From the Forums: Hot threads & Not so well known WP7 functionality

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Do you have a Windows Phone in your manus? Exercise yous think yous know everything it can do? Wouldn't information technology exist overnice to become some helpful hints, some insight in to what functions are bachelor in Windows Phone?

That is exactly what today'south hot thread is all virtually. In his thread "Not then well known WP7 functionality" (started originally on Reddit), WPCentral Forum member saintforlifehas summarized a thread for us that covers a lot of these points. With the assist from other forum members contributions his thread is quickly filling up with a lot of helpful Windows Phone functionality tips.

Here are a few that forums member Jet Lifeadded to the list.

"I've got a couple for the Zune histrion:

When a song is playing in the Zune app you can tap the artists name and go to their albums list.

If your playing music in shuffle mode and add a vocal to now playing through a tap and concord, it will exist the next song to play. Same matter for an album

On the at present playing screen in Zune yous can tap below the song playing and it will listing upcoming songs.

If yous pin an artist to the home screen, yous get the double tile."

Practice you listen to the FM Radio in your Windows Phone? Forum member Winterfang added this one to the list.

Property downward a blank space while listening to radio on the headphones, gives you lot the pick to utilise the speakers instead.

Do you have a lot of contacts in your contacts list? Having any trouble keeping them organized? We have some tips to help you lot with just that posted by forum member VizagDude.

In the accost book view, if a person has multiple iterations of their info from Live, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Linkedin, etc. You can combine them all past using the 'Link' icon from inside their profile view. WP actually gives you suggestions on the names from your accost book. This way, there is only one iteration of their contact which combines all the different profiles of that person.

Within the address book, you tin create groups and add add people within those groups. I have Family unit, Shut Friends and Co-Workers. I can view all their social activity at one place. I tin also pin these group/s as a home screen tile.

Yous will find all of these and many more hints insaintforlife's thread "Not so well known WP7 functionality". This is but a must read for even the nigh advanced Windows Phone user. Nosotros even learned a thing or two from this as well as just being reminded of a few tips we forgot.

Have a tip to share? Review the list in the original mail insaintforlife'due south thread "Not so well known WP7 functionality" and if you lot don't see your tip, post it in his thread and he volition add your tip to the listing

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