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I was tagged by Symbian Smartphone blog.

The Rules:

• Name five blogs from different countries that you read.
• Those five bloggers are tagged with this meme and should participate (if they choose).

The Blogs:

• Tommi’s S60 Application Blog (Finland) - One of the most Nokia bloggers.
• Steve’s Rants ‘n’ Raves (UK) - Steve Litchfield is one of the editors of AllAboutSymbian.com.
• Symbian Guru (US) - Marketing and management professional in the mobile phone industry.
• Symbian in Motion (Australia?) - Zach is a blogger from Mobile9.com.
• Budi Putra (Indonesia) - Full-time blogger and tech writer from Indonesia who is also a blogger at CNet Asia. Why Indonesia? For those who don’t know me, I am originally from Indonesia.

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This one is a very simple tip but quite useful. Do you know that you can get delivery report from the SMS that you are sending? This way, you will know whether the recipient has received your SMS or not. I found this is very useful feature; but it is disabled by default in most (if not all) S60 devices.

Here is how you can enable SMS delivery report:

• Launch Messaging application.
• Select Options | Settings | Text message menu.
• Set Receive report option to Yes.

Now each time, you sent SMS, you would get a delivery report. You can check the status of your delivery report from Reports folder.

Compatible devices: S60 1st, 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.

I have collected top 5 shortcuts that are very useful on S60 devices. Note that different S60 device may have different key layout. That’s why, you may find one or two of the keys below are not available on your device.

Shortcut #1: Long-press Menu key

Long-pressing menu key will bring you the tasks list. It is useful to switch between applications or kill a running task. For more information about this shortcut, please see “Killing Applications from Applications List“.

Shortcut #2: Call key

Pressing Call key will bring Logs application and display the last called phone numbers.

Furthermore, pressing Call key in the Messaging application will send your message. For more information, please see “Sending Message with Call key“.

Shortcut #3: Long-press 1 key

Long-pressing 1 key on the idle screen will dial your voice message number.

Note that, there might be a problem with some operators and devices that the voice message number is not assigned automatically. In this case, the first time you long-press 1 key, you can assign the number manually.

Shortcut #4: Long-press 0 key

Long-pressing 0 key will launch the default Web browser.

For more information, please see “Launching Web Browser using 0 Key“.

Shortcut #5: Long-press Media key

Long-pressing Media key will launch the default Music player application.

Compatible devices: S60 2nd, 3rd Edition, Nokia Nseries, Nokia Eseries.