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The phone's homescreen is comprised of colorful, square tiles representing apps, contacts, and other tools.
Windows Phone 7 REVIEW ROUNDUP: Critics On Microsoft's 'Aggressively Different' Operating System (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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The phone's homescreen is comprised of colorful, square tiles representing apps, contacts, and other tools.
Windows Phone 7 REVIEW ROUNDUP: Critics On Microsoft's 'Aggressively Different' Operating System (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post 2010
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Whether Apple would put those widgets on the homescreen is another matter entirely.
CNET News.com 2011
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The homescreen is a visual Facebook feed for clicking through friends' updates, pictures, videos and web pages.
TIME.com: Top Stories Doug Aamoth 2011
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Whether Apple would put those widgets on the homescreen is another matter entirely.
CNET News.com 2011
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The Xbox LIVE action is available via a hub on the phone's homescreen, which is animated by the user's avatar.
Pocket-lint 2010
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Included widgets are WeatherBug, Twitter, Facebook, Clock and Finance, though you can only choose to display one at a time on the homescreen, which is silly on S60 5th Edition devices and leaves the screen almost empty.
Symbian-Guru.com 2010
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The homescreen is a "lifestream" that users can respond to with a swipe or a pinch.
Fast Company Tyler Gray 2010
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And so gone from the homescreen is the Start Menu and shortcuts; WinMo 7 instead uses Live Tiles.
Tech Digest geraldlynch 2010
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The homescreen is a mix of Windows Mobile's Today screen and a more traditional application shortcut list ala BlackBerry.
WMExperts 2009
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