The live-tile design is strikingly different from the icon-based environment we find on Android devices and the iPhone.

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Mindstorms uses an easy-to-learn (yet plenty powerful) icon-based programming language, which is loosely based around Logo, an educational language developed at MIT's media lab.

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The AVR-890 and AVR-990 both feature Denon's newly designed GUI with overlay via the HDMI connection, and the AVR-590 and AVR-790 both feature Denon's new enhanced icon-based OSD.

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Rather than create a native app the BBC plans to allow a web-based version of iPlayer to be accessed via a live tile - or square icon - on the Windows Phone home screen.

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