User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- Handbook for Palm™ Tungsten™ T m550 Handhelds
- Contents
- About This Book
- Setting Up Your Palm™ Tungsten™ T Handheld
- Exploring Your Handheld
- Entering Data on Your Handheld
- Using the onscreen keyboard
- Using Graffiti writing to enter data
- Beaming data
- Sending data
- Using your computer keyboard
- Importing data
- Using Note Pad
- Using Voice Memo
- Using a portable keyboard
- Working with Applications
- Opening applications
- Switching between applications
- Categorizing applications
- Changing the Applications Launcher display
- Copying applications to or from an expansion card
- Selecting copy settings
- Using menus
- Choosing application preferences
- Performing common tasks
- Creating records
- Editing records
- Deleting records
- Purging records
- Categorizing records
- Finding information
- Sorting lists of records
- Attaching notes
- Choosing fonts
- Receiving and alerts
- Hiding or masking private records
- Installing and removing applications
- Using Address Book
- Using Calculator
- Using Card Info
- Using Date Book
- Using Expense
- Using Memo Pad
- Using Note Pad
- Using Phone Link
- Using To Do List
- Using Voice Memo
- Using World Clock
- Performing HotSync® Operations
- Selecting HotSync setup options
- Customizing HotSync application settings
- Conducting cradle/cable HotSync operations
- Conducting IR HotSync operations
- Conducting modem HotSync operations
- Conducting Bluetooth HotSync operations
- Conducting network HotSync operations
- Using File Link
- Creating a user profile
- Setting Preferences for Your Handheld
- Setting General Preferences
- Setting Communication Preferences
- To open the Communication Preferences screens:
- Bluetooth Preferences
- Connection Preferences
- Network preferences
- Creating and selecting network service profiles
- Entering a user name
- Entering a password
- Selecting a connection
- Adding telephone settings
- Entering a prefix
- Disabling Call Waiting
- Using a calling card
- Connecting to your service
- LAN access points
- Accessing the Internet with a Bluetooth phone or LAN access point
- Adding detailed information to a network service profile
- Idle timeout
- Defining primary and secondary DNS
- IP address
- Login scripts
- Creating a login script on your handheld
- Plug-in applications
- Deleting a network service profile
- Network preferences menu commands
- Service menu
- Options menu
- TCP/IP troubleshooting
- Displaying expanded Service Connection Progress messages
- Viewing the Network Log
- Adding a DNS number
- Phone Preferences
- Setting Personal Preferences
- Maintaining Your Handheld
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Product Regulatory Information
- Index
Chapter 2 Exploring Your Handheld
12
Locating top panel components
Indicator light
Serves as an alert for Date Book, World Clock, Note Pad, or
Voice Memo alarms. It also indicates the battery-charging
status when your handheld is in the cradle/cable.
Power button/
backlight control
Turns your handheld on or off and controls the backlight
feature. If your handheld is turned off, pressing the power
button turns the handheld on and returns you to the last
screen you viewed.
If your handheld is turned on, you can turn it off by pressing
the power button. Pressing and holding the power button for
about two seconds turns the backlight on or off.
Expansion card slot
Accepts SD or MultiMediaCard expansion cards, enabling
you to back up data, add more memory, or use additional
applications.
Stylus
Slides in and out of the slot on the top of your handheld. To
use the stylus, gently press the top of the stylus to release it
from the slot, and then pull it out of the slot and hold it as
you would a pen or pencil.
IR port
Uses infrared technology to transmit data to and receive data
from other infrared-enabled devices and to perform
HotSync
®
operations. See “Beaming data” in Chapter 3 and
see “Conducting IR HotSync operations” in Chapter 16 for
more information.
Stylus
Expansion
card slot
Power button/
backlight control
IR port
Indicator light
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