3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Add Server Source. server, and enter the Exchange server domain. 5 CHAPTER SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION NOTE You can’t see your password as you enter it, so be careful. Be sure Caps Lock and Option Lock are not on unless you need them. For info on how to enter characters, see Entering lowercase and uppercase letters and Entering numbers, punctuation, and symbols. 4 Enter the server address. The Exchange server settings are casesensitive.
CHAPTER 5 SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION 9 Press Next (right softkey) and check the boxes for the types of information you want to synchronise with the Exchange server. 10 (Optional) Highlight an item, press Menu (right softkey), and then select Settings to change the synchronisation settings for that type of information. Settings are not available for all items.
take place automatically. Set a synchronisation schedule to have sync take place either anytime info is updated on your smartphone or the server, or at certain intervals. 1 Press Home Centre . , and then press 2 Select Applications select ActiveSync , and then . 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Schedule. Off-peak times: Sets the frequency for low-traffic time periods such as late at night.
CHAPTER 5 SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION 2 To initiate a manual sync, press Home , and then press Centre . 3 Select Applications select ActiveSync 4 Press Sync , and then . (left softkey).
If you do not have Adobe Flash Player on your computer, you can download it for free from adobe.com. TIP Installing ActiveSync desktop software: Windows XP If you have a Windows XP computer, the desktop sync software is called ActiveSync desktop software. The Windows Mobile Getting Started CD recognises that you have a Windows XP computer and automatically directs you to install ActiveSync desktop software. On your smartphone, the sync application is called ActiveSync.
CHAPTER 5 SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION Mobile Device Center. The Windows Mobile Getting Started CD recognises that you have a Windows Vista computer and automatically directs you to install Windows Mobile Device Center. On your smartphone, the sync application is called ActiveSync. 7 Make sure the Windows Mobile Device Center box is checked, and click Install. 8 Follow the installation instructions that appear on both your computer and your smartphone.
expansion card slot on your smartphone (see Installing applications onto an expansion card) • Change which applications synchronise • In ActiveSync desktop software on a Windows XP computer, enter settings to synchronise wirelessly with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or 2007 DID YOU KNOW? You can also change which applications synchronise (see Changing which applications sync) and enter settings to synchronise wirelessly (see Setting up wireless synchronisation) in the ActiveSync app on your smartphone.
CHAPTER 5 SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION Connecting your smartphone to your computer NOTE If you’re transferring info from a previous Windows Mobile device or from a Palm OS device, you can learn more about how to move content, such as pictures, music, and files, to your smartphone by going to go.palm.com/ treo500v. ® ® 1 Prepare the AC charger by connecting the adapter that fits the wall outlet you’re going to use. sockets to the left on the bottom of the smartphone.
5 CHAPTER SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION USB sync cable Synchronising using the sync cable checks whether changes you made on the computer or on the smartphone need to be synchronised. • Every time you connect your smartphone to your computer, the desktop sync software automatically turns on and Connect your smartphone to your computer (see Connecting your smartphone to your computer).
SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION CHAPTER 5 BEFORE YOU BEGIN Do the following: • Make sure your computer is equipped with Bluetooth wireless technology. • If you have not already done so, install the ActiveSync Plug-in for Bluetooth wireless technology from the Windows Mobile Getting Started CD. The plug-in is installed on your computer and is needed to synchronise over a Bluetooth connection with your smartphone.
Bluetooth partnership with this computer. See Connecting to devices with Bluetooth® wireless technology for more information on partnerships. Center. Select Connect without setting up your device, and then select Connection settings. 2 Check the Allow connections for one of the following box, and then select Bluetooth. 3 On your smartphone, press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 4 Navigate to the My Settings content list and press All Settings (right softkey).
CHAPTER 5 SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION • The contacts and calendar appointments from both computers are on your smartphone. NOTE Microsoft Office Outlook E-mail can synchronise with only one computer. ® ® Setting synchronisation options 4 Do any of the following: • Check the box next to any items you want to synchronise. If you cannot check a box, you might have to uncheck a box for the same information type elsewhere in the list. • Uncheck the box next to any items you want to stop synchronising.
settings for that item. Settings are not available for all items. For detailed information on synchronising Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, and PowerPoint presentations, see Synchronising your Microsoft Office files. For detailed information on synchronising pictures, videos, and music files, see Synchronising your media files. 5 CHAPTER SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION Stopping synchronisation If you ever need to manually stop synchronisation, follow these steps: TIP 1 Press Home Centre .
SYNCHRONISING INFORMATION CHAPTER 5 88 SETTING SYNCHRONISATION OPTIONS
CHAP TE R 6 Your email You already know how efficient email is for staying in touch. Now your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone brings you a new level of convenience: email on the go. Enjoy the ease and speed of communicating with friends, family, and colleagues anywhere you can access your network operator’s data network. You can send photos to your friends and family, or create Microsoft Word or Excel files and send them to your colleagues.
In this chapter Setting up email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 Sending and receiving messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Working with email messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Working with meeting invitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Setting up email BEFORE YOU BEGIN • Before you use your smartphone to send or receive messages, consult your network operator for pricing and availability of email services and data rate plans. • Make sure your phone is on and you’re inside a coverage area before you send or receive messages. personal email service, which you can use to access one or more email accounts, already installed.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL Email account type Type of email you can access How to set up Microsoft Exchange server You can retrieve corporate email using a Microsoft Exchange server. You can access email wirelessly if your company is using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync®. See Setting up wireless synchronisation. You may need to check with your IT organisation to ensure that Exchange ActiveSync® is supported and to obtain the configuration settings.
6 CHAPTER YOUR EMAIL 5 If prompted, press Yes (left softkey) to go the web page. 6 Follow the instructions for setting up your MyMail email account. Setting up a POP/IMAP account: Common email providers Follow this procedure if you have a common email provider such as AOL, EarthLink, or Yahoo!. If you are setting up the Inbox application to work with your corporate email account, or you have a less-common email provider, see Setting up a POP/IMAP account: Other email providers.
YOUR EMAIL CHAPTER 6 7 Press Next (right softkey). 8 Enter your account username and password. 9 If you want your password entered automatically, check the Save password box. If you want to enter your password each time you access this account, do not check this box. DID YOU KNOW? Checking the Save password box makes it easier to check your email, because you don’t have to enter your password each time.
6 CHAPTER YOUR EMAIL service provider (ISP), an email account that you access using a VPN server connection (such as a work account; see Connecting to a VPN), or any other IMAP or POP email account.
YOUR EMAIL CHAPTER 6 9 Press Next Internet email: Select this option if you access email from any type of email account except a corporate account that uses an Exchange mail server. (right softkey). 10 Enter the name of the incoming mail server. Exchange server: Select this option if you access email from a corporate email account using an Exchange server. 7 Press Next (right softkey). 8 Enter your name and, if you want, change your account display name to something meaningful.
14 If you want your password entered automatically, check the Save password box. If you want to enter your password each time you access this account, do not check this box. DID YOU KNOW? Checking the Save password box makes it easier to check your email, because you don’t have to enter your password each time. Leaving the box unchecked keeps your email more secure, because no one can download messages without entering your password. If you do not receive an alert, go to Entering outgoing server settings.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL settings; see Changing email download settings for information. 18 Press Finish (right softkey). If prompted, select OK to download messages for this account now. To delete an email account or to edit account settings—for example, if you need to change the name of the outgoing mail server—press Home, press Centre on the 5-way, and then press Messaging. To delete an account, highlight the account you want, press Menu (right action key), and then select Delete.
the box if the server requires you to use your account username and password when sending email. 3 Select Done (left softkey). On the outgoing mail server screen, press Next (right softkey). 2 Select Advanced Server Settings, and then select the correct settings for either of the following: 4 (Optional) Select either of the following: Require SSL for Incoming email: Check the box if your account requires SSL for incoming messages.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL Sending and receiving messages Selecting which email account to use Creating and sending an email message If you set up more than one email account on your smartphone (see Setting up email), you can select the account you want to use to view or send messages in one of three ways: 1 Press Home , and then press Left to open the Message Centre content list • • • 100 Also press Left to switch to a different account after you are finished working in the first account you selected.
When addressing a message, you can enter one or more letters of the contact’s first and last names, separated by a space. DID YOU KNOW? To address a message to multiple recipients, separate the addresses by pressing Enter or entering a semicolon (;). TIP 5 Select Subject and enter a title for the message. 6 Press Down to go to the body of the message. Enter your message, or press Menu (right softkey), select My Text, and then select a predefined phrase you want to insert.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL • If you synchronise wirelessly with your Exchange server using Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, new email messages are sent to your smartphone when they appear on the server, according to the schedule you set up (see Setting the synchronisation schedule), or when you manually initiate a sync (see Initiating a wireless sync manually. If you sync email with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 or 2007, you can synchronise messages in subfolders you create.
3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Send/Receive to synchronise your smartphone with your email server. Partially downloaded messages appear in the message list with a partial envelope icon to the left of the subject. To view the full message, either press Menu (right softkey) and select Download Message, or open the message and select Get the rest of this message. TIP DID YOU KNOW? You can view messages sent as HTML with the HTML formatting intact.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL 1 In an open message, highlight the name or address of the contact you want to add. 2 Press Centre . 3 Press Save (left softkey). 4 Select to create a new contact entry for this name or address, or select an existing contact to add the name or address to that entry. your organisation’s online address book or Global Address List (GAL). To access a GAL, make sure you are accessing either Exchange Server 2007 or Exchange Server 2003 upgraded to Service Pack 2.
When you sync with Outlook on your computer, disable your online address books to avoid errors. Press Menu (right softkey) and select Tools > Options. Select Address, select each online address book, and then uncheck the Check name against this server box. Be sure to turn this option back on if you synchronise other email accounts. TIP If you synchronise with Microsoft Outlook 2007, you can also find messages stored on your mail server.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL 4 (Optional) Select Edit sender’s message to edit the original sender’s message text that you include in your forwarded message. Press and hold... To... 0 View all email shortcuts 5 Press Send 1 Reply to the sender of a message and all other addressees 2 Reply to the sender only 3 Mark a message read or unread 4 Flag a message as high priority 5 Move a message between folders 1 Highlight the message you want to delete.
Adding a signature to your messages You can use a different signature with each email account. 1 Press Home , and then press Left to open the Message Centre content list 2 Select any email account. 3 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Tools > Options. 4 Select Signatures. 5 Select the account for which you want to create a signature. 7 (Optional) Check the Include when replying and forwarding box to add this signature to messages you reply to or forward with this account.
YOUR EMAIL CHAPTER 6 5 Select Sending and set either of the following options: Show date and time in the message list: Sets whether the date and time a message is received is included in the message list. Sort messages by: The first list specifies the criteria by which messages are sorted in the message list. The second list sets whether the sort order is ascending (A-Z or most recent to oldest) or descending (Z-A or oldest to most recent).
6 CHAPTER YOUR EMAIL Include copy of original message when replying to email: Indicates whether the body of a message you received appears in your response to that message. Save copies of sent items: Indicates whether messages you send are stored in the Sent folder. 6 Select Security and check the Warn before navigating to a URL or file link that is not on my device box if you want to receive a warning message before you open a URL or file link that is not on your smartphone.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL you delete one or more messages from the message list. 8 Press Done (left softkey). Changing email download settings You can customise the download options for each email account that you have with an Internet service provider (ISP) or that you access using a VPN server connection (typically a work account). NOTE To change options for a Microsoft Office Outlook email account, Press Home , press Centre , select Applications , and then select ActiveSync .
7 Select Advanced Settings, and then select any of the following: messages you delete on your smartphone should remain on the server. 8 Press Done (left softkey). 9 Press Next (right softkey). 6 CHAPTER YOUR EMAIL 10 Select either of the following: Send/receive when I click Send: Specifies whether you can manually send and receive messages, in addition to automatically downloading them.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL Message download limit: Select the size of an incoming message that is automatically downloaded. For any message that exceeds this size, you must manually download the rest of the message. Selecting a higher limit means more of your messages will be fully downloaded, but message retrieval might take longer. You can also choose to download message headers only, regardless of size. 11 Press Finish (right softkey).
softkey) and select Decline or Tentative. If you receive an updated meeting invitation, you can again choose to accept, decline, or tentatively accept. If you receive a meeting cancellation, you don’t need to do anything. TIP Sending email messages from within another application email message. You can also use this feature with videos and sound files. For details, see the chapter on the specific application.
CHAPTER 6 YOUR EMAIL smartphone. The mobile companion enables you to take advantage of its ten-inch screen and full-size keyboard to manage your email and browse the web. You establish a Bluetooth® wireless connection between your smartphone and your mobile companion; then, by means of that connection, you sync the email messages that are currently in the Mobile Outlook email accounts on your phone. You can then manage your email on your mobile companion.
CHAP TE R 7 Your text and multimedia messages If you need to get a short message to a friend or a coworker fast, send a text message from your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone to their mobile phone or email address. If you need more than text to express yourself, use multimedia messaging to give your message extra impact by adding a photo, video, or sound file.
In this chapter Sending and receiving messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117 Customising your message settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Sending and receiving messages You can use your smartphone to send and receive brief text messages (SMS) and multimedia messages (MMS). Before you send or receive messages, consult your network operator for pricing and availability of text and multimedia messaging services. NOTE The network settings for text and multimedia messaging are preset by the network operator associated with the SIM card included with your smartphone.
YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES CHAPTER 7 name, and then select either the phone number or the email address. For more information, see the User Guide on the Windows Mobile Getting Started CD. • • If the recipient’s name and email address are in your Contacts list, press Menu (right softkey), select Add Recipient, and then select the recipient from the list.
Setting text message delivery options You can set options for individual text messages you send. DID YOU KNOW? You can set general preferences that apply to all incoming and outgoing messages (see Customising your message settings). If you set options for an individual message, those options override your general preferences for that message only. 1 On the message compose screen, press Menu (right softkey). 2 Select Message Options. 4 Press Done (left softkey).
CHAPTER 7 YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES BEFORE YOU BEGIN Make sure that your • Press Centre to view a list of recently used addresses, and select the recipient from the list. • If the recipient’s name is in an online address book, press Centre , enter the name, press Menu (right softkey), and then select Company Directory. Select the name, and then select either the phone number or the email address. For more information, see the User Guide on the Windows Mobile Getting Started CD.
picture with the built-in camera or insert an existing picture. Insert Audio: Enables you to record a message, such as a voice caption for a picture, or insert an existing sound, such as a ringtone. You can add one sound per slide; to send more than one sound in a message, add another slide to your message. You can add both a picture and a sound clip to the same slide in a message. To add a sound to a picture, select the picture thumbnail and select Insert Audio.
CHAPTER 7 YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES 3 Select any of the following options: To change the background color of outgoing multimedia messages, on the message compose screen, press Menu (right action key) and select Options > Background Color. Select the color you want, and then press Select (left action key). TIP Receiving text and multimedia messages Priority: Indicates the priority for this message.
2 If prompted, press Download (left softkey) to download the full message. 3 Do any of the following: Pause or resume playback (multimedia message only): Select Pause (left softkey). To resume playback, select Play (left softkey). Save the item that is playing (multimedia message only): Press Menu (right softkey) and select Save. Reply to the message: Press Menu (right softkey) and select Reply > Reply or Reply > Reply All.
CHAPTER 7 YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES Using links in messages When you receive a text message that contains a telephone number, email address, or URL, you can dial the number, send an email message, or go to the web page immediately. Your smartphone automatically opens the appropriate application from the link. 1 Open a message in the Inbox or another folder. 2 Select the phone number, email address, or URL (appears as underlined blue text).
7 CHAPTER YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES 4 Select MMSC Settings and set any of the following options: Priority: Indicates the priority for this message. I get an error message when I select this option, so need help with what content goes here 5 Select Send Options and set any of the following options: Validity Period: Indicates how long messages remain available to be sent if the recipient’s phone or email address is not available when you originally send the message.
CHAPTER 7 YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES Message Type: Specifies the type of messages you are sending. 6 Select Receive Options and set any of the following options: Message Size: Sets the maximum message size you can send. Do not change the size unless instructed by your network operator. Delivery/Read Report: Indicates whether you want to receive confirmation that the message has been delivered or has been read.
Reject Anonymous Message: Specifies that messages whose sender is hidden should not be downloaded to your smartphone. 7 Select General Options and select the number of times your smartphone should attempt to send or receive a message before an error message is displayed. 8 Press Done (left softkey).
CHAPTER 7 YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES 3 In the search bar at the top of the screen, enter the text you want to find. 4 Press Centre . 5 Select the item you want from the search results. If the item you want does not appear, select Refine to change the text you enter, or select More to see more results. Setting up Windows Live Mail BEFORE YOU BEGIN You must have an existing Hotmail account to use Windows Live Mail.
Email and Windows Live Messenger appear on your Home screen. contacts, your Windows Live contacts also appear in the Contacts application. 10 Press Next 7 CHAPTER YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES (left softkey). 11 Press Done (left softkey). Your Windows Live main page is displayed. Using Windows Live Mail BEFORE YOU BEGIN Make sure that your 8 Press Next (left softkey).
YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES CHAPTER 7 • On your Windows Live main page, select Mail. • The Messaging application opens, displaying your Windows Live mail. You can view, send, and work with messages in your Windows Live account in the same way as with messages for any other account. You can set an option to have messages pushed to Windows Live Mail on your smartphone as they arrive on the server.
clearly with your smartphone held up facing you. 7 CHAPTER YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES 8 (Optional) To add an emoticon to your message, press Menu (right softkey), select Add emoticon, and then select the emoticon you want. If the contact you want is offline, send an email message instead. Highlight the contact name and press Send e-mail (left softkey). Enter a subject and body text for the email message, and then press Send (left softkey).
CHAPTER 7 132 YOUR TEXT AND MULTIMEDIA MESSAGES From the Messenger contacts list screen, press Menu (right softkey) and select options to add, block, or remove a contact; change your status to “Busy,” “Away,” and so on; add a display picture or personal message; and more.
CHAP TE R 8 Your connections to the web and wireless devices You use the web for so many things: finding driving directions, getting news, buying gifts, checking web-based email. Now, with your network operator’s network and your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone’s built-in web browser, you can take the web with you almost anywhere you go.
In this chapter Browsing the web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Connecting to devices with Bluetooth® wireless technology. . . . . . 140 Using your device as a wireless modem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Browsing the web Internet Explorer Mobile provides quick and easy access to web pages. You can view most sites on your smartphone that you can view on your computer, including those with security and advanced features, such as JavaScript and frames. Internet Explorer Mobile supports JavaScript, Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), and cookies, but does not support plug-ins (Flash, Shockwave, VBScript, WML script, and so on) or Java applets.
YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES CHAPTER 8 screen with the web page. To exit full screen mode, press (right softkey). Show Pictures: Shows or hides pictures on web pages. Hiding pictures speeds up the time it takes to load pages. 5 Press Menu (right softkey), select View, and then select one of the following: One Column: Arranges web pages into one column that is as wide as the screen, so that you don’t have to scroll horizontally.
configure an email application on your smartphone before you can use this feature (see Your email). • To adjust the size of the text on web pages, press Menu (right softkey), select View > Text Size, and then select the size you want. • To view a web page’s properties, press Menu (right softkey) and select Tools > Properties. • To view each item in a list, select the list and scroll using Up or Down . • In a list, press Left or Right to cycle between items, and then press Centre to accept the change.
YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES CHAPTER 8 Organising your favourites You can create folders to organise your favourites. For example, you can store travel links in one folder, stock links in another, and business links in a third folder. 1 Press Home , and then press live! (right softkey). 3 (Optional) Select Name and enter a different description. 4 (Optional) Select Folder, and then select the folder where you want to create the favourite.
5 Select the Location list, and then select where you want to store the file: Main memory or Storage card. 6 Press Done 8 CHAPTER YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES (left softkey). Returning to recently viewed pages The History list stores the addresses of the pages you visited recently. 1 Press Menu select History. (right softkey) and 2 Select the web page you want to view. Customising your Internet Explorer Mobile settings 1 Press Menu (right softkey) and select Tools > Options.
CHAPTER 8 YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES Warn when page content is blocked by security settings: Sets whether a message appears when you attempt to open a page that does not meet the security standards associated with your smartphone. Select Connections and set either of the following options. Press Done (left softkey) when you have finished. Save links to pages visited in the past: Sets how many days of activity the History list stores. Clear History: Empties the History list.
Partnership Two devices—for example, your smartphone and a hands-free device—that can connect because each device finds the same passkey on the other device. After you form a partnership with a device, you don’t need to enter a passkey to connect with that device again. Partnership is also known as paired relationship, pairing, trusted device, and trusted pair. KEY TERM to your trusted device list. Follow the steps in this section to add other devices, such as your computer, to your trusted device list.
CHAPTER 8 YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES until you press Menu (right softkey) and select Turn Off Visibility. The Bluetooth status icon The Bluetooth icon on your Today screen indicates the status of the Bluetooth feature: Bluetooth on. Call in progress with a Bluetooth headset or car kit. 4 Wait for your smartphone to search for devices and to display the device list. Music files are playing through a Bluetooth headset.
the documentation for that device. Other devices provide a screen where you enter a passkey that you make up. In either case, you must use the same passkey on both your smartphone and the other device. We recommend that where possible, you make up a passkey of 16 alphanumeric characters (letters and numerals only) to improve the security of your smartphone. The longer the passkey, the more difficult it is for the passkey to be deciphered.
CHAPTER 8 YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES (right softkey), and select Turn On Visibility to let the device find your smartphone and request a connection. 4 When prompted to add this device, select Yes. 5 Enter the same passkey on your smartphone and on the Bluetooth device. 6 (Optional) To give the partnership a more meaningful name, select Display Name and enter a new name. 3 Select Bluetooth Profiles.
• • If you have formed a connection with a Bluetooth printer but the printer is not displayed on the Printer screen, press Menu (right softkey) and select Refresh. To view current print jobs, press Menu (right softkey) and select Status. To cancel a print job, on the Print Manager screen, press Menu (right softkey) and select Cancel Jobs. Identification: Lets you enter a name for your smartphone and select whether to use this as the Bluetooth device name.
CHAPTER 8 YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES Creating a Bluetooth Internet Connection Sharing connection BEFORE YOU BEGIN • Make sure your smartphone is visible (see Entering basic Bluetooth settings). • Create a partnership between your smartphone and your computer. We recommend that you initiate the partnership from your smartphone (see Requesting a connection with another Bluetooth device). 1 On your computer, double-click the icon to open the Bluetooth connections window.
8 CHAPTER YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES confirm that you can connect to the Internet.
YOUR CONNECTIONS TO THE WEB AND WIRELESS DEVICES CHAPTER 8 148 USING YOUR DEVICE AS A WIRELESS MODEM
CHAP TE R 9 Your photos, videos, and music Do you have a wallet bulging with photos of friends, family, pets, and your most recent vacation? Are you tired of carrying both your MP3 player and your phone? Your Palm® Treo™ 500v smartphone solves both problems. You can keep your favourite photos right on your smartphone— videos, too. And there's no need to carry an expensive MP3 player, because you can play music on your smartphone.
In this chapter Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Pictures & Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Windows Media Player Mobile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Synchronising your media files You can synchronise pictures, videos, and music files between your smartphone and your computer so that changes you make show up on both your computer and your smartphone. To synchronise media files, you must first choose Media as one of your synchronisation options on your smartphone; see Changing which applications sync. The procedure for synchronising media files is different for computers running Windows XP and computers running Windows Vista.
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC synchronise all types of media files— pictures, videos, and music files—that are on your computer to your smartphone. See Transferring media files to your smartphone. To synchronise pictures and videos from your smartphone to your computer, follow these steps: 1 Connect your smartphone to your computer with the USB sync cable. 2 On your computer, click Start > All Programs > Windows Mobile Device Center. 3 Select Connect without setting up your device.
accessing your pictures on your computer, see Synchronising media files: Windows XP. DID YOU KNOW? Pictures are captured and stored in 16-bit colour, JPG format. Resolution settings range from a low end of 96 x 72 pixels to a high end of 1600 x 1200 pixels. You can change the default setting. See Customising your Camera settings for details. 1 Press Home , and then press Start (left softkey). 2 Navigate to the Recent Photos content list and press All Photos (right softkey). 3 Press Camera (left softkey).
CHAPTER 9 YOUR PHOTOS, VIDEOS, AND MUSIC 8 Hold your smartphone still until the picture renders, and then do one of the following: • Press Camera (left softkey) to take another picture. • Press Back and then press Thumbnails (left softkey) to return to Thumbnail View. DID YOU KNOW? After three minutes of inactivity when previewing an image, the camera goes into standby mode. Press any key to return to the image preview.
