All told, navigating your BlackBerry messages is pretty easy. RIM made it that way, of course, because messaging is the most important part of its platform. With just a few clicks you can get to pretty much any message screen, from any other screen. Yet sometimes we yearn for even more convenience. Again, RIM has obliged. They’ve built a few quick keystrokes into the Messages app that will bring you to various message lists. You don’t ever need to leave the messages app. Just use these keystrokes, with the Escape key, to find your way around.
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When BlackBerry 6 OS finally dropped, I rejoiced at one of the new features: threaded messages. Years of Gmail use made threaded messages feel so natural. Instead of a new listing for each reply, Gmail groups emails and their reply threads in one listing, which makes life a lot less cluttered. BlackBerry 6 brought this innovation to our favorite smartphone in 2010, and it made an already great email system even better. Did you know that you can easily navigate through threaded messages with just a couple of keystrokes, though?
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Do you use multiple input languages on your BlackBerry device? Can you think of reasons why you might want to change the input message in the middle of a message? Are you an international businessman who has to compose messages in multiple languages? Chances are a plurality of BlackBerry users will answer no to each question. But clearly there are folks who need to change the input language on their BlackBerry devices. While you can do this by going to Options – Typing and Language – Language and Method and changing the input language field, there’s a much easier way.
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You spellcheck all of the emails you send, right? Good. While you might get away with spelling errors here and there when sending informal emails to friends and family, in a professional setting they’re just unacceptable. Yet spellchecking every email can be a pain. There are surely words you use frequently that aren’t in a normal dictionary. Heck, your own name might trigger a spellcheck prompt. You can eliminate these instances, though, by adding phrases to your custom dictionary.
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Today’s tip is as simple as they come, yet many people do not know it. There will be many instances when you might need relevant information from your BlackBerry. Maybe you’re on the phone with technical support and they need information such as your IMEI number. Maybe you want to see how much free memory you have on your BlackBerry. Or maybe you just need to quickly access your PIN. In any case, it takes just one key sequence to bring up tons of relevant BlackBerry information. Just press and hold Alt + Caps + H. Seriously, it will bring you to a page of BlackBerry data, wherein you can find almost any technical bit you need.
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OK, so maybe it’s not exactly one of our weekly BlackBerry tips. But it is timely, and it is pretty awesome, so I wanted to get it out there. RIM and Twitter recently released a new version of Twitter for BlackBerry, and this one comes with some pretty noticeable improvements. Namely: BBM integration. Your two favorite communications platform now work nicely together. In fact, that’s what this upgrade is all about: making your BlackBerry and Twitter interact.
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Sometimes it just needs to be done. Perhaps your BlackBerry has been running extra sluggishly and you don’t know the cause. Maybe something’s wonky and every possible solution hasn’t worked. Or maybe you’re just getting rid of your BlackBerry and want to wipe it clean of your personal information. Whatever the reason, you never know when you’ll run into a situation where you want to wipe your device. Thankfully, RIM has made this super simple in BlackBerry 7.
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“Who could that possibly be?” It’s a question I ask nearly every time my phone rings and my girlfriend is with me. Sure, there are some people who still make the old fashioned phone call — my parents, for instance — but most of the time someone who wants to reach me will email or text. A phone call might follow if necessary, but by that point it’s expected. Still, just because I don’t my BlackBerry to make phone calls frequently doesn’t mean that others use it the same way. To celebrate the continuing voice call warriors, here are a few phone call tips for your BlackBerry 7 smartphone.
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Ever type out a message in BBM and then think better of it? Yeah, we all have. That’s what the back button is for. Just click that, and your message vanishes into the ether. Well, that’s how it used to work. Now if you hit the back button in the middle of composing a BBM, it will automatically save your message as draft. It’ll still be sitting there when you return. There’s a new way to delete that whole message, though — and it even works in your web browser, too.
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