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hey guys david here from Bombo comm and in this video I just want to share with you guys how I set up my Android phones home screen to be much more efficient than it was previously so before I go into that I want to show you guys what inspired me to change my home screen setup and that's actually my Windows Phone after using this guy for a month going back to my android phone I realized how much more efficient my windows phone setup was or just Windows Phone in general was then Android because the way the home screen is set up so for example on Windows Phone if I you know have my phone locked and I want to open up my calculator really quick this unlock it tap calculator and I'm there so you can see it's just really quick that's why you know you'll see Microsoft really pushing the idea that Windows Phone is quicker they even have that that smoked by Windows Phone challenge at their stores where they'll actually pay you if you could open up a couple of apps or post things on Facebook faster than they could on their Windows Phone so anyway I want to show you guys how I do it on my Android phone to make it as efficient as Windows Phone if not more efficient really I feel like it's more efficient so anyway I'll go and show you some of the folders that I've made you can see I have eight app folders here and I think harnessing the power of folders really is the secret to making your phone more efficient and also widgets but first thing I want to talk about is folders so instead of having a whole bunch of apps rocket service for example if these are just regular app shortcuts I would only have eight you know and obviously I have more than eight apps that I use on a everyday basis or you know at least every couple of days I would have to you know use other home screens but didn't have this widget here and you know does this really kind of takes away from the efficiency I think because you know having to scroll through home screens to get to what you want really defeats the purpose I mean you might as well be going through app lists looking for a specific shortcut so anyway I want to show you some of the folders up mates for for example I have a phone book folder right here just has two apps related to phonebook comm so for example if I wanted to edit a post of Pombo comm I can just quickly tap on this guy tap on WordPress and edit my posts if I wanted to open up my calculator I just tap on tools and tap on calculator and I have a couple of other apps in here on the tool app dictionary flashlight notes etc I'm having my finance app so for example to check my balance at Bank of America do that if I wanted open up my camera my gallery can tap on media and go over here so these are all these folders I made I renamed them all based off what I fit or what I thought best fit the category or the folder for example one one good example is the games folder I have 12 games right here and you know just a heck of a lot easier finding what game I want to play if I'm bored you know how the dentist's office while I'm waiting in the waiting room instead of having to you know scroll through here and figure out you know what game I want to play you know based off looking at the shortcuts through my appleís so definitely just more efficient set up I feel like so for example now I'll show you you know a practical use of it so say I wanted to check the movie times right I could just unlock my phone really quick go to my entertainment tab because I know it's there tap off Flixter and boom I have my movie times and the theaters near me so just a really quick way a really efficient way to use your Android phone there's also you know more than easy to do with widgets for example if I want to see my five-day forecast I just tap my widget right here got my five-day forecast if I want to make my brightness on my phone screen a little bit lower because my battery is dying I can just quickly tap on this guy and change my brightness just by tapping this little widget also let's say there's a Laker game going on and wanted to see the score I get tap on this guy and an open up score Center but not just score Center it'll actually open up these specific games so right here you can see it opens up the card to that game so another cool feature of widgets let's say for example I wanted to listen to music I give this scroll over here tap play and listen to a song instead of having to scroll to my home screens or through my app list for the music player of course I have my most commonly used apps right here at the bottom so these are just regular apps rockets I could put folders here if I wanted to so I gotta have you know a total of 12 home screens are folders but instead are on my home screen but you know I'm fine with eight because pretty much these cover what I'm looking for for example you know I've entertainment I have my finance apps I have my media games email I have a couple of email accounts and actual labels within those email account so I can go straight to the label if I wanted to over here under settings I have like my file manager app I've called Boeing plus and also specifics shortcuts to the settings so not just the regular settings where you know I top the settings and it goes here but the say for example I wanted to see my battery stats or you know how much battery I have left I just have that and go straight to my battery settings so pretty cool feature on Android you can just add shortcuts and you know add them into this little widget or this little folder and this makes everything a little bit easier to get into alright that's pretty much it for me in this video I mean hopefully I've given you an idea or two that you could use to make your Android phone a little bit more efficient and maybe you know you could go to a Microsoft Store and challenge those windows phones and see if we could win yourself I think they're giving away like a thousand dollar gift card right now so anyway that's it for me in this 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