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Part I: Getting Started
You can’t receive any calls while your phone is in sleep mode.
Sleep mode is different from what happens when you haven’t used the phone
in a little while. After 15 or 20 seconds, the screen turns off. The screen is the
biggest user of power on the device. Having it go dark saves a large amount
of battery life. However, the phone is still alert to any incoming calls — if
someone calls you, the screen automatically lights up.
Sleep mode barely uses any power, so it will not affect your battery life. Only
use sleep mode if you don’t want to be disturbed by calls. Otherwise, just
leave your phone alone and it will simply shut off the screen to preserve bat-
tery life.
The Camera button
The digital camera is among the most popular features on cellular phones.
The camera may vary from one manufacturer and cellular carrier to the next,
but Microsoft has set a minimum standard of 5 megapixels and a flash; your
phone may have higher resolution.
What does not vary is that pressing the Camera button launches the Camera
application. Also, after the Camera application is up, you press the Camera
button to take a picture.
The Volume button
Technically, there are two Volume buttons — one to increase the volume and
the other to lower it. The Volume buttons control the volume of all the audio
sources on the phone, including the following:
✓ The phone ringer for when a call comes in
✓ The phone headset when you’re talking on the phone
✓ The volume from the digital music and video player
The Volume buttons are “aware” of the context of what volume you’re chang-
ing. If you’re listening to music, they raise or lower the music volume but
leave the ringer and phone earpiece volumes unchanged.
The Volume buttons complement software settings you can make within
the applications. For example, you can open the music player software and
increase the volume on the appropriate screen. Then you can use the hard-
ware buttons to decrease the volume and you’ll see the volume setting on the
screen go down.
The touch screen
To cram the information that you need onto one screen, Microsoft takes a
radical approach to screen layout. To make this new approach work, there
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