3 home screen – Alcatel Pixi 4 4034 D User Manual

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1.3

Home screen

Touching the Home key always takes you to your main Home screen, and

you can personalise all your Home screens by adding your favourite apps,

shortcuts and widgets to them. On the Home screen the bottom set of icons is

always visible, whichever of your Home pages you are on. This also includes

the Application tab, which will show all your available apps.

Application tab

• Touch to open all apps

Status bar

• Status/Notification indicators

• Touch and drag down to open the

notification panel

Favourite tray applications

• Touch to enter the application

• Long press to move or remove applications

Google Search bar

• Touch  to enter text search screen

• Touch  to enter voice search screen

Slide left or right to see other panels on the

Home screen

The Home screen extends to allow more space for adding applications,

shortcuts, etc. Slide the Home screen horizontally left and right to get a

complete view of the Home screen. The white spot in the lower part of the

screen indicates which screen you are viewing.

1.3.1 Using the touchscreen

Touch

To open an application, touch it with your finger.

Long press

To enter the available options for an item, long press the item. For example,

select a contact in Contacts, long press this contact, an options list will appear.

Drag

Place your finger on the screen to drag an object to another location.

Slide/Swipe

Slide the screen to scroll up and down the applications, images, and web

pages. You can slide the screen horizontally too.

The device also supports one finger zooming in the Messaging, Gmail,

Camera and Gallery functions. Double touch the screen to zoom in/out.

Flick

Similar to swiping, but flicking makes it move quicker.

Pinch/Spread

Place two fingers on the screen surface and draw them apart or together to

scale an element on the screen.

Rotate

Automatically change the screen orientation from portrait to landscape by

turning the phone sideways to have a better screen view.

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