What is up with the bulky icons, widgets and so on?

[darylrue]

When I boot windows mobile this is what I have when I power it on.

1. 5 day weather highs and lows, current weather high, low, snow or rain and wind temperature. All about the width of finger. If I flip the keyboard it gives me more days. - App - Weatherpanel
2. 4 "lines" for mail. 1 sms, 2 gmail accounts and 1 exchange showing unread messages and disapears to save space when there are no messages. -App built in to windows
3. All my days appointments in really small fonts with a +incase I want to expand to next day. Usually 2-6 lines of text. 2nd day Defaulted - so I never have to scroll. past appoints fall off. App - TodayAgenda
4. Room for 1 or 2 nice to have items you can scroll to item that may cutoff if appointments are 6 for example.
5. couple shorcuts at the bottom for Magicall, power screen off, etc..
6. and a start menu to run your apps.

I always have my phone with me. How nice to quickly glance at weeks weather, upcoming appointments and unread messages with zero clicks?

Is there anyway to do this with Android and why not if it is so open source, why is everything so bulky and extra clicky? I have the same realestate but is being clobbered with atari size icons, text boxes etc.... Whyyyyy?

Please tell me that someone is trying to fix this. I hope anyone is on board with me on this. I see these fancy neat looking themes, and screens etc.. but I want content first and then doctor it up.

Ok months of frustration and keeping this in is now relieved. I pretty sure no one is going to replicate this but I would be in heaven if so, all that plus the apps, google voice integration and so on.