BlackBerry

Character Modification

• To quickly capitalize a letter, hold it down for about a second.
• To type characters with commonly-used diacritics, hold down the closest English letter, and spin the trackball.
  • This will not work for input fields limited to ASCII (for instance SMS test messages).

Apps

• Google Voice as of at least 2009-07-15
• Google Sync is absolutely necessary

Linux

• bcharge from the barry package is used to properly set up USB-based charging