{Disclaimer : MSFT intern. Opinions mine, not MSFT's} I purchased a new WP7 device recently - my first smartphone (HTC HD7S). The useful stuff on the home-scre

{Disclaimer : MSFT intern. Opinions mine, not MSFT's} I purchased a new WP7 device recently - my first smartphone (HTC HD7S). The useful stuff on the home-screen is actually v nice (1 tile for weather, one more tile for people etc). Also, here's an article on how 3rd party apps can leverage the tiles for notifications. It is obv. not WebOS-like or anything but it is a neat approach to delivering notifications : http://chriskoenig.net/2010/08/16/customizing-wp7-push-notification-tiles/ http://chriskoenig.net/2010/08/16/customizing-wp7-push-notif... Right now, the third-party app catalog is not exploiting the tile feature so well. I expect this to change soon.