By Leslie Durer

Apple iPhone 3G has taken the world by storm and while the wave of excitement hasn't yet died down, a few users wish to get the best out of their mobile phones. There are many tips and tricks through which you could increase the productivity of your cellular phones.

The 1st tip is the use of .com key. The iPhone helps to type dotcom very easily while typing a web address. This in truth helps to salvage a good deal of time but the supreme time saver is when you click on the .com button a little longer, you will get apop-up list of options domains like .edu, .net and .org to choose from while typing a web address. Some Other time saver is by tapping doubly on the spacebar, you could rapidly enter a full stop.

The 2nd tip is key-board related productivity that can be derived from your Apple iPhone 3G. You can change a small letter to a capital letter by holding on to the shift key and then sliding your finger on the letter that requires to be changed.

The mobile phone also has a CAPS LOCK key which could be set by configuring your handset. In the cell phone menu, go to settings /general /keyboard and enable the caps lock function. To utilise this shortcut you would have to double tap the shift key and the caps lock function would be activated.

The 3rd tip will be to preserve the most significant part of your Apple iPhone 3G is the battery. Apple iPhone 3G can truly be power hungry because of lots of added gizmos functionalities that run at the same time. You can add more life to your battery by temporary turning off the 3G connection when you are not utilising it and turn back to EDGE (2G) or GPRS connection.

You might also outsmart your Apple iPhone 3G by fooling the hand sets ambient light sensor that is located above the ear piece which utilises less power by reducing the display light of the screen when held in a dark environment. All you need to do is hold your finger over the ambient display light and save some more of your phone's battery.

The fourth tip is if you want a larger keyboard, all you need to do is flip the phone into a horizontal position and tap the Safari browser address bar before you begin browsing and you would have a wider keyboard. In case while using your mobile phone, whatever application gets frozen then you can just press and hold the Home button for approximately 6 secs and the application would close.

The fifth tip will be, if you wish to change the language to French or German or you want to type various text in foreign language, you merely need to hold and slide your finger on the letter key and a list of accented options would appear.

Though these tips are in the manual but not a lot of us would take the time out to read through the whole thing and we will also overlook alot of main points that would help us with our phones. Hope these tips would help you use your mobile phones easily and efficiently.

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