User's Manual

18 Getting to know your P910a
Preliminary Layla850 P1B
Screen areas
When the flip is closed, you use the keyboard and the Jog Dial.
When the flip is open the screen is touch-sensitive. The screen is
divided into a number of areas: see the figure and table below.
Item Description
A Application
picker
Displays six icons for quick and easy access to the
most common applications. These can be customized.
Chat Edit
Internet Edit
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C
D
E
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B Menu bar Usually contains two menus on the left, and a folder
menu on the right. The two left-hand menus contain:
•the application menu, whose name is always the
same as the application. It contains the system
services used by most applications, such as
Find ,
Send as , and Delete .
•the edit menus contain editing items such as
Cut ,
Copy , Paste , Zoom , Preferences and Help.
With the flip closed, the menu bar often shows the
function of the key.
C Application
area
Applications use this central area of the screen to
display the essential information.
Many of the applications are based on two standard
view layouts: a list view and a detail view.
D Button bar An application view displays a button bar that
contains useful controls and shortcuts. Not all
application views require a button bar.
E Status bar Displays device status information such as: signal
strength, battery and device information, settings for
sounds and time, on-screen keyboard, as well as
temporary indicators such as missed calls and unread
messages.
F Title bar Displays the name of the active application.