Personalize Your Android Phone

The main home screen on my Nexus One. The wallpaper is sunset over Lake Superior.

What are the odds of two Android or iPhones looking the same when you first turn it on? I imagine the majority of smartphone users have tailored the home screen of their phones with the icons, widgets, and folders they use the most. Here is a quick summary what I have on the five home screens of my Nexus One:

– Main (middle) screen: Google Calendar widget, Battery Left widget, Small Weather Channel widget, and icons for Evernote, Handcent SMS, Dialer One, Google Voice, Contacts, and Gmail

– First left screen: Google News & Weather widget, ESPN Sportscenter widget, and icons for Places, CauseWorld, Twitter, Camera, Gallery, and Facebook

– Second left screen: Pictures of my wife and my niece

– First right screen: Power control widget, Gottodo widget, Evernote widget, and icons for reQall, Personal Assistant, eWallet Viewer, and...

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