Google's Android operating system and Apple's iOS software both include a Web browser that lets you save bookmarks. For sites you visit frequently, however, it is often faster to get to your favorite page with the mobile equivalent of a desktop shortcut - an icon on the phone's home screen - instead of fiddling around with the browser's bookmark menu.
To save a bookmark as a home screen icon on an Android phone, open the built-in browser app, press the menu button and choose Bookmarks. Find the bookmark that you'd like to add to your home screen and press down on it until a new menu appears. Tap the “Add shortcut to Home†option to place an icon for the bookmarked page on the home screen.
On an iPhone or other device running Apple's iOS 6 software, open the Safari browser and go to the page you wish to use. In the Safari toolbar, which is at the bottom of the screen on the iPhone and iPod Touch, but at the top of the screen on the iPad, tap the Share menu i con, which looks like an arrow bursting out of a rectangle. On the menu that appears, tap the “Add to Home Screen†option to create an icon that takes you back to the page with one tap from the home screen.
