The display is outstanding with the Windows 8 tile-based Modern UI but in desktop mode, icons and text are almost too small because of the dense resolution.
That's not to say the Focus isn't a sweet device, though: The vivid Super AMOLED display makes Windows Phone 7's colorful tile-based interface a visual treat.
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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It's actually liberating compared to Windows Phone 7's fixed tile sizes and years-old web code.
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Updates Streamed Instantly to the Start Screen: NOOK for Windows 8 features live tile image integration that delivers real-time updates right on the device's Start screen, including the customer's current read, specific progress within a book or magazine, latest periodicals or pre-ordered titles recently delivered to customers' Library, and more.
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Windows Phone and the forthcoming Windows 8 interface, for example, use a very flat tile-like metaphor.
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The blurry text on the left edge reads "property of Nokia not for sale, " which suggests it could be a prototype, while the presence of a Family Room live tile implies we're in the presence of Windows Phone 8 -- even if the WP logo is the old kind.
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Like other Windows 8 machines, the Surface starts up in the new, radically different, tile-based Start screen.
In Windows 8, you can revert to the Windows desktop experience via a tile, and you can further customize the interface with third-party apps which revive the Start experience and return Windows 8 to a 7-like environment.
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It does seem likely, however, that Microsoft's Windows Phone platform could play host to Home before even iOS, as Zuckerberg's referred to the live-tile OS as falling "somewhere in between" due to the licenses involved.
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