Handspring TREO 680 User Manual

Table of Contents

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Welcome to Cingular 1

Overview: Your Palm® Treo™ 680 smart device 1

Setup 2

Insert the battery 2
Complete setup 3

Navigation 4

Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off 4
Move around the touchscreen 5
Use the keyboard 6
Open applications 8

Your phone 9

Turn your phone on and off 9
Open the Phone application 9
Make and receive calls 10
Set up voicemail 11
What can I do when I’m on a call? 12

Your email 14

Choose the best email option 14
Set up personal email 14
Set up corporate email 16

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Synchronization 22

Why synchronize information? 22
Synchronize for the first time 22

Your Contacts, Calendar, Messages, and Web 24

Contacts 24
Calendar 26
Messaging 27
Web browser 28

Troubleshooting 30

Tips and Tricks 32

Keyboard 32
Phone 32
Data 33
Typing 33
Browser 34
Navigation 34
General 34

Status indicators 35

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Welcome to Cingular

Overview: Your Palm® Tre o™ 680 smart device

Overview: Your Palm® Treo™ 680 smart device

Stylus

Earpiece

Indicator light (phone

and charge indicator)

Volume

Side button

Send

Phone

Calendar

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5-way navigator
and Center button

Ringer switchInfrared (IR) port

Power/End

Applications

Messaging

Menu

Microphone

Multi-connector

Headset jack

Stylus

Setup

Insert the battery

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Tip

Your phone won't
work without a SIM
card. The SIM card
is usually pre­installed in your
Treo 680, unless
you’re upgrading
from another
Cingular phone.
Check the SIM
card tray to see if
the SIM card is
installed. The SIM
card tray is tucked
away in a drawer
in the battery
compartment. See
"I need to insert
my SIM card" on
page 30 for more
info.

If you need a SIM
card, call Cingular
at: 1-800-331-0500.

Insert the battery

1. Remove the battery door.

2. Insert the battery into the compartment.

Press battery
door release

3. Slide the battery door back into place.

4. Connect the charger.

®

The touchscreen on your Palm

Tre o™ 680 smart device turns on.
Wait for the progress bar to fill and the language selection screen to
appear.

Align battery
contacts with
compartment
contacts

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Complete setup

Complete setup

1. Select the language you want to use.

2. Follow the onscreen instructions to set the date and time.

Note: If you want your Treo 680 to obtain the date, time, and time zone from the
local network, accept the default setting on the Date & Time screen.

3. When the setup is complete, press Applications and select
Quick Tour .

4.

RECOMMENDED: Complete the Basics and Phone sections

before proceeding.

Note: If your Treo 680 doesn’t turn on after you charge it, do a soft reset by
removing the battery and reinserting it. For more information on resetting your
Treo 680, see Your Palm Treo 680 Smart Device User Guide on the CD.

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Tip

You need a high­speed data plan
for email, web
browsing, and
multimedia
messaging. Find
out if you have a
plan by checking
your Cingular bill
or calling Cingular:
dial 611 from your
Treo 680 or call
1-800-331-0500
from any phone.

Tip

Need help setting
up your Treo 680?
Call the Palm
Setup Help desk
for Cingular
customers at
1-800-331-0500.

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Navigation

Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off

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Did You Know?

Pressing Phone,
Calendar, or
Messaging wakes

up the touchscreen
and opens the
corresponding
app. Pressing
Applications
wakes up the
touchscreen and
opens Applications
View.

Did You Know?

You can set how
long the
touchscreen stays
on. Press
Applications,
select Preferences,
select Power, and
then adjust the

Auto-off after

setting.

Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off

The phone and the touchscreen of your Palm® Tre o™ 680 smart device
can be turned off and on separately. When you wake up the touchscreen
and leave the phone off you can use only the organizer features, for
example, when you’re on a plane and want to look at your calendar, play
MP3 files, or write email offline.

If you’re taking your Treo 680 out of the box and turning it on for the first
time, the phone is already on. You just need to wake up the touchscreen.

1. Press and release
Power/End to

wake up the
touchscreen.

2. Press Center to

turn off Keyguard.

3. Press and release

Power/End to

turn off the
touchscreen and lock
the keyboard.

Power/End
Center

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Move around the touchscreen

Move around the touchscreen

To move around the touchscreen on your Treo 680, you can use the 5-way
navigator, or you can tap items on the touchscreen with the stylus. The
5-way includes the following buttons:

Center

Left

Highlight and select items

The highlight identifies which item is affected by
your next action. Use Left , Right , Up , and
Down on the 5-way to move the highlight from
one item to another. The highlight can take two
forms: A b
onscreen button, or a pick list; and light text on a
dark background.

After highlighting an item, you can select
(activate) it by pressing Center , or by tapping
it with the stylus. When an entire screen is
highlighted, switch the highlight to the first item
by pressing Center .

order glow around an entire screen, an

Up

Right

Down

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Did You Know?

On most screens,
one item—a
button, a list entry,
or a check box—is
highlighted by
default.

Tip

If the item you
want doesn’t
appear on the
touchscreen, try
tapping the
onscreen scroll
arrows to view
more info.

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Use the keyboard

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Tip

Most menu items
have a shortcut. To
use a menu
shortcut, press
Menu + the
shortcut letter. For
example, in
Calendar, you can
press Menu + D to
delete an event.

Select menu items

Many applications have menus to
give you access to additional
features. These menus are usually
hidden from view, but they appear

Menu
shortcut
letter

when you press Menu .

1. Press Menu to display an
application’s menus.

2. Press Right and Left to

switch between menus.

3. Press Up and Down to highlight a menu item.

4. Press Center to select the menu item, or press Menu to

close the menu and cancel your selection.

Use the keyboard

Backlight
(Option + P)

Backspace

Option

Shift/Find

Space

Alt

Return

Menu

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Use the keyboard

Enter lowercase and uppercase letters

• To enter lowercase letters, press the key you want.

• To enter an uppercase letter, press Shift/Find and then press a
letter key—no need to hold Shift/Find while entering the letter.

• To turn Caps Lock on, press Shift/Find twice. The following symbol
appears . To turn it off, press Shift/Find once.

Enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols

Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear
above the letters on the keys. To enter these
characters, do one of the following:

• Press Option , and then press the key with the character—no need to
hold Option while pressing the second key.

• To turn Option Lock on, press Option twice. The following symbol
appears . To turn it off, press Option once.

Symbol

Letter

Enter more symbols and accented characters

1. Enter the character that corresponds to the character you want.

2. Press Alt .

3. Highlight the character you want on the pop-up list, and then press

Center to select the highlighted character.

Note: To enter characters such as _ • \ % =, press Alt by itself, after a space or
at the beginning or end of a line.

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Did You Know?

Some application
views automatically
default to Option
Lock, such as the
Dial Pad tab in the
Phone application.
In this case, you do
not need to press
Option to enter
numbers.

Tip

Alternate
characters are
grouped by their
similarity to the
base key. For
example, the
alternate
characters for the
E key are: É, È, Ë,
and Ê.

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Open applications

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Tip

In Applications
View, you can enter
the first few letters
of an application
name to highlight
it. For example, if
you press P,
it highlights
Phone; if you then
press R, it
highlights Prefs. If
you pause and
then press R, it
highlights the first
application that
starts with R.

Did You Know?

Press Applications
repeatedly to cycle
through various
categories of
applications.

Open applications

When you open an
application using a quick
button or Applications
View, you automatically
close the application you
were previously using and
save any information you
created in that app.

Use the quick buttons

The front of your Treo 680
has three quick buttons that
open applications. The
fourth button opens Applications View.

Use Applications View

You can access all available applications
through Applications View.

1. Press Applications .

2. Use the 5-way to highlight the

application you want to use.

3. Press Center to open the selected

application.

Calendar Messaging

Phone

Applications

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Your phone

Turn your phone on and off

Turn your phone on and off

When your phone is on, it is connected to the Cingular network (provided
you’re in a coverage area) so that you can make and receive phone calls
and use wireless services, such as email, messaging, and the web browser.

During initial setup, your phone is automatically turned on, so you can use
wireless services right away. If you turn off your phone, you can still use the
organizer and media features such as Calendar and Pics&Videos.

1. Wake up the touchscreen.

2. Press and hold Power/End to turn on

your phone.

You know your phone is on and that you’re
inside a coverage area when you see the
signal strength icon at the top of the Main
tab of the Phone app.

Note: If you’re prompted for a PIN code, your SIM
card is locked. If you don’t know your PIN code, ask
Cingular to provide you with the PIN code.

3. Press and hold Power/End again to turn off your phone.

You know your phone is off when you see Phone Off at the top of the
Main tab of the Phone app.

Status icons

Main tab

Open the Phone application

Press Phone to display the Main tab in the Phone application.

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Tip

If you’re outside a
coverage area, No
Service appears in
the upper-left
corner and the
indicator light
flashes red.

Tip

Don’t remember
your mobile phone
number? To find
your phone
number, press

Phone, press
Menu, select
Options, and then
select Phone Info.

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Make and receive calls

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Did You Know?

If the headset is
attached, you can
press the headset
button to answer
a call and to end a
call. (

The headset
button may work
differently on
headsets other
than the one
provided with your
Treo 680.)

Make and receive calls

To make and receive calls, your phone must be on. When your phone is off,
your incoming calls go to voicemail.

Dial using the keyboard

1. Press Phone .

2. If prompted,

press Center
to turn off

Keyguard.

3. Use the number

keys on the
keyboard to
enter the phone
number.

4. Press Send to make the call.

5. Press Power/End to end the call.

Send

Phone

Number
keys

Answer calls

To answer a call, press Send or
select Answer.

Power/End

Center

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