Froyo's home screen icons open up space for a couple of apps

posted by Alan F. / Jun 01, 2010, 10:24 AM

Froyo's home screen icons open up space for a couple of apps

Maybe it doesn't matter on an Android model like the Droid Incredible which gives you seven home screens to work with. But getting the opportunity to add two more icons to your home screen might seem more important on a Motorola DROID which gives you only three screens to fill up. You see, besides all of the wonderful things that Android 2.2 brings to the table including a huge bump in speed, the upgrade adds icons for the phone dialer and the browser on the left and right side (respectively) of the launcher icon. This allows you to open up a couple of spaces on your home screen where you can place a couple of short cut icons for those 3rd party apps that you're always using. You probably already know which two apps you are going to fill the space with.

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source: AndroidCentral

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1. narley

Posts: 357; Member since: May 14, 2009

ya a couple of the custom softwares did this and i really found it useful. Glad they're deciding to make it default.

posted on Oct 20, 2010, 1:46 AM 0

2. ilia1986 unregistered

Umm.. Motorola Droid\Milestone allows you to have 9(!!!!!) screens on it in 2.1. Now if someone lowers this number in the 2.2 Droid - I'm personally going to persecute them.

posted on Jun 01, 2010, 12:02 PM 0

3. ajmoore88

Posts: 25; Member since: Apr 13, 2008

Since when without a third party app?

posted on Jun 01, 2010, 1:07 PM 0

4. ilia1986 unregistered

Since forever. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFRrWzItkM0 Even thought he clearly states that the device is a dev device - it is widely known that it can have up to 9 screens in 2.1. This comes from multiple sources.

posted on Jun 01, 2010, 1:16 PM 0

7. vinsterdamus

Posts: 58; Member since: Feb 20, 2010

since 2.1. I have a milestone that supports 9 home screens!! so they don't have there facts straight

posted on Jun 02, 2010, 5:43 AM 0

5. tyguy829

Posts: 24; Member since: Mar 30, 2010

Hey does anyone know if the browser icon by the app drawer will open the stock browser our the default one...if it is the stock one will there be any way to make it open a 3rd party browser?

posted on Jun 01, 2010, 1:56 PM 0

6. dougiedoug24

Posts: 9; Member since: Apr 09, 2008

I believe on both helixlauncher and launcherpro you can customize all four spots. Also, they are both faster than the stock launcher.

posted on Jun 01, 2010, 2:14 PM 0

8. hooher tod unregistered

Yes there should realize the reader to RSS my feed to RSS commentary, quite simply

posted on Sep 04, 2011, 9:43 PM 0

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