What's That Icon?

[Robert Levy]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.mpx200.org' target='_blank'>http://www.mpx200.org</a><br /><br /></div>Have you ever seen an icon show up at the top of your Smartphone's screen and have no idea what it means? <a href="http://www.mpx200.org">MPx200.org</a> pointed out that part of Microsoft's new Windows Mobile support website is a page dedicated to explaining these icons. Check it out!

[randalllewis]

Don't get me wrong....Smartphone Thoughts is still the first technology website I check each day....but MPx200.org has been on a roll lately. This post on what the icons mean is helpful, and better yet was one a day or so ago that told an easy way to insert a symbol and how to show all of the symbols the phone is capable of. This technique (which involves holding down the # key in any text entry mode) does not appear in the manual as far as I can find or anywhere on the ATT or Moto websites either.

[Robert Levy]

Good feedback... mpx200.org has been doing a great job and I think we're taking for granted the fact that we've all been using these devices for several months while most of our readers are just getting started.

I have looked at the retail MPx200 manual, but I know the # thing (and lots of other goodies) are explained in the manual we linked to in this article (http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/articles.php?action=expand,3744) a while back.

Maybe we should start up a weekly "Tip and Tricks" column to identify things like this that aren't very obvious. What do you think?

[TopDog]

This is great. I was in Amsterdam the other week when this icon appeared: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/support/smartphone/images/icons/roaming.gif and I had no idea what it meant. It was my SmartPhone's first visit abroad, and it had never shown up home in Norway... no I know :-)

[smittyofdhs]

I was the one who sent the link to mpx200.org regarding the symbols. I found that info Here (http://www.microsoft.com/windowsmobile/resources/support/smartphone/supportsetup.aspx)

It's a great tip and tricks support site hosted by MS. That was where I found out about the # symbols trick too. Check it out.