After Action Center, are live tiles still equally necessary?

[Kebero]

I don't use wide live tiles (or, in the case of Facebook, any live tiles) for items I keep in the NC. I deserve most live tiles for weather, Cortana, news, calendar, etc. I do get my breaking news toasts in the NC.

What I like the NC for is filtering work emails when I'm on call or to see if a recent message was something important.

 

[Oliverspin]

Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

The tiles look cool, but what's the purpose of them showing all the notifications if you have a notification center at your finger tips that concentrates information more than tiles ever will?

 

[anon(7900571)]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

I can not see weather info in my notification centre. There comes the beautiful live tiles , I don't have to open apps after apps to check what's new (for instance here I can sneak peek at my local weather without opening the app ).

 

[TonyDedrick]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

No. In fact, I think they compliment each other very well

 

[2tomtom]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

No, because I use the double tap to reveal the lock screen to see if any notifications are there. I then use the notification centre for more detail. Other times I see the toast notification and click on it if it needs immediate attention. Or, use the notification centre if I just miss it.

Then sometimes I am aware of numerous articles from WP Central or Facebook and prefer to click on the tile as this takes me to all of the articles. Then sometimes I just feel like using the tiles for a change, a bit like changing the background in 8.1, it's just nice to change from tome to time.

Maybe, not having live tiles would be the least painful to live without as the lock screen notifications and notifications centre are must haves. Never thought I would say that but it's how I feel now.

 

[Taigatrommel]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

For me it is actually the other way around: My tiles kind of make the notification center somehow obsolete.
I can get more detailed info from the tiles in terms of calendar, my mail accounts as well as texts for example. The center only shows a basic notification. In addition my tiles are always there on the top of the home screen, no need to swipe the center down.

The only times I use the notification center for its actual purpose is when I am busy inside another app, get a notification of any kind and want to check it. But this happens rarely.

So after all for my use the magical center is nothing more than a place for setting shortcuts.

 

[David P2]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

I wouldn't say so.. the two actually go hand in hand.

 

[wuiyang]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

ok, people getting it WRONG BADLY, tile not only show notification, they also show lots of things, notification center wont ruin what tiles meant to be
eg: people hub - it show all your picture of your contact list
picture hub - show all pictures that you have
facebook - show picture, latest update of your facebook account
the weather channel - show weathers, temperature, wind speed and more
calender app and simple calender - show the date and event that are about to coming
and more...

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

Just like others have said, they actually complement each other. In fact, I'll tell you something that I feel supports this statement: the combo of the lock screen + glance and the live tiles.

The lock screen is capable of displaying more information than a single live tile can hope to share, but watch the live tiles multiply and lock screen quickly becomes a sort of notification system for your live tiles. The fact that the two happily coexist (and the fact that they're connected in many ways) is more than enough reason to enjoy the notification center for what it is.

 

[vish2801]

Re: Has the Notification Center made Tiles Obsolete?

Live Tiles are part of WP unique user interface and I don't think it's gonna be obsolete ever as MS is putting efforts behind making Live Tiles interactive.

 

[Oliverspin]

Wait, didn't I make this thread? It had a different name though...was it changed?

 

[WanderingTraveler]

Wait, didn't I make this thread? It had a different name though...was it changed?

It has, apparently.
I remember "notification center" in the title, so yes, it appears that it changed.

 

[a5cent]

Wait, didn't I make this thread? It had a different name though...was it changed?

The thread was merged with another thread debating the same topic. I shortened and adapted the name, hoping it would help posters from both threads find it again.

 

[salmanahmad]

Live tiles are what make the Windows Phone UI unique and notifications aren't the only things live tiles are for, they also give you a glance at the weather or news, etc.
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[David F1]

MS made a mistake, if they wanted to force out Live tiles, they should have just kept improving them and NOT implement the so-much-overused-pull-down Action Center.

Mistakes, mistakes, mistakes.

Because they didn't do what you think they should have done? You didn't explain why you thought that was a mistake. I really am interested in hearing it.

 

[StephanW]

I would say Action Center won't make live tiles unnecessary. Simply because Action Center requires action, live tiles don't. You only need to glance them.

 

[Aniket Mhatre]

Live tiles are identity of windows phone OS. I still use live tiles more than notification centre.
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[streifenleopard]

I was wondering too:
http://forums.windowscentral.com/wi...ers/275020-who-needs-notification-centre.html