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Chapter One:
How Do I Set Up and Customize My Windows Phone 7 Device?
are detailed in Chapter 4. Tiles are also generated when you set up an email
account so that you have account tiles that give you direct access to the
email account. A phone tile is created and appears in the upper-le corner by
default, so you can quickly make phone calls on your new smartphone.
Some tiles dynamically change without any action on your part; These are
known as Live Tiles. The People tile changes the faces of people as status
updates appear; the calendar tile changes dates and appointments as time
goes on; your email tiles pop up numbers as unread emails stack up in your
inbox; and your Games tile has an active Xbox LIVE avatar entertaining you as
you look at your start screen.
Customizing the Start Screen and Tiles
Now that you understand a bit more about what appears on your Start screen,
you may be wondering if you can change any of it. Double-wide and single-
wide tiles appear here. This width is controlled by Microso and application
developers, so you cannot change a tile’s width; there are even limitations on
third-party apps with double-wide tiles. Double-
wide tiles are loaded be default for Pictures and
Calendar information whereas single-wide tiles
are the primary tile design form factor.
You can add and remove apps, contacts, utili-
ties, accounts, and more to the Start screen,
you can rearrange tiles, and you can change
your theme, so let’s take a closer look at each of
these functions.
adding and remOving tiles
Tiles that appear on the Start screen are pinned
to the Start menu. You can remove tiles and pin
objects to the Start menu by simply tapping and
holding on objects and selecting Pin to Start
(see Figure 1-5) or tapping the Pushpin icon with
the slash through it in the upper-right corner,
see Figure 1-6.
Figure 1-5 Note the pop-up
that appears when you tap and
hold on an icon.
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