
At first glance, you might not notice anything new on the Start screen. It's got most of the same live tiles and the interface for arranging them hasn't changed. When you swipe into the programs listing, however, that's when you'll see some improvements. First off, a search button fades into view just below the little arrow button. Pressing that will let you search through your applications listing. You can also use it to search for apps in the marketplace. You're probably thinking, why doesn't the hardware search button do that? It was supposed to be context sensitive in Windows Phone 7, right? Well, that's changed. In Windows Phone 7.5, the hardware search button only ever goes to Bing search. Applications with search functions now have their own little search buttons. We've also got alphabetical letters in the programs listing just like in other list types, and tapping one of the letters will let you jump to any other letter in the list. The letters don't actually appear until you've got a really long list of programs. That way, if you don't really have a lot of apps there's no extra clutter in your short programs listing. That's a very smart feature. To get to the fast task switching interface, just hold the back button down for a couple seconds. The current window will zoom out, and you'll see a number of other screens from previous applications you've accessed recently. This device usually only shows about 4 or 5 screens and there's no Palm Web OS easy way to get <b>...</b>
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