One thing I’ve strived for with my BlackBerry is to create access to every feature with the fewest possible movements. That’s why I focus on themes that feature plenty of home screen icons, as you can see in our bi-weekly theme reviews. I also enjoy applications like SuperQWERTY and QuickLaunch. Yet sometimes we don’t even need applications or themes to create shortcuts to various applications and functions. Sometimes that ability is already on our devices, but we just don’t know about it. This is the case with our current quick tip. I don’t know how I missed this before, but you can access your contacts by pressing just one key.
Despite my BlackBerry travails, I actually didn’t know this shortcut until a week ago. How I missed it for so long I’ll never know, but I chalk it up to my jumping into the platform head first. Some times you miss these little things along the way.
In any case, just press and hold the Send button, and your contacts will pop up. This is opposed to just clicking the Send button once, which brings up your call log. I particularly love this shortcut because it means yet one fewer item on my home screen. That way I can fit in another useful application, lessening my need to ever leave the home screen.
Since this is such a short, basic tip, I want to open this up. What are your favorite one-key shortcuts on the BlackBerry?
This post originated at BBGeeks.com – home to all things Blackberry! Also a great source of info about AT&T BlackBerry.
Access your BlackBerry contacts with one click
This post originated at BBGeeks.com – home to all things Blackberry! Also a great source of info about AT&T BlackBerry.
Access your BlackBerry contacts with one click