No you couldnt Denise, one had to purchase a T9 Nav from Nuance to do that at the home screen. -original message- Subject: Re: [Talks] E6 tips and tricks From: Denise Thompson <deni...@cox.net> Date: 22/09/2011 2:38 am
I'm not talking about typing the first few letters while in the contact list. I'm talking about typing the first few letters while still on the home screen without going into contacts. Maybe we could do that on other nokia phones but I didn't know about it until now. Denise At 06:34 PM 9/21/2011, you wrote: >Many of these tricks have been in many Nokia phones over the years. >These include the trick of typing the first couple letters of a >contact while within the contact list, the trick for blue tooth, and >the trick for the browser, although if I remember right the trick >for the browser only brings up the WAP browser. As for the others >mentioned I am not sure... what say you Doc? >----- Original Message ----- From: "Denise Thompson" <deni...@cox.net> >To: "Talks Mailing List" <talks@talksusers.com> >Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2011 8:21 PM >Subject: [Talks] E6 tips and tricks > > >>I read and article this evening that pointed out some very cool >>tips and tricks that work on the E6. So I thought I'd pass them >>along for those of us who have them or who maybe thinking of getting one. >> From the home screen- just start typing the first few letters of >> the contact you want and the entries in your contact list that >> match those letters will come up on your home screen. They don't >> speak so after typing a few letters you can arrow down and the >> list will be there. click on it and if there's only one number >> it'll start dialing. If there's more than one it'll take you to >> where you can choose which number you want. >> From the home screen- Press star and hold it a second or so and it >> toggles bluetooth on and off. >> From the home screen- press 0 and hold it a second or so and it >> launches the browser. Hold that thought until the browser is >> accessible with talks. >>There is a small key that sits between the vol up and vol down >>keys. This is a mute key. If you press it while on a conference >>call it keeps noise in the background of where you are from >>interfering with the call. I haven't tried to see if you press it >>on a regular call to see if it also blocks background noise. >>There's a flash light that is apparently quite bright that turns on >>and off by sliding the lock key button on the right side of the >>phone down and holding it until you feel a couple of short >>vibrations. For folks who have some vision this could be handy. >>Denise >>_______________________________________________ >>Talks mailing list >>Talks@talksusers.com >>http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks >> >>Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: >>eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ >>and >>Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ > >_______________________________________________ >Talks mailing list >Talks@talksusers.com >http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks > >Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: >eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ >and >Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/ _______________________________________________ Talks mailing list Talks@talksusers.com http://lists.talksusers.com/mailman/listinfo/talks Hosting of this list provided courtesy of: eHosting Limited: http://www.ehosting.com/ and Talknav Inc. http://www.talknav.net/
