Now this is a new one on us. The Vodafone 845 lets you drag & drop widgets around its Home screens just like any other Android phone – only a customisation to the phone’s Android 2.1 UI lets you add new Home screens on the fly as you do so, scrolling the desktop up and down to fit in more.
We’ve not encountered this before, let’s explain:
So, on the left we’re moving an icon. See the “+” symbol at the top and bottom of the screen? Dragging a widget or icon onto those automatically adds a whole new level of Home screens. The right-hand pic shows a couple of white dots on the right-hand edge of the screen, telling us we have two layers of Home screens and a new ‘downstairs’ group of seven more Home screens!
So now as you can see from the zoomed-out view of everything (which the manual calls the “Canvas”) to the left there, we’ve got 14 home screens. And it doesn’t stop there, as you can keep stacking them up in multiples of seven…
Repeat the process and we’ve now got 21 Home screens…
…once more and now we’ve got 28 Home screens. Our little Google Maps icon has been on one hell of a journey! The stories it will be able to tell.
Count the dots – that’s 56 Home screens we now have. And it doesn’t seem to stop. Madness.
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Anonymous
/ June 29, 2010same as t-mobile pulse mini
Android fan!
/ July 2, 2010How did you manage to take screengrabs on the Vodafone 845? :D
Michelle
/ September 29, 2010yes..is very good that you can put on lots of widgets…but my phone seems to have put new ones on on it’s own and i do not know how to get them off…any ideas?
Mangy
/ June 8, 2011My Vodafone 845 touch screen is not working, i can see things but when i touch it is not working