I clicked to view a message on my phone earlier and did it a bit "awkwardly" - held the button a bit long and swiped a bit or something. The buttons at the bottom displayed things such as "home", "shift", etc. instead of the usual keyboard (the keys looked very similar only slightly bigger). I clicked the back key to get off this, but was curious how I loaded it up in the first place. Does anybody know?

Whilst clicking buttons to try and work it out, I found that you can pull up a "search" function by holding down the button in the bottom left corner (menu button?). I thought that was quite interesting Any other features I might not have noticed?

There are quite a few features on Android that can be accessed by long presses - just keep hunting.

I copied this little list from somewhere -

* If you hold down on the homescreen, then choose shortcuts, you can then choose a contact and create a widget for them on your homescreen, so you can directly dial someone from there.
* If you go into airplane mode before launching a game, you won't get any ads.
* You can focus your camera on a specific thing by touching that area on your screen (so cool!)
* Message tones can be changed to anything you want by going to homescreen ---> shortcuts ----> settings -----> sounds.
* Pressing the homescreen and power button together creates a screen shot.
* Double-pressing the home button brings you to voice commands.
* If you turn off auto-brightness, you can brighten the screen with a swipe of the finger. Just press the notifications area and move your finger left or right.#
* On both the homescreen and the apps menu you will see a row of dots indicating which page you are on. hold the dot and scroll left or right. The pages will quickly scroll until you see the page you want.
* Some widgets allow you to expand them simply by holding down on them.
* Like on other Samsung Androids, swiping a contact to the left calls them, to the right texts them.