Post your smartphone home screens

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I had the cm7 rom with a ics theme but didn't like it, this is just the ics launcher app its free in the market pretty nice imo
 
Thunderbolt - CyanogenMod 7.1.1 with ICS Theme for T-Mobile Theme Chooser
GO Launcher Ex | GO Calender Widget | GO Task Manager Widget
Beautiful Widgets with ICS clock skin
Widgets skinned with GOWidget Transparent skin

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Efficient, simple, and it works.

Currently playing with Widget Locker and the ICS lockscreen. Don't know if I can go away from the CM Ring lockscreen though.
 
HTC Sensation | CyanogenMod 7.1.0 alpha 10

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Oh, I see you can change the wallpaper now on the iPhone!

I kid...I kid...
 
Samsung Focus running Windows Phone 7.5 (Build 7720 "Mango")

Lockscreen:
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Homescreen:
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Is there a way to take a screenshot of your home screen if your phone is not rooted? Apart from taking a photo with a camera that is.
 
Doubl3KiLL said:
I like to consider myself at the forefront of the Apple haters club of America, but that is pretty swank, if I do say so myself.
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That skin looked ok to me at first, but the more I examined it, the more fundamental issues started presenting themselves (mostly with the icon set).
1. All icons have been hammered to the same shape, which immediately makes them harder to differentiate at a glance.
2. Some icons (YouTube, Videos, Messages, Music) have fake non-functional buttons on them.
3. Music icon is inconsistent. Photorealistic style doesn't match the any of the other icons.
4. Music icon shows a completely different product that doesn't bear any relation to the UI it launches.
5. App-store / Apple store metaphor on the App Store icon is not well defined.
6. Phone icon shows (what appears to be) the backside of the iPhone and its camera. This metaphor does not clearly define "phone"
7. Too much detail is present on many icons (YouTube, Videos, Contacts, messages). The worst offender being the Contacts icon.
8. The use of micro-icons on folders compounds all of the above issues. Many icons, when placed in a folder, can no-longer be clearly identified without opening the folder.
9. There's some pointless element-repetition going on with the folder icons. A strange triangular glyph is faded into the background of every folder, which serves no purpose (doesn't clarify the intent of the icon in any way).
The rest of the skin seems fine, It's just the icons that have me grinding my teeth :eek:
 
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Unknown-One said:
That skin looked ok to me at first, but the more I examined it, the more fundamental issues started presenting themselves (mostly with the icon set).
1. All icons have been hammered to the same shape, which immediately makes them harder to differentiate at a glance.
2. Some icons (YouTube, Videos, Messages, Music) have fake non-functional buttons on them.
3. Music icon is inconsistent. Photorealistic style doesn't match the any of the other icons.
4. Music icon shows a completely different product that doesn't bear any relation to the UI it launches.
5. App-store / Apple store metaphor on the App Store icon is not well defined.
6. Phone icon shows (what appears to be) the backside of the iPhone and its camera. This metaphor does not clearly define "phone"
7. Too much detail is present on many icons (YouTube, Videos, Contacts, messages). The worst offender being the Contacts icon.
8. The use of micro-icons on folders compounds all of the above issues. Many icons, when placed in a folder, can no-longer be clearly identified without opening the folder.
9. There's some pointless element-repetition going on with the folder icons. A strange triangular glyph is faded into the background of every folder, which serves no purpose (doesn't clarify the intent of the icon in any way).
The rest of the skin seems fine, It's just the icons that have me grinding my teeth :eek:
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Damn them!
 
Unknown-One said:
That skin looked ok to me at first, but the more I examined it, the more fundamental issues started presenting themselves (mostly with the icon set).
1. All icons have been hammered to the same shape, which immediately makes them harder to differentiate at a glance.
2. Some icons (YouTube, Videos, Messages, Music) have fake non-functional buttons on them.
3. Music icon is inconsistent. Photorealistic style doesn't match the any of the other icons.
4. Music icon shows a completely different product that doesn't bear any relation to the UI it launches.
5. App-store / Apple store metaphor on the App Store icon is not well defined.
6. Phone icon shows (what appears to be) the backside of the iPhone and its camera. This metaphor does not clearly define "phone"
7. Too much detail is present on many icons (YouTube, Videos, Contacts, messages). The worst offender being the Contacts icon.
8. The use of micro-icons on folders compounds all of the above issues. Many icons, when placed in a folder, can no-longer be clearly identified without opening the folder.
9. There's some pointless element-repetition going on with the folder icons. A strange triangular glyph is faded into the background of every folder, which serves no purpose (doesn't clarify the intent of the icon in any way).
The rest of the skin seems fine, It's just the icons that have me grinding my teeth :eek:
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The theme is called Legacy. The triangular icon in the folder the logo the theme uses throughout. Agreed some of the icons are fussy, but they still fit the overall theme.the music app used to be called "ipod" , hence the ipod controls on the icon. Like I said, many tend to be too fussy, but as a whole, the theme looks appealing & unified.
It is really a matter of preference.
 
DriZzLe said:
The triangular icon in the folder the logo the theme uses throughout.
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That just makes it worse... repetition of purposeless stamped logos that impart no meaning towards what the icon is supposed to signify, scattered throughout a UI, are something to be avoided at all costs.

DriZzLe said:
they still fit the overall theme. The music app used to be called "iPod," hence iPod controls on the icon.
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That doesn't help its case at all, the Music icon still falls flat on its face for the same reasons I listed before.
- Fake, non-functional buttons on the icon.
- Not only does it have fake non-functional buttons, but they don't even match the fake non-functional buttons on the other icons.
- Photo-realistic style when the rest of the icon set is more cartooney.
- Shows a picture of a completely different device interface which has no relation to the music player UI (it never looked like that on the iPhone, even when that feature was called "iPod").

DriZzLe said:
the theme looks appealing & unified.
It is really a matter of preference.
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Call it what you want, but that icon set makes some design choice that most design handbooks would consider suicidal. You would never see an icon set so absurd in any commercial software (the icon set would never make it past usability studies).


Sorry to derail the thread. To sum up, I've quickly grown to dislike that screenshot. lol :p
 
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DriZzLe said:
wow, talk about 'white people problems'....
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Don't care about design? That's perfectly fine, but there's no need to be rude...
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the icon for music app on an iphone prior to ios5 was a white image of the original ipod.
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And it was wrong then too. Apple flirted with breaking its own UX guidelines with the old iPod-shaped icon (nice to see it's finally fixed in iOS5), but the old iPod icon from Apple didn't have fake buttons/controls on it, and was consistent with many of the other system icons in styling.
 
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Don't know if it meets U-O's requirements for proper icon design, but it works for me. ;)
 
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EVO Design 4G, rooted, sense ui disabled, stock lock screen, TypoClock and Mood ICS wallpaper.

Runs smooth, runs clean, love it.

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Galaxy Nexus Rooted Stock ROM
Circle Battery, Beautiful Widgets, Minimalistic Text, Circle Launcher (hidden button), Pixel Rain (Live Wallpaper)

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The live fire wallpaper looks awesome in person on the galaxy s2 when screen mode is set to dynamic...

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