Motorola A953, User Manual

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9 Home screen
Note: Your home screen might look a little different.
You can flick the home screen left and right to see
more panels, seven in all. You’ll have plenty of room for
adding shortcuts, widgets and more.
W idgets
A widget is small app on the home screen that
typically displays information such as weather, news
and social networking updates. You can add a widget,
such as a clock, music player or a calendar that shows
upcoming appointments. To open a widget, touch it.
To add a widget, touch an empty spot on the home
screen. (You can also touch Menu
>
Add
>
Motorola widgets
or
Downloaded widgets
.) If your
home screen is full, you won’t see the Add option.
You’ll need to move or delete widgets or shortcuts to
make room.
You can change the size of some widgets. Just touch
and hold the widget.
W hen the widget’s outline turns
white, drag one of the corners to make it the size you
want.
Note: If you install apps from Android Market that
have widgets, touch and hold the home screen, then
select a widget to add to the home screen.
Shortcuts
To add shortcuts to the home screen, open the app
menu, then touch and hold the shortcut you want. It
will be added to the home screen. Or, touch Menu
>
Add
>
Shortcuts
.
App menu
Quick start: App menu
The app menu shows
you all of your
applications. To open it
from the home screen,
touch .
Flick up and down to
see all of your apps. Any
new apps that you download (see page “Android
Market™” on page 32) are added to the app menu.
To close the app menu, touch Home or Back .
Recent apps
Touch and hold Home to see the last few apps you
used, then touch the app you want. Touch Home
to return to the home screen.
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