Most Android phones support three Home screens, but newer phones are leaning toward five as the default. Filling these screens with icons and widgets, not to mention running an animated “Live Wallpaper” behind them can take a toll on even the fastest processor. 

Folders are a great way to group applications on your desktop. How you group your apps depends on how you use your phone. Some people group all GPS apps together, others may group all social media apps in a folder.

If you long-press on an empty spot on any Home screen you’ll set several options (which will vary depending on what Launcher you’re using). The typical items are Shortcuts, Widgets, Folders, and Wallpapers.

Tap on “Folders” and you’re given more options. New Folder, All Contacts, Bluetooth received, Contacts with phone numbers, Facebook Phonebook, My Stations, and Starred Contacts. Tap on New folder.

You now have a new icon titled “Folder” on your Home screen. You can drag any app icon you want onto this folder (not widgets though) to move the icon from your Home screen and into Folder. Tap on Folder and you can see all the icons you’ve just moved into it. Long press on the folder’s title bar to rename the folder.

Now instead of having Home screens full of icons you can have a folder that contains grouped icons. You could make a folder for:

- GPS Apps (Maps, Waze, Earth, My Tracks, CoPilot Live, etc.)

- Web Apps (Twitter, Facebook, Browser, Gmail, WordPress, Market, CM Updater, etc.)

- Camera Apps (Camera, Gallery, Camcorder, Barcode Scanner, Goggles, ShopSavvy, TagReader, etc.)

- WiFi Apps (FCC Test, wardrive, WifiScanner, Wifi Analyzer, etc.)

source: pocketnow.com