Chapter 3

Fire Control

In This Chapter

arrow Using the touchscreen

arrow Exploring phone gestures

arrow Using the phone horizontally

arrow Changing the phone’s volume

arrow Understanding the Home screen

arrow Checking notifications

arrow Running and switching apps

Fifty years ago, they had it wrong. Back then, it was a common belief that the more knobs, dials, and buttons something had, the more advanced it was. Technology of the future was all about throwing switches. Reality is far different, of course.

Your Fire phone is pretty advanced, yet it’s terribly short of buttons. Therefore, another, less obvious way must be available to control the device. That less obvious way is the touchscreen, but also an accelerometer, which ...

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