Ten hot tips to get the most from your Apple iPhone 3G

Davey Winder
Thursday, 31 July 2008 17:40

Your IT - Mobility

Tip seven: I want a bigger keyboard. Well, I do, because I have fat fingers. If you want the same, for whatever reason, then flip the phone into a horizontal position and tap the Safari browser address bar before you begin browsing. You will now have a wider keyboard. Nice.

Tip eight: typing in French or German. If you want to do the whole typing foreign words properly thing, then in nay word processor it can be something of a bind. On the iPhone you might think it is all but impossible. Wrong!

For total text message accuracy just hold down the letter key and a list of accented alternatives appear. Brilliant, just holding and sliding your finger does the trick after that.

Tip nine: it has got a CAPS LOCK key! Yes, it is true, you do not have to put up with that tap the shift key, type, tap the shift key, type tango any more. You can get a proper Caps Lock key by, well, configuring your handset in the setting menu to give you one.

I missed this when I configured mine, and many others appear to have as well. Just go to Settings|General|Keyboard and there it is. Now when you want Caps Lock functionality you just have to double tap the shift key and it is there.

Tip ten: flash, bang, wallop what a screenshot. You can now take a screenshot of pretty much anything that is on your iPhone screen at the time by holding down the Home button and then pressing the Sleep/Wake button.

The screen flashes, and wallop - there's a picture of the current screen right there in the saved images photo album...