Pino Bonetti: My Windows Phone 8 Start Screen

Published by Boc Ly on December 21, 2012

Pino Bonetti

Sharing their Windows Phone 8 Start screen with us today is HERE.com‘s Pino Bonetti, who is, of course, a regular contributor to Nokia Conversations and will be familiar to many of our readers.

If you’ve ever left a comment on a post about Nokia’s location-based tools then Pino has probably responded to you!

Pino has a Nokia Lumia 920 and here he tells us what’s on his Start screen.

Pino Bonetti Start screen

Tell us the apps you’ve prioritised (put at the top, made big) and why?

I love texting and social networks, which is why all the messaging apps are very important to me; they are all on top so that I can see what’s going on with just one swipe.

There are two email accounts, one for Nokia, one personal; Whatsapp, Messaging for SMS and Facebook chat, and last but not least the Facebook app that beautifully shows my cover photo as a big size tile. Also very important are weather forecasts, which is why I let Weather Flow control my lock screen too.

What apps do you use to pass the time?

Cinemagraph! I’m sure I’m not very original with this, but it’s such a fun app to use. I even have some fun shots of Nokia Conversations’ editor in chief Tiina  :-) .

I love taking pictures and I’m amazed by the quality of the shots taken with my Nokia Lumia 920. With the camera lenses I can be even more creative and I think I have downloaded all of them.

Pino Bonetti Start screen

What is the last app you paid for, and what does it do?

Rowi. It’s by far the best Twitter app for Windows Phone, imo. It costs a little but provides such a great mobile experience for one of my favourite social networks.

Which app(s) is your guilty pleasure?

Everyone knows that I love to travel, that’s how I get to test all our location based apps like Nokia Maps and Nokia Transport in different conditions and parts of the world. But my true guilty pleasure is SkyScanner with which I can search for my next flights anytime, anywhere. I’m making a lot of airlines happy :-) .

Comments

  • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Adam Fraser

    Great Start screen, Pino. Cinemagraphs of Tiina? Why haven’t we seen these!?

    • http://conversations.nokia.com Ian Delaney

      Agree. The public need to know…

      • http://twitter.com/haikus Pino

        LOL I won’t share anything without Tiina’s approval ;-)
        And although I’m not English, I have a thing for weather forecasts. I might have tested 90% of the weather apps available in the store…

        • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Tiina Jaatinen

          Thanks Pino:)

  • http://twitter.com/aDewDropOfLove Rajavelu

    Wow! Pino This is great.

  • http://www.clubnokiard.com/ Frankie Bloise

    Pino, that’s a crazy and radical Layout on the first screenshot, I like it!

    • http://conversations.nokia.com/ Adam Fraser

      I agree. I really like the central medium tile with the smaller tiles either side.

      • http://twitter.com/haikus Pino

        Thank you guys, I’ve been playing around with my Start Screen a lot… I’m a bit OCD :-)

  • http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

    Nice layout @haikus:disqus. What is that weather app/live tile with the advice that “Today will be about the same as yesterday”?

    • http://twitter.com/haikus Pino

      That’s the great Weather Flow. I love it exactly because of that Information :-)

      • http://twitter.com/dalydose Jeff Daly

        Interesting. I haven’t been able to decide between Weather Flow and Amazing Weather. AW is prepping an update that will add lock screen goodness. So lock screen aside, you still prefer WF?

        • http://twitter.com/haikus Pino

          Yes, I still prefer Weather Flow, for the one reason you mentioned at the beginning: it tells how today compares to yesterday. Very useful here where weather changes so quickly.

  • http://www.facebook.com/farhad.tarapore Farhad Tarapore

    How did you manage to pin the settings like WIFI or Flight mode on the lock screen? I am only able to pin the entire Settings app. Can’t pin the individual items within it..

    • http://www.facebook.com/simone.giovagnorio Simone Giovagnorio

      Use the shortcut tiles app
      You can even make them different colours by changing theme colour prior do add the single shortcut to the start screen

    • http://twitter.com/haikus Pino

      I’m using an app called WizTiles for that

  • http://www.gadjade.com/ Jade Bryan V. Jardinico

    i really like the array of weather tiles on bottom part. good job Pino

  • http://www.facebook.com/david.i.lin David I-Chen Lin

    Awesome! I think my homescreen is beautiful too. I love how customizable WP is. Just awesome.

  • http://www.geekchoice.com/washington-dc Dagmar Schneitz

    I can see why you like Sky skanner so much. It ought to be a required app for frequent fllyers. When you said guilty pleasures, I thought you were about to go with angry birds, just like so many!

    • http://twitter.com/haikus Pino

      To be honest I have never played Angry Birds for more than 5 minutes. I love home many people are addicted to it, but I’m not one of them ;-) I sometimes play Cut The Rope, perhaps because I love sweets…