27. <p>If you're dialing a number that you plan on calling again, hit your phone's Menu button after you finish entering the number. You'll see a menu pop up, and "Add to contacts" will transfer the number to your contacts, as well as give you an entry form to add a name and other details. If you're dialing a corporate phone system that requires a pause before punching in a code, you can add a series of two-second pauses from this menu, or a "wait" that holds until a response is received before entering further numbers.</p><h3>Receiving Calls</h3><p>Your phone may buzz, blink, and beep for all kinds of messages, but it reserves a long, sustained ringtone, or a long vibration, for phone calls. When you get a call, you'll pull out your phone, and the screen will have two "sliders" near the bottom left and right of your screen, about where your thumb will be resting.</p>
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Editor's Notes
First try at the publishing model. Take an off-the-shelf open source wiki, publish a companion book. Why google wave? Because people loved it. But it warranted explanation. Hence a missing manual approach.
Looking at a book shelf like this, it’s clear what this person is trying to be awesome but needs help getting there. Learning is all about becoming awesome. Learning how products can make us better is almost as valuable as learning how to build products.
Round 2. The Complete Android Guide. Built on MindTouch 2010. Published in a multi-channel method online, in a hard copy book and soft copy ePub/PDF.
Social proof
More social proof
More social proof
more social proof
MindTouch and Complete Guides share the same use case: provide a good user experience for maximum knowledge transfer.
Google even encourages it. Transfer the knowledge and use our logo to boot.
What to avoid...
Competing documentation platforms and mobile OS vendors might as well be saying, “When I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.”
Let’s see some samples of the Complete Guides
The MediaWiki experience. Not ideal for a multi-channel distribution model.
But switched to MindTouch. For reasons which will become obvious.