Is Tom Warren teasing Start Screen Backgrounds on WP 8.1?

Tom Warren, Senior Editor at The Verge, has just tweeted the above two pictures, saying:

Would be good if Windows Phone 8.1 had this 🙂 pic.twitter.com/UDBe4VVlbI

and

Yeah would definitely be interesting if Windows Phone 8.1 had backgrounds 🙂 pic.twitter.com/CDU1oaRsil

Tom of course claims to have seen Windows Phone 8.1 before, and has earlier posted:

What do our readers think? Are Start Screen Backgrounds on the way, and would you like them? Let us know below.

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