User's Manual

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Working with Widgets
Widgets are miniature apps that you can place on your Home screens. Some widgets are standalone
applications, some open a related application when you touch them, and others provide a subset of useful
information or controls for th eir related applications .
Stock widgets include a clock, a Gmail widget that displays recent messages , a music player, a picture frame,
a calendar that shows upcoming appointments , and so on. Y o u can also download widgets from Android
Ma rke t . Some widgets simply display information and or act as shortcuts for opening their applications,
such as the Picture Frame widget.
Some widgets give you controls to view and manage their application’s conte nt, such as the Clock widget or
the Music Player widget.
Y o u can scroll information displayed by different widgets in different ways, for example, you can scroll up or
down among events in the Calendar widget, or with a carousel effect in the Books widge t .
If you touch & hold some widgets, such as the Gmail widget, handles appear at its edges so you can resize it.