Windows phone 7 tips and tricks

It sounds silly right, but it caught us out first time so we suspect it will catch you out too. Forwarding an email is actually found in the icon with a small envelope and an arrow that looks like you are replying at the bottom of the screen when you are reading the email you want to forward. Go into Settings, swipe to Applications, choose Phone and then set the "Show myCaller ID to" to the setting you want; Everyone, no one, and my contacts. This one is hidden within the player.

Tap on the album cover and it reveals two controls, a repeat and a shuffle icon. Watch that progress bar move, baby! It silences the ringer dead. See the full collection of 72 tips and tricks at Pocket-lint here. Some of the best are: 6. Hold to get secondary menus While the three dots will get you to the same thing holding down your finger for longer than a second normally brings you the menu too.

Turning off the key press sound Click, click, click, click. Enabling Google apps email If you or your company use a Google Apps account you will have to enable Mobile mail for the system to work. Turning location off to save battery Location services are great, but they will eat your battery. Turning off mobile browsing There are plenty of sites on the Internet that have a mobile version of their website so you can browse quicker when you are out and about on a slow connection. Forwarding an email It sounds silly right, but it caught us out first time so we suspect it will catch you out too.

Shuffle tracks on an album This one is hidden within the player. To get to the next image in an album or the camera roll or a Facebook photo feed or any other set of images , pinch to zoom back out as far as you can and then you can swipe left and right for more pictures. When you turn the Windows Phone 7 sideways, the landscape view of the browser hides the address bar and menu toolbar to give you more space to see more of the page. Counting the phone dialler keypad, there are seven different keyboards you'll see in different tools and apps; you can't pick what you see where but it's worth knowing what's different.

If you're typing a message or document you get the default QWERTY keyboard that has a button to bring up a set of emoticons so you don't have to hunt and peck for punctuation keys ; if you're typing an address into an SMS, you get a similar keyboard but the number button gives you the numeric keypad to type phone numbers faster. If you're typing in an app that expects a URL or an email address you get a.

The arrow key on the left of the lowest row of symbols and emoticons brings up a second page, so if you need the euro symbol or a smiley that looks like a cat, tap this More button. Other keys have extra symbols when you press and hold; the bracket key conceals angled and curly parentheses, the dash can give you underscore and tilde , vowels include accents — this is a great way of getting awkward characters quickly. Capacitive screens can't detect where in a word you're trying to tap for a correction because the touch sensor and your fingertip is just too big; press and hold on a word you've typed to get a cursor you can drag into position — but don't look where you're pressing, because the cursor appears further up on the screen, so it won't be hidden under your finger.

The text you want to edit is hidden under your finger though, so keep holding it on the screen and drag down; the cursor follows at a distance so by the time it reaches the text, your finger is out of the way. There's no separate inbox or app for this in Windows Phone 7; just write your text message and tap the 'attach' button to pick a photo or start the camera for a new snap.

You can pin the people you talk to the most to your Windows Phone 7 Start screen and tap to see what they're up to — then call, email or Facebook them straight from there. And the ones you contact the most — by phone, email or Facebook — will be in the recent section of the People hub anyway. If it's a new phone, you don't have to check the paperwork.

You can use your phone for other things while you're on a call — when you navigate away from the call screen, there's a notification bar at the top that scrolls through the call details that you can tap to get back to it.