I'm a long time user of the PalmOS & recent BB convert. I had my palm config'd such that when I pressed a key and held it, it would go from lower to upper case (like my BB does) but if I continued to hold it in, it would go from CAPS to symbols.

I REALLY miss this and I'm hoping someone knows of a way to do that with my BB.

Thanks.

Sorry, doesn't work that way.

Press the SYM key.

Wirelessly posted (Tmo's cheapest BB customer)

The SYM key should be quicker actually.

Wirelessly posted

Thanks anyway.

I would've preferred to be able to do this. But I'll get used to it.

You will... There's lots you'll get used to over time and wonder how you survived the PalmOS.

Wirelessly posted (Tmo's cheapest BB customer)

Exactly!

I came over from PalmOS as well and wonder how archaic it was learning to write their Grafitti with a stylus.

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I did pretty well with Grafitti. But I haven't used it about 4 years or so--I've been using Treos since then.

Grafitti was revolutionary back in the day. So was Apple's Newton Handwriting Recognition. But that was a LONG time ago!

What I now cannot live without is stuff like my BlackBerry automatically capitalizing the first letter after a period, or the first letter of a new paragraph. Adding in punctuation for me is also key. I type "dont" and it becomes "don't" without my having to worry about it. Still another phenomenal BB feature is Auto Text. I type "blb" and my Tour makes it "BlackBerry". Once you get to rely on these shortcuts, going back to any other device is pure hell.

Wirelessly posted (Tmo's cheapest BB customer)

Ditto for computers as well. Don't know how many times I pressed the spacebar twice on my computer thinking I'd get a period after the sentence.