar
Marketplace | IE
Photos
Office |WiFi Toggle
xBox | Bible
WPCentral | Maps
Music Artist
NextGen Reader | Baconit
Board Express | Milkman
Artist
Screen Capturer |WP7 Root Tools
Music Artist

And then I realize I have a lot of tiles on my start screen. I try to keep it between usefulness and looks.

 

[psiu_glen]

Mine is pretty basic:

Phone | People
H T C H u b
Messaging | Linked Inbox
Wife | Sister in law
IE | jiTalk
P i c t u r e s (favorites are pics of our kid)
Zune | Marketplace
C a l e n d a r
Facebook | Carbon

I can see any missed/unread calls, messages, emails right away...

 

[jfa1]

My startpage. I'm a bit more for looks than function. But phone/messaging needs to be quickly accessable for me as well as a calendar because my memory sucks. The rest of the social tiles are right below where the screen ends so I don't have to scroll too much to access them.

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I looked at your picture and that made sebns to me so I movd my calendar to the top where I used to have phone an people. I am getting used to it. Thanks for the idea How did you get the dark background tiles at least thats what you pic seems to show? Is that an 800?

 

[selfcreation]

TEXT ---- E-mail
WPcentral app ---- Board Express pro ( so i can Moderate on the go lol)
Xbox live HUB ---- People HUB
Weather app ---- Phone
----------PICTURES---------
Marketplace ------ MAPS
F1 calander ------- My account (rogers)
settings ------ Where's my timmy?
EI --------- E-mail 2
------------CALENDAR-----------

the list goes on for random stuff like IGN app + flashlight + to-do list + office

for the first 5 rows i like to have as MANY LIVE TILES as i can to give it that nice sexy interactive look when i show it off

 

[sconrad308]

Phone-People
Messaging-Linked Inbox
Internet Explorer-AccuWeather
--------Calendar-------
Email - Work Email
Market Place - Xbox Live
ESPN Scorecenter - Pro Search
---------Pics --------
Music& Vids - Local Scout
--------Now--------
Fox News - Me
Contact-Contact
Contact - Card Star
Bible

 

[lvalen91]

IE - People
-- HTC Weather --
Google Search - Google Mail
-- Calendar --
Music - Games

I get more Emails then i Do calls and Text so I use the notification to reply...
I checkup on FB/Twitter alot
walk practically everywhere
I Google things, a lot and get emails
And Calendar for my forgetful mind.

I'm borderline Looser and Actively Busy