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	windows7	2011-06-15 , 19:30
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Have had my n900 for about 1year and 4months and just found a small thing about my n900 that i didnt know before but I think is very helpful, in fact its possible that it has been introduced in a recent update and i was not aware.

Basically at times i have found using the blue shift key on the keyboard to type one of the blue characters a bit awkward or even annoying... lets say if you want to type * instead of trying to hold the blue shift and press A or press blue shift twice, try to hold down the A key for just over 1 second and voila no need to use the blue shift key.

This applies to all blue characters.

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	JonWW	2011-06-15 , 19:35
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...or press the blue shift key then A to get the same effect.

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	windows7	2011-06-15 , 19:39
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Originally Posted by JonWW

...or press the blue shift key then A to get the same effect.

i see... well didn know about that either

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	JonWW	2011-06-15 , 19:48
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I learnt that one when trying to type IP addresses, when after the last PR update they broke how the keyboard worked.
You used to be able to lock on the blue shift key and a long keypress would select a white letter; so a full stop character in an IP address could easily be accessed with a long key press; where as now you have to drop out of blue shift mode, pretty much making it useless for anything other than phone numbers.

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	windows7	2011-06-15 , 19:54
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Originally Posted by JonWW

I learnt that one when trying to type IP addresses, when after the last PR update they broke how the keyboard worked.
You used to be able to lock on the blue shift key and a long keypress would select a white letter; so a full stop character in an IP address could easily be accessed with a long key press; where as now you have to drop out of blue shift mode, pretty much making it useless for anything other than phone numbers.

interesting...
actually would make sense if the oposite was possible, for example activate blue shift, which allows to type just blue numbers, then with the feature i just found, having the hability to hold down the key for over 1 second to activate the normal characters like the dot. just an idea...

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	JonWW	2011-06-15 , 19:58
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Yeah, that's how it used to work but the last PR update broke it.

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mirciox	2011-06-15 , 20:01
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If you double press the blue shift key and type, just the blue symbols will be inserted. The same thing happens if you double press shift, caps lock will be on. And if you wanna type a number on the qwerty, press the blue shift key once, then press a button from the first row, and a number will be typed in phone directly, if you keep pressing the number keys without shift, the numbers will be the input.

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	shallimus	2011-06-15 , 20:05
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Useful info for those who didn't have it (e.g. me)

Maybe consider a slightly less generic subject line (e.g. "Tip: Get blue special characters without pressing blue arrow key" or something). I'm not saying my example is good, but it gets the idea across...

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	windows7	2011-06-15 , 21:08
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Originally Posted by shallimus

Useful info for those who didn't have it (e.g. me)

Maybe consider a slightly less generic subject line (e.g. "Tip: Get blue special characters without pressing blue arrow key" or something). I'm not saying my example is good, but it gets the idea across...

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