The A and S buttons were used to speed up and slow down time like the Sims and you'd be able to see the status of the game speed in the Phone menu. A proper tutorial definitely would've really helped out to make sure everything was communicated properly.
The phone popping up is an interesting one since it's only assigned Tab and not Z; I'll have to look into that one soon.
Thanks for playing! All the feedback is definitely awesome and really helps!