>
New Topic
>
Reply<
Esato Forum Index
>
Sony Ericsson / Sony >
Tips and tricks
> Faster SMS:ing
Bookmark topic
Hi all,
I know this trick might be of marginal value, and it might have been posted here before as well. But I have started using it quite much since I discovered it, and I thought it could be nice to share it.
When writing an SMS, you sometimes want to write a colon (:) for instance. You can do this by pressing # followed by 0 (or joy-down) seven times, which takes a long time. You can also do this by pressing Option, Yes, joy-right five times and then Yes (or joy-in), which amounts to the same number of key-presses. However, there is a third way:
Press
Option 1 5
That takes you to the fifth character in the symbol list, which is the colon. Likewise, you can push
Option 1 9
to enter a quoting mark "
Option 1 3
to ender an exclamation mark ! etc.
I hope you find this trick useful.
-Jas
PS: the "option" key is the one between the "yes" key and the "1" key, if you wondered.
--
Posted: 2003-01-31 09:52:00
Edit :
Quote
A related trick: If you are in the \"symbol\"-list, you can press 0 to toggle between the upper and the lower half of the list.
This message was posted from a T68i
--
Posted: 2003-02-01 15:19:00
Edit :
Quote
I guess we all suffer from the slowness of our beloved t68. What tricks do you use for faster usage? I use the following: (many of these have been reported elsewhere)
1) I have groups for my 5 closest friends. In each group there is only one number. Then, when sending an SMS, I just type left-2-1 for my first friend, left-2-3 for my third etc. This is much faster than using the phonebook.
2) I remove all SIM SMS:es
(cont.)
This message was posted from a T68i
--
Posted: 2003-02-01 15:49:00
Edit :
Quote
3) I put my most frequently dialed numbers on SIM position 1-5 for fast dialing with 1-#-yes, 2-#-yes etc.
4) I put TA in front of the most used contact on letter t (Thomas becomes TA Thomas for instance) for easy access. Rarely used contacts are put in brackets ( ) so those contacts end up last in the alphabet, not disturbing the other contacts.
This message was posted from a T68i
--
Posted: 2003-02-01 16:23:00
Edit :
Quote
Lol, your tricks must be really working, cause i'd be too lazy to post such a "bible" directly from a phone
--
Posted: 2003-02-01 18:12:00
Edit :
Quote
or if you want fast smsing you buy the keyboard!!!
I am uswed to the slowness of a sonyericsson, as i have had many other ericssons before and all were much slower than the t68
--
Posted: 2003-02-01 20:42:00
Edit :
Quote
@mkt: Well it sure took a while to enter it, but I was on a 4 h long train trip and didn't have much else to do... Plus I kind of hoped somebody would chip in and contribute with a speed up trick I hadn't heard of or thought of.
This message was posted from a T68i
--
Posted: 2003-02-02 14:51:00
Edit :
Quote
I just use volume slider for smsing. took me a while to get used to it, but now i'm a speeder :>
--
Posted: 2003-02-02 17:24:00
Edit :
Quote
Jas, thanks and keep on experimenting in finding ways to speed up the sms. Right now this is as good as it gets but I wished there still would be a faster way for typing a period (.) instead of the option-1-1
What other short cuts have you found on the phone besides smsings..that are new of course!
--
Posted: 2003-02-03 09:51:00
Edit :
Quote
thanks for the tip! i've heard
--
Posted: 2003-02-03 10:11:00
Edit :
Quote
New Topic
Reply
