Four more tips for users of Android - New York Times (blog)

There are so many things you can do by plucking required on the screen of an Android phone - or by holding your finger down for two seconds in what Google calls a "long news", that the majority of the owners have not found yet. I published a list of 12 Tips for Android last week. Here are four more.

3D maps : get the latest version of Google Maps, a free download through Android Market. To look at a map, can be tilted sliding two fingers vertically up or down the screen and rotate by placing two fingers on the map: one at the top and one at the bottom, or one on each side and making a move to move.

Largest source browser : you is constantly stretching Web pages with your fingertips to read them? Change the font size default instead. To review the implementation of browser, press the phone menu. Tap the option more and select settings in the side bottom (you have to scroll down). Change the first option, the size of the text from Normal to large.

Stop the screen from turning off : while the phone is connected, can lead to disable the saving function of drums that turns off the screen while is reading or using your phone as a radio clock in header. To the settings app. tap applications, then development. Activate the option "Stay awake". It was put there to help software developers. But end-users, in geek jargon, have a lot of uses for this.

Type names in the phone keypad : Unlike my other tips, this works on an HTC incredible but not on a Motorola Droid 2, I have the suspicion is a HTC snap. Still, we will help many homeowners HTC. Instead of finding contacts in the address book for the upbringing of the address book, and writing their names in the on-screen keyboard, then open marker of the phone's keypad, which is much larger, easier key tap. Tap in the name of your contact in the keyboard, for example, 5-6-4 spell J-O - H for John. The phone application list options to automatically complete the address book. It is faster and easier than going through the address book. Does dear Google: can generate this on all Android phones?


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