Tap an app icon and your search text is handed off to the app in question.
To the right lies a grid of icons, on the Z10 arranged in a 4 x 4 matrix of rectangular tiles, each holding an app icon and a name.
App icon and folder pages extend off to the right as more apps are installed and there's no attempt at categorizing them, again unlike the PlayBook, which had pages for "Favorites" and "Media" apps.
Folders are represented by a smaller grid of icons within a single app icon space, with no other identifying characteristic, which makes them a bit hard to pick out amidst the sea of apps.
On his Facebook page, Waze's Mr. Bardin recently praised Facebook's Home, the social network's new Android application, and posted a promotional photo of the application that prominently displays the Waze app icon on a smartphone screen.
For those who don't know, the "Pad Only" area simply houses apps that are tagged as pad-only by users -- you can do so by tapping and holding an app icon in the drawer, followed by dragging it to the "Add Pad-only Tag" button in the top-right corner.
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In cases where photos were required, I tapped an in-app camera icon to open the iPhone camera.
Tap on that very vanilla app drawer icon and you'll be greeted with a mix of GApps, as well as Motorola and Verizon bloat.
To take a shot you simply launch the camera app, whose icon is permanently positioned on the lower-left corner of each home screen.
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Find a video on the YouTube app for Android, click the TV icon that appears on the app when your Android device and NeoTV PRIME are connected to the same WiFi network, and the video will play instantly.
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Once in the applications view, tapping any icon launches the associated app (or bookmark), while holding any icon lets you move it to another position on the grid (or remove it by pressing a little red X, if present).
You can start a search from anywhere in the app, thanks to a search icon that's always at the top of the screen, which is new to the iPhone app.
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Below the icon for an app is a selection of apps other customers also bought.
Once people install the Facebook app, Bobsled installs an icon on their Facebook chat box so that they can click to call any of their Facebook friends.
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You can't, however, turn off the icon for the Pokki app store itself, though you can move it.
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Pushing a button on the Fob or tapping "Find Fob" icon from the Proximo App dashboard triggers an alarm that helps the user locate their phone, keys or other valuable items.
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Playing YouTube videos on the Q is as easy as tapping an icon on the top of the app with a play button showing some waves coming off, toggling external playback, then playing any video you like.
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You can use Xsync to transmit certain kinds of files including documents you've stored in your Dropbox account, though, oddly, the Xsync app hides this document-transfer feature under an icon for sharing calendar appointments.
"While we're improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app, " he added.
The filtering tools are accessed via the camera icon at the bottom left of the Twitter mobile app.
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The tabs along the top make it very easy to view your friends timeline, mentions, direct messages and even popular topics, and including a picture in your tweet is as simple as selecting the camera icon (you can also view tweeted pictures in the app).
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Five icons populate the base of the screen, including the app drawer, while the homescreen itself has a more typical four-icon-wide berth.
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And the Android Market icon is now easier to find in the top right corner of the App Tray.
This is a standard .app file and once installed on the iphone it will show up as a springboard icon on the main screen.
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From the instant you click the TweetGenius icon on your homescreen, it's very apparent that this particular app was created with a heavy emphasis on eye candy.
He said it was an attempt to do away with app-centred systems that were a legacy of the computer world in which people clicked on an icon to start a program.
Within the app, all a person needs to do is open a conversation with a partner, tap the "i" icon in the upper right hand corner and select "Free Call".
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