Nokia Lumia 525 Tips and Tricks
Factory OS: Windows Phone 8
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To turn on Caps lock, double press the Shift key.
To turn it off, simply double tap Shift again to disable.
OneNote is a great App for taking notes and syncs them on the Cloud and across all devices that you have OneNote setup for.
To set this up, go to your App Drawer and load OneNote. From here you can make, edit or share notes. To search for specific notes you can use the magnifying glass and press the + key to add a new note.
If you’re abroad and want to translate text or street signs with your camera, then Window Phone provides this great feature.
Be warned that it does require a data connection, so if you’re roaming then make sure you check how much the costs will be.
First, press the search button at the bottom of your phone (three dots) Then press button that looks like an eye to open the Camera. Next, press Scan Text to take a picture of the text and then press Translate.
If it doesn’t work the first time, then try taking the photo straight on, or from a slightly different angle. Once the phone has recognised the text, select a language to translate to and Windows Phone will translate it for you.
To find an address on maps, then go to a location by panning and zooming.
Then Press and Hold on a location to drop a pin.
This will give you the address of the location you have selected.
The phone has a Facebook application, but you can also integrate Facebook with the phone operating system. First you need to setup your account. Go to Settings – Email & accounts and set it up there
To play your whole music collection, go into the Music and Videos area and press the Play button there.
This will start playing all your music.
To save or share pictures on websites, then find a picture you want to share/save.
Then press and hold on the image.
An option to share or save will appear.
To fast forward or rewind a song while playing, you need to look for two circle buttons with arrows in them.
These are used to play the previous / next tracks.
If you Press and Hold them however, you can fast forward or rewind the track.
Bing Vision is a great tool which works in a similar way to the QR / Barcode scanner on some phones.
Open the Bing Vision App and it will use phone’s camera to take a phone of an object, product, book etc. It will then scan any text on the object and search for relevant information. It can also translate the text into another language.
Any example might be to scan the cover of a book. Vision will search for the book and provide you a price comparison from various book sellers.