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People buy a BlackBerry phone because of its QWERTY keypad or an extensive battery backup, but is it all that BlackBerry phones provide? It is really easy to start with these phones as all you need to do is just to use its Menu key to get a list of all the things on its screen. In this article you will find the tips that are not commonly used but sometimes are very essential for the users. It includes everything from uncommon rebooting short (pressing Alt, Del and the right-hand Caps key together) to getting back to home screen by pressing hang up button.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Less use of keyboard

BlackBerry offers some in-built shortcuts that save your time from typing the full text. You can

just press the space button twice for a full stop and the next word will automatically start with capital letter. Even while writing you don’t have to worry about using apostrophes with words like “don’t, I’m” as BlackBerry’s autocorrect option does it for you. You can also add your own autotext for other abbreviations used by you oftenly. All you have to do is just go to the Options > AutoText. This will make your typing experience easier.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Save time using shortcuts

If you are on any page that’s requires you to scroll up or down then you can just get to the top of the page using ‘t’ key and similarly at the bottom using ‘b’.  Moreover all the commonly used shortcuts are already there like buttons for increasing or lowering volume, forward and backward button used while listening songs or watching videos. These shortcuts are really helpful in saving your time.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Web shortcuts

While you use the web browser you may face problem in reading a web page but pressing Z may solve your problem as it converts the page into a column (phone’s screen size). If you want the actual format back then press Z again. So this helps you to read the web pages easily by switching between these two modes.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Changing Web Browser

If you want to see the full websites rather than their mobile version then you have to change your browser’s name from BlackBerry to Internet Explorer or Firefox. Although full sites will give you the complete content but remember they may take longer time to get loaded on your phone compared to the mobile sites. For example to get the full site of BBC you have to change your browser name as BlackBerry will give you only its mobile version.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Quick search option

While using any app you may want to search something but could not find the search button then just press F to search its apps. If you are in the contact list you can search it using S key.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Set your color code

When you receive your personal as well as work emails on your BlackBerry phones but you find it difficult to distinguish them, you can just set the color of preference to both the sets of emails. All you have to do is just go to Options > Security Options >Information> Message Outline Colors.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Multi-tasking

Being a smartphone, BlackBerry phone is capable of efficient multi-tasking. If you are using more than one app at a time you can easily use the previously used app as apps keeps on running in the background. Just long press the Menu button the task switcher will appear to get back to the previous app.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Lock with mute

In BlackBerry phones you may find both lock and mute buttons on the top of the phone but there are few models like Bold that includes only a mute button. To lock the screen you can scroll down the screen to search for the Lock icon, this may take time. You can also go for the option of long pressing the mute button until your screen gets locked. To unlock, repeat the same procedure.

Blackberry tips and tricks – Real convenience

The BlackBerry phones offer you two ‘convenience keys’ on either sides of the phone. You can use them for any purpose. While pressing you get a voice message “say a command”.

Options > Screen/Keyboard to change the buttons functionality as per your convenience.

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