I'm willing to BET you would love these icons on your iPhone....of course you wouldnt admit, but these look by far better that iPhone stock images./QUOTE]
Yikes - those are awful. While they the black and silver look nice and they are obviously well done they break basic design rules - like making icons noticeable at a glance. The icons all have the same background making them difficult to discern at a glance - something thats very important on a phone.
I can tell you never had an PPC device, or an portable device of that nature.... People dont depend on the look of an icon, but better yet familarize themselves as too where the icon is located. And thats on any phone regardless touch screen or not, if your using an scroll wheel, you dont depend on the icon style or look to know where your at, you depend on the number of times you scroll up or down to get where you want to be. And where did you get this info that its a principle of an icon for an phone to have basic design rules? Are we creating rules on our own now?
Oh, and how could they be "AWFUL" but then be "NICE AND OBVIOUSLY WELL DONE?"
