Keyboard shortcuts frustratingly slow?

Hi,
I use heavily the keyboard shortcuts from the main screen. I usually assign the New SMS button to the left button. On both my E51 and E71 New SMS from the shortcut takes up to THREE SECONDS to bring up the new text message dialog. I'd say this is unacceptably slow, especially considering that the same functionality from the active standby mode (whatever it's called now) takes 1 second. Bug? Anyone else?
I'd say the same applies to all features assigned to keyboard shortcut, but I haven't tested that much to be 100% positive on this. Nokia -- please fix, that's on the minor, but a major pain-in-the-a usability issues...
Thanks,
Alexander
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hi breach,
the reason there is a 3 sec delay with the left soft key or shortcut is because the left soft key if you press it and immediately you press the [*] key will lock the phone, this is nokia's default lock key sequence-> left soft key + * key
hence, it is actually giving you 3 sec to effectively press the [*] if you want to lock the phone keys, if you dont press anything within 3 sec, then the phone will then execute the assigned application it is supposed to do, which in your case it is the New SMS...
all nokias are like this ever since...

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