A friend and I compiled and emailed this to some of our friends a long time ago. I thought it might be --hopefully-- useful to share it here (a quick copy & paste action with slight editing 😊 ). Apologies if some are known or redundant.
-- While in calendar, pressing the space bar will toggle between today's date and the last date you paused on.
-- Also while in Calendar, experiment with using Ctrl-Joystick and Chr-Joystick (right, left, up and down), Also try a combination of Ctrl-Chr-Joystick (right, left, up and down). They will allow you to scroll months and years at a time. Try this in different views.
-- Whenever you're in an application, try pressing Menu and discover available menus and options. You'll be surprised at what you might find (try it in Contacts, Messaging, Telephone, Web, Calendar and other applications).
-- While on speaker phone (clamshell open) you can use other functions (while talking to someone). For example, you can check the calendar for appointments or check contacts to look up a phone number, messages and even run applications (just hit Desk and run the application you want). Once done hit Telephone and you can go back and end the call.
-- When creating a new card in Contacts, you can rename some of the fields. Keep an eye on the soft keys (to the right) as you move the cursor over the fields and you'll see rename appears to the right, hit it and you'll have options; a very useful one is the last option where you're allowed to enter your own description (almost a year passed before I new about this when a friend pointed it out 😊)
-- In contacts, you can create more databases (go Menu-File-more options new database or Shft-Ctrl-B). These are created on the memory card, the downside to this is that you can have only one active database at a time (so if someone calls and you have their name on a non active database, all you'll have showing is the number calling and no name), searches also apply to the active database only. However, I use this to create multiple databases for places I call but don't expect calls from (e.g. restaurants in a group by itself), it'll ease the load on the main contacts group and will give you a way to organize things. Just don't forget to activate your main database back (usually Contacts) after you're done. Among my friends with communicators, I'm the only one doing this, so it might not be for you 😊 Try it first before you start moving lots of records. You can move records between databases by highlighting the record and hitting Ctrl-Shft-M (or use Menu).
-- You can highlight multiple records (e.g. in Contacts) by keeping Ctrl pressed and moving with the Joystick and hitting the space bar (select and deselect). To select contiguous records use Shft and Joystick down or up.
-- If there is an application that you use frequently but happens to be in an isolated group and you'd like to have a copy of its icon in your favorite group, just highlight it and hit Ctrl-Shft-S and add it. You can create groups by hitting Ctrl-N while on the desktop. Groups within groups are not allowed.
-- You can schedule sending SMS and other messages (instead of having them sent right away). Prepare the message and use sending options. Now you can specify a date and time.
-- If there is a fax that you need to send frequently (e.g. a price list), fax it to yourself and save it (create more folders in Messaging). Then you can fax it to others by opening and forwarding it (you might need to experiment with this to make sure the initial fax that you save has no headers, easily done when faxing to your device from a PC).
-- And as many have stressed, keep frequently used applications open and hit menu and move to the left most icon (tasks icon?) and switch to the application instead of running it every time you need it. Switching is fast and Symbian is a very good multitasking OS (this will compensate for the slowness of the device). Frankly I'd rather have it this way then a fast device with lots of crashes (read Pocket PC 😉 )
-- You can lock your device remotely by sending an SMS (very useful if you forgot it somewhere). Check the manual and search this forum for details. The neat thing is that you'll receive an SMS from *your* phone telling you that it's locked, this never fails to amaze friends 😃
-- Lots of shortcuts are available, they'll make you do things fast and appreciate the device more.
For starters, when in Telephone, pressing Chr and Joystick down at the same time will allow you to "page scroll" down, Chr-Joystick up will "page scroll" up. Chr-Joystick right will take you to the end of the list, Chr-Joystick left will take you to the top.
For more, check the very useful document available under
http://www.agora.cz/agora/agora.nsf/...256B250073FA19
-- Finally, check Steve's nicely done tips and tricks:
For 9300
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/tips9300.htm
For 9500
http://3lib.ukonline.co.uk/tips9500.htm
Now, if only the battery can run for a couple of weeks between charges 😃 But that's not Nokia's fault I guess!