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Your Phone Interface
The following topics describe how to use and customize your phone’s home screen, understand the
status bar, and use the notifications panel.
Home Screen Basics
The home screen is the starting point for your phone’s applications, functions, and menus. You can
customize your home screen by adding application icons, shortcuts, folders, widgets, and more.
Home Screen Layout
Your home screen extends beyond the initial screen. Swipe the screen left or right to display additional
screens.
The status bar displays icons to notify you of phone and service status
information on the right side (such as signal strength, battery status, Wi-Fi
and data connectivity, ringer status, and time) and notifications on the left
side (such as notifications for incoming messages, missed calls, and
application updates).
Widgets are self-contained onscreen apps that reside on your phone’s home
screen.
Application icons are shortcuts to favorite applications. You can add and
remove these shortcuts as you wish.
You can group shortcuts on the home screen into folders for convenient
access.
Primary shortcuts are application shortcuts that appear in the same location
on all of your phone’s home screens. These are customizable except for the
Applications (Apps) shortcut, which remains static.
Tap to open the applications (apps) list. The apps list key is a primary
shortcut available from all home screens.
Tap to display a list of recently used applications.
Tap to display the main home screen.
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