Switching Applications

Hi,

I have a Nokia 6500 slide and I want to switch applications. At the
moment
if I have, for example, the music player running then I can send it to
the background so that I can use other functions of the phone but then
I cannot bring it to the foreground again without finding the
application and re-launching it.

On a previous Nokia I just held down a button for a moment and a list
appeared showing the active applications, then I just moved up or down
the list to the one I wanted.

To put it another way..... What am trying to do is the same as
using Alt-Tab in Windows or OSX

This has cropped up because I have loaded Google mail and I want to
leave it open all the time, however I also need to use the thing as a
phone! So I need to be able to send Google mail to the background.

Has anybody got any ideas?

Regards
James

In article <47cf804c-b92b-49fd-8cec-50629fd2bda6
@a5g2000prg.googlegroups.com>, jhleslie@googlemail.com says...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Nokia 6500 slide and I want to switch applications. At the
> moment
> if I have, for example, the music player running then I can send it to
> the background so that I can use other functions of the phone but then
> I cannot bring it to the foreground again without finding the
> application and re-launching it.
>
> On a previous Nokia I just held down a button for a moment and a list
> appeared showing the active applications, then I just moved up or down
> the list to the one I wanted.
>
> To put it another way..... What am trying to do is the same as
> using Alt-Tab in Windows or OSX
>
> This has cropped up because I have loaded Google mail and I want to
> leave it open all the time, however I also need to use the thing as a
> phone! So I need to be able to send Google mail to the background.
>
> Has anybody got any ideas?

The symbian-based smartphones do this, the 6500 is not symbian so you
are a bit stuck.
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Regards
Jon