Palm XXX User Guide
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Contents Chapter 1 Basics 6 7 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 Chapter 2 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Email Messaging Contacts, Calendar, and other personal information 26 28 Contacts Calendar PDF View Preferences 42 42 Chapter 9 Wi-Fi Web Bluetooth® wireless technology Documents 40 Chapter 8 Camera Photos Videos Music Amazon MP3 Web and wireless connections 36 36 36 Email and other messages 20 21 Chapter 4 Make calls Receive calls Use voicemail What can I do during a call? Set up and use a Bluetooth® hands-free
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Basics You’re about to discover the many things about your Palm® XXX smartphone that will help you better manage your life and have fun, too. As you become more familiar with your smartphone, you’ll want to personalize the settings and add applications to make it uniquely yours. But first, take the few easy steps in this chapter to set up your smartphone and get it running.
Get to know your smartphone TIP Be careful not to scratch, crush, or apply too much pressure on the touchscreen. Do not store your smartphone in a place where other items might damage it. Do not use harsh chemicals, cleaning solvents, or aerosols to clean the phone or its accessories. Front view Keyboard FPO FPO 1 Option: Press to enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols that appear above the letters on the keys (see Enter alternate keyboard characters), or to move the cursor.
4 Page indicators: Show how many Launcher pages are to the right or the left of the currently displayed page. Swipe left or right on the screen to see other pages. Top view 5 Page name: Tap and hold to change the name. 6 Notification icons: Show missed calls, new voicemail and email messages, and more. Tap the bottom of the screen to view notification details. Back view FPO The back cover of your XXX smartphone is compatible with the TouchstoneTM charging dock (sold separately).
organizer features of your device (Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Memos, and so on) without turning on the phone and other wireless features. Also, when the screen is turned off, the phone can be on and ready for you to receive phone calls or messages. To save power, the screen dims automatically after a period of inactivity, then turns off. You can be on a call when the screen dims and turns off—this does not affect the call. To brighten the screen after it dims, tap the screen.
Turn wireless services on 2 In Card View, tap When you turn on your phone, it automatically connects to your mobile network so that you can make and receive phone calls and use other wireless services (if supported by the local network). 3 To find the app you want, swipe up or down to see all the icons on a page. To see other pages, swipe right or left on the screen, or tap the arrows in the upper-left and upper-right corner of the screen. 4 Tap the application icon.
1 Drag up slowly from the gesture area to the screen. NOTE Don’t confuse this “drag up” with the up gesture, which is a flick up from the gesture area to the screen that displays Card view. 2 Move your finger to the application icon. When you see the app name appear, lift your finger. The application opens. Display all open applications (Card view) Card view displays open applications as small cards so that you can easily scroll through them and drag them to change their order.
Enter and save information Use the keyboard Enter alternate keyboard characters Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the letters on the keys. To enter these characters, do one of the following: • Press Option and press the key for the character. The alternate character symbol appears. You don’t need to hold down Option while pressing the second key. • Enter a series of alternate characters: Press Option twice to turn on Option Lock. The Option Lock symbol appears.
TIP The symbols and accented characters are grouped according to their similarity to the corresponding key. In some cases, the symbol is related to the alternate character on the key, not the letter. For example, to type a € or other currency symbol, press Sym + h. Why? Because the alternate character on the H key is $. TIP If you press the wrong key, press Backspace to return to the full list of symbols and accented characters. You can then press another key. 3 Scroll to find the character you want.
1 In an app, do one of the following: • Drag down from the upper-left corner of the phone (above the screen) onto the screen. View and respond to notifications • Tap the application name in the upper-left corner of the screen. Respond to a notification 2 Tap a menu item to open it. If a menu item displays a right-pointing arrow , tap the item to display the submenu for that item—for example, tap the Edit menu item to open a submenu containing Cut, Copy, and Paste items.
Find info on your smartphone You can search for contacts and applications on your phone. 1 Open Card view or the Launcher. 2 Begin typing the search term. As you type, your smartphone displays the following items whose name matches the characters you entered. As you continue typing, the search results narrow. • Applications, including apps you have downloaded from App Catalog • Contacts 3 Do one of the following: • To open an application: Tap the application.
Phone Your Palm® XXX smartphone enables you to effectively manage multiple calls. You can answer a second call, swap between calls, and set up a six-way conference call. You can also work with other applications while on a call. Your Palm® XXX smartphone helps you to do all these tasks with ease.
Make calls 2 When you finish entering the number, tap it to dial. TIP If you turn off the preference to show contact matches in the dial pad, this changes how you dial using the keyboard in the Phone application. In Phone, after you enter the number with the keyboard, tap the onscreen dial icon to dial. For information on turning the smartphone off and back on, see Turn the phone on/off.
Receive calls Use voicemail If you want to answer calls, your phone must be on. This is different from having only the screen turned on. When your phone is off, your calls go to voicemail. Set up voicemail 1 In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold 1 . When the search results screen appears, continue holding 1 until the Phone application appears. 2 Follow the voice prompts to set up your voicemail. You can pick the ringtone for incoming calls.
• Open the dial pad to enter numbers for navigating phone trees, responding to prompts, and so on: Tap . • Add a call: See Make a second call. • Adjust call volume: Press Volume. End a call • Tap . • If a headset is attached, press the headset button. Set up and use a Bluetooth® hands-free device Your smartphone is compatible with many headsets and car kits (sold separately) enabled with Bluetooth® wireless technology version 2.1, with EDR and Stereo (with AVRCP media controls).
Email and other messages Enjoy the ease and speed of keeping in touch with friends, family, and colleagues anywhere you can access your wireless service provider’s data network or a Wi-Fi network. You can send and receive attachments as well. In this chapter 20 21 Email Messaging And keep the Messaging app in mind for times when you need to send a short text, multimedia, or instant message to a mobile phone number—especially handy when you’re in a meeting that’s running late.
Email Create and send an email message 1 Open Email Set up email 2 Follow this procedure if you have a common email provider, for example, AOL, EarthLink, or Yahoo! If you are setting up the Email application to work with your corporate email account that uses Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, see Set up email: Microsoft Exchange.
Receive and read email messages Messaging The Email application synchronizes messages anytime you open a mail folder. It also synchronizes messages on an automatic schedule—the default interval is every 20 minutes. Create and send a text or multimedia message Each text message can have up to 160 characters. You can send a message of more than 160 characters, but the message may be split into several messages.
• Enter a phone number for a recipient who is not a contact. • Do you need to enter a short code that contains letters—for example, to text a vote to a TV poll or to make a donation to a charity? Use the keyboard to enter it; just press the letter keys and tap the code that appears under Short Code. This is not the same as dialing a number that is expressed as letters—for example, (555) 256 PALM.
• Any other time: Open the application menu and tap Preferences & Accounts. Tap Add IM Account. 4 When the message recipient replies, the reply appears below your message in the conversation. Repeat step 3 to reply to that person. 3 Tap the account type. 5 (Optional) Do any of the following from a message you receive: 4 Enter your username and password. 5 Tap Sign In. 6 Tap Done. • To call a number: Tap the number, and tap . • To send a text message: Tap and hold the number, and tap Text.
Chapter 3 : Email and other messages
Contacts, Calendar, and other personal information Your Palm® XXX smartphone is all you need to organize your personal information and keep it with you wherever you go. All your personal information is backed up and kept private either in your Palm profile or in one of your online accounts.
Contacts NOTE If an account doesn’t appear in the list, you can’t add data to that account from your smartphone. Use Contacts for the first time 1 Open Contacts . 2 Do one of the following: • To set up an online account to sync: Tap Add An Account and go to step 3. • To open Contacts without creating an online account: Tap Done. This opens your Palm profile account, and you can start creating contacts in this account. 3 4 Tap Name to enter the contact name.
• Company NOTE In a linked contact, when you enter info in a field for the first time, you can assign that info to any account by tapping the account button in the field. • Nickname 3 4 For more search options, tap Global Address Search. (This option is available if you are using Microsoft Exchange with a Global Address List.) Tap the contact. • To delete a piece of contact information: Throw the item off the side of the screen and tap Delete. 7 Tap Done.
Calendar In Day view, available time slots between events are compressed and labeled X Hrs Free. To expand free time so you can enter an event, tap X Hrs Free. Use Calendar for the first time . Enter the event name, and then do one of the following: • Press Enter to add the event to the calendar. 1 Open Calendar 2 Do one of the following: • Tap to the right of the name to enter more details about the event. Make the back gesture to return to Day view.
Photos, videos, and music There’s no need to carry a separate media player; you can play music and videos, and view photos, on your Palm® XXX smartphone. Listen to music through the built-in speaker or through a 3.5mm headset or headphones (sold separately). Take pictures and record videos and then share them with your friends immediately, directly from your phone.
Camera • Copy a picture from a web page. Your smartphone comes with an easy-to-use 5-megapixel camera with an LED flash. You can use the camera to take pictures, and then use the Photos app to view them and send them to your friends and family. To add a personal touch to your smartphone, use your pictures as your wallpaper and as caller ID images. 1 Open Camera . 2 The camera is set to automatically determine if the flash is needed. To change the flash setting, tap the icon.
Videos Get music onto your phone To get music onto your phone, you can do any of the following: To get videos on your smartphone, you can do any of the following: • • • • Record a video. Copy videos from your computer. Receive videos as email attachments. Receive videos as part of a multimedia message. You can view DRM-free videos that you receive as email attachments or that you copy from your computer in the MPEG-4, H.263, H.264, MP4, M4V, 3GP, 3GPP, 3G2, and 3GP2 formats.
Amazon MP3 Listen to music After you begin to play music, music continues to play if you switch to another application, turn off the screen, or slide the ringer switch off. If a call comes in, music pauses automatically and resumes when you hang up or ignore the call. If you put the Music app in the background while you work in another app, a music notification icon appears at the bottom of the screen. Tap the icon to display the music playback controls.
4 Do one of the following: Songs: To buy and download a song, tap the song price and tap Buy. Tap anywhere else on the song entry to preview the song. • If the item you want appears on the screen, tap the song, album, or artist name. Tapping the name of a song plays the preview; tapping its price gives you the option to buy it (see Preview and buy a song). Bio: Tap to read biographical information about the artist.
IMPORTANT Your credit card is charged for the price of an item as soon as you tap Buy. 3 Tap the song price and tap Buy. View and work with downloaded items 1 Tap Download on any screen displaying this button. This displays items that you are currently downloading or that you already downloaded. 2 To cancel a current download, tap . After you download an item, listen to it in the Music application (see Get music onto your phone).
Web and wireless connections With your wireless service provider’s network and your Palm® XXX smartphone’s web browser, you can take the web with you almost anywhere you go. You can use your phone’s Wi-Fi feature to connect to a public, work, or home network. The Bluetooth® wireless technology on your Palm® XXX smartphone helps you easily set up wireless connections to a number of devices.
Wi-Fi Go to a website using search You can also search the web from the Launcher or Card view. Turn Wi-Fi on/off 1 Open Web Do one of the following: 2 Enter the search term and tap a search option. • Open Wi-Fi , and tap On or Off. • From any screen: Open the connection menu in the upper-right corner of the screen, tap Wi-Fi, and tap Turn on Wi-Fi or Turn off Wi-Fi. Bluetooth® wireless technology If your smartphone finds the network you want, tap the network name to connect to it. .
4 Tap the Type field, and tap Audio, Keyboard, or Other to filter the list of discoverable Bluetooth devices. 5 Tap a device name. 6 If a passkey is not required, pairing is complete when the Devices list appears. If a passkey is required, tap Yes, allow. • An automatically generated passkey appears on the passkey screen: Check the other device screen to verify that the passkey is correct, and tap Yes, connect to connect.
2 Tap the connected device name to disconnect from it. Or tap another device name to disconnect from the current device and connect to the new device. Delete a device Deleting a device means you end the relationship you created between your smartphone and the device. This means that you will need to pair with the device again if you want to connect (see Make a pairing request to another device or Accept a pairing request from another device).
Documents Your Palm® XXX smartphone enables you to take your office with you—including your Microsoft Office files. You can view and search Microsoft Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® files on your phone. In this chapter 40 PDF View You can also view PDF files on your phone.
PDF View Change the text display size For information on zooming in and out. With PDF View, you can view PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files on your smartphone. Open a file You can view a PDF file that you copy from your computer or receive as an email attachment. BEFORE YOU BEGIN Before you put a file on your phone, make sure you have enough storage space on your phone to fit the file. Open Device Info and look at the Available field under Phone. 1 Open PDF View . The list of your files appears onscreen.
Preferences There are lots of ways to make your Palm® XXX smartphone work better for you. Personalize your smartphone to make it match your lifestyle. You can easily customize many features of your phone like the wallpaper, screen brightness, ringtone for incoming calls, and more.
Screen & Lock 4 • To zoom out or in on a part of the picture: Pinch in or out on the picture. Change screen brightness 1 Open Screen & Lock 2 Under Screen, drag the Brightness slider to the preferred level. By default, your screen turns off after one minute of inactivity to save battery power. You can change this interval. 1 Open Screen & Lock 2 In Turn off after, tap the interval shown, and then tap the number of seconds or minutes. .
Ringtone Volume: Drag the slider to set the ringtone volume. This also sets the Clock alarm volume. TIP Adjusting the Ringtone Volume slider is the same as using the volume up and volume down buttons on the side of the phone. System Sounds: Set whether to turn on systemwide sounds for notifications, transitions, shutter click, and the like. Drag the Volume slider to set the system sounds volume. Select the ringtone for incoming calls The ringtone you select here applies globally to all incoming calls.
Chapter 8 : Preferences
Learn More In this chapter 46 While using your phone Chapter 9 : Learn More 45
WARNING Please refer to Reg for information that hleps you safely use your phone. Failure to read and follow the important safety information in this guide may result in serious bodily injury, death, or property damage. While using your phone • On-device Help: Read short how-tos and watch animations on your new smartphone. To view all Help: Open Help . To view Help topics for a single application: Open the application, open the application menu, and tap Help. • Online support from Palm: Visit palm.
FSO Draft HP Confidential 122110 Regulatory and Safety Information FCC Statements Table 1. Caution icons Icon Description Icon Description This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device, pursuant to part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation.
FSO Draft HP Confidential Antenna Care/Unauthorized Modifications Marking by the symbol Use only the supplied integral antenna. Unauthorized antenna modifications or attachments could damage the unit and may violate FCC regulations. France - 2.
FSO Draft HP Confidential 122110 As SAR is measured utilizing the device's highest transmitting power, the actual SAR of this device while operating is typically below that indicated below. This is due to automatic changes to the power level of the device to ensure it only uses the minimum power required to communicate with the network.
FSO Draft HP Confidential For more information about HP’s commitment to the environment, refer to the following websites: from most applications), radioactive substances, tributyl tin (TBT), triphenyl tin (TPT), and tributyl tin oxide (TBTO). • Global Citizenship Report: hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/gcreport/index.html User Safety • Environmental website: hp.com/environment Operational Warnings • ISO 14001 Certificate: hp.com/hpinfo/globalcitizenship/environment/operations/ envmanagement.
FSO Draft HP Confidential Blackouts and Seizures: Blinking lights, such as those experienced with television or playing video games may cause some people to experience blackout or seizure, even if never experienced before. In the event a smartphone user should experience any disorientation, loss of awareness, convulsion, eye or muscle twitching, or other involuntary movements, stop use immediately and consult a doctor.
FSO Draft HP Confidential You must always switch off your smartphone wherever the use of a smartphone is prohibited. Use of your smartphone is subject to safety measures designed to protect users and their environment. • Always treat your smartphone and its accessories with care and keep it in a clean and dust-free place. • Do not expose your smartphone or its accessories to open flames or lit tobacco products. • Do not expose your smartphone or its accessories to liquid, moisture, or high humidity.
FSO Draft HP Confidential ability to hear other sounds. Use of such a headset while operating a motor vehicle or riding a bicycle may create a serious hazard to you and/or others, and may be illegal. If you must use a stereo headset while driving, place a speaker in only one ear. Leave the other ear free to hear outside noises, and do so only if it is legal and you can do so safely. 3 Make sure you place your smartphone within easy reach and where you can grab it without removing your eyes from the road.
FSO Draft HP Confidential • Increase the relative humidity of your environment. • Install ESD-specific prevention items, such as grounding mats. Conditions that enhance ESD occurrences Conditions that can contribute to the buildup of static electricity in the environment include the following: • Low relative humidity. • Material type. (The type of material gathering the charge. For example, synthetics are more prone to static buildup than natural fibers like cotton.
