Which apps have rectangular tiles?

[bigkevbosky]

Sorry if this has been asked before but...

Which apps have rectangular tiles instead of square ones? I don't have a bunch of apps on my phone, but the only ones I notice are the NOW app from Samsung, Pictures, and Calendar. Any others?

 

[TheWeeBear]

If you pin an 'artist' from Zune they have a double tile bigkevbosky.

 

[bigkevbosky]

If you pin an artist they have a double tile bigkevbosky.

Thanks for the tip, I never tried that before. I guess you'd have to REALLY like one artist to pin them.

 

[TheWeeBear]

I guess so, but you did ask.

 

[Reflexx]

I don't think any 3rd party apps have the big tiles.

There's some 2nd party, like Samsung Now and the HTC Hub. And then there's 1st party like Zune artists.

 

[martin_strahilovski]

That's neat option to have on other apps too! To choose do you want single or double tile

 

[Luisraul924]

As far as I know Microsoft hasn't allowed devs access to the double-wide tiles "yet". I'm not sure if they will though. It'd be nice.

 

[Mike-Mike]

can we list the ones that do have the double tile?

like I know of these:

Calendar
Pictures
HTC Hub
Pin artist to start


anything else?

 

[sayonical]

If you've used windows 8, some apps have the option to be double tiled and you long tap the corner and an option appears to make a single or double tile. I imagine the same thing will be brought to wp7 soon. When you long press you can move it or make it double/single tile

 

[sayonical]

oh also smart DJ playlists also get the artist double tile
OEM hubs like Samsung and HTC hubs

3rd party apps like Custom Tile Maker allows you create the illusion of double tiles as well spreading an image across 2 tiles with the same background color etc...

 

[Rhody#WP]

Thanks for the tip, I never tried that before. I guess you'd have to REALLY like one artist to pin them.

Agreed. It would be infinitely more useful to pin "shuffle all" to the start screen.

 

[Mike-Mike]

Agreed. It would be infinitely more useful to pin "shuffle all" to the start screen.

i would be a fan of that