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Monthly Archives: June 2009

Punctuate or insert special characters without clicking shift

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Press spacebar twice to insert ‘.’
Can be disabled in Settings > Locale and Text > Device Keyboard > Auto-punctuate

Special characters like â, ê can be embedded by long pressing the key on the soft keyboard.

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Access Android keyboard tutorial on your phone

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

System > About Phone > System tutorial

Shows basic soft keyboard functionality.

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Rotate screen automatically when phone is horizontal

Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Enable: Settings > Sound and display > Orientation
This is disabled by default.
It only works when you are in an application though.

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