Windows Phone 7 – Lock screen
The article will provide a user with information on lock screen for the Windows Phone 7. Le’s have a look at the Lock screen for the phone.
Lock Screen
The WP7 lock screen is an actual screen. It is a full screen picture that a user has to pull up to unlock the display. At the bottom the lock screen displays the current signal quality, the type of the Internet connection (HSDPA (H) or EDGE (E)), pictograms of wireless connections, battery charge and time.
A user will fid the music control bar above the system information icons. In order view it, a user has to press a volume control button. This bar shows the current volume level, track controls, name of the track, playback time and also an icon indicating the current mode: with sounds, ring or vibration.
Besides at the top of the screen information about found Wi-Fi networks is being displayed or a part of new text messages, so can read a part of it without unlocking the screen.
Just below the center of the screen the time and the alarm clock icon are displayed, below them – day, year and month. At the very bottom are the icons of unread text messages, emails and missed calls. Icons for different mail accounts are the same except for mailboxes from MS (hotmail) and MS Exchange Server. The lock screen also displays the upcoming calendar events. If there are several events the earliest ones are displayed. The theme, the venue and the time of the event are displayed.
In the settings a user can specify the time before the screen locks with the following values: 30 seconds, 1, 3, 5 minutes or never. A user can also assign a password for the lock screen. In which case once a user has moved the screen up instead of unlocking the phone will display a number pad a user uses to enter the password.
If a user has read this article then he/she would have learnt about the lock screen for the phone.
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