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Punctuate or insert special characters without clicking shift

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.

For the best experience, open this page on an android phone, so you can install the apps by clicking on market links.
Posted by droid on Thursday, June 4, 2009, at 7:34 pm in Help & Tips.
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3 Comments

  1. KirAsh4 wrote:

    You can also long-press on the slide-out keyboard. One thing I noticed is that the onscreen keyboard doesn’t show all the options. For example, if I press ‘e’ on the keyboard, I get 7 different variants. If I do the same on the onscreen one, I only get 4.

    Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 9:04 pm | Permalink
  2. C. Enrique Ortiz wrote:

    helpful tip, thanks for sharing!

    ceo

    Thursday, June 4, 2009 at 11:14 pm | Permalink
  3. ccruise wrote:

    Is there any way to disable the double space = period feature for the onscreen keyboard?

    Tuesday, December 22, 2009 at 10:58 am | Permalink

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