Windows Phone 8

Windows Phone has always been deliberately different; in earlier versions that sometimes meant missing options, no SD card support and tight control of what apps could do to protect battery life, as well as the live tiles of the Start screen putting your friends at your fingertips or the quirky charm of your Xbox avatar waving at you.
In Windows Phone 8, Microsoft sets out to fill in those gaps without losing the positive aspects of what sets it apart from iOS and Android.The new look for the Start screen is a great example of this.You still get live tiles for the apps that you choose to pin to Start but now you can set the size for every app, making it twice the width of a standard tile, or a tiny quarter-size tile.
If you want to see more information, like full details of your next appointment, you can make the tile for any app larger; that’s no longer restricted to built in apps from Microsoft and phone makers.
Tiles like the dialler, maps, settings and IE that don’t show any live information don’t have to take up a full slot on screen.
A nice side effect is that you can create a much more interesting layout with offset tiles, instead of just a two-by-four grid of tiles.