BlackBerry For Dummies®

Chapter 2. Navigating the BlackBerry

In this Chapter

• Signing up, or BlackBerry Anatomy 101

• Understanding general navigating guidelines

Regardless of whether you previously owned a BlackBerry or not, you might have heard that the new BlackBerry is totally different. You might be asking, how do you spot a new BlackBerry? Looks aren't deceiving in this case. From the outside, the new BlackBerry is a lot slimmer than the older BlackBerry handhelds. It has a brighter and higher resolution screen. But what makes it fundamentally different is the fact that it has a trackball.

What? No more trackwheel? Where is the trackball? What can you do with it? How can you navigate your BlackBerry better with the trackball? Those are some of the questions that we answer in this chapter. Bear with us and you will be master of your BlackBerry in no time.

Anatomy 101: The Body and Features of Your BlackBerry

In this section, we show you all the keys and features on your BlackBerry. The three models are shown in Figures 2-1 , 2-2 , and 2-3 .

Figure 2.1.  Figure 2-1: Main BlackBerry features on a BlackBerry Curve.

First, the major features:

• Display screen: The graphical user interface (GUI) on your BlackBerry.

• QWERTY keyboard: The input for your BlackBerry, very straightforward.

• SureType keyboard: The input for your BlackBerry Pearl. We cover how to type with the SureType keyboard.

• Escape key: This key is used to cancel ...