Perhaps the best widget implementation I've ever used.
![live tiles for android live tiles for android](https://i.blogs.es/4ac005/launcher-10/450_1000.jpg)
So we can discount any speed or 'glance' factors here. I'm just saying that they're not actually faster in terms of turning a phone on, seeing what you need to see and then putting the phone away again. Sorry, live tile fans, I'm not criticising the idea - I love them as much as you do, they're fun and often very attractive. Reversing the idea behind the video above! Phone back in your pocket in half the time a Windows Phone user might need.
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While on an Android (or, dare I say it, Symbian, from back in the day) phone you'd see static widget content and if you needed more then you'd interact with a widget directly (such as swiping through email headers) and then you'd be done. Windows Phone's live tiles are designed to animate, flipping between email headers or news headlines or favourite photos (etc.), meaning that to actually take in what you might need you'd need to stare at the home screen for 30 seconds while waiting for all the tiles to flip over or cycle sufficiently.
![live tiles for android live tiles for android](https://img.gadgethacks.com/img/19/70/63492904277654/0/get-windows-8-metro-style-live-tiles-your-android-device.w1456.jpg)
It's a fun concept but in fact the opposite was often true. By which the advert creators meant that one glance at a live tile home screen delivers what we need to know, while other mobile OS require a much longer study and so we miss out on life. The idea is that the Windows Phone 7 'live tile' experience means that our phone can save us from. This is the promo video for Windows Phone 7, dating from about 2010: Let's start with a video though, something light and fun to introduce the topic.