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.

[manekineko]

It's just part of the finger friendly design of Android. You can fit less on each screen, but each element is large and easily clickable.

I don't think anyone is working to change that specifically, but what you can do is download an alternative launcher. I use ADW.launcher, and it allows you to increase the number of widgets that fit on the screen and scale everything down in size I believe. Then you just stick on widgets for all the info you need.

[arrrghhh]

Exactly, it's the way Android is. You can change the lcd.density, and there's an app in the market that'll allow you to change it as well... Can't remember the app's name, search for lcd or screen resolution.

Sounds like you prefer WinMo. It's not very finger-friendly, but fits a ton of crap on the screen. If that's your bag, have at it - no one is forcing anyone to use Android

[demonlordoftheround]

Originally Posted by arrrghhh

Exactly, it's the way Android is. Sounds like you prefer WinMo. It's not very finger-friendly, but fits a ton of crap on the screen. If that's your bag, have at it - no one is forcing anyone to use Android

My thoughts exactly!

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[darylrue]

I prefer that piece of windows mobile yes. I perfected it over the years. However Android has many other things to offer, just shooting for the moon I guess.