Re-thinking the iPhone's home screen

Have a finder. Choose which applications you want in the dock and screen. Add stacks. Have tabs and be able to drag apps to tab.

I still say they should make it flick up and down as well. It wouldn't be the only needed solution, but it would sure help.

They could even call it "Spaces Touch"

there's no reason to move away from the current scheme .. just build it out a little:

1) do away with "snap to screen". make it snap to column or row instead of page or make it "free scrolling" just like address book or safari. faster left to right swipe scrolls over several pages.

2) do the icons have to be that big? make them smaller (user defined pref) and give me more per screen.

3) swipe lower left to upper right (or pinch) to zoom out to see more apps on screen. use your finger to scroll around the "desktop" - tapping once zooms back in and centers the icon you tapped under your finger. opposite swipe (upper right to lower left) to go back to screen 1

4) make it vertically scrolling as well, 5 pages across, 2 vertically.

5) option to hide the app name. is the text really necessary?

6) why do i have to scroll backwards to get to screen 1 from screen 5? I should be able to continue to scroll one direction and eventually get back to screen 1

What about letting you specify the default page that comes up when you hit the home button. That way, if you have 5 pages, you could make #3 the home screen and only have to flick 2 pages in either direction. Just a thought.

Hi ,I haven't read other posts so excuse if this has been mentioned already as a solution. SPAces overview. I mean why not. The 'HOME' button doesn't do anything if tapped once while on the home screen so why not just let that triger a spaces type overview to and then tap to the screen you want.... k bye...

Searching for a solution to a problem that doesn't exist.
I put my 12 main apps on the home page, leaving the bottom row blank so it looks better. then page 2 productivity, page 3 games.

Seriously you shouldn't need more than that really or your just buying too many apps.

Folders is a moronic solution, suggesting that is why you are not on the design team

I'm surprised nobody has suggested a scrollable apps list (à la Palm OS) yet...

what i do is simple:
1. Leave first page as it is: 13 base icons at original order
2. For other apps, ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Trust me, this is the best solution yet. You dont have to scroll through 8 pages of stuff just to find 1 app, when you know exactly where it is. Simple, but genius!

I would love to see tabs along the side of the homescreen. That can be labeled by the user. They would look something like the tabs at the top of the device page in itunes. Then you can quickly jump to a tab to the homescreen that you have set up with specific apps like games, or utitlities etc... May sound dumb but it would fit along the edge..

How about the option to sort all icons by name, or by "most used"?