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Different factors may affect mobile phone call quality
Here is a list of different factors that can affect calls on your mobile phone:
As you can see, of all these factors, only the first directly relates to the quality of device you are using.
Based on an article by Kent German on cnet.com
Smartphones: Use the right and left navigation buttons to see the next and previous screens in Settings
The Settings menu on non-touch screen smartphones has more options than can be displayed in a single screen. To see the second screen of Settings options, you can select "More" at the bottom of the first Settings screen, or press "0" on the numeric keypad. However, the quickest way to switch back and forth between the first and second Setting screens it to press the right or left functions on the D-pad.
Smartphones: View menu options in full screen
When you are selecting options in certain programs on non-touch screen smartphones, there is often a text field that displays one option at a time, and you must scroll through the list by pressing left or right on the navigation pad. One example of this is the Reminder field in a New Appointment screen (Fig. 2). The problem with this approach is that you can only see one option at a time; you can waste time scrolling through the whole list to find the desired options.
Figs. 2 & 3: On a non-touch screen smartphone, press the D-pad's center select function in New Appointment's Reminder field (left) to view a full screen of your options (right).
Instead of pressing the left or right functions, select the center button on the navigation pad to display the various options in a full-screen vertical list (Fig. 3). This allows you to see all (or most) of your options displayed at once and makes option selection quicker and easier.
Based on a tip by Todd Ogasawara from mobileviews.com
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Get album art to appear in Windows Media Player
Fig. 4: You can make sure album art appears in Media Player by manually saving the image to the album folder.
Media Player Mobile is designed to display album cover art when a song from the album is being played (Fig. 4). Unfortunately, it doesn't always do it—a bug that can greatly annoy music enthusiasts. One way to ensure that they will display is to manually create folders for each album and include the album image in the folder. Follow these steps:
- Save a song file with the following file folder structure: <Artist>\<Album Name>>\<music file>. For example, Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" would be saved as follows: "\My Documents\My Music\Queen\A Night at the Opera\Bohemian Rhapsody.mp3."
- Download the cover art image for the album from the music CD or other source and save it as "Folder.jpg."
- Save the image in the "A Night at the Opera" (or other album) folder.
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