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Adding a category

1. From the Home screen, touch Applications Launcher Key
.
2. Press the Menu Key and touch Add category.
3. Enter the category name, then touch OK.
Opening and Switching Applications
Multi-tasking is easy with AndroidTM because open applications
keep running even when you open another application. There’s no
need to quit an application before opening another. You can use
and switch among several open applications. Android manages
each application, stopping and starting them as needed to ensure
that unused applications don’twaste your device's resources.

Opening an application

©Open an application simply by touching its icon on the
screen.
TIP!
You can customizeyour Home screen with the application icons you use
most often. Applications are located on the Launch screen, but you can
copyanyapplication icon to your Home screen forfaster access. No
matter where the icon is, on the Launch screen or your Home screen,
just touch it to open and use it.

Opening multiple applications

1. Touch an application icon to open it.
2. Press the Home Key .
NOTE
If the application icon you want is on your Home screen, simply touch
the icon to open and use it.
3.Touch the Applications Launcher Key .
4.Touch the icon for the other application you want to open.
The Basics