The Spot

Hitting the Menu button on your device will almost always bring up a menu with options.

The Search button on your device that looks like a little magnifying glass is very handy. It can be pressed almost anywhere to bring up a search function.

On Android phones with HTC Sense, you can pinch the screen to bring up an overview of all the different homescreens, in order to quickly switch between them. You may also press the Home key when you have the main (middle) screen selected to display the overview. If you press the Home button while on…

If you tap on a contact picture in the Messages or People / Contacts apps, a pop-up box will be displayed that offers quick links to certain actions: call, email, SMS, Google Talk, open contact, and find on map – depending on the data contained in the contact’s details. This tip also applies to the third-party…

Pressing the Menu button in All programs will let you switch from Grid mode to List mode.

In long lists, like your contacts or all the songs in your music collection, flick the screen to scroll down and then tap the gray scroll bar that appears to the right to quickly go to a certain letter in the list. If you think it’s difficult to grab the just mentioned scroll bar, tap…

When using the on-screen keyboard, instead of hitting “.” then space for a new sentence, you can just double tap on the space bar and it will do a full stop, space, and then capitalize the next letter. This method is much quicker.

If your device is in silent mode, you can quickly turn the ringer on again by pressing the Volume up hardware button.