BlackBerry Curve 8310 Tips and Tricks

 

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Stay in contact anywhere at any time with the BlackBerry Curve 8310!

BlackBerry Curve 8310 offers more than just e-mail in a single compact device:

• E-mail
• Voice
• GPS
• SMS
• Contacts
• Internet WAP/Browsing
• Applications
• Tasks

The main benefits of using the BlackBerry Curve 8310 are:

• Immediacy
• Products benefits (average downtime saved is 53 minutes)
• Direct savings 
• Increase competitiveness and customer satisfaction
• Immediate connectivity between employees, managers, customers and suppliers
• Improve employee satisfaction

To viewBlackBerry Curve 8310 User Guide please click here.

Typing

• To capitalise a letter: Hold the letter key until the capitilised letter appears or press Shift + letter key.
• To type alternate character: Press the Alt key + the character key. For example, to type a question mark (?), press the Alt key + v.
• To type a symbol Press the Symbol key: Type the letter that appears below the symbol.
• To type accented or special character: Hold the letter key + roll Trackball to the left or right. Release the letter key when the accented or special character appears.For example, to type ü, hold U and roll the trackball to the left until ü appears.
• Turn on NUM-Lock: Press the Alt key + the Left Shift key
• Turn off NUM-Lock: Press the Alt key

On the Home Screen

• To open the application list: Press the Menu key
• To return to the Home screen: Press the End key
• To lock the keyboard: On the Home screen or in the application list, click Keyboard Lock
• To unlock the keyboard: Press the A key and the Send key
• To lock the device, set a password: On the Home screen or in the application list, click Lock
• To unlock the device: Type your password. Press the Enter key
• To turn on standby mode: Hold the Mute key

Phone

• To make a call from the Home screen: Type the phone number.Press the Send key
• To end a call: Press the End key
• To turn on or turn off mute during a call: Press the Mute key
• To turn on or turn off the speakerphone: Press the Speakerphone key during a call
• To adjust the volume during a call: Press the Volume keys
• To add an extension to a phone number: Press the ALT key and the X key. Type the extension number

Try this

Make a call using a voice command:

• In the address book, press the Menu key.
• Click New Address
• Type the contact information
• Click the Trackball
• Click Save
• In the voice dialing application, wait for the sound
• Say “Call” and a contact name or phone number
• To end the call, press the End key

Messages

• To move to the top of a message list: Press T
• To move to the bottom of a message list: Press B
  To move to the next date in a message list: Press N
• To reply to a message: Press R
• To forward a message: Press F
• To highlight adjacent messages: Hold the Shift Key and roll the Trackball

Try this

Copy text in a message and paste it into another application

• In a message, place the cursor before the text that you want to copy
• Press the Shift key and roll the trackball.
• Click the Trackball
• Click Copy
• Place the cursor where you want to paste the text
• Click the Trackball
• Click Paste

Browser

• To follow a link: Click the link
• To move to a specific web page: Press G
• To return to the home page: Press H
• To open the bookmark list: Press K
• To add a bookmark: Press A
• To view a list of web pages that you have visited recently: Press I
• To refresh a web page: Press R
• To stop loading a web page: Press the Escape key
• To close the browser: Hold the Escape key

Try this

Move through a web page line by line

• On a web page, press the Menu key.
• Click Select Mode

Organiser/Calendar/Calculator

• To move to the next day, week, or month: Press the Space key in the calendar
• To move to the previous day, week, or month: Press a Shift key and the Space key in the calendar
• To convert a measurement in the calculator: Type a number. Press the Menu key.Click To Metric or From Metric.Click a conversion type.
• To search for a contact in a list of contacts: Type the contact name or initials separated by a space.

Try this

Assign a ring tone to a contact

• In the address book, highlight a contact
• Press the Menu key
• Click Edit
• Click the Trackball
• Click Add Custom Phone Tune
• Set a ring tone
• Press the Menu key
•  Click Save

Media Tips

• To zoom in to a picture: Press I
• To zoom out from a picture: Press O
• To zoom to the original picture size: Press W
• To rotate a picture: Press R
• To pause a slide show: Press the Space key
• To resume a slide show: Press the Space key again
• To pause a video or song: Press the Mute key
• To resume playing a video or song: Press the Mute key again

Try this

Take a picture In the camera, click the trackball
Perform one of the following actions:

• To take another picture: Click the camera icon
• To delete the picture: Click the trash can icon
• To set the picture as a caller ID picture: Click the crop icon or Home screen background
• To forward the picture: Click the envelope icon
• To rename and save the picture: Click the folder icon