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The N900 – Tips and Tricks Series

5 March 2010Entry by samuel 8 Comments



If you search the internet for some special functions of your Phone, you will find a lot of things, useful and useless just in a subjective point of view, of what you can do with your N900. Of course you will find tips and tricks on several sites described and discussed, but I will try to gather them all step by step here in our tips and tricks blog, so all these informations can be found easily, all in one place. It also will help to keep them in mind refreshing your memory from time to time.

Today I will start with some keyboard shortcuts, which make specific actions really handy. If you are used to work with your keyboard on your PC, you might find quite much similar actions.

These are used in text applications, email, sms, etc.
. Ctrl + C: Copy text
. Ctrl + V: Paste text
. Ctrl + C: Copy text
. Ctrl + V: Paste text
. Ctrl + X: Cut text
. Ctrl + A: Select all

. Ctrl + O: Open
. Ctrl + N: Create a new item
. Ctrl + S: Save
. Ctrl + Z: Undo
. Ctrl + Y: Redo

. Ctrl + F: Open search bar
. Ctrl + Right arrow: Move the insertion point to the end of the word
. Ctrl + Left arrow: Move the insertion point to the beginning of the word

Have you also known, that opening the keyboard and simply starting to type a name, opens the contacts and filters them in alphabetic order. It’s called smart dialing.

So this is it as much for today. To be continued …

- sam | visit our Nokia N900 forum -

8 Comments »

  • Pinguins soltos said:

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  • Kitkat said:

    Thanks for the tips. However, they’re available in the user manual in N900. :)

  • samuel (author) said:

    @ Kitkat: you’re right. But be honest, who likes manuals? ;) That’s not true. I f.e. read manuals very well.

  • Marcus said:

    Does anybody know the keyboard shortcut to go to the end of a page in the notes application?

  • Yemi said:

    I’ve been using my N900 for quite sometime. I was almost frustrated when I couldnt use my Stylus to select a paragraph in mail app for example. After playing with different combination of keys, I found a solution. Its not even listed anywhere (as far as I googled it lol). Here’s the tip for N900 users:

    To select a paragraph or sentences, put the insertion point where you want to start selecting, hold the shift key and use the top or bottom arrow to select upwards or downwards.

    There you have it. N900 rocks especially on HSPA+ speed

  • Shinobi said:

    If you hold ctrl, shift and the letter o at the same time while your on the browser, you can view web pages portrait mode :)

  • samuel (author) said:

    @shinobi: Thank you for the tip! This is really great!

  • sajjad said:

    thank very good

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