| Windows Phone 7 : Changing Themes and Wallpaper |
| Windows Phone 7 provides lots of fun ways to make your phone reflect your unique personality or mood. One is by changing the phone theme. A theme is a combination of background shades and accent colors. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Customizing the Start Screen |
| If you don’t like the arrangement of Live tiles on the Start screen, it’s easy to redecorate. The tiles are all swappable, so you can stack them in whatever way makes the most sense to you. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Connecting to a Wi-Fi Hotspot |
| The fun of having a Windows Phone really becomes obvious only when you connect to the Internet. There are two ways to get it: a carrier’s cellular data network or a Wi-Fi hotspot in a home, hotel, or coffee shop. You’re probably already paying your carrier for the former, so why bother with Wi-Fi |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Setting Up Facebook |
| If you’re on Facebook—and with more than 500 million subscribers, who isn’t nowadays?—you’ll appreciate how Facebook-friendly Windows Phone 7 is. Once you set up your account, you can post pictures and messages and see and “like” other people’s posts and pictures. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Taking a Quick Tour (part 2) |
| Windows Phone 7 has a status bar at the top of the screen that provides at-a-glance info about the health and well-being of your phone—whether you have a signal, how strong it is, what network you’re connected to, how long before your battery goes kaput. It’s also where you’ll see notifications—pop-up messages that preview the first line of an incoming text message or remind you who’s on hold. |
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| Windows Phone 7 : Taking a Quick Tour (part 1) |
| On a PC, you’d call it the desktop. On other smartphones, it’s the home screen. But when you power up Windows Phone 7 for the first time, the place you find yourself after setting up is Start. |
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