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MINT Tips - Mobile

MINT Tips – Q2 2010

Mobile Devices

iPhone

Screen Management:

You can move icons around the screen and place them onto new screens, by holding down your finger on one icon for 3 seconds, until they all start shaking, then dragging them to their new position. To create a new screen, simply drag an icon off to the right hand side of the screen.

Quick Scroll:

When in an application, if you want to scroll to the top of a list or message quickly, tap the status bar at the top of the screen (the one with the time displayed on it).

Web Site Icons:

If you want to add a website shortcut to your icons, go into Safari and open the page you want to save, then tap the + icon, then “Add to home screen”. Give it an appropriate name and tap “Add”.

Screen Shots:

It can be handy to save something on the screen for future reference. At any time, press the Home button (main button on front), and the Sleep/Wake button (top right), at the same time and whatever was on the screen will be saved into your Pictures library.

 

Want to undo your changes? Shake your iPhone.

 

Recommended Applications:

TVNZ: Up to date News/Sports/Weather feeds

XE: Currency conversions

mPass: Air New Zealand personalised flight information.

Convert Units: Handy tool for converting Imperial/Metric units.

 

Beware of “Bad” apps, if an application doesn’t work, delete it. If it is from a reputable vendor, then you may need to restart your iPhone (hold Home button and Sleep/Wake button for 10seconds), and try again.

 

 

Blackberry

Switch to another program:

Hold the Alt key and press the Escape button. Continue to hold the Alt key and select a program. Release the Alt key to switch to that program

Capitalize a letter:

Hold the letter key until the capitalized letter appears.

Insert (+) into a phone number:

Hold 0

View your contact list on the Phone screen:

Hold Send key

Backward scrolling:

Holding down the Alt key while scrolling will move the cursor in the opposite direction.

 

Within a message

                Reply to a message

                Press R

                Reply to all

                Press L

                Forward a message

                Press F

                File a highlighted email message

                Press I

                View email address of a contact

                From within a message, highlight contact

                Press Q

                To view display name again, press Q

 

 

Global Roaming Resources

Roaming charge rates from Telecom and Vodafone are very expensive. It is not unusual for people to rack up huge mobile accounts while overseas without knowing it. MINT recommends that before travelling, you check out the current rates from your provider, and minimise the amount of data traffic used while overseas. Disabling automatic email downloads can help reduce costs in this area also, call the MINT team for assistance before you leave on 06 8787082.

 

Telecom Roaming website to check data and phone call costs

http://www.telecomroaming.co.nz/

 

 

Vodafone roaming Website to check data and phone call costs.

http://www.vodafone.co.nz/roaming/