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Part I: Meet and Greet Your BlackBerry Storm
Using the SurePress Touch Screen
Tapping the Keyboards:
QWERTY and SureType
When you first turn on your BlackBerry, the display screen displays the
Home screen, which is your introduction to your BlackBerry Storm's graphi-
cal user interface. The different icons represent the different applications in
your BlackBerry.
If you tilt your BlackBerry sideways, the screen follows you.
We use these terms to show you how to interact with your BlackBerry Storm:
✓ Tap by lightly touching. This action allows you to highlight a choice in
a list or place the typing cursor in a particular place. Tapping does not,
however, select or confirm a choice.
✓ Touch-press by firmly touching and pressing on something to select it.
✓ Finger-swipe by moving your finger from left to right or right to left
across the screen. Usually, you use this action to go from one page to
another page.
✓ Finger-scroll by keeping your finger on the touch screen and moving
up, down, left, or right on the screen. You scroll to different parts of the
screen.
Applications have a row of icons on the bottom of the screen. You can access
these shortcuts without using the menu key. If this is your first touch-screen
device, play and have fun with it. Trust us; it won't bite.
Surprised by the heading of this section? Just when you thought the term
QWERTY wasn't going to be part of this book, it is. That's right. In the follow-
ing sections, we talk about the onscreen — or virtual — keyboards that you
use to enter information.
Virtual QWERTY keyboard
You see the virtual QWERTY keyboard appear if you tilt your BlackBerry
Storm sideways while entering text into a text field. See Figure 2-2.
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