The D-PAD is located on the left side of your of the device between the MENU and JUMP buttons. You can "rock" the D-PAD in four directions: up, down, left, right. In general, rocking the D-PAD gives you the same results as rolling the TRACKBALL up, down, left, right. You can use the D-PAD to navigate while playing games, to scroll down a screen line-by-line, and to navigate within "text fields". A text field (or text box) is an area on the screen in which you can type characters. Here's a couple examples of text fields:

• To, From, Subject fields in an email, IM, or text message
• The text in a note

Press the top, left, bottom, right sides of the D-PAD to move in those directions among characters in a text field. Press the top to scroll up a text field line-by-line; press the bottom to scroll down


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