Navigating the iPhone is extremely simply due to its intuitive “touch” keyboard that lets you type a little bit faster and even feels a little like a real keyboard. It also offers some delightful hidden tricks on its multi-touch screen to help you navigate faster:

1. Double tap to insert a full stop and space: When writing an SMS, email or note, most literate people will end their sentences with a full stop. Normally, you’d type the full stop b y tapping the “.?123” key and then touch the “.” Button. The iPhone simplifies this frequent keystroke. When you complete a sentence, you simply double tap the SPACE button and the iPhone will automatically complete a full stop and a space for you. If it doesn’t work, you may need to enable “.” Shortcut in keyboard setting.
   
2. Type punctuation with fewer taps: To type punctuation with the touch keyboard you need to tap the “.?123” key and switch to punctuation key panel. Then you touch the desired punctuation and tap the “ABC” key to switch back to the QWERTY keyboard. There is actually a way to minimise tapping the iPhone keyboard. When you need to type a punctuation mark, instead of tapping and releasing the “.?123” key, hold it. You’ll be brought to choose punctuation. Without releasing your finger, slide it across to choose a punctuation mark (for example, a question mark). Now release your finger to type the punctuation. You’ll find that the keyboard has switched back to a QWERTY keyboard.
   
3. Type Currency $$: Holding the $ sign of the keyboard brings up a selection of currency including Euro, Japanese Yen, British Pounds and more.
   
4. Zooming in on a message: When you are typing a message, tap and hold any text in the message. The iPhone will bring up a magnifying lens to zoom into the text of your message.
   
5. Domain Shortcut (iPhone 2.0 and later): Those with an iPhone 3G or who have upgraded their iPhone to 2.0 firmware will notice that there are a few improvements with the keyboard. When using Safari and typing a URL, hold “.com” button and the iPhone will pop-up a selection of “.org”, “.net” and “.edu” domain for you to tap. The same also works in Email application. Tap the full stop and hold it. You’ll see a selection of “.net”, “.edu”, “.org” and “.com”.
   
6. Faster navigation with the top bar: Apart from displaying network signal strength, time and battery life, the top bar of the iPhone actually has other uses. In Safari, when browsing lengthy webpages, you may find a quicker way to scroll to the top by tapping on the top bar. A simple tap will have the iPhone transport you back to the very top of the webpage. This trick also works for applications such as email, Notes and Contact in iPhone firmware 2.0 and iPhone 3G.
   
7. URLs in Safari: To reveal the URL of a hyperlink in Safari, you can move your cursor onto the hyperlink and the URL is shown in the status bar. This works on the iPhone version of Safari as well. Simply press and hold the hyperlink and the URL will pop up.