1. In a two-way mobile communication device having a display and an input interface, a method of initiating one of a plurality of resident applications, said method comprising: displaying a key map on said display of the two-way mobile communication device, the key map including symbolic identifiers for a group of the resident applications, and each of said symbolic identifiers provide information relating to the assignment of a key of a group of keys of the two-way mobile communication device; receiving a selection of the keys in the group of keys; and executing one of the resident applications within the group of the resident applications that is associated with the selected one of the keys in the group of keys.