What does your mobile phone home screen look like?

jawafour's mobile wrote:ASDA Mobile 18:28
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I don't have a smartphone... still rockin' 2G 8-)

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jawafour wrote:
jawafour's mobile wrote:ASDA Mobile 18:28
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I don't have a smartphone... still rockin' 2G .

Can I ask why? Having a 3g connection makes my lunch breaks bearable. Nearly all my posts on here now are via my phone.

jawafour wrote:
jawafour's mobile wrote:ASDA Mobile 18:28
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I don't have a smartphone... still rockin' 2G .

Get an android phone, the retro Nintendo emulators will blow your mind!

Johnny Ryall wrote:
jawafour wrote:...I don't have a smartphone... still rockin' 2G .

Can I ask why? Having a 3g connection makes my lunch breaks bearable. Nearly all my posts on here now are via my phone.

I'm outta work at the mo, Johnny. Once I'm back into that groove I'll probs get a new phone. For now, it's my pay-as-you-go text machine!

Errkal wrote:Get an android phone, the retro Nintendo emulators will blow your mind!

They look cool, Errkal, but I'm a bit of an odd fish about emulators. I'm not mad about them... but, yeah, if I had an android I think I'd just use it to be on GR *even more* :toot:

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Errkal wrote:Fair enough, personally I dislike them I would rather have the proper app, plus as nothing ever closes it is easy enough to swap between stuff.

You do have 'the proper app' you can just access data from it without having to open it up and wall yourself away from everything else on your phone.

It might be easy to 'swap between apps' but if you want information at a glance (and to be honest why wouldn't you) then you can't beat a good widget.

HSH28 wrote:
Errkal wrote:Fair enough, personally I dislike them I would rather have the proper app, plus as nothing ever closes it is easy enough to swap between stuff.

You do have 'the proper app' you can just access data from it without having to open it up and wall yourself away from everything else on your phone.

It might be easy to 'swap between apps' but if you want information at a glance (and to be honest why wouldn't you) then you can't beat a good widget.

I like them being walled off. I like swapping between things. Widgets just don't seem right...

Errkal wrote:
HSH28 wrote:
Errkal wrote:Fair enough, personally I dislike them I would rather have the proper app, plus as nothing ever closes it is easy enough to swap between stuff.

You do have 'the proper app' you can just access data from it without having to open it up and wall yourself away from everything else on your phone.

It might be easy to 'swap between apps' but if you want information at a glance (and to be honest why wouldn't you) then you can't beat a good widget.

I like them being walled off. I like swapping between things. Widgets just don't seem right...

Well that just makes no sense. Things are just better opened up...to be honest it sounds to me like its just that you aren't used to it.

HSH28 wrote:
Errkal wrote:
HSH28 wrote:
Errkal wrote:Fair enough, personally I dislike them I would rather have the proper app, plus as nothing ever closes it is easy enough to swap between stuff.

You do have 'the proper app' you can just access data from it without having to open it up and wall yourself away from everything else on your phone.

It might be easy to 'swap between apps' but if you want information at a glance (and to be honest why wouldn't you) then you can't beat a good widget.

I like them being walled off. I like swapping between things. Widgets just don't seem right...

Well that just makes no sense. Things are just better opened up...to be honest it sounds to me like its just that you aren't used to it.

The problem would be the number of screens I would need it would then take longer to scroll to the screen with the widget than just opening the app.

I used to use widgets on HTC Sense back in the day an pd it was horrid.

I like opening the app for the task in doing having everything in a different screen or multiple of screens just seems messy. I want to open Twitter for Twitter, GR for GR, hootsuite for GR Twitter and stuff etc. I don't want to have to have a billion widgets all over the shop.

If every app made a widget in the same way that did all the things the app cam then maybe but with a widget you can do only do stop much and then you have to open the app so you may as well just open it in the first place.

I think ultimately we do things differently and have a different way of using apps so will never agree.

Errkal wrote:I think ultimately we do things differently and have a different way of using apps so will never agree.

Maybe, but I still think you are kind of thinking of problems that don't actually exist to justify not liking widgets just because you aren't used to using them.

Of course you don't have a widget for everything and with the ones I use at least what its basically there to do is give you some of the information on screen at a glance without opening the app, if you want more information or to do more with it, you just touch the email or story showing on the widget and it automatically opens that up in the app.

Its a convenience part of an application that there isn't really an argument against using as long as the particular widget is well built, if its not then you just don't use it. You aren't forced to use widgets with apps that you have no use for, they just exist to extend the functionality of applications in a very useful way.

If you've never used them or only tried ones that didn't work for you, then you might not realise just how much they can streamline your ability to actually use apps.

Force Touch on iOS has basically replaced widgets for me.

I've had an iPhone in the past, much prefer Android.

Mafro wrote:Force Touch on iOS has basically replaced widgets for me.

That replaces being able to just look at a screen to get information does it?

Not that I'm sure Force Touch doesn't have its uses, it just couldn't offer the functionality I get out of widgets on my Android phone.

HSH28 wrote:That replaces being able to just look at a screen to get information does it?

I don't get why this is so important to you. You get a minimal amount of information without having to boot up the app, big deal. Incidentally, have you tried Windows' Glance feature? You'd like that.

more heat than light wrote:You get a minimal amount of information without having to boot up the app, big deal.

It depends what you mean by minimal and its not the same for all widgets because they are all different, they come in all shapes and sizes.

For new gathering widgets you'll normally get a picture and a headline at least, which is enough to decide if you are interested in reading the story without having to go anywhere to look.

I really don't understand why its so strange that I find them to be so useful.

What is strange is how strongly you feel we should all be widgeting.

Tell you what, post screen shots of your widgetized screens I want to see what I am missing.

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Johnny Ryall wrote:
jawafour wrote:
jawafour's mobile wrote:ASDA Mobile 18:28
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I don't have a smartphone... still rockin' 2G .

Can I ask why? Having a 3g connection makes my lunch breaks bearable. Nearly all my posts on here now are via my phone.

You're talking to a man who has granny nets in his windows and lino on his kitchen floor.

Decent smartphones are dirt cheap these days though, you can get one pre-owned from CEX and put you own SIM in.

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