I discovered that one of my colleagues with an N95 8Gb didn’t know he could hold down the “menu” key and get a list of running applications and switch between them, like Alt-TAB on Windows. I’ve know that for a while, but someone had to show me originally when I first started using S60 devices. It’s just plain not obvious.

I also found out that you can use the left and right arrows to step through e-mails, automatically downloading and displaying the next message. I guess that’s obvious when you think about it - up and down scroll the text, so that’s two dimensions - but it’s not simple to find out without pressing the wrong button.

So the big question is, how can these useful functions be made easier to find on a mobile device, especially when people don’t read anything? Some ideas coming up soon.

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