User Guide
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Contents Chapter 1 Basics 6 8 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 Chapter 2 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Email Messaging Personal information 30 31 Contacts Calendar Doc View PDF View Preferences 44 44 Chapter 9 Wi-Fi Web Bluetooth® wireless technology Documents 40 40 Chapter 8 Camera Photos Videos Music Web and wireless connections 38 38 38 Email and other messages 24 25 Chapter 4 Make calls Receive calls Use voicemail What can I do during a call? Set up and use a Bluetooth® hands-free device Photos, videos, an
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Basics You’re about to discover the many things about your Palm® Pre Plus phone that will help you better manage your life and have fun, too. As you become more familiar with your phone, 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 phone and get it running.
Get to know your phone IMPORTANT Be careful not to scratch, crush, or apply too much pressure on the touchscreen. Do not store your phone in a place where other items might damage it. When you pack your phone away, use the pouch to protect it. Front view Keyboard 1 Option: Press to enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols that appear above the letters on the keys.
Touchscreen Back view The back cover of your Pre Plus phone is compatible with the TouchstoneTM charging dock (sold separately). 1 Application name: Displays the name of the currently open application. Tap the name to open the application menu. 2 Launcher: See Open an application in the Launcher. 3 Scroll arrow: Swipe up or down to see icons that are on the page but hidden. 4 Quick Launch: See Open an application in Quick Launch.
Top view To take advantage of the high-speed data connection available on your phone, you may need to have a 3G SIM card. Check with your wireless service provider for information. WARNING You must remove the battery first whenever you insert or remove the SIM card. 1 Press and release the back cover release. button 2 Slide your thumbnail or a credit card between the back cover and the phone, starting at the bottom and moving halfway up one side until you hear the clasp (x) release.
4 Lift off the back cover. 5 Remove the battery by pulling the tab that appears at the top of the battery. 6 Insert the SIM card. * Notch 7 Replace the battery. Make sure to leave the tab showing at the top of the battery. WARNING You must remove the battery first whenever you insert or remove the SIM card.
8 Position the back cover over the phone and gently press the top two clasps (a), located at the top corners. Then press the two clasps (b) halfway down either side of the phone. 10 Press and hold the power button on the upper-right corner of your phone until you see a logo on the screen (approximately five seconds). Please be patient while your phone starts up.
Turn the phone on/off Your Pre Plus phone’s screen can be turned on and off separately from its wireless services (which are the Phone app, Wi-Fi app, and Bluetooth app). This means you can wake up the screen to use just the 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. .
Turn wireless services on When you turn on your phone, it connects to a mobile network so that you can make and receive phone calls and use other wireless services (if supported by the local network). BEFORE YOU BEGIN To use the phone, you must have an active SIM card from your wireless carrier inserted into your phone (see Insert the SIM card). • If airplane mode is turned on, you need to turn it off before you can connect to your mobile network.
Open an application using search Move among open applications 1 Tap the center of the gesture area to open Card view. 1 In Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)), swipe left or right on the screen to see other open apps. 2 Enter the name of the application. 2 Tap a card to maximize the application. 3 When the application icon appears in the search results, tap it.
Enter and save information • Turn on Caps Lock: Press Shift appears: . • Turn off Caps Lock: Press Shift twice. The Caps Lock symbol . 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 the orange key while pressing the second key.
2 Narrow the list by pressing the key that corresponds to the character you want. For example, to enter an é, press e. See the table below for a list of corresponding characters. 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 $.
Open the application menu The application menu contains items for the application you are working in, such as Cut and Copy, Preferences, Help, and other application-specific commands. 1 In an app, do one of the following: • Tap the application name in the upper-left corner of the screen. • Drag down from the upper-left corner of the phone (above the screen) onto the screen. 2 Tap a menu item to open it.
Search within an application notification—how many voicemail or email messages you have, and so on. In applications such as Contacts, Memos, Doc View, and PDF View, you can search for entries or files. From the list view, enter the file name; a few words from a memo; or a contact name, initials, address, or number. See the individual application chapter for details. You can also enter a search term in the Help application to search for help content related to the term.
Chapter 1 : Basics
Phone You can effectively manage multiple calls, such as swapping between calls, answering a second call, and creating conference calls with up to five callers. You can also work with other applications while on a call. Your Palm® Pre Plus phone helps you to do all these tasks with ease.
Make calls NOTE If the phone is turned off (that is, if it’s in airplane mode), you don’t have to turn it on. It automatically tries to connect to a network to make the call. For information on turning the phone off and back on, see Turn the phone on/off. Dial by contact name using universal search Dial using the onscreen dial pad The onscreen dial pad is useful when you need to dial numbers that are expressed as letters and when you need large, brightly lit numbers that you can tap. 1 Open Phone .
Dial using a speed dial Answer a call See Assign a speed dial to a contact for instructions on creating a speed dial. Do one of the following: • In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold the speed-dial key you assigned to the number. • If the screen is on when the phone starts ringing, tap . • If the screen is off, drag up to unlock the screen and answer the call. • If a headset is attached, press the headset button.
Listen to voicemail messages 1 • If a headset is attached, press the headset button. Do one of the following: • In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold 1 . Set up and use a Bluetooth® hands-free device • Tap a voicemail notification at the bottom of the screen. 2 • Open Phone . Then tap . • Open Phone . Then tap and hold 1 onscreen. Follow the voice prompts to listen to your messages.
Email and other messages Enjoy the ease and speed of keeping in touch with friends, family, and colleagues anywhere you can access the your wireless service provider’s data network or a Wi-Fi network. You can send and receive attachments as well. In this chapter 24 25 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 4 (Optional) Tap From to change the email account you are using to send the message. This option appears only if you have more than one email account set up on your phone. Set up email 5 In the To field, do one of the following to address the message: 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.
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.
and tap the numbers that correspond to the letters P, A, L, M— which would be 7256. • Enter a contact’s first or last name or initials, screen name, phone number, or email address. Tap the IM or email address you want to use to send the message when it appears. 4 3 In a multimedia message, tap a music, video, or vCard (VCF) file name to view the attached file. (Attached pictures are displayed within the message.) Tap Copy Photo to save an attached JPG picture.
3 Tap to the left of the text Offline and tap Available. Send and receive IM messages BEFORE YOU BEGIN Make sure that your phone is on and that you’re inside a coverage area (see Turn wireless services on). 1 Open Messaging . 2 Do one of the following to start or continue a conversation: • In Buddies view, tap a buddy name and enter a new message. If there's more than one account for that buddy, the most recently used IM account is opened.
Chapter 3 : Email and other messages
Personal information Your Palm® Pre Plus phone is all you need to organize your personal information and keep it with you wherever you go. You never lose your information, even if your battery is completely drained.
Contacts 2 If you have an address book in an online account that works with the Synergy™ feature (for example, Google or Microsoft Exchange), you can set up Contacts on your phone to synchronize and display contacts that you store in the online address book. Set up synchronization the first time you open Contacts (see Use Contacts for the first time), or anytime after that (see Customize Contacts).
Assign a speed dial to a contact Use Calendar for the first time You can assign a speed dial to any contact phone number. You can assign up to 26 speed dials. 1 Open Calendar 2 Do one of the following: • To set up your first online account to sync: Tap the account type, enter the account information, and tap Sign In. NOTE You cannot assign 1 (the E key) as a speed dial. The number 1 is reserved for dialing your voicemail system.
Don’t look for a save button—your info is automatically saved when you make the back gesture to close the event.
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® Pre Plus phone. 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 You can also look at pictures on the web directly in the web browser (see Web). Your phone has an easy-to-use, 3-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 phone, 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.
Music the first song. The songs play one after the other in sequence. To listen to songs in random order, tap Shuffle All. You can listen to music through the speaker on the back of your phone, through the stereo headset included with your phone, or through headphones (sold separately). • Listen to all songs in a genre: Tap Genres and tap the genre name. To listen to the songs in the order they are displayed onscreen, tap the first song. The songs play one after the other in sequence.
Chapter 5 : Photos, videos, and music
Web and wireless connections With your wireless service provider’s network and your phone’s web browser, you can take the web with you almost anywhere you go. The Bluetooth® wireless technology on your phone helps you easily set up wireless connections to a number of devices.
Wi-Fi 1 Open Web 2 Enter the address of the page. You don’t need to enter the prefix http:// www. Turn Wi-Fi on and off If the page appears in the list of viewed pages, tap it to go there again. If not, press Enter Do one of the following: • Open Wi-Fi , and tap On or Off. . 3 To cancel a page while it is loading, tap . Go to a website using search You can also search the web from the Launcher or Card view. 1 Open Web . 2 Enter the search term and tap a search option.
Documents Your Palm® Pre Plus phone 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 40 Doc View PDF View You can also view PDF files on your phone.
Doc View PDF View With Doc View, you can view Microsoft Word, Excel®, and PowerPoint® files on your phone. With PDF View, you can view PDF (Adobe Acrobat) files on your phone. Open a file You can view a file that you copy from your computer or receive as an email attachment. You can view files in DOC, DOCX, TXT, XLS, XLSX, PPT, and PPTX formats. 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.
Change the display size • Pinch out to enlarge items onscreen. • Pinch in to decrease the size of items onscreen. • Double-tap the screen to zoom in or out a specified amount.
Chapter 7 : Documents
Preferences There are lots of ways to make your Palm® Pre Plus phone work better for you. Personalize your phone to make it match your lifestyle.
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, tap, hold, and 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 number of seconds or minutes. . Change your wallpaper Your wallpaper is the screen background in Card view.
Ringtone Volume: Select the ringtone for incoming calls (see Select the ringtone for incoming calls). Tap, hold, and drag the Ringtone Volume slider to set the ringtone volume. System Sounds: Set whether to turn on systemwide sounds for general actions such as transitions and alarms set in Clock. Tap, hold, and 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 48 While using your phone Chapter 9 : Learn More 47
WARNING Please refer to Regulatory and Safety Information for information that helps 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 phone. To view all Help: Open Help . To view Help topics for a single application: Open the application, open the application menu, and tap Help.
Regulatory and Safety Information FCC Statements Antenna Care/Unauthorized Modifications 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.
• Outdoor use: maximum power (EIRP*) of 100 mW for the 2400-2454 MHz band and with maximum power (EIRP*) of 10 mW for the 2454-2483 MHz band Precaution against hearing loss: Protect your hearing. Listening to this device at full volume for a long period of time can damage your hearing. A pleine puissance, l’écoute prolongée du baladeur peut endommager l’oreille de l’utilisateur. Consultez notre site web www.palm.com/fr pour plus d’informations. Responsible party (North America) Palm, Inc. 950 W. Maude Ave.
Battery Handling: • Don’t attempt to disassemble or short-circuit the battery. • Do not disassemble or open crush, bend or deform, puncture or shred the battery. • The battery may need recharging if it has not been used for a long period of time. • Do not modify or remanufacture, attempt to insert foreign objects into the battery, immerse or expose to water or other liquids, expose to fire, explosion or other hazard. • It’s best to replace the battery when it no longer provides acceptable performance.
Palm is committed to supporting the collection and recycling of its products. Palm is committed to participate in and support the European Union WEEE Directive (2002/96/EC) and the protection of the environment for future generations. For more information on the WEEE Directive implementation in the various EU member states please see www.weee-forum.org. It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that electrical and electronic products are properly reused, recycled or recovered.
damage the phone. Your phone contains small parts with sharp edges that may cause an injury or which could become detached and create a choking hazard. Keep the device away from the abdomens of pregnant women and adolescents, particularly when using the device hands-free. To reduce exposure to radiation, use your device in good reception areas, as indicated by the bars on your phone, at least 3 to 4 bars.
Normal use position: When making or receiving a phone call, hold your phone to your ear, with the bottom towards your mouth or as you would a fixed line phone. Emergency calls: This phone, like any wireless phone, operates using radio signals, which cannot guarantee connection in all conditions. Therefore, you must never rely solely on any wireless phone for emergency communications. Phone heating: Your phone may become warm during charging and during normal use. Accessories: Use only approved accessories.
9 Use your phone to help others in emergencies. If you see an auto accident, crime in progress, or other serious emergency where lives are in danger, call your national emergency number, as you would want others to do for you. 10 Call roadside assistance or a special wireless non-emergency assistance number when necessary. Certain situations you encounter while driving may require attention, but are not urgent enough to merit a call to your national emergency number.
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Index NUMERICS 112 phone numbers 20 911 phone numbers 20 999 phone numbers 20 A accented characters 14 Acrobat Reader files.
contacts 31 electrostatic discharge (ESD) 55 email attaching music to 35 creating 24 receiving 25 sending 24 synchronizing 25 email accounts multiple 24 email addresses entering 24 email service providers 24 emergency phone numbers 20 events adding to calendar ??–32 calendar 31 creating 31 saving 32 synchronizing 31 Excel files 40 F file types opening files and 40 playing music and 35 viewing pictures and 34 watching videos and 34 files See also specific type changing display size 40 copying 40 opening 40
turning on or off 11, 12 volume 22 phone calls ??–21 creating ringtones for 45 driving and 54 ending 22 making 20 placing on hold 22 receiving 21 replying to 21 sending and receiving messages during 25 sending to voicemail 21 switching to hands-free devices 22 phone headsets ??–22 photos.
searching for 38 Wide View 40 Wi-Fi turning on and off 38 wireless services turning on and off 12 turning on or off 11 Word files 40 Y Yahoo! accounts 24 60 Index
