Alternative iPhone Home Screen Photo
12th October 2009 at 5am 9 Comments Tweet a link to this on Twitter ↩
This alternative home screen for the iPhone by Geoff Teehan of teehan+lax is something I missed initially while I was away on vacation but is something I would desperately love for Apple to implement.
“We envision it behaving in much the same way that the list view does in the Calendar application. By default it may track things like missed calls, unread emails and calendar events. But what if users could allow other apps to feed into this screen as well?”
It appears as though Geoff and his team actually plan on building a working version of this which I hope will quickly be snapped up by Apple themselves. Check out their blog post iPhone Needs a New Home for a longer scrollable version of their concept that I can’t wait to play with.
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Also worth a read is Bruce Tognazzini’s Restoring Spring to iPhone Springboard where he discusses some alternative options for users with a lot of apps.
I love this! Very tastefully done and usable; Apple should totally jump on this. I have to ask though, was the time strategically chosen for the screenshot :p
This can be easily done, if you have a jailbroken phone…
Check these threads on MacThemes2:
teehan+lax’ approach
Gruppled – LockScreen theme
Matte – LockScreen theme —- I’m using this one ATM ;)
I’m as big of an Apple fanboy as you can get, but I’m not so blind that I’m going to jizz in my pants over someone copying a Windows Mobile (or any PDA for that matter) home screen: http://v4.mypdacafe.com/news/2008/12/14/1_1.jpg
@Dan This isn’t copying the Windows Mobile interface, it’s being inspired by it. The image you link to is great, the interface there is great, that would be great on the Apple iPhone – why shouldn’t you take inspiration from that to make another product better?