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I love a lot of the new features of iOS 7. Although I have looked into Android phones a bit (I have an iPhone 4S right now). I'm still up in the air on whether I like the new iOS 7 icons or not. The old ones got tiring cause of the glossy shiny feel but the new ones look too flat. A few apps that come to mind with great icons are Facebook and Google Maps as well as some others from Christian resources I keep up to date on. The icons for those apps are not "3D" with the glossy shiny feel nor are they flat like the new iOS 7 apps. They are solid and bold. They have a good look and feel to them. Apple should take cues from that for their icons. Even Apples Settings, Calculator, Calendar and Maps icons from iOS 6 have no gloss and they look fine. They should have just done the same with their other apps. Just my take anyway.

EDIT: One thing I like about Android app icons is that they are not all the same. By that I mean they are not all square with rounded corner with the graphic inside.

For example look at the Gmail or Google Maps app icons here. Even the Phone app is just a phone. No square background behind it.
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The calendar icon on iPad is really screwed up.

I hate the long day view thing in NC. Just show the events, not a whole big timeline.

Why is there a flashlight in the control panel? iPad's don't have a flash.

Eww.

I hope that's a mockup.

It's the iPhone version emulated to run on the iPad. It was not released by apple for the iPad.
 

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I spent some time this weekend comparing how different wallpapers look on the lock screen so I thought I'd share some of the best (and worst!) here in case people are still trying to figure out what does and doesn't work with the new "smart" typography.

To start, here are some of examples of wallpapers that resulted in the black typography:

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Here are some examples of wallpapers I THOUGHT would result in black that did not. I still can't figure out what determines the black vs. white.

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More to come in next post.
 
Here are some of the wallpapers that I think worked well, sorted by color. Blacks and Blues up first.

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Yeah I was messing around with it earlier and created blank icons. I couldn't stand the little signal circles so I changed it to show signal in actual decibels
 
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