HTC HTCONEUNLOCKEDBLACK manual Opening and switching applications, To open and close the Launcher

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Opening and switching applications

The Launcher, which you open from the Home screen, holds icons for all of the applications on your phone, including any applications that you downloaded and installed from Android Market or other sources.

When you open an application, the other applications you’ve been using don’t stop; they keep on running: playing music, rendering webpages, and so on. You can quickly switch among your applications, to work with several at once. The Android operating system and applications work together to ensure that applications you aren’t using don’t consume resources unnecessarily, stopping and starting them as needed. For this reason, there’s no need or facility for quitting applications.

See “Market” on page 297 to learn how to discover and install additional applications and games on your phone.

To open and close the Launcher

SOn the Home screen, touch the Launcher icon to open it.

If you have more applications than can fit on the Launcher in one view, you can slide the Launcher up or down to view more.

Touch an application to open it

Slide the Launcher up or down to bring more icons into view.

Touch to close the Launcher.

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