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14. Email & contacts
The Email and Contacts applications work hand in hand.
These are standard email and contacts applications that you
will need to set up yourself. You will need to check with your
Internet service provider to find the parameters needed to
set up both incoming and outgoing mail. Typically there are "Help" pages on service provider's website for
setting up email for various email programs. This will give you the incoming and outgoing mail server names
and other information that you will need to enter into the mail setup. If you have a Google Mail™ account,
the entire email setup only requires your user name and password.
15. Clock
This application is more than a simple clock. It displays a stylish digital clock on the
screen, plays photos from the Photo Frame application, gives access to your music, and
let's you set alarms. If your device is in Deep Sleep mode (long press on power button >
Power off > Deep sleep), the alarm will not bring it out of this sleep mode. Just press the
on/off button once to put it in regular sleep mode.
16. Web & local slideshows
This application allows you to view slideshows of photo albums from Flickr®,
Picasa™, or Facebook accounts. Open the application and then tap on the bottom
area of the screen to display the available options. You can view a slideshow of the
photos that are stored on the ARCHOS, from your own on-line photo albums, on-line
albums of others, or view selected photos by keywords.
17. Stopping apps
Sometimes when you have been using Android™ for a while, it may hold a number of
applications in active memory and slow down. You can stop individual applications or
stop all of them to give more space to working memory. You can also see which
applications are preventing the device from sleeping or which ones are waking it up
too often.
18. Widgets
Widgets are small applications that run continuously on one of the five home screen panels. Below are some
and turns red, let off of it and it will be deleted (the same is true for any screen shortcut). To get more
widgets, go to the
AppsLib store
of the widgets that may already be on your device. To add a widget, find an
empty area on one of the five panels and hold your finger down there.
Select Widgets, and then select the desired one. To delete a widget from
one of the screens, hold down on it and drag it toward the applications tab
where it will change to a trash icon. When the widget is on top of the trash
where you can find free and purchasable widgets that add a variety of
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