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Screen areas, Preliminary layla850 p1b – Sony Ericsson P910a User Manual

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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

A
B

C

D

E

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F

C

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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.