A BlackBerry is a must have device for many people. If you’re too busy using it to learn some of the easy to use shortcuts, then these quick tips are for you:

- On any BlackBerry, when reading email you can easily move forward and backwards through your emails. After reading your email message, press the “N” button and the next email will display. Likewise, pressing “P” brings up a previous email. Need to go back to the top? Just press “T”.

- Just like email, you can move next or previous while browsing a presentation slide using the “N” and “P” buttons. To watch the presentation as a slide show, press “S”, and stop the slideshow with the “Escape” button.

- When talking with someone on your BlackBerry, if you need to jot down a note during the call you can simply click the track wheel and select “Notes”. Type whatever you need to type and it gets saved along with the phone number or directory entry of the person you were talking with.

- Three way calling is easy. Call your first contact and then press the spacebar. That’ll bring up your call list and just select the next person you want to call. Your first caller will be put on hold automatically. Repeat for the next caller.

- If you want to quickly switch between applications, press “Alt-Escape” and it’ll cycle through each.

- Have you ever had your BlackBerry dial someone accidentally after putting it in your pocket? Just press and hold the “Mute” button to activate stand-by. To undo stand-by, just press and hold the “Mute” button again

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TaskMaster 1.2.0 for BlackBerry^®

The next generation of to-do / task management with your BlackBerry^® Wireless Handheld. Sophisticated task software for everyone!

Key Features

• FAST one click category switching - famous from NextAction!.
• Full featured task support: due dates, priorities, notes, status, etc.
• Synchronizes with Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Act!, Novell Groupwise, iCal, Entourage, and more.
• 100% compatible with Blackberry Tasks Application andNextAction!.
  You can use them simultaneuosly if you want.
• Enhanced for implementing GTD^® (Getting Things Done).
• Customizable font size.
• Due date in task list (optional).
• Languages - English and German.
  

New in TaskMaster 1.2.0

• Hotkeys: task adding (’N’, ‘B’), listing screen sort quick switch (’A’, ‘S’), quick task delete (’DEL’).
• Trackball click opens selected task.
• TaskReports integration.
• Default due date can be set to: today or tomorrow.
• Minor bug fixes (time zone, not starting, category change/add, focus lost).

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BlackBerry Smartphones have actually a really good speaker phone which can be activated during a call to speak hands-free. You can switch to the speaker phone by pressing the trackball or the BlackBerry button and select the speaker phone options.

But there is also a much easier way to do this - there is a special key on your BlackBerry keyboard. Next to the enter key, the button that is half currency symbol/half speaker phone.

Pushing this button switches to speaker phone or back to normal mode.

Here are two pictures:

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