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i like it, its neat, more control looks good,

yes.

It's too bad they don't have a phone to sell worth a hoot using the OS. Tmobile's sidekick is the best phone period for texting and email due to it's superb keyboard. Seems all these touch phones are just that--out of touch.

For those who criticized the lives times, look at the customizations you get now. Looks liek Microsoft has surely been paying attention to what customers have been saying, and granted them an option to resize tiles.

This is so many stepos farther than what you get with Android and iOS. Any dev can just like up icon in a staic fashion on the screen. At leats here, every person even with an idntical phone can have a very unique look, not just lining up app icons and arranging them so your favorites are on a single screen.

Proof that beauty is most definitely in the eye of the beholder.

Sorry, but it seems that it's just not in my nature to perceive these tiles with the silly, bland, clashing colors and square edges as being beautiful and appealing.

I actually find the look quite underwhelming and even a bit annoying and chaotic. I have the same exact issue with the look of windows 8. For me to be able to use a phone or anything else with these 'tiles', I'd have to, at the very least, have the option to replace all the silly, plain colors with proper patterns and minimal 3D effects, and add some curves to the edges of the tiles so that they don't look like they belong in 1985. Without that, I'm not touching this.

QUADICON, on 21 June 2012 - 06:18 AM, said:

Agreed! This is truly personal personalization!
Unique to Windows Phone only. Well, at least for now...
Nicely done MS!

"I actually find the look quite underwhelming and even a bit annoying and chaotic. I have the same exact issue with the look of windows 8. For me to be able to use a phone or anything else with these 'tiles', I'd have to, at the very least, have the option to replace all the silly, plain colors with proper patterns and minimal 3D effects, and add some curves to the edges of the tiles so that they don't look like they belong in 1985. Without that, I'm not touching this."
Says eMJay.

Until Apple copies it. Then it'll become a blessing from God!

Why would anyone want to add designs, or worse, 3D effects to a screen so small? You still can't add 3d effects to Apples or Androids icons.

I think its great, a specific layout that someone might not like is a shortsighted way to review this. The personalization is key. What other phone can you do this with? The numbers on the iphone apps just don't compare. I haven't look through the capabilities for modification yet. But one thing that I would like to see is location and time sensitive personalization. So if I'm at work and I adjust my home screen it automatically keeps that set for work and then when I leave to go home it switches to a travel set and at home at night maybe its recipes and then tv and games in the evening. With the ability to maybe slide through my daily configurations so that if I'm working late I can select the work layout.

I'd also love to see that on the surface. A device that responds to the context of our lives. Windows 8 is laying a foundation where this could happen.

eMJay, on 21 June 2012 - 10:14 AM, said:

I agree with you totally. MS really need to pull their stuff together. Colours are all wrong, looks old and outdated. It reminds me of Tetris. The whole menu system of Windows Phone is boring and bland too.

I really hate saying this because I was a huge fan of Windows 5.1 on my ancient ETEN Glofiish X500, but MS just let things slide and Android was born!