Better Know Your Mobile: Using Shortcut Keys and BlackBerry Convenience Keys for Google Maps
Thursday, April 17, 2008 | 12:10 PM
Posted by Chris Nguyen and Tom Dimopoulos, Mobile Product Specialists, Google mobile team
Have we mentioned that we like doing things faster? In the spirit of speed and helping you to Better Know Your Mobile, the next couple of videos in our series will show you how to use all the great features, and even open Maps for mobile at the push of a button.
Last time we explained how to get My Location [0] and Traffic [7] with the help of some of your phone's shortcut keys. We've got a new video that shows all the most common numeric shortcut keys in one place. And you may have seen Steve and Mark's duel video setting "convenience keys" for speedy access to your favorite apps on BlackBerry, Blackjack, and Nokia N95 devices. Now we've added a shorter video about the convenience key settings on BlackBerry devices. Time to stop fishing around in menus and start impressing your friends with fast-as-lightning mapping!
As always, we'd love to get your ideas for more features you'd like to learn about, so give us a shout on the blog or video comments. To see all our videos in one place, check out the Google Mobile Help channel. You can always subscribe to it to get the latest videos on using Google Mobile.
Labels: Mobile Blog
5 comments:
Andrew said...
Where'd the videos go?
I'd love to see some review of the features of Gmail on BlackBerry. Namely any shortcut keys and such. (And maybe an explanation about why they're not the same as everything else on the BlackBerry. ;)
April 17, 2008 at 4:18 PM
MrMcCracken said...
One piece that really needs addressing is the gmail app on Nokia E61 - the "Delete" (or trash) key is "#", but that requires you to do shift+key, which takes two hands. It would be much nicer if one could configure it to use an alternate key, as I understand making a single-key-press could be dangerous for some users. But it would be nice to have the option to do everything with one hand...
April 17, 2008 at 8:24 PM
CouchTycoon said...
google mobile guys and users,
browsing the web with my blackberry, i detected the inconvenience of social bookmarking. in other words: it is not really possible to use google bookmarks or other services on blackberries, nokias, htcs and others..
but of course it is possible to start a call with a blackberry when you are browsing a website. so we have developed a nice application to save bookmarks directly from your mobile device.
would be great if you google guys and blackberry users could take a look at it.
http://addnr.couchtycoon.net/mobile/google.html
at the moment we use an austrian phone number. but don´t hesitate to make a call. it does not cost a cent because all the information will be taken from a "missed call", honest!
hans - co-founder
April 18, 2008 at 12:32 AM
Jason Trenkler said...
I miss the feature of being able to hit a button and add the the business as a Contact in your address book. Why is that feature gone?
April 22, 2008 at 9:14 PM
Unknown said...
Would it ever be possibly to download complete Google Maps to your phone, so I don't have to be connected to the Internet??
May 30, 2008 at 7:48 AM
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