Hello new Windows Phone 8 homescreen
Yay! The tiles are doing a bit of evolving. Now they fill up the entire screen with different size tiles of your choosing (before it was only ever one square or rectangle, the latter of which you could not choose anyway).
This dynamic look resembles W8 a bit more. I think I remember seeing a similar tile layout on a Japanese phone and folks were mentioning that MS should follow that. If you’re a fan of Piet Mondrian, you’ll enjoy this homescreen.
Check out the new windows button. Also is this just a generic demo handset or lumia?
Also, yes to a huge phone if the first image is to scale :p (ok maybe just Galaxy Note size, max)
. Check out the curved glass. lol, the bezel here is insanely thick. Going back to the image above, it looks like a very lumia colour scheme.
Source: Engadget
Category: Nokia
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looks great
What you shoul notice is that this is the Microsoft tablet, not any Nokia device. Microsoft is just making their plans true, this is nothong about Nokia – the same way as Xbox is nothing about Nokia. I don’t get why here is so much preasure to talk about this. It is just a strategy of copying other’s ideas – in this case this looks really similar to some apple products. You cen see some similarities here http://laughingsquid.com/surface-a-new-tablet-computer-by-microsoft/ and here some interesting reflections about http://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyclay/2012/06/18/microsoft-announces-surface-its-new-windows-8-tablet/ . But I think this will remain unrelated to the Nokia’s devices. If they can do this on their own, then why they would share a profits with a 3rd side? And that is all about us and them.
…aaand Nokia is reduced to an OEM. so much for talks about Nokia being exclusive partner!
No surprises there. Although it IS a bit debatable, since the gruntwork is mainly executed by Compal, a generic off-the-shelf components factory. I suspect that Microsoft Surface is being made by the same generic factory instead of Nokia.
Nokia is a phone maker first and foremost (ignoring making rubber boots ages ago), that MS would develop their own tablet is neither here nor there.
It is an ok addition for sure, WP 8 in general fixed a pretty good deal of things, but I don’t really see anything which will bring WP more popularity.. (correct me if I am wrong)
what would you say is missing from today’s announcements that would bring it more popularity?
App folders or some way of organising apps by your preferred order (topics etc) and also the ability to “force” apps into some hubs if you want to see them there – e.g. for some reason the MS Photosynth app doesn’t show in my Pics Hub (may have something to do with it not being happy on my L710 as it doesn’t have Giro but still).
Glad to see more options on start screen and end of wasted space on right – so much for all the rabid defenders.
You already have that – organising tiles on your homescreen however you want.
As for better hub integration, that might be coming without having been announced, it’s not that big of a thing compared to what they did announce.
Hard to say yet. Todays event was more a developer preview than anything else.
New homescreen is much better looking than the old one.
The core kernal of WP7 was based on CE. Every smart programmer stayed away from WinCE for all soughts of reasons. I am very much against the Elop strategy but technical WP8 if based on NT should be good. If things a technically good they stand of better chance of developers and consumers acceptance.
Meego is the still best and if it was given enough people for these 2 years time frame then ohh my then…
It had hardly anyone working on it before Elop became CEO. Maemo needed to be given more attention in 2005, by the time Elop came along it was too late to do anything useful with it.
Belfoire used a Nokia prototype to demonstrate the WP8 (source: The Verge)
yeah, but it’s only for developers. But looks not bad at all. Looking forward to the next Lumia Smartphones! The Phone pictured at the presentation looks like a possible successor to Lumia 800
No, he didn’t even say that. It’s internal for MS, but it shows that Nokia is working closely with MS on WP8.
Saw it in MSDN stream as well, was clearly visible. Hopefully this means Nokia can quickly turn out an WP8 device because they already have done some usefull reallife testing with these dev devices.
Yeah, lets just hope so…finally Nokia has a chance to compete with Samsungs and HTCs of the world on crib sheet..it’ll be great to know what do consumers prefer (b/w Nokia vs. the rest) when the S/W and other variables are same, something we couldn’t find as Nokia never jumped on to the Android bandwagon.
PS: After watching the stream (doing so, right now) and noting the press’ reaction to the presentation and the upcoming content in WP8 itself, I m now a believer that there’s a place for 3rd ecosystem. The “same core as win8″ stuff is amazing. It really blurs the line b/w the usage of a phone and laptop for many day 2 day tasks. Android does it by google services, apple does it with integration b/w idevices…now finally WP8 takes it further from WP7.5.
Yeah, the ‘shared’ core thing is what the future is. MS is basically using its Windows developer base and customer base to kickstart WP. (In all fairness WP does still need to be really started)
They’re listed as one of the 4 launch partners. Nokia will have at least one phone ready the day WP8 launches.
Very nice improvements, but what about multitasking?
in case you did not see it, the only thing I saw them talking about was VOIP and location services running in the background. those two are biggies of course. unless I missed something they did not specifically talk about any other changes to multitasking/task switching.
I’m pretty sure I heard Belfiore say something about multitasking in general.
Has anyone else noticed all the pictures of the phones (demo) used in the presentation all have curved glass like the N9, 800. I have a feeling the N9 unibody design is coming back with curved glass and bigger screen (by Nokia ofcourse)
yeah, i’ve already mentioned this. The pictured phone looks like a new Lumia (800)
. Hope we’ll see this curved design with 4.0-4.3 inch screens 
Would be awesome!
4″ would be ideal (assuming they use something other than AMOLED or Samsung has a 4″ SA+ screen with HD or WXGA res), particularly if it goes together with a PureView camera. Not sure the N9 body would feel right with the PV bulge though.
it will come back.
No mention of improved(??) multitasking yet!!
ya.. gps based and voip based apps will run in the background. Symbian had this years ago
Except on Symbian when you run GPS apps in the background your battery is dead inside 2 hours.
*coughs* golden ratio *coughs*
Sorry to say, but I prefer the WP 7,5 layout – this is way too crowded, and is basically just another version of Android/iOS/Symbian…
Hope they give us users the possibility of choosing which layout we want!
You’ll be able to resize those tiles into the same layout that 7.5 has now if that is what you want. But I think switching to a landscape setup looks quite interesting but I’ll have to try it to know for sure.
actually, to me it looks like you will have to use the whole space of the screen but of course you can e.g. only have a few big ones and a few mid sized ones.
You don’t have to use the whole space currently so I would be surprise if that was the case, though most times you would want too.
But it is not quite as open as I implied–I believe you can resize to any number of small or medium preset sizes and you can resize to double-wide if the developer included that size. Presumaby you can also scale up a medium tile to be 4 squares?
You could very easily put a gutter back in yourself if you like.
You know what the best part of the new tile layout is? Microsoft has spent 2 years disparaging iOS and Android for their icon-based UIs and claiming that Live Tiles were some remarkable innovation and a totally different way to interact with your phone.
Of course any rational person could see that the Live Tile interface was little more than a crude, low-density widgetized home screen.
So what has Microsoft done? Increased the density and made the tiles smaller. Here you have what is little more than a high-density, icon-based widgetized homescreen that’s almost exactly the same thing Android has delivered for years now.
Kudos to Microsoft. That’s innovation.
no you idiot, they made the tiles resizable
Totally agree.
Resizeable?? When did having 3-5 size of squares\rectangles make it resizable?? Also, I don’t think MS will give third-party apps the option for bigger tiles.. So, it isn’t resizable,,
You get the most apt user name of the year award.
The device used was a nokia ingineering testing device. not a prototype device. It’s very big, with a lot of bezel very raw looking, looked like a lumia in a ugly case. It had dual core, and high resolution screen, very similar to the lumia 800 in the front design.
Also the top and lower end of the device was curved. Not the screen, but the body of the phone
I think this was the device that was spoted in australia some time ago, when they said it looked like it had the lumia body
still looks like mess
Really? How so? Oh I forgot, it’s you. Nevermind.
LOL!
It does look clunky because it tried to fill the screen with tiles and takes away the essence of WP7′s home screen design which was well praised by you and some here.. When people here criticized here saying that WP7′s homescreen was wasting the screen space, some here including you defended saying that it isn’t cluttered & clunky like the grids on iOS & Android. Ironically, WP8′s homescreen is just that: a grids with tiles occupying the whole area.
Personally, i would have gone with W8′s layout in the vertical orientation with 3 columns with some more space on the sides..
Nah this is actually quite interesting, i hope they make a flagship phone and use the maximum HW rq wp8 has (except for cores though xD maybe some quad or hexacores ?) imagine how fast wp will be with multicores
uglier than before
how about the home list view? Is it gone in wp8?
Still ugly as shit and uninteresting as ever.
Stability, fluidity, one of the best UI’s, 720p screen with cbd and he resolution, multi core processors, true multitasking like symbian, top notch build quality, out of the blue sd card support, OTA updates, and expect pureview tech in the making, xbox games with xbox live ….. blah blah !!!! and windows 8 couple with nokia maybe the deadly combo all wer waiting for !!! as usual nokia unleashes quality and has pumped life in the almost dying windows platform though the intuitiveness of Meego harmattan would be sorely missed …. windows 8 may not be for traditional users but thats the only option left if we want amazing build quality and pureview camera by nokia !!! the first nail in androids coffin has been struck and ios 6 has lack lustre features and more importantly iphone 5 is going to be a glass piece or a carved aluminium block ! apples pursuit of simplicity will be poisonous to their reign
Those widgets look nice.
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