The Z10 has landed in the United States and with it comes blackberry bush’s betray new mobile platform, blackberry 10. Now how does this thing persist?
If you picked up the latest and greatest from the smartphone maker of the north, it may go a little while to figure out exclusively(a) the features hidden in the OS’s nooks and crannies. We dug up 10 supportful tips to get you started on your way to berry nirvana. Or at least get your Nirvana hit on your phone.
Press the top and bottom spate clitoriss at the similar time. Photos will be in the Pictures app in the Camera roll.
If you elongate a video or a web rogue with a video, it will continue to play long aft(prenominal) you’ve moved on to another app. To stop the video, tap the exit between the strength control buttons. If you press the volume buttons, a controller will appear on screen and you faecal matter stop, forward and reverse the video that you put up buoy’t very see, but you can hear. Weird.
Why would you want to do this? Sometimes you posit Flash. In the browser, go to Settings>Display and Actions and flip the toggle for adobe Flash to on. Good luck with that.
BlackBerry has BlackBerry World with solely its songs, movies and apps. But that doesn’t mean you perplex to start purchase your music from yet another music store — you can actually add your music to your new smartphone with the BlackBerry assort app. You can download it here.
The BlackBerry Link app isn’t without its bugs (it pecker my MacBook Air’s CPU to the roof by nevertheless being on), but once you get it set up and drag your songs, videos, photos and docs to your new phone, you’re good to go.
In addition to adjusting the flashiness of your tunes, the physical volume buttons can be used to leap tracks. To enable track-skipping, head to Settings>System Volume and turn on Music Shortcuts. Volume levels are controlled by tapping on the volume buttons; to skip forward or back in a play angle of inclination, hold down the up or down volume button.
Search the way you want.BlackBerry 10 ships with Bing as the default bet engine. If you’re a fan of Google or Yahoo, you can swap it out. bulge out a search in the URL field at the bottom of the browser app. When the app recognizes a search, it’ll start to complete your search and in the top right-hand corner you’ll see a drop down menu to choose a distinguishable engine.
Search the way you want.
Time Shift — a feature that shoots a fewer frames before and after you actually click the shutter to help you get the perfect shot — isn’t turned on by default. You have to select Time Shift from the options button at the top right-hand corner of the Camera app. Sadly, you can’t make a GIF out of all the frames.
In the turn down left corner of the lock screen you’ll see the worldwide photograph for a camera. Tap and hold on that icon for a few seconds and the camera app will launch. Snap a photo by tapping the screen or tapping the volume up or down buttons.
Fans of Text Expander will appreciate the mogul to create shortcuts to words. BlackBerry 10 already has a list of word substitutions, but you can add your own. Head to Settings> manner of speaking and Input>Automated Assistance>Word Substitution, tap leave Shortcut at the bottom of the screen and start adding all your favorite words and ASCII art, like this historically accurate chirp reaction to Google killing Reader.–> (?°?°??? ???)
Like start My iPhone but with a suggestion of poutine. Actually the service is called BlackBerry Protect. But like Find My iPhone, it lets you pinpoint your missing Z10 on a map, send messages, have it sound an alarm, and remotely wipe the device from the Protect BlackBerry website.
To turn the service on, and you really should turn it on, head to Settings>BlackBerry Protect and just toggle it on. That’s it.
Materials taken from WIRED
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