UPDATED 12:49 EDT / JULY 19 2011

A“Small Tiles” Concept for Windows Phone?

The team over at WPCentral had an interesting post up earlier today talking about an idea from a Windows Phone fan at the XDA forums about being able to “halve the size” of the Windows Phone tiles.

Over at XDA, forum member tiny17 has come up with an interesting idea for a future Windows Phone UI design: long press on a start tile where upon you “halve the size” of it and then, optionally, once more, till it’s 1/4 of the original size.

The idea would certainly create more space and allow you to see more without infinite scrolling. In addition, it keeps to the Metro/Tile UI without any drastic changes to the paradigm. Only issue we see may be with the 1/4 size may be too small on some 3.6″ screens. Other than that, it’s seems like a pretty ingenious idea and makes you wonder if Microsoft is already thinking of solutions like these for the future.

See a representation of the concept at right.

 

[Cross-posted at Winextra]


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