Live Tiles are the heart and soul of Windows Phone, and no other phone has them.
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"These live tiles are the heart and soul of the Windows Phone, " Belfiore said.
The main change people will notice is a loosening of the live tiles concept.
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With one employee, I chose to act completely confused at seeing the live tiles on the screen.
Users will be able to choose between a small, medium and large size for their Live Tiles.
It takes a bit of gazing at various Live Tiles to get a holistic sense of what's going on.
Underneath the live tiles will be options to text or email your group.
As you probably know, there's no Start button, and the Start Menu is comprised of Windows Phone-esque Live Tiles.
Microsoft has taken its Live Tiles and made them more customizable, bringing a new small size to the experience.
The Start screen is always the most personal screen and Live Tiles on Windows Phone 8 makes that personalization possible.
The Windows Phone 8X by HTC was designed with sleek lines and radiant colors to match Windows Phone's new Live Tiles.
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Next up is the most significant change with Windows Phone 7.8, and Redmond's sole kudo: the ability to re-size Live Tiles.
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Windows Phone removed the family resemblance, but only temporarily as the Live Tiles presentation became the default look for Windows 8.
We also like that you can push the stick to the left or right as a way of speeding through pages of Live Tiles.
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The Windows Phone 8 start-screen lets you customize and pin Live Tiles with topics of personal interest, providing real-time updates that are uniquely yours.
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The Windows Phone 8 start-screen lets you customise and pin Live Tiles with topics of personal interest, providing real-time updates that are uniquely yours.
Live Screenshot Widgets in arcplan can display important metrics with real-time data, similar to what Microsoft is doing with its live tiles, but with graphics.
It feels similar to the Galaxy S III mini and we had no issues toying with the OS and flinging Live Tiles around the homescreen.
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Apple needs to innovate, live tiles, better integration with apps ect.
Three sizes of Live Tiles and 20 bright color choices including cobalt, crimson and lime mean you can personalize your Start screen to be unmistakably yours.
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In the first one, "group, " you'll find a set of live tiles (much akin to the Start menu), with each one representing a member of your group.
The Live Tiles and Apps pinned on the Start screen animate and update as notifications come in so you see which apps are calling for your attention.
The only phone with Live Tiles, Windows Phone has a clear, differentiated vision and the consumer experience has been widely recognized as being groundbreaking, innovative and fresh.
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The vivid and animated tiles fill the screen and are built for multi-touch compatible computers (although you can still navigate live tiles with a mouse on a non-touch screen).
On the Start screen, dynamically updated "live tiles" show users real-time content directly, breaking the mold of static icons that serve as an intermediate step on the way to an application.
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It doesn't help that they look the same: both have the same redesigned Start Menu, comprised of Live Tiles and native apps like Mail, Calendar, Photos and IE 10, among others.
Adjustable Live Tiles update direct to the Start Screen.
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Windows Phone is a good example, stripping out all the extraneous detail to present Facebook updates in the People Hub or on the widget-like Live Tiles the user has on their start screen.
Moving on, the Zone Touch Mouse T400 has a touch strip that you can use to move up and down through pages, as well as scroll through the live tiles on the Start Screen.
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