I think the accent color will be customizable. I think it will be really cool and something simple they can implement.
I'm not sure about the keyboard - I could live with it, but I prefer the current one. One thing I think they should do though is show lower case letters as lower case. I think they were trying to emulate physical keyboards a bit much in that regard.
I've grown to like the rounded transparent black boxes around icons since they give uniformity that otherwise is not there. Having said that, I think the screenshots with them gone but with shadows behind them looks nice too. The text shadow needs to be more pronounced though for readability I think. I want the shadow to actually shift when tilting the device. The screenshots could be how it looks when laying flat. If you tilt it up, the shadow elongates inversely to the angle. So tilting up, the shadow would grow longer below it, tiling down the opposite. Tilting to the left, the shadow grows to the right. Tilting to the right, the shadow grows to the left. I think it'd give it a nice 3d effect, which would look awesome.
The white bar at the bottom on the one screenshot gives me hope that there will be global light/dark themes. If we had that, plus choosing the accent color, I think it'd be an easy way to add customization without being too difficult to implement.
03-23-14 11:30 PM