CHAPTER 6:  Organize Your Home Screen: Icons and Widgets 
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Contact quick tasks: This widget is useful for your 
frequent contacts like friends and relatives. You can add 
shortcuts to call, email, text, or even send them a Twitter 
or Facebook message. 
 
Date and Time: Unlike the Calendar widget, the Date 
and Time widget isn’t about your appointments. This is 
strictly a clock for displaying the current date and time. 
You can select the color and choose between a digital 
and analog time display. 
 
GPS toggle: Like the other toggles, this is a simple 
on/off switch. This one controls your DROID GPS. 
 
Messages: This widget displays email messages from 
any account you have linked to your DROID. It also 
displays SMS/MMS text messages and status updates 
from social networking accounts. 
 
News: The News widget displays news items or blog 
entries. You can add feeds by URL or subscribe to 
preset bundles of news feeds. 
 
Photo slideshow: This is a gallery widget that displays 
an interactive slideshow of photos you’ve taken from 
your DROID. You can also use it as a quick shortcut to 
your DROID’s gallery and camera apps. You can only 
have one Photo slideshow widget at a time. 
 
Photo Widget: This widget lets you display a single 
photo as if it were an app icon or other shortcut. You can 
add as many of these as you wish, but each one takes 
space on your Home screen, and each widget can only 
display a single photo.