iPhone Needs a New Home

Geoff Teehan
Sep 22 265

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I’d have loved for this post to be the introduction of our latest iPhone application. An application that introduces a new default optional home screen. A screen that doesn’t require you to scan for red dots with numbers inside of them. Instead it would display information and notifications of things that are new and relevant to you. We’ll all have to keep dreaming for the time being. Unless you’re willing to jailbreak your phone it simply isn’t possible to develop and implement this type of hostile UI takeover using the iPhone SDK.

Until then (we’re doubtful that sort of freedom will ever be available) Here’s how we might design a new home screen.

You can see from the screens it’s essentially just a scrollable list of applications and notifications. We envision it behaving in much the same way that the list view does in the Calendar application. By default it may track things like missed calls, unread emails and calendar events. But what if users could allow other apps to feed into this screen as well? If I’m a Facebook junkie I’d be able to tell the Facebook app to include certain feeds on my home screen. If I was a frequent traveler I may include the Tripit app to show me my upcoming trips. The options would only be limited by what apps you have installed.

Update: The demand for this has been too great to ignore. We’re building a working version of this. More details and screens to follow. You can follow us at twitter.com/teehanlax

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A scrollable screen of the stuff that matters to me.

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Application preferences would allow users to include certain feeds on their home screens.

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Jon had mentioned (as did Drew in the comments) he’d like this info without having to unlock the phone. I agree. If only development were this easy.

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Comments

Sep 22 4:32 pm
drew said:

I would like this kind of information without needing to unlock my screen, and an option of sorts to give my locked screen some select contextual information specific to me. Missed calls or weather and upcoming events to my current time would be the best. once I unlocked the screen the rest of the information would be available to me.

still nice ….

Sep 22 4:36 pm
JP said:

I would buy that app for a dollar. Ok maybe even $4 to be honest. It would be great for a home screen like this and I am sure that you could build an app that could handle this type of info aggregation. The biggest issue is just that it would have to be an app and you would have to boot it up constantly to get this type of aggregate.

Hey who knows it happened to coverflow and widgets. [well widgets were stolen] At the very least you might sell a few and make a few bucks along the way.

JP

Sep 22 4:48 pm
RT @teehanlax: Our interpretat… | Jeremy Bell said:

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Sep 22 4:51 pm
Dan said:

I’m with drew, this is what I want my lock screen to look like!

Sep 22 4:53 pm
Wayne said:

Looks like it’s based off of Matte UI, which I dearly miss using since 3.1 came out. It’s such a logical setup that it really stings that we can’t customize it in exactly this fashion.

Just wish Apple would suck it up and implement both this and something similar to SBSettings.

Sep 22 4:53 pm
Jake said:

I always wondered why Apple didn’t implement something like this in the first place. This is something that is useful and seems obvious.

@drew I agree with this as well, bu it would have to show limited information because of security. Also, I think it would have to be a global preference that is app-specific. However, it would be very useful.

Sep 22 4:54 pm
Steve Wanless said:

Awesome concepts. Hope someone from Apple sees this as I would love to have an interface like this – far more informative than a bunch of icons.

Sep 22 4:58 pm
Jason Long said:

Awesome work, man. Aesthetically spot on and the inclusion of third party apps is great.

Sep 22 5:06 pm
bryce johnson said:

Anyone else notice the time in the pictures.

Sep 22 5:10 pm
Steve Jobs said:

Thanks for the idea, I’ll have the boys get to work on it.

Sep 22 5:37 pm
Martin Kuplens-Ewart said:

sigh

That’s just fabulously gorgeous.

Sep 22 5:58 pm
Pak-Kei said:

Great! Somebody finally tries to port the good old Windows Mobile home screen back to iPhone, with better fonts.

Sep 22 6:52 pm
Yazzer said:

4:20 brah.

Sep 22 6:56 pm
Sep 22 7:44 pm
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Sep 22 9:13 pm
the beefer said:

Great stuff guys. Boggles the mind that it’s not already implemented. TSJ.

Sep 23 12:22 am
ankitshekhawat said:

This is what htc and windows mobile phones have been doing for ages.

Sep 23 2:57 am
Jan said:

This implementation already exists on jailbroken iPhones, there are a number of lock screen applications – so you can already have such thing if you are willing to steer into the dark lands of jailbreaking and your iPhone maybe not working etc.

However, this solution looks a bit more refined than those jailbreak apps (though Lockscreen Calendar which I use is very good to customize, it almost looks like an Apple product).

Sep 23 8:55 am
John Thai said:

yes, yes, yes.

I hate that pertinent information is a few touches in. There definitely needs to be some sort of an ‘at a glance’ screen like this. Customizable feeds would be amazing. A simple elegant solution here.

Sep 23 9:14 am
devolute said:

I think what you want is an Android phone:
http://www.larvalabs.com/product_pages/intelligent_home_screen.html

Ah, the joys of a non-tyrannical application store.

Sep 23 9:22 am
Philip Campbell said:

I’m glad that you did this. On many levels. Mainly because by now we should have it right? – nicely done btw. nice use of space. tweeted and reblogged on tumblr.

Sep 23 9:32 am
Dave said:

What a great re-thinking of the iPhone home screen. I hope, but not holding out for, that Apple would allow and/or create a framework for this. My iPhone 3G is my last iPhone at this point, unless they change their policies significantly before next summer when my contract ends.

Sep 23 9:32 am
Matthew Fedak said:

I can’t believe there is not an app for this already, or some kind of hack available. The default iPhone screen is about branding if anything else though not just usability I think. Did you borrow any design ideas from the AccuWeather application? Its looks very similar.

Sep 23 9:34 am
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Sep 23 9:49 am
Torbjørn VIk Lunde said:

I’ve loathed my Windows Phone when I had one, but if it’s one thing I really miss it’s the home screen(or whatever they called it). It was great for getting on glance information about your calendar and stuff like that.

My gut-feeling is that Apple IS working on something like this, but like with copy and paste they only want to release it when they are perfectly happy with it.

Well, at least… that’s what I hope.

Sep 23 9:50 am
Brandon Eley said:

This might not be possible with an application, but if this gets popular enough don’t think Apple won’t “borrow” from your ideas!

I think this is one of the only things truly missing from the iPhone at present… there’s no place to get a summary of even just the default apps such as Mail, Calendar, SMS, Weather, etc. But the ability to integrate other apps would be awesome.

Hopefully your post gets Apple’s attention.

Sep 23 9:53 am
Chad Engle said:

Guys,
This is flatout amazing. I think it is a beautiful home screen creation and something I would rock on mine. I love how you can see things from a glance. Instead of unlocking the phone and going into the app. Love it.

Sep 23 10:00 am
Joffrey said:

OMG, I love it.
Please Apple, make something like that!

Sep 23 10:24 am
Benny said:

Very nice concept! I would like to use something like that on my iPhone.

Sep 23 10:37 am
Florent V. said:

Nice job. It’s both aesthetically pleasing and quite efficient.

But i would like to point that many iPhone users are casual users who care for quick access to say games or a music streaming app or a Facebook app. Your mock-up is geared towards productivity tools, the smartphone way. That kind of home screen might not be customizable enough to tend to all users. I doubt Apple would do something very similar to that, or it would be as an alternative view.

Sep 23 10:47 am
Cy said:

I like this idea a lot – very good done! In general the homescreen should let you do several changes in the direction of personal and matching content.

Sep 23 10:59 am
Sep 23 10:59 am
Mike Cohen said:

I love this idea. It would so much more useful if the iPhone opened to an at-a-glance screen like that. It shouldn’t be just an application, which you’d still have to find & open, but it should replace the springboard as the first thing you see.

Sep 23 11:47 am
Denis Lirette said:

I have been researching this for a while, and seen different version that were only available on jailbreak phones.

I absolutely love the idea, not only that, the layout is quite splendid. I would easily pay for this if it ever became available.

Sep 23 11:59 am
WERX Design said:

I love it. Efficiency is the key, and the current home page has a whole lot of stuff that I don’t even care to look at on a daily basis. Great post.

Sep 23 12:03 pm
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Sep 23 12:36 pm
Todd said:

Well done. Until Apple provides something like this, I may just print out your mock-ups and tape them to my iPhone.

To take it a step further… I’d like the notifications (calls, SMS, email, twitter, facebook, etc) to be aware of my address book, allowing for a contact-centric “river of notifications” (similar to RSS “river of news”). I think I remember seeing that the Pre did this, but I’m not sure.

Sep 23 12:55 pm
Tanner Christensen said:

Bravo. Gets my vote.

Sep 23 12:59 pm
shawn said:

Those changes would be great. Aside from that I would love to finally have flash on the iphone and better customization of alerts for texts, emails, and profiles for ringing/vibe/silent

Sep 23 1:00 pm
Brady J. Frey said:

I’m just as busy as the rest of you, but I don’t want my home screen to be a prettier mockup of Windows Mobile. I like it because it’s uncluttered, I like to initiate my specific applications. I’d say you buy an Andrew or a Diamond, you’ll have these features for sure!

Sep 23 1:09 pm
Chris said:

Please let it happen! It looks fabulous!

Fir

Sep 23 1:17 pm
Jon Lax said:

I can tell you after using a Palm Pre for the past few weeks as a second phone, the ability to see email messages, SMS and IMs at a glance without unlocking the phone and launching each app is very handy.

Sep 23 1:18 pm
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Sep 23 1:28 pm
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Sep 23 1:32 pm
Paul Janssen said:

Very nice, I miss this so much… Please, let’s all report this to apple with this link:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Sep 23 1:47 pm
oscar falcón lara said:

I only hope Apple takes a hint and buys this from you guys or at least makes it an implementation for iPhone software update 3.x, it would be amazing to have all that on the home screen and to make it customizable, awesome ideas.

Sep 23 1:54 pm
Shane Guymon said:

I don’t have an iphone, but I do agree with you, this would be AWESOME!

Sep 23 1:57 pm
Mike Perry said:

I agree with others. It’s time the iPhone (and touch) had this. Having almost everything I need to know at a glance on the home page is the only thing I like about my otherwise awful Windows smartphone.

Sep 23 2:03 pm
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Sep 23 2:09 pm
Jason Walker said:

I love this, great work! Hope Apple integrates something like this, would be very useful.

Sep 23 2:17 pm
Matthew Spence said:

Yes, yes and yes this is the only think I miss about my n95

Sep 23 2:21 pm
Dan said:

If only your app could somehow modify the wallpaper image to show the content you want. It wouldn’t scroll or be linkable, but it would still provide useful info. Hmm, I bet the SDK doesn’t allow your app to change the wallpaper without notifying the user or update while the screen is locked…

Sep 23 2:26 pm
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Sep 23 2:42 pm
Aaron Evans said:

This looks perfect. Can I get it on Android?

Sep 23 2:43 pm
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Sep 23 2:49 pm
Chris said:

Make a Cydia app!!!!!!!

Sep 23 2:57 pm
iquanyin said:

thank heavens for saurik, et.al. this is gorgeous, and i like the “limited only bu what apps you have.” everything should be customizable. and it’s really nice looking, what you show here.

Sep 23 3:28 pm
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Sep 23 3:42 pm
Vivian said:

Amazing… maybe with a wallpaper.

Sep 23 3:54 pm
Jessica said:

Super super smart. I need this. Better than Apple!! I’d pay big bucks for this—and I never buy apps.

Sep 23 3:54 pm
Chaz said:

I was happy with my homescreen until I saw this. Nice work, hopefully they will pick up on it.

Sep 23 4:04 pm
jessica speigel said:

Seriously, great design… Apple should implement this and give you lots of dollars for the idea. I’ve always been really surprised that the default home view is your apps. No one wants or has the time to have to check three million apps to get all the info they need. Especially people like me who only have two speeds for checking email/facebook/etc; obsessively when waiting for an important message, or begrudgingly when people start bothering me.

Sep 23 4:17 pm
Sep 23 4:30 pm
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Sep 23 4:55 pm
frankie said:

hell yea!!! that shit is HOT SON wow fuckin A man! why couldnt apple do that shit wow thats nice man !!

Sep 23 5:01 pm
Johan said:

Nice but too muche WindowsMobile for me as well. And too much information. I always have x numbers of email, x numbers of Facebook status updates etc. Hmm, I will try to make my own suggestion, will post the link here later. If I’ll make it :)

Sep 23 5:07 pm
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Sep 23 5:39 pm
ikke said:

So basically along the lines of Gruppled Lockinfo theme? (http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16794932&p=1)

which since it is html and js would probably allow for almost exactly this design as well

I guess apple knows who to talk to.
(funny thing is I think the first lockscreen mods on jailbroken iphones predate apple’s patents, could be a fun prior art case ;) )

Sep 23 5:47 pm
Jason said:

Nice. I’m a fan.

Sep 23 5:52 pm
Virenf said:

Nice work, love, if you build it, I’ll by it, seriously, Apple should put in OS 3.2.

Sep 23 6:26 pm
bby user said:

so basically you’re looking for more of a blackberry-esque “today” theme? why not just by a blackberry? you’re asking too much of apple. (and no im not against apple at all, i have a mac personally). They simply will not make the phone as functional as necessary….. why? who knows? but i’ll be sticking with my blackberry until apple makes vast improvements such as this.

Sep 23 6:31 pm
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Sep 23 6:51 pm
E. Urga said:

I love this..if appel reject it put it on cydia. I gladly pay
4-5 bucks for it.

Sep 23 7:09 pm
Sep 23 9:01 pm
Rodolfo Tsvetcoff said:

I liked it a lot. But I think it´d work better if all the info was on the standby screen!

Sep 23 10:01 pm
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Sep 23 10:43 pm
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Sep 24 12:31 am
ankitshekhawat said:

i guess eventually apple will come up with some thing like this, although it would be touted as best advancement ever.

Sep 24 12:52 am
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Sep 24 1:35 am
Peter said:

Excellent layout! Wish Apple would do something with this.

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Frans Utt said:

WOW This is perfect!

Apple read this!!!!!

Sep 24 3:25 am
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Sep 24 3:34 am
Hans Bron said:

YES, this is it !! Like Dashboard in Mac OS.

Sep 24 4:24 am
Eugenio said:

It compliments the concept is beautifulst, I could have it for my iphone?

Sep 24 4:36 am
Sep 24 4:41 am
rik jacques said:

THAT ‘S IT! asap please ;-)

Sep 24 4:57 am
warbox said:

Wow that’s the word ‘wow’ – Apple by the default should do this since the first time but now shoul implement this and they don’t want sell it on Cydia Store, I’ll pay 4-7 for this very nice!

Sep 24 5:21 am
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Sep 24 6:25 am
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Sep 24 6:31 am
Joseph Quartson said:

Like the UI Guys… maybe one day!

Sep 24 7:30 am
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Sep 24 7:37 am
Scott said:

My mouth watered a little bit when I first saw that.

Sep 24 8:26 am
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Sep 24 8:29 am
Dickmol said:

I support 100% this app. I used to customize my HTC and I really miss these options in my iPhone. A home page like this could be perfect. My only suggestion is an option for user with confidential problems such as a lock screen and a home screen.
I hope Apple decide to apply it officially in all iPhone models.

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Sep 24 10:16 am
Phillip Platz said:

Even more exciting would be “Quick Look” integration into this home screen…

The ability to click on individual items in that list (an e-mail message, calendar appointment, or facebook notification) for more information, without needing to launch the entire application itself.

For example, allow me to read my e-mail message without opening it in Mail. Only once I click “reply” or “forward” or some such thing would the Mail – “chrome” I guess you might call it… the app, essentially – actually be loaded.

Same for a calendar event. I can click on one for today and get the additional information (end time, location, notes, & cetera), maybe even press an arrow on the home screen to see tomorrow’s events.

“Quick Look” with 3rd party app integration would really be the killer feature of this home screen.

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Sep 24 12:29 pm
rikemice said:

At first glance, I was all excited because I thought this was real.

Then I realized I shouldn’t get my hopes up.

Great idea. Here’s hoping it come true.

Sep 24 1:19 pm
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Sep 24 2:22 pm
rafa said:

my iphone wants it !!!!

Sep 24 3:31 pm
Perze said:

Awesome! Now my iphone will look like my old Windows Mobile Home Screen if ever they implement this. If zune can copy the ipod, why cant the iphone use the windows 6.1 home screen. FTW!

Sep 24 4:15 pm
tobiCOM said:

Looks great, can wait to get it!!!

Sep 24 6:21 pm
RDL said:

I’m using a similar theme now. Anyone with a jailbroken theme just install this theme and you’ll be happy u did! Takes some minor tweaking but very little. Most the things u need are included in this tutorial. I know VERY little about comps, tech, html, etc and was able to have it up and running in less than half an hour.

http://www.hackthatphone.com/3x/themes_with_winterboard_section27.html

I’ve been using it for months now with zero issues. No memory loss, no crashing, and no battery drain. I had one or all of the above when using other themes. I used Intelliscreen once last year and had so many issues with it a swore to never use it again so when I came across this theme I was super grateful someone took the time to create it.

Sep 24 8:07 pm
Graham said:

While Apple design fantastic products they just can’t think of everything that millions and millions of their users can. I find myself quite frustrated with Apple in their sort of ivory tower attitude. They will build it and we will love it is their attitude and for the most part they do get it correct.
What they really need is a decent feedback system that works both ways! It’s all very well to send feedback into their iPhone feedback form (aka black hole) but you never get any feedback (individual or collective) as to the suggestions. Imagine being able to put in a suggestion and either get an email or see a post on a forum that says “thanks for the suggestion. 50,000 other people have asked for the same or similar thing. We are working on a solution for you that will be available in an upcoming release.). Wow. Feedback. What a concept!

Sep 24 8:49 pm
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Sep 24 9:28 pm
Kelby said:

You could make a robust app that displays this information (in this layout) only on the unlock screen making it much more simple than an app that is complicated enough to need a jailbreak to display it on the default “Home Screen”.

Just an idea.

-Kelbstr.Tumblr.com

Sep 24 11:20 pm
Gustavs Cirulis said:

Great idea. I would like to see this soon. The existing home screen is really boring.

Sep 25 1:46 am
Raf Ketelslagers said:

dowload button NOW… please!

Sep 25 2:38 am
Oliver said:

Wow, I have to say this looks amazing. The design of it looks great and I think this sort’ve thing could really work. I like the way it acts as another page on your home screen. Thats a really good way of doing it.

Only downside though, might be the power requirements to get all that data. It’d have to use stuff like push notification really.

Sep 25 3:52 am
Kya said:

I would love something like this for mine! Lets hope it will become a reality.

Sep 25 4:24 am
Benjamin said:

I will be willing to jailbreak my iphone for somthing like this….

Sep 25 9:31 am
Diego said:

i need it! wonderful!!! please release it!!! :) thanks!!!

Sep 25 10:01 am
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Sep 25 11:12 am
Kory said:

This is almost exactly like LockInfo, without the application launcher at the bottom. I have Lockscreen Info running on my iPhone and have: – Weather (6 day forcast) – Calendar (next 7 days of appointments) – Email – Missed calls / Voicemail – SMS / MMS – Facebook RSS feed, just like in the mockup

It’s an awesome app, doesn’t seem to drain the battery, and is free!
The only downside is you have to add some sources to Cydia to download it.

Sources:
http://david.ashman.com/beta/
http://simonv.chronophoto.fr/cydia/

Open up the first source from above and install Lockscreen Info.
Then open up the second source and install LockInfo Matte UI and any of the plugins you want (weather, todo list, news feeds (aka Facebook status updates), quotes, Status Notifier plugin, and Twitter plus a few more).

Once that’s all installed, open up Winterboard and install the Matte UI. Then go into your iPhone Settings app and set up the LockInfo settings to your liking. Respring and you’re good to go!

Sep 25 11:54 am
Michael Allen said:

My first thought was, “I want that and I don’t care what it costs.”

You know, in case you felt like making it. :)

Sep 25 12:02 pm
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Sep 25 4:27 pm
Nathan said:

I have been thinking about this all month and your solution is not very dissimilar to my first sketches. If this can be done using the SDK with a developer account, then it would be easy to distribute in open source form without a need for jailbraking.

Sep 25 4:53 pm
Matt said:

Looks inspired by Larva Labs “intelligent” Android home screen prototype announced a day or two before this post.

Sep 25 4:57 pm
Jon Lax said:

@Matt It was coincidental. Geoff had already started on it when the Larva Labs post hit the tubes. Great minds think alike.

Sep 25 5:33 pm
Jeff Ballweg said:

Love the design. Consider the girlfriend factor… poking buttons means I’m ignoring her, but a quick glance means I’m merely distracted. Of course, the only information I can get from the current home screen is how many emails I’ve missed, which only serves to compound the problem.

Sep 26 3:41 am
Mike said:

wow, this would be a killer… will there be an automatic notification from your side once it´s available in the app-store ?

Sep 26 9:33 am
niky said:

seriously, i would get an iPhone if i were able to see this homescreen on it.
the only reasen i don’t possess the iPhone is the lousy screen design!
jea, an automatic notification would be something.
really great design!

Sep 26 10:04 am
Lee Wilson said:

Great post, I love the idea of having a ‘feed’ on the homepage.

Lee

Sep 26 10:29 am
Carlos Vargas said:

Not sure about the lock screen, but as an optional home screen it would be PERFECT. Tired of missing appointments in iCal…

Sep 26 12:17 pm
Alonso said:

Man that would be SO cool! I’ve been looking for something like that in a long time. I agree thay it would be great to see te info on the lockscreen…

I’m not proud of it… but i did something like that using some apps on a jailbroked iPhone… (lockinfo + hideclock + weathericon+ etc…)

If you guys are really working on that…. AWESOME!!!

Saludos desde Chile!

Sep 26 6:23 pm
Nick said:

I love it. Hopefully someone at Apple sees this and agrees.

Sep 26 6:40 pm
Andrew Kontra said:

OH NO! After reading this entry, I’m not sure I can live without that home screen. Nice work gentlemen.

Sep 26 10:32 pm
squint0241 said:

If implemented, it would blow away everything out there! And of course, I would purchase this in a heartbeat!! Pls develop this and make our dreams come true.

Sep 27 8:10 am
rnballstar said:

WOAAAAHHH
When I first saw this, I was like “OH MY GOSH I GOTTA HAVE THIS!”
It’s so beautiful. I wish you guys all the luck on building this thing.

Thank you for the great screenshots! Gotta love it.
I’ll spread the iPhone world about this.

Sep 27 8:24 am
John said:

This is beautiful. I’ve always steered away from these kinds of mods, but this one.. wow. Unfortunately, I’m 15, so I don’t have any methods of payment myself, but if I did, I would most certainly pay for this. Please keep working on this, even if it doesn’t end up looking exactly like the screenshots above. It’s just to AWESOME to abandon.

Sep 27 10:34 am
iPhone Home Screen Redesign [Concept] « Tech Eruption said:

[...] Read More [via Tidbits] [...]

Sep 27 6:06 pm
Monday Morning News | MacTalk Australia said:

[...] another new iPhone home screen concept on the block. The unfortunate thing is that apps don’t have background access, so as cool as the [...]

Sep 27 7:21 pm
Apple News: Image of the week: a screen of different beginning for the iPhone said:

[...] information without at least to have to unblock the phone. Route | Xataka Movil More information | Teehanlax Posted by Mike E. Zimmerman at 4:21 PM Labels: cell phone [...]

Sep 27 8:22 pm
E. Urga said:

I love this..I always looking for something like this.
I wonder how long before available? Please hurry
need it..

Sep 27 10:04 pm
Sep 28 12:16 am
Sam said:

nah Iv got a Brilliant Idea now iv seen it add the spotlight search up top and spotlight becomes your home page :). I’d like to see mockup I would of done myself but id be breaching copyright :).

Sep 28 2:01 am
Sep 28 2:43 am
iPhone, una home più utile? | Tekné said:

[...] vanno oltre ed hanno già iniziato a realizzare una proposta di applicazione che permette di realizzare una Home personalizzata basata su feed di informazioni da parte di [...]

Sep 28 4:15 am
David said:

I would buy that in a heart beat (especially the customizable version)! That is the only thing I am missing on the iPhone from the windows mobile days. Actually, I thought of a similar concept a few days ago but I was not sure if it was technically feasible to include 3rd party apps.

Sep 28 4:18 am
Joshua said:

great idea!!!!!
where we can see this app in our iPhones installed??? hohoho!!!

Sep 28 12:46 pm
iPhone Default Home « Raymonn said:

[...] at Teehan+Lax, they’ve dreamed up a pretty sweet looking default home display for the iPhone. It would look pretty darn sweet! [...]

Sep 28 3:39 pm
Mas Que Mac » Archivos del blog » Agradable pantalla de inicio by Geoff Teeham said:

[...] con la rutina de la pantalla en nuestro terminal. Geoff Teehan de teehan-lax, nos presenta un agradable diseño, en el cual queda modificada la pantalla de inicio del [...]

Sep 28 4:04 pm
¿Necesita el iPhone una nueva pantalla de inicio? | UR-VE.COM said:

[...] inicio de su terminal. Otros no, como es el caso Geoff Teehan de teehan-lax, quien ha propuesto un interesante diseño donde reforma totalmente la pantalla inicial del [...]

Sep 28 7:32 pm
jfaparis said:

Trés chouette !

Sep 29 4:12 am
Johannes said:

Nice!!!

Sep 29 4:49 am
Jorgen said:

This looks awesome – hopes Apple discover that the static homescreens are outdated – and that we want more dynamic and interactive homescreens.

I think the locked screen could be even more compact and with even more information – I have given it a QUICK try on my blog – dont blame me for the lousy icons – I was in a hurry :-)
http://jorgen.posterous.com/ideer-til-aflsning-af-iphonens-statiske-homes

Sep 29 8:47 am
Sep 29 10:41 am
Alexander Graf said:

I just wanted to let you know that I’m really supporting this idea! You can price the app at US $ 10,- and people will buy it. The only real alternative to this is $ 9.99 and it’s ugly and unstable as hell.

Make sure it’s possible to add custom sections via XML/JS(ON)/CSS (remotely hosted, i.e. add the url to an XML/JSON which then loads the CSS and data to display). People would need their own server but it would add endless possibilities. If you’re going to do that, feel free to contact me. I’d love to add a few sections for i.e. dopplr, flickr and my own websites.

Sep 29 10:48 am
Mo Jangda said:

It’s a screen like this that makes me love HTC’s TouchFlo 3D (it almost makes Windows Mobile bearable). Sure, the default iPhone Home is streamlined but it’s very, very dumb. Case in point: the weather is always 73 degrees.

Sep 29 11:31 am
LockScreen med bl.a veckans h said:

[...] [...]

Sep 29 12:11 pm
teehan+lax » Blog Archive » iPhone Home: First details said:

[...] seems the mock up we did last week of an alternative home screen for the iPhone created some buzz. We had no intention of taking it any further than a blog post but [...]

Sep 29 2:41 pm
sascha said:

god, this is so beautiful! i want it :)

Sep 29 3:34 pm
Chris White said:

Like everyone else, I’d love this, so much so that I’d be willing to pay $20-25 for it. I seriously doubt Apple will care when they see this ad the they certainly won’t be getting anything like this into the phone until—at least—4.0, nor do I think Apple would every give that kind of control to an official app. If you guys make this I will jailbreak.

Sep 29 5:05 pm
olo said:

teehan+lax team!

Please make this come true: firstly it is a great grafic design,
reduced to the max!
And yet a powerful interface for daily needs…

Makes the iphone finally grow up and at last behave like a real business tool!
I will instantly let go of my Rock+Intelliscreen interface!!!

Sep 29 6:48 pm
James said:

Nice, but nothing new. This general idea has already been around for over a year. It exists for jail broken iPhones. Nice interface though.

Sep 29 7:28 pm
Propuesta de un nuevo diseño de la pantalla principal para iPhone | descargar al celular said:

[...] diseño pertenece al equipo de diseño canadiense Teehan+lax, son famosos por internet gracias a que han publicado un par de archivos PSD del iPhone y Palm Pre, [...]

Sep 30 1:51 am
marcus said:

This is sooo boring… the same concept as all the Nokias, HTCs etc… but is it useful? This is a text based concept from the past…

It is easy to create a mockup but a cleverly integrated solution that is flexible enough to fulfill most users needs is much more complicated. There are more innovative concepts in development. If they will come to life and widely accepted has to be seen. Have a look at this:

http://info.vodafone360.com/de/experience/index

Still a video but apparently close to the final product. Connected people as center of your homescreen. Sonds better to me than the boring listing of items…

Sep 30 4:23 am
rodrigo said:

I like it!

Sep 30 5:42 am
If Only the iPhone Could Do This | thomas fitzgerald.net said:

[...] Teehan posts a very interesting mock up on his blog for what would be an awesome home screen replacement on the iPhone. If only Apple allowed you to do this. You know, if people made enough [...]

Sep 30 6:04 am
mac said:

oh, like nokias have had for, erm 5 years ?

but seriously i suspect a semi updating home screen to be introduced with v4 software. the random search page being a pre-cursor.

Steve will introduce it in a way that makes it look like no one ever even thought of such a thing before, while taking a sly dig at nokia/android/touch flow/windows mobile erm i mean windows phone.

Sep 30 7:26 am
kl said:

Noooo!

I’m not using any of those (I don’t care about weather, I don’t schedule meetings in iCal, I don’t watch stocks so closely, I have too much e-mail for it to make sense on homepage).

For me it would be as useless as Windows Mobile!

Oct 1 1:09 pm
Anthony said:

if this comme, i change my 2G to a 3Gs…great great work

Oct 2 2:32 pm
Math said:

In one word: awesome, and I agree with many of you, this is how iphone should have look like since the very beginning by many reasons, you only have a default number of icons by screeen, some of us have plenty of aplications, and some times it is quite hard to find what we are looking for, and to be honest, I would pay as someone said $4 or MAYBE $10 for it, if it had plenty of settings.

Good concept!

keep working that way

Oct 3 12:53 am
Jason Wendell said:

Wow, this is fantastic.

Oct 5 9:38 am
Daniel said:

Build it and I will come. Pay for it. I mean I will pay for it!

Oct 5 1:58 pm
iPhone OS iPhone OS 4.0 Konzept - chr1spy.com said:

[...] von Nutzern wie euch und mir scheinen Apple also durchaus zu inspirieren. Ob selbiges auch auf das iPhone Homescreen-Konzept von der Medienagentur teehan+lax zutrifft, bleibt abzuwarten. Auffällig sind die vielen [...]

Oct 6 5:21 am
Johan said:

Lovely work! I would definitly jailbreak for this on, and willingly pay $5-$10 for that one. It’s exactly what I’ve been looking for for a long while.

Oct 7 3:27 am
Konzept für iPhone OS 4.0 | MACazin said:

[...] wie endlich Copy & Paste, aber im Großen und Ganzen blieb alles beim Alten. Die Agentur teehan+hax hat jetzt in Ihrem Blog über ein Konzept für ein iPhone OS 4.0 spekuliert. teehan+hax hat sich [...]

Oct 8 6:01 am
Oct 9 3:45 am
USE DESIGN blog » Blog Archive » Newsfeed de vos applications iPhone said:

[...] l’idée plutôt intéressante d’une agence de design pour répondre aux nombres grandissant des [...]

Oct 9 8:30 am
Patrick said:

I’d defo buy this, great work ;-) x

Oct 12 4:47 am
Jamie said:

This look is achievable with lockscreen info and modding the Lockinfo Matte UI theme. See here http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16799453&p=4 post #86

Oct 12 8:52 am
Paul M. Watson said:

Interesting concept guys and it is something the iPhone sorely lacks. Related is that the more Push Notification apps. I enable the more broken it becomes. Android has a decent notification system. This concept provides a useful view of notifications streaming onto your mobile.

One question I have though is; why organise by app.? Why not organise by time? Let calendar items intermingle with ToDo items with Facebook messages etc. All ordered by time.

Oct 12 11:11 am
Thom said:

I LOVE it! I hate using winterboard, but this..

Is there already anything which had the same features as this?

Oct 13 1:06 am
Lyserg said:

4:20 ftw

Oct 13 7:02 am
iPhone Springboard Redux - Digital Evolution said:

[...] propose to combine a search (as it already exists), a info dashboard (as Teehan+Lax suggest it) and an app management (heavily inspired by Bruce Tognazzinis [...]

Oct 14 6:22 am
mark said:

This is a good idee. But what is wrong with it. It is to personal designed to call this a good idee. I don’t have a face book and I don’t have stocks. so this would be to irrelevant.

You can add a sort action so that the person can sort de information he likes in de home screen.

You must not scroll for information. That is why the iphone does not display that much information in the home screen. It gets cluterd.

The only thing I like is the top half. Time, wheater, calls and agenda. The rest I would not need.

Oct 15 4:31 am
Chetto said:

@mark
In fact, the article says “Application preferences would allow users to include certain feeds on their home screens.”

Oct 15 4:54 am
Branedy said:

Or you people could just just buy a Nokia S40 or S60 phone and turn on the ‘Active Desktop’. Everything you show, is already available there!

Oct 15 5:21 am
Janet Hancock said:

This really floats my boat. I can’t believe Apple hasn’t thought of this already?!

Oct 15 8:47 am
Re-Imagined iPhone Home Screen | MacOZine.com said:

[...] sanction this sufficiently good of modification to its magical manoeuvre. Maybe someday. Fit out their view of a unknown iPhone Composed Screen on their [...]

Oct 15 10:47 am
name said:

check out “lockscreen info” on david.ashman.com(cydia source).

Oct 15 11:54 am
Pit said:

I’m desperately searching for a way to display received push messages on the lockscreen as the current apple’s implementation fails miserably when you receive 50 messages from 5 apps per day. I want them arranged by app and organized as finger-scrolled list on the lockscreen.
But can’t find any solution. Can you suggest me one?
Or maybe this project fills my needs?

Oct 15 12:19 pm
koenig said:

Yes, this is the homescreen which is needed for future iPhone versions. For business purposes there is actually no possibility to get a summary of current infos such as upcoming appointments etc I hope that Apple will take over your ideas asap. Very good!! I am waiting so long for this iPhone homescreen.

Oct 19 12:13 pm
ks99 said:

The cydia source is actually david.ashman.com/beta and it’s themeable.

My favorite is gruppled lock info theme. http://macthemes2.net/forum/viewtopic.php?id=16794932

Definitely worth a look if you want this info on your lock screen.

That and notifier/reminder app.

Oct 20 5:46 pm
sonic fast food said:

Thanks!!! Nice post!

Oct 23 3:32 am
dsi r4 said:

Hi Guy’s,
This looks awesome – hopes Apple discover that the static homescreens are outdated – and that we want more dynamic and interactive homescreens. Thanks For Sharing valuable information…..

Oct 23 2:25 pm
Acebone said:

That looks exactly (the idea looks, not the looks of it) like the Today Screen on Windows Mobile, or titanium on Windows Phone :)

Oct 23 10:15 pm
keyanu said:

great idea! IT’LL happen…..eventually. what’s jailbreak? i’ll do it, or is it detrimental?

Oct 23 10:43 pm
newmac said:

Yes YES!! That is sooo needed; I’ve been waiting soo long; I can’t stand staring at a bunch of apps in a row with no information. Will this be available on the itunes app store or will the phone have to be jailbroken? Hope its available soon on the store so we don’t have to download cydia; I stopped jailbreaking long ago….
What will it be called?
Thanks;

Oct 27 1:36 am
10 User Experience Related Resources & Findings | Fuel Your Apps said:

[...] iPhone Needs a New Home [...]

Oct 30 10:08 am
Martin said:

Looks soooo great. Hope you can make this super app work. I also hope that you will include the option to show more than only today’s appointments on the screen. so that it could fx. show the next 3 days appointmens or so.

Nov 1 9:03 am
iNotice said:

Some of you are missing the real point. The REAL point is that it’s 4:20 and we’re talking about iphone apps…massive conflict of interest!

Nov 1 1:42 pm
Joost said:

Yes – this what I´ve been wating for – lets have :-) I´ll pay 10 usd…

Nov 3 12:34 pm
Joost said:

Okay, okay 15 usd :-)

Nov 5 4:42 pm
Mike said:

I would jailbreak for this. I would also pay $20-25 for a legit app as well. I have jailbroken in the past, and never really thought it was worth it. I don’t like many of the “themes” because I want my iPhone to look like an Apple product, that’s why I bought it. But if this app was available (with or without being on the lock screen) I’d jailbreak again. Great work

Nov 5 7:18 pm
Testing | Maroon Bytes said:

[...] 2) iPhone Home Screen Prototype [...]

Nov 7 12:52 am
YouTube Round Up: iPhone Wishlist Fetishism | MacTalk Australia said:

[...] by the design geniuses Teehan+Lax, this idea displays things important to you such as weather, stocks and email. Not just a frigging [...]

Nov 8 1:27 pm
zippy said:

You guys aren’t working hard and fast enough.. ;-) My god ; its 2009 and and the apple community doesn’t have a home screen like that in their pocket yet? It doesn’t yet exist? Then we are still in the dark ages…..

Nov 8 6:36 pm
olo said:

how is your cooperation with Saurik growing? Your tweet remained silent for quite some time….
Or are you going your own ways?

Nov 9 8:41 am
Joost said:

I think its allmost there :-) (hope) but until then its LockInfo and LockInfo.theme that does the job for me…

Nov 9 11:19 am
olo said:

according to Saurik: he is almost done with the framework… :-))

Nov 9 12:26 pm
teehan+lax » Blog Archive » The iPhone Lock Screen is Coming said:

[...] seems the screens we shared of an alternative home screen for the iPhone created some buzz. We had no intention of taking it any further than a blog post but [...]

Nov 11 3:37 am
¿Necesita el iPhone una nueva pantalla de bienvenida? said:

[...] Eso es lo que piensan algunos desarrolladores, y esta es su propuesta: [...]

Nov 12 10:10 am
Ced Funches said:

This would be a great thing to have. Clean and accessible. Please include me in any beta testing of this app! You guys really do a great job with smart design.

Nov 12 7:22 pm
Marius M. said:

This is a really nice mockup, although there are some weird components in it. I mean, why do I need a clock on my main screen, if I’m already having it within my top-bar? Also, why is the weather information displayed another way than every other information is? Would there be a possibility for an App developer to decide (and maybe abuse) the way of how his app gets displayed on the home screen? This would lead to inconsistency and to that what we had with Nokias and Blackberries for too long.

Don’t get me wrong, I really like the idea, it’s interesting. But there are some things that need to be re-thought – especially when it comes to such heavy content and the question “Wait… where did my one-hundred-and-eight Apps go?!”. :-)

Good work, keep it up!

Nov 13 10:14 am
iPhone Lock Screen « Hellofath.com said:

[...] to know that they are developing the working alternate home screen for iPhone. It’s super cool in my opinion. Oh, you can read their blog post for more details [...]

Nov 13 11:21 am
AppleReviews said:

This is all wrong. Too much like a HTC!

Nov 13 3:15 pm
Element – Lock Screen Mod Coming Soon | Apple iPhone School said:

[...] is a lock screen mod that began as a concept and has turned into the real thing. Since it began as a concept back in September, there [...]

Nov 13 4:30 pm
Tyler Betances said:

Seriously Apple “Think invoiation” is more like “patent the shit out of things were not going to use.” This is an amazing mod Apple sometimes has no sense of the consumer!

Nov 14 12:59 am
Awesome Lock Screen Mod Coming To JB iPhones – Element | iPhoneIndiaBlog.com said:

[...] is the blog post of T+L: It seems the screens we shared of an alternative home screen for the iPhone created some buzz. We had no intention of taking it any further than a blog post but [...]

Nov 14 4:42 am
Nou homescreen pentru iPhone : iPhone – tutoriale jailbreaking, unlock, customizare, jocuri said:

[...] concept pentru homescreen-ul iPhone-ului creat de Teehan&Lax prezentat cu ceva timp in urma incepe sa devina realitate datorita lui Saurik, prin introducerea Cydget, un [...]

Nov 14 5:34 am
Element – Lock Screen Mod Coming Soon | APPLE iPHONE | www.AppleiPhoneHeadquarters.com said:

[...] is a lock screen mod that began as a concept and has turned into the real thing. Since it began as a concept back in September, there [...]

Nov 14 8:51 am
iPhone lockscreen done right | Road Monkeys said:

[...] searching Google for an alternative I came across this post. Turns out the developer of Cydia is building a brand new framework called “Cydget” for [...]

Nov 14 6:52 pm
Stefan said:

please make it trasparent! great!

Nov 15 1:00 pm
Geoff said:

Sorry Stefan, there won’t be a transparency option. IMO It makes the text too difficult to read. That, and it starts looking very unapple-like.

Nov 15 4:17 pm
HarukiOn said:

loved, for me it’s better than the oficial…. love HTC and Blackberry layout….
I hope one day (could be a miracle) it can be on Itunes Store to sell.

Nov 16 12:04 am
Amith GC said:

will be waiting for this to release…. hope it has more features than lockInfo app

Nov 16 6:14 am
iPhone aktiv startskärm | Daily iPhone - ajfone på svenska! said:

[...] deras utveckling på deras Twitter, Blogg eller hemsida. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: [...]

Nov 16 2:03 pm
Element – Lock Screen Mod Coming Next Week | iPhone Hellas said:

[...] Element είναι ένα lock screen mod που ξεκίνησε σαν concept τον περασμένο Σεπτέμβριο και τώρα αρχίζει να [...]

Nov 16 3:19 pm
iPhone-blog.info said:

[...] diese Wochen soll die erste Beta Version veröffentlicht werden. Weitere Inforamtionen dazu können hier und hier entnommen [...]

Nov 17 8:41 am
Element, LE futur Lockscreen? « iPhone Astuces said:

[...] LE futur Lockscreen? Le 22 septembre, Geoff Teehan publie sur son blog sa vision du Lockscreen tel qu’il aurait du l’être à la base. Et depuis, [...]

Nov 17 5:32 pm
Emanuel said:

It’s amazing that you are doing this. Thank you so much, I’m certainly willing to pay for such an app, and I love how it looks.
Would make life with an iPhone so much better.

Nov 21 2:39 am
Lock Screen pour iPhone, une bêta cette semaine ? « AppleIsaPro said:

[...] semaine ? novembre 21, 2009 appleisapro Laisser un commentaire Voir les commentaires À l’origine, Lock Screen n’était qu’un concept imaginé pour l’iPhone : remplacer de la [...]

Nov 21 3:41 am
Jamal Ahmad said:

I’d pay good money for this! that’s if it existed. I had a HP palm like thing & an XDA (Still got them somewhere rotting in the back of a draw) I always liked the organiser home screen feature on them and I used it all the time, it helped be more efficient.

The iphone is an excellent phone, if it does get this feature in the near future, it’ll be another notch on it massive belt. So Steve if your reading this – take a note! We want this!

Nov 23 1:45 pm
Rolf Jacob said:

When is this beautiful Screeen able to download ??

Nov 28 11:46 am
ame235 said:

Hello, love this bluePrint,
as i couldn’t wait to have this on my LockScreen so I made a theme for LockInfo. I’ts working perfectly for the moment but i did’nt do any kind of debugging other than on my phone.
here is a link:
http://www.ame235.com/ame235/2009/11/28/566/

Please let me know if you want to have one copy, test it, “refuse it”. whatever XD

Nov 30 12:18 pm
iPhone Needs a New Home « Day and Age said:

[...] re-imagining of the iPhone home screen by Geoff [...]

Dec 1 8:39 am
Grid Design said:

This is fantastic. I hope that Apple are listening as this makes the phone a real, easy-to-use tool that would pay dividends to the business users. I think the current home screen design is good, but it is more suited to the iPod Touch. The iPhone is, or should be sold as, a productivity tool and your design amplifies the fact. Nice one!

Dec 4 6:17 pm
ame235 said:

Will release my version of this design tomorrow.
Made a Winterboard Theme for LockInfo app. All the people that saw my iPhone asked: what phone is that? (changes from.”oh, you got an iPhone”)
stay tuned.
http://www.ame235.com/ame235/2009/11/28/566/

Dec 5 10:34 am
Lockinfo Theme Release – ame235.com said:

[...] is release date! here is the theme i made for LockInfo and based on Teenhanlax.com Design. 1. Yes, you need a Jailbroken iPhone. 2. You need to install winterboard and LockInfo from [...]

Dec 8 1:10 am
Ed Velvet said:

This breaks the whole iPhone interaction model. You gain a list of shortcuts, but you break the whole mental model of how you interact with the device.

This way lies Windows Mobile – oh, hang one, this is exactly how early Windows phones worked. It seems convenient but it breaks, well, everything.

Dec 8 1:47 pm
LISA E said:

I WANT THIS REALLY BAD!! I CAN’T BUY AN IPHONE WITHOUT IT!!

Dec 13 10:01 pm
lmw said:

Got tired of waiting. Found LockInfo instead + ame235’s theme. Just what I needed. THANKS!!

Dec 18 6:02 am
Ronald said:

Hi guys, still waiting for an update. Any news on the subject yet? When can we download the alpha or beta ?

It’s a great idea and probably will be a great app. !

Dec 19 7:51 pm
What would you like to see in iPhone OS4? - MacTalk Forums said:

[...] under version 3. I would also love for it to look a bit different, not a fan of black. Something like this would make me a very happy man. __ Merry Christmas! 2.5GHz 15" MacBook Pro [...]

Jan 4 1:14 am
Hamza said:

Would love to hear an update on this – I’d be willing to pay 10 or even 20 bucks for this – and I’m sure many others who value good design would as well. Exciting stuff.

Jan 5 3:51 pm
Oky! update for lockinfo theme. – ame235.com said:

[...] for the theme i made for LockInfo, based on Teehanlax.com Design is [...]

Jan 6 1:05 pm
D said:

PLEASE create this!!!

Jan 10 9:25 pm
Harry said:

The instant the web page loaded up and I saw the iPhone, I said to myself: “Wow!”

Jan 11 7:05 am
heikkipekka said:

Excellent idea if unlock screen could have this information about calendar events and missed calls and new messages. That would be great.

Searching with iPhone is easy with Spotlight but more often than people need to SEARCH information they just need to CHECK information quickly.

Compere this – when people just want to check info from their iPhone in their pocket now they have to:

1. Get iPhone from pocket
2. Push any button to wake iPhone
2. Slide finger across the screen to unlock the iPhone
3. Hit Home button once to get to first Home Screen where iCal is
4. Touch iCal icon to open up iCal
5. Read information
6. Push Sleep button on top of the iPhone to lock it

Compere it to this great new design idea:

1. Get iPhone from pocket
2. Push any button to wake iPhone
3. THE INFORMATION IS NOW ALREADY THERE ON THE SCREEN!

It’s just strange Apple hasn’t implemented this already to iPhone. People do just check information as much as they do search.

Jan 11 3:44 pm
Dear Apple: What we want to see for iPhone 4.0, part 1 « said:

[...] balance, missed calls, text messages, and upcoming iCal events. The guys at teehan+lax have a pretty cool mock-up of this feeds screen, but the killer feature would be how you could access it from any app page [...]

Jan 12 8:26 am
Brookie said:

Isn’t this exactly like ‘intelliscreen’ which I had back on my EDGE iPhone 1g?

I wonder what happened to that..

Jan 12 2:28 pm
Dear Apple: What we want to see for iPhone 4.0, part 1 said:

[...] balance, missed calls, text messages, and upcoming iCal events. The guys at teehan+lax have a pretty cool mock-up of this feeds screen, but the killer feature would be how you could access it from any app page – [...]

Jan 14 7:52 am
Teehan+lax geeft update over de status van Element - iPhone - iPhoneclub.nl said:

[...] teehan+lax in een blogpost een update gegeven over de status van Element. Het project begon als Photoshop mockup voor het lockscreen van de iPhone en iPod touch, maar werd al snel door Saurik (de maker van Cydia) [...]

Jan 14 9:03 am
Teehan+lax geeft update over de status van Element [jailbreak] | Gadgets, Divx, DVD, HD DVD, Blu-Ray, Nieuws en Guides said:

[...] teehan+lax in een blogpost een update gegeven over de status van Element. Het project begon als Photoshop mockup voor het lockscreen van de iPhone en iPod touch, maar werd al snel door Saurik (de maker van Cydia) [...]

Jan 15 3:35 am
How Apple should upgrade it’s iPhone 4.0 software | Pundit Country said:

[...] balance, missed calls, text messages, and upcoming iCal events. The guys at teehan+lax have a pretty cool mock-up of this feeds screen, but the killer feature would be how you could access it from any app page – [...]

Jan 15 1:33 pm
iPhone 4 Nessecities – Technology – Miralize Design said:

[...] with what the phone is capable of, this is a bit puny. What I really want  is something like this : [...]

Jan 18 1:51 pm
thought by androwis » the best of the rest: phone said:

[...] interactive version of the above would put the iPhone on a new competitive level.  These guys are almost on the [...]

Jan 19 12:08 pm
Viral said:

My God, I guess people aren’t reading the comments before replying. I’ve seen maybe 50 replies saying “Wow, when will this exist?” or “I’d jailbreak and pay for this!” or “I’d get an iphone if this existed!”

Stop replying and read this: IT DOES EXIST!

Jailbreak your iphone and get LockInfo. Even in it’s native state, it looks practically just like this. It’s obviously the author inspiration for his mockup.

Then ame235 took the mockup on this page and made a lockinfo theme so that it looks EXACTLY like the picture above now. Stop saying you’d jailbreak and pay for this – JAILBREAK AND GET IT!

Jan 25 8:14 am
Sebastiaan said:

This is hilarious, in the sense that it’s terrible. Why does this have two clocks? Why is the weather taking the top priority? How do you even remotely make it obvious to the user that all the actual functions of the phone are one page to the right?

Nice to see you copying what HTC does, but this is the most unusable and redundant mockup I’ve seen in a long time.

Jan 26 3:51 am
Dani said:

Uh… This is going from “The best interface design ever” to “let’s burn them in the STAKE!”. Ohmygod. Beautiful experiment in social dynamics.

I have installed Lockinfo+ame235 also. Sorry.

Jan 26 8:06 am
Augure said:

FY sebastiaan

This is the best lock screen thingy that could be developped for Iphone

Jan 28 3:36 am
bogdan said:

Hi All,

i wanted to install this lock screen app and now my ipone its in a reebot state (wih the silver apple) after instaling it asked me to restart spring board and tht was all…did any of youhad this issue?

Jan 28 3:41 am
bogdan said:

now i can clearly see that its rebooting and rbooting over and over again

Jan 28 10:03 am
Geoff Teehan said:

@bogdan: I’ve never installed it. I’m waiting on the Cydget.

Feb 7 9:47 am
Jens said:

Or you just buy a windows phone cause that is exacty how it looks like

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