HTC HD Mini User Guide

Your HTC HD mini

User guide

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Charge the battery

The battery in your phone hasn’t been charged yet. While your phone is charging, it’s important that you do not remove the battery pack. Doing so can damage your phone. Also, please don’t try to take your phone apart. (If you do, it may invalidate your warranty.)

Choose a rate plan wisely

Your phone can use up a lot of Internet bandwidth really quickly. Before you use your phone, we strongly recommend that you talk to your mobile operator about data rates. If you’re on a standard data plan, the costs could really add up. Switching to a flat-rate plan could be a lot cheaper.

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Conventions used in this guide

In this user guide, we use the following symbols to indicate useful and important information:

This is a note. A note often gives additional information, such as what happens on your phone when you choose to do or not to do a certain action. A note also provides information that may only be applicable to some situations.

This is a tip. A tip gives you an alternative way to do a particular step or procedure, or lets you know of an option that you may find helpful.

This indicates that something is very important. Important information is something that you need to do in order to accomplish a certain task or to get a phone feature to work properly.

This provides safety precaution information, that is, information that you need to be careful about to prevent potential problems when using your phone.

Chapter 1 Getting Started

1.1 Inside the Box ......................................................................................................19

1.2 Getting to Know Your Phone ........................................................................

Front panel ................................................................................................................. 20

Back panel ................................................................................................................... 22

Left panel ..................................................................................................................... 22

Bottom panel .............................................................................................................23

Top panel ......................................................................................................................23

1.3 Before Charging the Battery and Turning On Your Phone ...............

Removing the back cover ....................................................................................24

Inserting the SIM card ............................................................................................25

Inserting the battery ...............................................................................................25

Inserting a microSD card ......................................................................................26

Replacing the back cover.....................................................................................26

1.4 Charging the Battery .......................................................................................

1.5 Starting Up ..........................................................................................................

Turning the power on .............................................................................................28

Setting up your phone for the first time .......................................................28

Switching to Sleep mode .................................................................................... 30

Turning the power off ............................................................................................. 31

1.6 Home Screen

1.7 Status Icons .........................................................................................................

1.8 Notifications ........................................................................................................

1.9 Start Screen .........................................................................................................

Moving an icon to another location ................................................................36

....................................................................................................... 32

1.10 Lock Screen ......................................................................................................... 37

Locking your phone ................................................................................................37

Unlocking your phone ...........................................................................................37

Lock screen notifications .....................................................................................38

Receiving a call when the phone is locked ..................................................38

1.11 Adjusting the Volume ......................................................................................

Adjusting the single volume ...............................................................................39

Setting a single volume ........................................................................................ 40

Adjusting the phone call volume ..................................................................... 40

1.12 Using

1.13 Connecting Your Phone to a Computer ...................................................

Finger Gestures .................................................................................... 40

Finger scrolling ......................................................................................................... 40

Finger panning ...........................................................................................................41

Pinch zooming ............................................................................................................41

Chapter 2 Phone Calls

2.1 Making Calls ........................................................................................................44

Making a call from the Phone dialer screen ............................................... 45

Calling voicemail ...................................................................................................... 46

Making calls from received messages and calendar reminders ....... 46

Making an emergency call ...................................................................................47

Making an international call (plus code dialing) .......................................47

Home dialing ..............................................................................................................47

2.2 Answering and Ending Calls .........................................................................

Accepting or rejecting an incoming call ...................................................... 49

During a call .................................................................................................................51

2.3 Using Call History ..............................................................................................

2.4 Speed Dial ............................................................................................................

Creating a Speed Dial entry ............................................................................... 54

Making a call using Speed Dial ......................................................................... 54

2.5 Making Conference Calls ................................................................................ 55

Selecting participants and starting the conference call .......................55

Making the first call and adding calls to the conference ...................... 57

During the conference call ..................................................................................57

Making a conference call from an email .......................................................58

2.6 Turning the Phone Connection On and Off ............................................

Chapter 3 Using the Home Screen

3.1 About the Home Screen .................................................................................60

3.2 Switching Between the Tabs of the Home Screen ................................

3.3 Personalizing Home Screen Tabs ................................................................

3.4 Home ......................................................................................................................

Changing the wallpaper ........................................................................................63

Updating weather information ......................................................................... 64

Selecting another location to display on the Home tab ...................... 64

Changing the date and time ...............................................................................65

Setting the alarm clock ........................................................................................ 66

Adding and removing quick links .....................................................................67

3.5 People ....................................................................................................................

3.6 Messages ..............................................................................................................

3.7 Mail ..........................................................................................................................

Adding your Internet email account .............................................................. 70

Adding your Outlook work account ................................................................ 71

Checking and reading email ............................................................................... 72

3.8 Internet ..................................................................................................................

Adding and removing Web favorites ............................................................ 74

Including location information in Internet searches ................................75

3.9 Calendar

Creating an appointment .....................................................................................76

Viewing and managing your appointments ................................................77

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3.10 Stocks .................................................................................................................... 79

Adding stock quotes and market indexes ...................................................79

Viewing stock information .................................................................................. 80

3.11 Photos & Videos .................................................................................................

3.12 Music ......................................................................................................................

Playing music .............................................................................................................82

Setting repeat and shuffle modes ...................................................................83

Finding albums and music tracks in the Library .......................................83

Playlists ........................................................................................................................ 84

3.13 Weather ................................................................................................................

Adding a city ..............................................................................................................87

Weather settings ......................................................................................................87

3.14 Twitter ...................................................................................................................

3.15 Footprints ............................................................................................................

3.16 Settings .................................................................................................................

Chapter 4 Staying Close

4.1 It’s All About People ........................................................................................90

4.2 Adding and Sharing Your Personal Details ..............................................

Adding your personal details ..............................................................................91

Sharing your personal details ............................................................................92

4.3 Adding Contacts to Your Phone .................................................................

Creating new contacts ..........................................................................................93

4.4 Working With Favorite Contacts ................................................................

Adding favorite contacts to the People tab ...............................................95

Quickly calling or sending a message to a favorite contact .............. 96

4.5 Viewing and Managing Your Contacts ......................................................

Browsing and finding contacts ........................................................................ 98

4.6 Viewing Contact Information and Exchange of Communications

With the Contact ...............................................................................................99

Changing the number for sending text and multimedia

messages ................................................................................................................... 100

4.7 Contact Groups .................................................................................................

Creating a contact group .................................................................................... 101

Sending a text or multimedia message to a group ................................ 101

Filtering the contacts list by group ............................................................... 102

4.8 Facebook Updates and Events ..................................................................

Logging in and out of Facebook .................................................................... 102

Checking all Facebook updates and events .............................................103

Checking a contact’s Facebook updates and events ...........................104

Updating your Facebook status .....................................................................105

Chapter 5 Entering Text

5.1 Using the Onscreen Keyboard ...................................................................106

Full QWERTY ...........................................................................................................107

Compact QWERTY ............................................................................................... 107

Phone Keypad..........................................................................................................107

Onscreen navigation pad ...................................................................................108

Selecting a keyboard layout .............................................................................108

Entering text .............................................................................................................109

5.2 Using Predictive Mode ...................................................................................

5.3 Entering Numbers and Symbols .................................................................

5.4 Using multiple

Adding a new keyboard language .................................................................. 114

Selecting a keyboard language ........................................................................ 114

Entering text using multiple keyboard languages .................................. 115

5.5 Text Input Settings

keyboard languages.......................................................... 114

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Chapter 6 Synchronizing Information

6.1 Ways of Synchronizing Your Phone ...........................................................116

6.2 Before Synchronizing With Your Computer ...........................................

6.3 Setting Up Windows Mobile Device Center on Windows 7 and

Windows Vista ....................................................................................................118

Setting up synchronization in Windows Mobile Device Center ....... 118

Using Windows Mobile Device Center .......................................................... 119

6.4 Setting Up ActiveSync on Windows XP ................................................. 12

Setting up synchronization in ActiveSync .................................................120

6.5 Synchronizing With Your Computer ..........................................................12

Starting and stopping synchronization ........................................................ 121

Selecting information to sync .......................................................................... 122

Troubleshooting sync connection problems ............................................ 123

6.6 Synchronizing via Bluetooth ........................................................................12

6.7 Synchronizing Music and Video .................................................................12

Synchronizing With Microsoft My Phone ................................................125

6.8

Setting up your My Phone account .............................................................. 125

Changing sync settings ....................................................................................... 126

Stopping sync partnership with your My Phone Web account ......126

Managing your My Phone Web account from your computer ........ 127

Chapter 7 Exchanging Messages

7.1 Sending Text Messages ..................................................................................128

7.2 Sending Multimedia Messages ....................................................................12

Creating a slideshow ............................................................................................. 131

7.3 How to Know When You Have New Text and Multimedia

Messages .............................................................................................................132

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7.4 Message Conversations .................................................................................133

Viewing the exchange of messages with a contact .............................. 133

Replying to conversations .................................................................................134

Copying and pasting text to your reply message .................................. 135

Adding your signature to sent messages ..................................................136

Viewing a multimedia message ...................................................................... 137

Managing individual messages and message threads ......................... 138

7.5 Text and Multimedia Message Settings ....................................................14

Adding MMS server settings .............................................................................. 141

7.6 Directly Making Calls from

7.7 Email

..................................................................................................................... 142

Synchronizing Outlook email with your computer ................................ 142

Setting up your Internet email account ...................................................... 142

Creating and replying to email messages ..................................................143

Adding your signature in sent email .............................................................144

Downloading a complete email ......................................................................145

Downloading file attachments .........................................................................145

When viewing email ..............................................................................................146

Directly making calls from email messages .............................................. 147

Synchronizing email messages .......................................................................148

Filtering your email inbox .................................................................................. 148

Customizing email settings ...............................................................................149

Text Messages ..............................................141

Chapter 8 Working With Company Email and Meeting Requests

8.1 Synchronizing With the Exchange Server ..............................................152

Setting up an Exchange Server connection ............................................. 152

Starting synchronization .................................................................................... 152

8.2 Working With Company Email Messages ...............................................15

Automatic synchronization through Direct Push ................................... 153

Scheduled synchronization ...............................................................................154

Instant download through Fetch Mail .......................................................... 155

Searching for email messages on the Exchange Server .....................156

Out-of-office auto-reply ..................................................................................... 156

Flagging your messages ..................................................................................... 157

8.3 Starting a Conference Call from an Email ..............................................15

8.4 Meeting Requests ...........................................................................................16

Sending meeting requests .................................................................................160

Replying to meeting requests ........................................................................... 161

8.5 Making a Call from a Meeting Request or Reminder ..........................16

8.6 Finding Contacts in the Company Directory .........................................16

When browsing contacts ...................................................................................163

When composing email ......................................................................................163

When viewing a received Outlook email message ................................164

Chapter 9 Internet and Social Networking

9.1 Ways of Connecting to the Internet ........................................................ 165

Wi-Fi ............................................................................................................................. 165

GPRS/3G .................................................................................................................... 168

Dial-up .........................................................................................................................168

Starting a data connection ................................................................................ 169

9.2 Using Opera Mobile ........................................................................................

The browser screen ...............................................................................................170

Searching for a website and adding it to favorites ................................ 171

Mobile view ............................................................................................................... 172

Zooming and panning ......................................................................................... 172

Opera Mobile menu ............................................................................................... 173

9.3 Using Internet Explorer Mobile ...................................................................

The browser screen ............................................................................................... 174

Entering a website address and adding it to your favorites ............. 175

Zooming and panning ......................................................................................... 176

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9.4 Using YouTube ..................................................................................................177

The YouTube main screen .................................................................................. 177

Searching for videos ............................................................................................. 178

Using the Program Guide ................................................................................... 178

Watching videos ..................................................................................................... 179

9.5 Using Streaming Media .................................................................................

9.6 Using Windows Live .........................................................................................

The Windows Live screen .................................................................................. 182

Using Windows Live Messenger .....................................................................182

9.7 Twittering on Your Phone ............................................................................

Logging in to your Twitter account ..............................................................184

Viewing tweets ........................................................................................................ 185

Sending tweets .......................................................................................................186

Sending mentions and direct messages ..................................................... 186

Searching for Twitter users to follow ...........................................................186

Sharing a photo in Twitter ................................................................................. 187

Changing Twitter settings .................................................................................. 188

Logging out of Twitter ........................................................................................188

9.8 Sharing Photos and Videos on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube .

Logging into your social networks ................................................................ 189

Uploading photos to Facebook ...................................................................... 189

Uploading a photo to Twitter ...........................................................................190

Uploading videos to YouTube ..........................................................................190

9.9 Using Facebook on Your Phone ..................................................................

9.10 Using Your Phone as a Modem ...................................................................

Before you proceed .............................................................................................. 192

Setting up your phone as a USB modem...................................................192

Using your phone as a Bluetooth modem ................................................. 193

Ending the Internet connection ......................................................................194

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9.11 Using Your Phone as a Wireless Router ..................................................195

Setting up your phone as a wireless router ..............................................195

Connecting your computer to your phone’s Wi-Fi network .............196

Turning off your phone’s Wi-Fi network ..................................................... 197

Turning on your phone’s Wi-Fi network in Comm Manager ............. 197

Chapter 10 Bluetooth

10.1 Bluetooth Modes ............................................................................................. 198

Turning Bluetooth on and making your phone visible ......................... 199

10.2 Bluetooth Partnerships ................................................................................20

Creating a Bluetooth partnership ................................................................200

Accepting a Bluetooth partnership ...............................................................201

10.3 Connecting a Bluetooth Hands-free or Stereo Headset ................. 20

10.4 Sending and Receiving Information Using Bluetooth ...................... 20

Sending information from your phone to a computer .......................203

Sending a file to another Bluetooth-enabled device ...........................205

Receiving information from another Bluetooth-enabled device ...205

Changing the folder for saving received files..........................................205

10.5 Printing via Bluetooth .................................................................................. 20

Printing a photo .....................................................................................................206

10.6 Connecting to Car Kit Phones ................................................................... 20

Chapter 11 Finding and Recording Places

11.1 Guidelines and Preparation for Using GPS ........................................... 208

11.2 Downloading Satellite Positions ............................................................... 20

Changing the download options ....................................................................210

11.3 HTC Footprints ...................................................................................................21

What is a footprint? ............................................................................................... 211

Taking a photo of your location as a footprint ......................................... 211

Selecting and saving a photo from Albums as a footprint................213

Editing a footprint .................................................................................................214

Browsing your footprints to find a place you visited ........................... 215

Exporting footprints to your storage card ................................................ 216

Importing footprints from your storage card ........................................... 216

11.4 Google Maps (Available by Country) .......................................................21

Searching a place of interest ............................................................................ 217

Using Street View...................................................................................................219

Using Layers ............................................................................................................220

Chapter 12 Camera and Multimedia

12.1 Taking Photos and Videos ...........................................................................222

Changing the capture mode ........................................................................... 222

Zooming ....................................................................................................................223

Capturing photos and videos .........................................................................224

Onscreen controls .................................................................................................226

Basic settings .......................................................................................................... 227

Advanced settings ................................................................................................ 228

Closing the Camera ..............................................................................................230

12.2 Viewing Photos and Videos Using Albums ..........................................

Viewing photos ....................................................................................................... 231

Viewing Facebook photos ................................................................................ 233

Playing videos ......................................................................................................... 233

Sharing photos and videos ..............................................................................234

12.3 Using Windows Media Player Mobile

Playing media .......................................................................................................... 235

Synchronizing video and audio files ............................................................236

Creating playlists ...................................................................................................238

Troubleshooting .....................................................................................................238

12.4 Using Audio Booster ......................................................................................

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12.5 Using FM Radio ............................................................................................... 240

Saving presets ......................................................................................................... 241

Minimizing or turning off FM Radio .............................................................. 241

12.6 Using MP3 Trimmer ........................................................................................

Chapter 13 Other Programs

13.1 Calculator ...........................................................................................................243

Basic Calculator .....................................................................................................243

Scientific Calculator .............................................................................................244

13.2 Microsoft Office Mobile .................................................................................

13.3 WorldCard Mobile ...........................................................................................

13.4 Voice Recorder ................................................................................................

13.5 SIM Manager

13.6 JBlend ...................................................................................................................

Installing and launching MIDlets/MIDlet suites ........................................ 251

13.7 Installing and Uninstalling Programs .......................................................

..................................................................................................... 250

Chapter 14 Managing Your Phone

14.1 Copying and Managing Files ......................................................................255

14.2 Settings on Your Phone ................................................................................

Personalize ............................................................................................................... 257

Wireless controls ................................................................................................... 257

Sound & Display ..................................................................................................... 258

Data services ........................................................................................................... 258

Location ..................................................................................................................... 259

Security ...................................................................................................................... 259

Application ...............................................................................................................260

SD card & phone storage ..................................................................................260

Date & time ..............................................................................................................260

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Locale & text ............................................................................................................260

Updates & feedback .............................................................................................261

Other ............................................................................................................................261

About phone ...........................................................................................................262

14.3 Basic Settings ...................................................................................................

Changing sound and display settings ......................................................... 263

Specifying a phone name .................................................................................266

Changing settings of phone services .......................................................... 267

14.4 Using Comm Manager ..................................................................................

14.5 Using Connection Setup .............................................................................. 27

Selecting another mobile operator .............................................................. 270

Updating the Connection Setup database ............................................... 270

14.6 Using Task Manager ........................................................................................27

14.7 Protecting Your Phone ...................................................................................27

Protecting your SIM card with a PIN ............................................................ 271

Protecting your phone with a password ................................................... 272

Encrypting files on your storage card ........................................................ 273

14.8 Resetting Your Phone ....................................................................................27

Appendix

Specifications ............................................................................................................276

Index 278

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Chapter 1

Getting Started

1.1 Inside the Box

You will find the following inside the box:

HTC HD mini

• Battery

• USB cable

• AC adapter

•

3.5mm stereo headset

• Quick Start Guide

•

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1.2 Getting to Know Your Phone

Front panel

Notification LED

Touch Screen

TALK/SEND END

HOME

Earpiece

BACK

START

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Notification LED

Earpiece Listen to a phone call from here.

TALK/SEND Press to answer a call or dial out.

HOME Press to return to the Home screen.

START Press to open the Start screen. Press twice to close.

BACK Press to return to the previous screen.

END While in a call, press to end the call.

This LED shows a:

Flashing green light when there is a missed call, new text

• message, new email, or other notification. Solid green light when the phone is connected to the power

• adapter or a computer and the battery is fully charged. Solid amber light when the battery is being charged.

• Flashing amber light when the battery level is very low.

•

• During a call, press and hold to turn the speakerphone on

• and off. While viewing a message, press to call the sender.

•

• Press and hold to display the Quick List and choose whether

• to turn Airplane mode on, lock your phone, set your phone to vibrate, or disconnect the data connection.

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Back panel

Speaker

Left panel

VOLUME UP

Press to increase the earpiece volume during a call or the speaker volume.

VOLUME DOWN

Press to decrease the earpiece volume during a call or the speaker volume.

5 Megapixel Camera

Back Cover

Bottom panel

Top panel

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Microphone

Sync Connector

Connect the power adapter to recharge

•

the battery. Connect the supplied USB cable to sync

•

your phone with your computer.

3.5mm Audio Jack

Connect a 3.5mm wired headset for hands-free conversation or for listening to music.

POWER

Press and hold to turn the phone on and

• off. Press to turn the display on or off.

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1.3 Before Charging the Battery and Turning On Your Phone

Before charging the battery and turning on the phone, you must first install the battery and SIM card.

You need to remove the back cover before you can install the battery, SIM card, and microSD card.

Removing the back cover

Remove the back cover to access the battery compartment, SIM card slot, and storage card slot.

1. Hold your phone securely.

Pull from the gap on the top panel as shown.

Carefully remove the back cover.

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Inserting the SIM card

The SIM card contains your phone number, service details, and phonebook/message memory. Your phone supports both 1.8V and 3V SIM cards.

Some legacy SIM cards may not function with your phone. You should consult with your mobile operator for a replacement SIM card. There may be fees for this service.

1. Insert the SIM card with its gold contacts facing down and its cut-off corner facing out from the slot.

Slide the SIM card completely into the slot.

Inserting the battery

1. Align the battery’s exposed copper

contacts with the battery connectors inside the battery compartment.

Insert the contacts side of the battery first and then gently push the battery into place.

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Inserting a microSD card

You can insert a microSD card (not included) for extra storage. The storage card slot is located next to the SIM card slot.

Insert the microSD card into the slot with its gold contacts facing down then push it in until it clicks into place.

To remove the microSD card, press it to eject it from the slot.

Replacing the back cover

After you have inserted the SIM card, battery, and microSD card, replace the back cover.

1. Insert the tabs inside the back cover into the holes inside the bottom panel of the phone.

Press the phone against the back cover until it clicks into place.

You must install the back cover for the antenna to function properly.

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1.4 Charging the Battery

The battery is partially charged. Before you turn on and start using your phone, it is recommended that you charge the battery. Some batteries perform best after several full charge/discharge cycles.

If the AC adapter that comes with your phone has interchangeable plugs, you must first attach the plug to the AC adapter before proceeding.

Connect one end of the

USB sync cable to the sync connector on your phone.

Connect the other end of the

USB sync cable to the USB port of the AC adapter.

Plug in the AC adapter to

an electrical outlet to start charging the battery.

As the battery is being charged, the notification LED (located on the left side of the earpiece) shows a solid amber light when the battery is being charged. The light turns to solid green when the phone is fully charged.

When you charge the battery while your phone is on, you will also see a charging icon in the title bar on top of the screen. After the battery has been fully charged, a full battery icon will be shown in the title bar.

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Only the AC adapter and USB sync cable provided with your phone

•

must be used to charge the battery.

Do not remove the battery from the phone while you are charging it

•

using the AC or car adapter.

As a safety precaution, the battery stops charging when it

•

overheats.

To reduce the risk of fire or burns:

Do not attempt to open, disassemble, or service the battery pack.

•

Do not crush, puncture, short external contacts, or dispose of in fire or

•

water.

Do not expose to temperatures above 60°C (140°F).

•

Replace only with the battery pack designated for this product.

•

Recycle or dispose of used battery as stipulated by local regulations.

•

1.5 Starting Up

After installing the SIM card, battery, and microSD card and charging the battery, you can now power on and start using your phone.

Turning the power on

The button on top of your phone is the POWER button. Press this button to turn on your phone.

Setting up your phone for the first time

When you turn on your phone for the first time, your phone displays tutorials and guides you to set up your email accounts and favorite social networks such as Facebook®, YouTube™, and Twitter™.

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You can follow the onscreen instructions to complete the setup, or skip the setup and do it at another time by pressing START and then tapping Setup.

If you did not insert your SIM card and you turned on your phone for the first time, your phone displays a tutorial showing how to install the SIM card and battery. Turn off your phone, insert your SIM card, and reinsert the battery before proceeding to use the phone.

Your phone sets up GPRS/3G, MMS, and WAP connections

automatically based on your SIM card. Wait for the setup to complete.

Your phone walks you through a tutorial on how to use the

onscreen keyboard. Follow the tutorial to learn how to use the onscreen keyboard.

On the Sync Data screen, choose how you want to sync data for

mail, contacts, calendar, weather, and other services. If Wi-Fi® networks are in range, a message asks you whether to

connect to a Wi-Fi network. Select Connect to Wi-Fi network and then tap Next to set up the wireless network that you want, or leave the check box cleared and tap Next to set up your Wi-Fi connection at a later time.

On the Google Location screen, you can choose whether to

allow Google’s location service to collect information about your location. Some phone features such as Weather and Footprints require Google’s location service to automatically determine your current location.

This service may incur additional data transfer fees from your provider. You can enable or disable this service later in your phone’s location settings.

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6. On the Set Up Accounts screen, choose the type of email

account you want to set up and follow the onscreen instructions to complete the email setup.

After setting up an account, you will be taken back to the Set Up Accounts screen so you can set up more email accounts. When you are done setting up your email accounts, tap Next.

On the Set Up Social Networks screen, choose the type of social

network account such as Facebook and YouTube that you want to access from your phone. Follow the onscreen instructions to log in to your social network account.

When you are done setting up your accounts, tap Next on the Set Up Social Networks screen.

Your phone then attempts to detect your current time zone and

set your local time automatically. If auto detection is unsuccessful, tap Local Time Settings to

set your local time. The final screen shows you where you can learn more about

9. using your phone. Tap Finish.

Switching to Sleep mode

Briefly press the POWER button on the top of your phone to turn off the display temporarily and switch your phone to Sleep mode. Sleep mode suspends your phone to a low power state while the display is off in order to save battery power.

Your phone automatically goes into Sleep mode when you leave the phone idle after a certain period of time. You are still able to receive messages and calls while your phone is in Sleep mode. Your phone wakes up automatically when you have an incoming call.

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To wake up your phone manually, press the POWER button. You will then see that the phone has locked the screen. To find out how to unlock the screen, see “Lock Screen” in this chapter.

You can set the display timeout period. For instructions, see “To change backlight and automatic Sleep mode settings” in Chapter 14.

Turning the power off

If you do not need to use your phone, you can turn the power off to save battery power.

If the display is off, press the POWER button to turn the display

back on. Unlock your phone if the Lock screen is displayed. See “Lock

Screen” for details. Press and hold POWER for a few seconds.

3. Tap Yes.

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1.6 Home Screen

The Home screen provides you with a weather clock that shows the time and weather of your current location and displays your upcoming appointment. Tap the respective item when you want to change the weather clock to display another location, update the weather information, or access the Calendar.

Essential features that you commonly use, such as People, Messages, Mail, Internet, and more, are easily accessed up front on the Home screen. The tabs at the bottom of the Home screen correspond to the different phone features. Simply press and hold on the active tab and then slide your finger right or left to the feature you want to use. You can also directly tap a tab.

You can also personalize the Home screen with an animated or picture wallpaper (by tapping Menu > Home Wallpaper), rearrange the tabs, as well as add quick links to people who matter most to you, your favorite websites, and applications.

For more information about using the Home screen, see Chapter 3.

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1.7 Status Icons

Status icons are displayed in the title bar at the top of the screen. The following are some of the status icons that you may see on your phone.

Missed call New email

Battery charging HSPA available

Full battery HSPA connected

Very low battery

Sound on WCDMA/UMTS connected

Silent EDGE available

Vibrate EDGE connected

Maximum signal strength GPRS available

Phone connection is off GPRS connected

Searching for phone service

No phone service Wireless networks available

No signal Connected to a wireless network

WCDMA/UMTS available

Wi-Fi on

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Voice call in progress Uploading photo or video

Speakerphone on Photo or video upload completed

Multiple notifications Connection is active

Alarm Connection is not active

Wired headset connected

Bluetooth on Call on hold

Bluetooth visible mode on

Bluetooth stereo audio Roaming

Bluetooth hands-free Dialing while no SIM card is inserted

New Windows Live message

New text or multimedia message received

Multimedia message successfully sent

Sync in progress

Calls are forwarded

No SIM card inserted

Sending multimedia message

Text or multimedia message failed to send

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1.8 Notifications

When you tap any of the status icons in the title bar, the Notifications screen opens and displays the remaining battery status, call duration of an ongoing phone call, network connection status, such as Wi-Fi (if your phone is connected to a Wi-Fi network), data connection usage (if your data connection is on), and other types of connections. This screen also shows all your pending notifications including missed calls and new SMS/MMS messages, and displays running processes such as in call info, voice recording info, and more.

Tap a status icon or item on the Notifications screen to open the related screen.

Tapping the Task Manager icon opens Task Manager. For more information, see “Using Task Manager” in Chapter 14.

To close the Notifications screen, tap Close or press the BACK button.

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1.9 Start Screen

The Start screen gives you one-touch access to the programs and settings of your phone. To open the Start screen, press the START button ( ).

On the Start screen:

Swipe your finger up or down to scroll

• through the screen.

Tap the Today icon to return to the Home

• screen. See “Home” in Chapter 3 for details.

Tap an icon to open the corresponding

• program or open a folder containing more programs.

Tap the Settings icon to access the settings

• of your phone.

Tap Lock at the bottom-left corner of

• the Start screen to lock your phone. See “Lock Screen” for details.

Moving an icon to another location

You can arrange the Start screen icons the way you want by pressing and holding an icon that you want to move and then dragging the icon to a new location.

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1.10 Lock Screen

The Lock screen is displayed whenever your phone is locked. You can lock your phone to prevent accidental button or touch screen presses when the phone is in your bag or pocket.

Locking your phone

Your phone automatically locks when one of the following occurs:

The display is turned off (automatically

• or you have pressed the POWER button) and your phone goes to sleep mode. See “Switching to Sleep mode” earlier in this chapter for details.

Your phone is password protected, and the set idle time has

• elapsed. Your phone locks itself and requires the correct password entry to unlock it. For more information about setting a password and idle time for your phone, see “Protecting your phone with a password” in Chapter 14.

You can also lock the phone manually. Press the START button and then tap Lock at the bottom-left corner of the Start screen, or press and hold the END button and tap Lock Device from the Quick Menu.

Unlocking your phone

When you see the Lock screen, slide the

Unlock Bar down to unlock your phone.

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If you have set a password for your phone, you will be prompted for the password when you unlock the phone. See “Protecting your phone with a password” in Chapter 14 for information on setting a password.

Lock screen notifications

When your phone is locked, you are still notified of missed calls, new messages and voicemail, and upcoming appointments. All notifications are displayed below the Unlock Bar.

If there are multiple notifications, icons representing the types of received information are displayed along with the number of missed calls, new messages, or voicemail.

Receiving a call when the phone is locked

You can receive and answer calls even when your phone is locked. If a password has not been set, after you end the call your phone is unlocked.

If a password has been set, your phone remains locked after you end the call, unless you tap Unlock on the Phone screen during the call. For more information, see “Answering and Ending Calls” in Chapter 2.

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1.11 Adjusting the Volume

You can set a single volume for both the system and the ring volume, or set their volumes separately. You can also separately control the phone volume of an ongoing call.

Adjusting the single volume

By default, your phone lets you separately set the system (notifications and audio/video playback) and the ring volume.

Press the VOLUME UP/DOWN button on

the left panel of your phone to open the Volume screen.

Switch between the Ring Volume and

Sytem Volume screens by tapping Ring or System at the top of the screen.

To increase or decrease the volume level,

drag your finger up or down the volume bars, or press the VOLUME UP/DOWN button. You can also:

Tap Silent to mute the volume.

•

Tap Vibrate to switch the phone to

•

Vibrate mode.

Volume screen automatically closes. You can also tap an empty area of the Volume screen to close it.

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Setting a single volume

You can turn on the the Single Volume option to set a single volume for both the system and the ring volume. See “To set and adjust a single ring and system volume” in Chapter 14 for details.

Adjusting the phone call volume

Press the VOLUME UP/DOWN button on the left panel of your phone to adjust the volume during an ongoing call

For more information about making and receiving phone calls, see Chapter 2.

1.12 Using Finger Gestures

The touch screen of your phone is built for pure finger touch control. Use finger gestures to scroll, pan, and zoom in and out of the screen.

Finger scrolling

Finger scrolling can be used to scroll up and down Web pages, documents, and lists such as the contacts list, file list, message list, calendar appointments list, and more.

To scroll up and down

To scroll down, swipe your finger upward on the touch screen.

• To scroll up, swipe your finger downward on the touch screen.

To auto-scroll, flick your finger upward or downward on the touch

• screen. Tap the screen to stop scrolling.

To scroll left and right

To scroll towards the right, swipe your finger to the left.

• To scroll towards the left, swipe your finger to the right.

To auto-scroll, flick your finger left or right. Tap the screen to stop scrolling.

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Finger panning

You can use finger panning to move to and view other parts of a zoomed photo, Web page, document, or an email. To pan, press and hold on the touch screen and then drag your finger in any direction.

Pinch zooming

When you are viewing Web pages, photos, messages, or documents, zoom in and out freely with just a simple pinch of your fingers. Using your thumb and index finger, press on the touch screen and spread your fingers apart to zoom in. Pinch your fingers together to zoom out.

Zooming in Zooming out

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On certain screens wherein some onscreen controls or icons appear small and hard to tap on, you can also use pinch zooming to zoom in and out. After zooming in, the onscreen control or icon becomes larger and you can easily tap it with your finger. You will also see a small preview window, and you can drag your finger around this window to pan around the zoomed screen.

Normal screen Zoomed screen

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1.13 Connecting Your Phone to a Computer

Whenever you connect your phone to the computer with the USB cable, the Connect to PC screen displays and prompts you to choose the type of USB connection:

ActiveSync

Select this mode when you need to do the following:

Sync Outlook email messages, contacts, calendar appointments,

• files, and other data between your phone and your computer.

Have read and write access to the whole phone.

•

For more information about using ActiveSync, see Chapter 6.

Disk Drive

This mode is available for selection only when you installed a microSD card on your phone. Select this mode when you want to use your storage card as a USB thumb drive, and copy files between your phone’s storage card and your computer faster.

When Disk Drive mode is enabled while your phone is connected to the computer:

You will not be able to use your phone to access files on the storage

• card or run applications that are installed on the storage card.

Your computer will only connect to the phone’s storage card.

• When you access your phone from the computer, you will only see the contents of the phone’s storage card.

Internet Sharing

When you do not have Internet access on your computer, you can select this mode to use your phone as a modem for your computer. For more information about using Internet Sharing, see “Using Your Phone as a Modem” in Chapter 9.

Chapter 2

Phone Calls

2.1 Making Calls

To make a call, you can either dial a number or select a contact you want to call. While viewing a message that you received, you can also directly call the sender of the message if the sender’s phone number is stored in your contacts.

Before you begin making calls, add contacts to your phone by creating new contacts or synchronizing contacts to your phone. For more information about adding contacts, see “Adding Contacts to Your Phone” in Chapter 4.

Most SIM cards are preset with a PIN (personal identification number) that is provided by your mobile operator. When prompted, enter the preset PIN and then tap Enter. If you enter the wrong PIN three times, the SIM card is blocked. If this happens, you can unblock it with the PUK (PIN Unblocking Key) obtained from your mobile operator.

You must install the back cover for the antenna to function properly.

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Making a call from the Phone dialer screen

The Phone dialer’s Smart Dial feature makes it quick and easy for you to place a call. Simply enter the phone number or first few letters of the person you want to call. Smart Dial automatically searches and filters your contacts list (stored on your phone and SIM card) and the phone numbers from the Call History. From the filtered list, select the number or contact you want to call.

To open the Phone dialer screen, press the TALK/SEND button

on your phone. Begin entering the first few numbers or letters by tapping the

keys on the Phone keypad. As you enter numbers or letters, the Phone dialer screen displays matches found.

If you tap a wrong number or character, tap to erase each subsequent digit or character. To erase the entire entry, press and hold .

Tap to close the keypad and to see if there are more matching

numbers or contacts found. To browse through the filtered list, flick through the list or slide your finger up or down the list slowly.

4. To call a number or contact, do one of the following:

•

Tap the desired phone number or contact from the list. To call a different phone number associated with the contact, tap

• the contact card icon on the right side of the contact name. On the contact summary screen, tap the number you want to call.

During a call, use the VOLUME UP/DOWN button on the side of your

•

phone to adjust the phone volume.

To save a phone number to your contacts, tap the Call History button

•

( ) that appears on the right side of the phone number, and then tap

Menu > Save to People.

Calling voicemail

Number 1 is generally reserved for your voicemail. Press and hold this

button on the Phone dialer keypad to call voicemail and retrieve your voicemail messages.

Making calls from received messages and calendar reminders

While you are viewing a text or email message, you can directly call the sender of the message if the sender is a stored contact on your phone. You can also call a phone number that is contained in the body of the message.

For more information about calling from received text messages,

• see “Messages” in Chapter 3 and “Directly Making Calls from Text Messages” in Chapter 7.

For more information about calling from received email, see

• “Mail” in Chapter 3 and “Directly making calls from email messages” in Chapter 7.

You can also directly make calls from meeting request email and

• calendar reminders. See “Making a Call from a Meeting Request or Reminder” in Chapter 8 for details.

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Making an emergency call

On the Phone dialer screen, enter the international emergency number for your locale, and then press the TALK/SEND button on your phone.

Additional emergency numbers may be included in your SIM card. Contact your mobile operator for details. You can place emergency calls even when a SIM card is not inserted.

Making an international call (plus code dialing)

To make an international call, first press and hold the number 0 key on the Phone dialer screen until the plus (+) sign appears. The plus (+) sign replaces the international prefix of the country that you are calling.

After the plus (+) sign, enter the complete phone number to call, which includes the country code, area code (without the leading zero, if any), and phone number. Tap Talk on the screen or press the TALK/ SEND button on your phone to dial the number.

Home dialing

Home dialing is a feature which helps you easily dial a phone number in your home country while you are roaming internationally.

To make a call using home dialing

Your phone is able to recognize your home country information from your SIM card and can automatically prepend your country code to the phone number when you place calls to your home country while roaming.

1. Simply enter the local phone number in your country without the plus (+) sign and leading zero, and then tap Talk.

If you enter a leading zero, it will be removed automatically.

•

If you enter a plus (+) sign before the phone number, your

•

phone will just dial normally using plus code dialing.

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2. The Home Dialing screen then opens and displays the phone

number already prepended with your home country code.

Tap Yes, use number above to dial the displayed number.

• To change the prepended code to another country, tap the

• country selection box and choose the country that you want. The displayed number now changes with the code of your selected country prepended. Tap Yes, use number above to dial the displayed number.

To turn off home dialing

If you prefer to use direct dialing (that is, manually entering and dialing complete numbers) and not home dialing, you can turn the home dialing feature off.

Press the HOME button to return to the Home screen.

1. On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap

2. Menu > All Settings.

Tap Personal > Phone.

3. Tap the Advanced tab and then clear this check box: Add home

4. country prefix to phone numbers when roaming internationally.

Tap Done.

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2.2 Answering and Ending Calls

When you receive a phone call, the Incoming Voice Call screen will appear, allowing you to either answer or ignore the call.

If you have included the caller’s birthday in their contact information, the Incoming Voice Call screen displays a reminder.

Accepting or rejecting an incoming call

To answer a call

Press the TALK/SEND button, or fully slide the center button of the

Answer/Ignore bar to the left.

To reject a call

Press the END button, or fully slide the center button of the

Answer/Ignore bar to the right.

To mute the ring without rejecting the call

Tap Mute Ring or press the VOLUME DOWN button. When your phone rings, placing the phone face down also mutes the

ringtone.

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If the phone is already facing down, the phone will still ring when there are subsequent incoming calls.

To reject a call and send a text message

When you are busy and unable to take an incoming call, you can send a text message to the caller and reject the incoming voice call. Tap Send Text when you have an incoming call, use the preset message or enter another message, and then tap Send.

To change the preset message for rejecting calls in your phone settings, open the Phone dialer screen, tap Menu > Options, scroll down the Phone Settings screen and tap Reject call with Message, and then enter your new preset message in the provided text box.

To automatically lower the ring volume when picking up the phone

You can set your phone to automatically lower down the ring volume whenever you pick up the phone to answer calls.

Press the HOME button to return to the Home screen.

On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap

2. Sound & display.

Scroll down the screen and then tap Quiet ring on pickup to turn

this feature on. Tap Back to return to the Home screen’s Settings tab.

To automatically increase the ring volume when the phone is in your pocket

To help avoid missing incoming calls when your phone is in your pocket or bag, you can set it to gradually increase the ring volume and vibrate when you receive a call. When not in your pocket or bag, the phone will ring at the normal volume you set.

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Press the HOME button to return to the Home screen.

On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab and then tap

2. Sound & display.

Scroll down the screen and then tap Pocket mode to turn this

feature on. Tap Back to return to the Home screen’s Settings tab.

During a call

When a call is in progress, use the call function buttons to put a call on hold, dial another contact for a phone conference, and more.

When you move the phone closer to your

•

ear, the screen is disabled and the HOME, START, BACK, and END keys lock so that you do not accidentally press them during the phone call.

If you have included the caller’s birthday

•

in their contact information, the Incoming Voice Call screen displays a reminder.

If you recieve a call when a password

•

has been set and the phone is locked, the onscreen buttons are unavailable except for End and Unlock. Tap Unlock to unlock the phone and have access to the onscreen buttons.

To use the speakerphone

Placing your phone face down automatically turns on the speakerphone. To turn the speakerphone off, place your phone face up.

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You can also tap the onscreen Speaker button ( ) or press and hold the TALK/SEND button to turn the speakerphone on or off.

The speakerphone icon

appears in the title bar when the

( )

speakerphone is on.

To prevent potential damage to your hearing, do not hold the phone against your ear when the speakerphone is on.

To mute the microphone during a call

Tap the Mute button ( ) to turn the microphone on or off. When the microphone is turned off, the mute icon ( ) appears on the screen.

To take two calls and switch between the calls

Press the TALK/SEND button to accept a second call, or tap the

1. Add Call button ( ) to dial a second call. The first call is put on

hold when you accept or dial the second call. To switch between the two calls, tap the Swap button ( ) or

tap the dim area onscreen that shows “On Hold”.

To end calls

To end the current call, tap End Call or press the END button. If you have two ongoing calls, tap Menu > End All Calls to end both calls.

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2.3 Using Call History

The missed call icon ( ) appears in the title bar when you missed a call. Use the Call History to check who the caller was or view all your dialed numbers and received calls.

Received call

Missed call

Dialed number

You can access the Call History from People, the Notifications screen, or from the Phone dialer’s menu:

On the Home screen, slide to the People tab, tap All People, and

• then tap the Call History tab (rightmost tab).

When you see the missed call icon ( ) in the title bar, tap the

• title bar to open the Notifications screen, and then tap Missed Call.

Press TALK/SEND to open the Phone dialer and then tap

• Menu > Call History.

If you have a long list of calls in the Call History tab, tap Menu > Filter, and then select the type of call you want to display.

To view the exchange of calls with a particular contact, tap the

Contact Card button ( ) that appears to the right of the contact.

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2.4 Speed Dial

Use Speed Dial to call frequently-used numbers with a single tap. For example, if you assign a contact to the location 2 in Speed Dial, you can press and hold the number 2 key on the Phone dialer keypad to dial the contact’s number.

Creating a Speed Dial entry

Number 0 and 1 keys are reserved and cannot be assigned as speed dial keys. The number 1 key is reserved for voicemail. You can set any number between 2 and 99 as a speed dial key.

Press TALK/SEND to open the Phone dialer screen.

1. Tap Menu > Speed Dial. The Speed Dial list will be displayed.

2. Tap Menu > New.

Tap a contact, and then select the phone number of the contact

that you want assigned to the speed dial key. In Location, select an available key to use as the speed dial key.

5. Tap Done.

When you assign a new phone number in an occupied speed dial

•

key, the new phone number will replace the existing one.

To delete a Speed Dial entry, press and hold the entry in the Speed

• Dial list and then tap Delete.

Making a call using Speed Dial

Do the following to call the contact that is assigned to a speed dial key:

On the Phone dialer screen, press and hold the assigned key, if it

• is a single-digit speed dial number.

To dial a two-digit speed dial number, tap the first number key

• first, and then press and hold the second number key.

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2.5 Making Conference Calls

There are two ways to start a conference call from the Phone dialer screen. You can choose your participants first before starting the conference call. You can also dial or accept multiple calls one at a time and join them into a conference call.

Make sure your SIM card is enabled with conference calling service. Contact your mobile operator for details.

Selecting participants and starting the conference call

You need to enable conference mode in the Phone dialer so you can choose participants and start the conference call.

Press the TALK/SEND button to open the Phone dialer.

1. Tap Menu > Conference Mode.

If this is your first time to use conference mode, a message will

be displayed, reminding you that conference calling service needs to be enabled first by your mobile operator before you can use it on your phone. If you do not have this service, contact your mobile operator to have it provisioned in your calling plan.

If you are ready to use conference calling, tap OK to proceed. Tap to close the Phone dialer keypad so you can scroll and

select from contacts or phone numbers. Select conference call participants by selecting the check boxes

of contacts or phone numbers, and then tap Conference. The participants list is then displayed.

If you want to choose from other stored phone numbers of a

•

participant, tap the Phone Selection button ( ) that appears next to the participant’s name and then select another number.

To remove a participant before starting the conference call, tap

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Dial the first participant by tapping the Talk button ( ) that

appears to the right of this participant. When the first call is connected, tap the Talk button ( ) of

the second participant to dial the second call. The first call is automatically put on hold.

When the second call is connected, tap the Join button ( )

to add it to the conference call. After combining the calls to the conference, dial the next participant.

Repeat steps 7 and 8 until all participants are added and

connected to the conference call. While the conference call is in progress, you can still dial and add

10.

more calls. Tap Invite participants ( ) to dial another call.

The maximum number of conference call participants is five (operator dependant).

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Making the first call and adding calls to the conference

To set up a conference call, you can make the first call and then dial each subsequent call to add to the conference.

Press the TALK/SEND button to open the Phone dialer.

Make a call to the first participant or accept an incoming call.

When the first call is connected, accept a second call, or tap the

3. Add Call button ( ) to call the second participant. The first

participant is put on hold when you accept or dial the second call. When the second call is connected, tap the Conference button

( ) to start a conference call. To add another participant to the conference call, tap Invite

5. participants ( ) and then dial another call. The conference call

is put on hold when you dial another call. When connected, tap the Join button ( )to add the participant

to the conference call. Repeat steps 5 and 6 if you want to dial and add more

participants to the conference call.

The maximum number of conference call participants is five (operator dependant).

During the conference call

You can turn on the speakerphone during the conference call by simply placing your phone face down.

When you tap a participant while the conference call is in progress, you will see these buttons:

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To talk in private with the selected participant, tap the Private button ( ). This separates the participant from the conference call and puts the others on hold. When you want to swap between the private call and the conference call, tap the dim area that shows “On Hold”.

You can end the private call by tapping End Call. To end the conference call and stay connected with the private call, tap

Menu > End Held Calls. To end the private call and the conference call, tap Menu > End All Calls. If you do not have a private call, tapping the

End Call button at the bottom of the screen ends the conference call.

Making a conference call from an email

From a received email message, you can directly start a conference call with the sender and other recipients of the email if you have their phone numbers stored in your contacts.

For more information about starting a conference call from a received email, see Chapter 8.

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2.6 Turning the Phone Connection On and Off

In many countries, you are required by law to turn off the phone while on board an aircraft.

To enable or disable the phone connection

On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab, and then tap

1. Wireless controls.

Tap the Off/On slider at the right side of the Phone option to

enable or disable the phone connection.

To enable or disable Airplane mode

Another way to turn off the phone connection is to switch your phone to Airplane mode. When you enable Airplane mode, all wireless radios on your phone are turned off, including the phone connection, Bluetooth®, and Wi-Fi.

On the Home screen, slide to the Settings tab, and then tap

1. Wireless controls.

Tap Airplane mode to enable or disable Airplane mode.

When you disable Airplane mode, the phone connection is turned back on and the previous state of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi are restored.

Chapter 3

Using the Home Screen

3.1 About the Home Screen

The Home screen is the quickest route to the essential features of your phone, which include People, Messages, Mail, Internet, and more. The tabs at the bottom of the Home screen correspond to the different phone features.

Home Photos & Videos

People Music

Messages Weather

Mail Twitter

Internet Footprints

Home screen tabs

Calendar Settings

Stocks

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3.2 Switching Between the Tabs of the Home Screen

To switch between the tabs, you can do one of the following:

Tap the desired tab on the Home screen.

•

Press and hold your finger on the active tab, and then slide your

•

finger right or left over the tabs. Release when you have selected the desired tab.

While on any other tab or screen, press the HOME button to return to the Home tab.

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3.3 Personalizing Home Screen Tabs

You can move or hide the tabs on the Home screen, except for the Home tab. The Settings tab can be moved on the Home screen but cannot be hidden.

On the Home tab, tap Menu > Personalize Home Screen Tabs.

To move a tab, press and hold the icon before the tab name, and then drag it up or down the tabs list. Release the icon when you reach the desired location.

To hide a tab, clear the check box at the right of the tab name.

Tap Done.

3.4 Home

Check the time and weather of your current location directly from the Home tab.

On this tab, you will see a flip-style weather clock, the current date, and an alarm icon that indicates whether the alarm clock is on or off. Below the date, missed calls and your upcoming calendar appointment (current day or next day appointment) or a link to Calendar (if you do not have an appointment) are shown. Tap the respective item when you want to change the weather clock to display another location, update the weather information, set the date or alarm clock, view your call history, or access the Calendar.

You can also personalize the Home tab with your own wallpaper.

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Weather clock

Date

Calendar appointment

Alarm icon

Changing the wallpaper

On the Home tab, you will see a lifelike animation of your current weather. You can change the wallpaper of this weather animation or choose another animated wallpaper for the Home tab.

On the Home tab, tap Menu > Home Wallpaper and do one of the following:

To choose another wallpaper image for the weather animation,

•

tap Weather Wallpaper. On the subsequent screen, select one of the presets to use as your wallpaper.

If you have your own custom wallpaper that you want to use, tap Albums and then tap All. Scroll through the photos stored on your phone and storage card and then tap the photo that you want to use.

To choose another animated wallpaper, tap Animated Wallpaper

•

and select one of the preset animations.

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To reset the Home tab back to the weather animation, tap Menu > Home Wallpaper > Weather Wallpaper and select any wallpaper

image.

Updating weather information

Your phone can determine your current location and display your local time and weather conditions on the weather clock.

If the weather clock does not show the most recent weather conditions or does not show any weather information for some reason (such as when the auto download option is disabled), tap the weather image or the “My Location” text to go to the Weather tab and then tap Update Now. The most recent weather information of your location will then show on both the Weather tab and the Home tab’s weather clock.

You can set the time interval for auto updating weather information on the Home tab. Press the HOME button to return to the Home tab, tap Menu > Weather Settings, and then choose a time interval.

For more information about viewing weather information, see “Weather” later in this chapter.

Selecting another location to display on the Home tab

You can change the Home tab to display the date, time, and weather information of another location.

On the Home tab, tap the clock.

The World Clock screen opens. Scroll through the list of cities.

If the location that you want is not listed, tap Add City. On the Add Location screen, enter the first few letters of a

country or city name. The screen then displays a matching list of locations. Scroll through the list and then tap the name of the desired city.

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4. On the World Clock screen, scroll through the list of cities and select

a city. To select, tap on the circle that appears to the left of the city.

You can rearrange or remove cities on the World Clock screen. Tap

• Menu > Rearrange Cities and then drag them to the order that you

want. Tap Menu > Remove Cities to delete one or more cities.

Locations that you added to the World Clock screen are also added to

•

the Weather tab.

Changing the date and time

If you want to change the date shown on the Home tab, tap the date and then choose another date. When you have finished setting the date, tap Set.

To change the local time displayed on the Home tab, tap Menu > Set Local Time and Date and set the new time. Tap Done to change to the selected time.

You can also change the date and time from the World Clock screen.

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Setting the alarm clock

When the alarm clock is not enabled, “Alarm Off” will be shown on the Home tab. Tap it to open the Alarm Clock screen so you can turn on and set the alarm clock.

On the Alarm Clock screen, tap an Off/On switch to turn on an alarm clock. You can turn on and set up to three alarm clocks.

Tap the time of one of the alarm clocks that you turned on.

On the Set Alarm screen, set the time and days when to sound the alarm clock.

Select multiple days by tapping each desired day. Tap a selected day to exclude it from the alarm.

4. You can enter a description and select the alarm clock sound. You can also choose whether you want your phone to vibrate when the alarm goes off.

Tap Done.

To set the other alarm clocks, repeat step 2 to 5.

When an alarm goes off, you have the choice to Snooze or Dismiss the alarm. When you select Snooze, the alarm will sound again after 5 minutes.

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Adding and removing quick links

Quick links are shortcuts that give you one-touch access to your favorite programs, people who matter most to you, and frequentlyvisited websites. Up front on the Home tab, you can add up to nine quick links. Swipe your finger up on the screen to access your quick links.

When you swipe your finger up on the screen, the appearance of the Home tab changes, showing only the date, time, and alarm icon on a horizontal bar. Tap the horizontal bar when you want to change the date, time, or alarm clock setting. (Tapping the horizontal bar opens the World Clock screen.)

To add a quick link, tap an empty slot and then choose the type of shortcut to add to the Home tab.

To remove a quick link, press and hold the quick link until the phone vibrates and the quick link enlarges slightly, and then drag it away from its container. Release the quick link when it turns red.

To remove multiple quick links, tap Menu > Remove Quick Links, tap the quick links you want to remove, and then tap Done.

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3.5 People

Add the people who matter most to you to the People tab so you can quickly make calls or send text and email messages to them without going through your contacts list. You need to have contacts already stored on your phone before you can add them to the People tab.

From the People tab, you can also set up your own contact card and share it, add new contacts, and easily view exchanged text, multimedia and email messages with a contact. If contacts have their own Facebook account, you can view their Facebook status and updates.

For more information about using the People tab, see Chapter 4.

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3.6 Messages

Quickly browse through and read text messages as they arrive directly from the Messages tab. This tab also displays received multimedia messages. An attachment icon is shown to indicate that a received message is a multimedia message. You only see the subject of the multimedia message.

Text message Multimedia message

On the Messages tab, you can:

Swipe your finger up or down the screen to flip through received

• text and multimedia messages.

Tap a displayed message to view the entire message thread from

• the sender.

If the sender is a stored contact, you can press TALK/SEND to

• automatically fill in the sender’s phone number on the Phone dialer screen so you can call the sender.

Tap the New Message icon ( ) on the upper right side of the

• screen to create a new text message.

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Tap All Messages to access your inbox and other message

• folders.

Tap Menu to access more options for handling messages.

•

For more information about working with text and multimedia messages, see Chapter 7.

3.7 Mail

Set up your email accounts on the Mail tab so you can easily check your email and send email messages. After selecting an email account, you can flip and browse through received email by swiping your finger up or down the screen.

Adding your Internet email account

The Mail tab lets you send and receive email from your webmail or other accounts, using POP3 or IMAP.

On the Home screen, slide to the Mail tab.

If this is your first time to set up an email account, tap the big email image at the center of the screen or tap Add Account at the bottom of the screen. Otherwise, tap Menu > Add Account.

On the subsequent screen, select an email provider. If your email provider is not listed, tap Other.

Enter your email address and password, and then tap Next.

Enter your name and the account display name, and then tap Next.

If the type of email account you want to set up is not in the phone database, the subsequent screens will prompt you to enter more details, such as the incoming and outgoing email server settings. Obtain these settings from your email provider.

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6. If you want your phone to automatically send your email

messages and download received email at a set interval, ensure that the Send/Receive email automatically check box is selected and then choose the desired time interval.

Tap Done.

Adding your Outlook work account

If you connect to an Exchange Server for your work email, calendar, contacts, and tasks, you can set up your Outlook work account on your phone. Although your phone supports multiple email accounts, you can only have one Outlook account on your phone at a time.

You need to set up and use an Outlook account that syncs with a server running Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2) or Microsoft Exchange Server 2007.

On the Home screen, slide to the Mail tab.

If this is your first time to set up an email account, tap the big email image at the center of the screen or tap Add Account at the bottom of the screen. Otherwise, tap Menu > Add Account.

On the subsequent screen, tap Outlook.

Enter your work email address and password, and then tap Next. Mail Setup will download Exchange Server settings to your

phone.

If Exchange Server settings cannot be downloaded to your phone, you need to obtain the Exchange Server settings, such as the domain and Exchange Server address, from your network administrator and enter them in the provided text boxes. (The server address must be the Outlook Web Access address.)

Also consult your network administrator if the option, This server requires an encrypted (SSL) connection, needs to be enabled or disabled.

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5. Select Mail and other information types to sync with the

Exchange Server.

By default, your phone is set to use Direct Push so that Outlook email and other information can be instantly synchronized to your phone as they arrive or are updated on the Exchange Server at work.

If you do not want to use Direct Push, you can set a regular schedule for synchronizing Outlook email and other information to your phone. Tap Advanced Settings and then set the Peak time and Non-peak time accordingly.

You can select a shorter interval in the Peak time box and a longer interval in the Non-peak time box so that Outlook email and other information are synchronized more frequently during your work hours.

7. Tap Done. Your phone then syncs with the Exchange Server and downloads your email messages.

Checking and reading email

Your email accounts

When you have newly received or unread email messages, the icon on the Mail tab and the respective icons of your email accounts will show the number of new email messages.

The mail icons displayed on the right side of the screen are your email accounts. Tap an icon to select an email account.

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After selecting an email account, you can:

Browse through received email messages in the selected account

• by swiping your finger up or down on the screen.

Tap the displayed email message to open and read the message.

• If the sender is a stored contact, you can press TALK/SEND to

• automatically fill in the sender’s phone number on the Phone dialer screen so you can call the sender.

Tap the New Email icon ( ) to create a new email message.

• Tap Inbox to access the inbox and other message folders of your

• account.

Tap Menu to choose whether to add another email account, send

• and receive email messages, and more.

For more information about working with email messages, see Chapter 7 and 8.

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3.8 Internet

Easily search for information on the Web. Directly on the Internet tab, you can enter words on the search bar and then tap the Search icon ( ) to open the Web browser and locate the information that you want. You can also tap Launch Browser or the globe image to open the Web browser.

Search bar

Web favorite

Available slot for adding a Web favorite

For more information about using the Web browser, see Chapter 9.

Adding and removing Web favorites

To quickly access frequently-visited websites, you can add them as Web favorites to the Internet tab. You can add up to 10 Web favorites.

To add a Web favorite

1. On the Internet tab, tap an empty slot and then tap Add Favorite.

Enter a title and the website address, select a folder in which to save the favorite, and then tap Done.

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When the first two slots are occupied, swipe your finger up on the screen to access more slots for adding Web favorites

To remove a Web favorite

Press and hold the Web favorite until the phone vibrates and the Web favorite enlarges slightly, and then drag it away from its container. Release the Web favorite when it turns red.

To remove multiple Web favorites, tap Menu > Remove Favorite Shortcut, tap the Web favorites you want to remove, and then tap Done.

Including location information in Internet searches

You can choose to include your current location in Internet searches you perform from the Internet tab’s search bar. Including this information in searches lets you get search results relevant to your location.

On the Internet tab, tab Menu > Enable My Location.

If prompted, tap Agree on the Google Location screen to allow Google’s location service to collect information about your location.

When you enable location aware search, your location is displayed below the search bar.

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3.9 Calendar

Keep track of your important appointments and events with the calendar.

The Calendar tab displays a monthly calendar with markers to inform you of the dates that you have appointments and events. You can also change the tab to display in day, week, year, or agenda view.

Agenda view displays appointments for the next seven days, including the current day.

Creating an appointment

Easily add your appointments and events to the calendar and set reminders.

On the Home screen, slide to the Calendar tab.

If you are creating an appointment for the current date, tap Menu > New Appointment. Otherwise, tap another date on the calendar and then tap New Appointment.

Enter a name for the appointment in the Title box and the location.

Set the Start and End dates and times. Otherwise, if it is a special occasion such as a birthday or a

whole-day event, select the All Day check box.

Under Reminder, choose how soon before the appointment you want to be notified.

Select the category for the appointment so that it can be grouped with other related appointments. Tap the box under Category, and then select a preset category (Business, Holiday, Personal, or Seasonal).

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7. Fill in the other details of the appointment.

When finished, tap Done.

Viewing and managing your appointments

In month view, the highlighted date indicates that it is the current date. Dates with appointments are indicated by a triangle ( ) at the upper-right corner of the date box.

To check your appointments

To check what appointments you have during a certain date, tap a date on the month calendar. The Calendar tab then changes to Day view and displays all your appointments and the weather information for that day.

Month view Day view

The weather information appears only if you have set your local time to a city on the World Clock, and if the appointment date is within the 5-day forecast on the Weather tab. See “Home” and “Weather” in this chapter for details.

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In Day view, tap an appointment to view complete details of that appointment. On the subsequent screen, you can tap Menu to choose whether to edit or delete the appointment.

When in month view, swipe your finger up or down the screen to display the next or previous month on the calendar. You can also tap the Up and Down arrows that appear on the left and right sides of the month.

To change between different calendar views

On the Calendar tab, tap Menu and then choose whether to display the calendar in Agenda, Day, Week, Month, or Year view.

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3.10 Stocks

Get the latest stock updates by adding your favorite stock quotes and market indexes to the Stocks tab.

Downloading stock or stock market information may incur additional fees from your mobile operator. Contact your mobile operator for details.

Adding stock quotes and market indexes

You can add up to 30 stock quotes and market indexes to the Stocks tab.

On the Home screen, slide to the Stocks

1. tab and then tap Menu > Add Stock.

On the Add Stock screen, enter the company name, stock market index, or ticker symbol in the search box, and then tap the Search button ( ).

Matched search results will then be displayed. Swipe upward to scroll down the screen and access more search results.

Tap the company name, stock market index, or ticker symbol to display it on the Stock tab.

To add another stock quote or stock market index, repeat steps 1 to 3.

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Swipe your finger upward to scroll down the list of stock quotes on the Stocks tab. Tap the stock quote or stock market index name to view its intraday chart and other details.

Shows the time of the last stock information update. Tap this item or tap Update Now at the bottom-left side of the screen to download the latest stock information.

Shows the current trading price or volume.

Tap a green or red box to switch between showing the change in points/price or percentage from the previous trading day.

Tap Menu to add, delete or rearrange the stock quotes and market indexes. (When rearranging the list, drag items up or down the list to change their order.)

Viewing stock information

The Stocks tab lists all your stock quotes and stock market indexes, including the current price or volume, and the change in price or volume from the previous trading day. The change in price or volume box indicates whether the stock or stock market has gained (green) or declined (red).

Stock information is automatically downloaded and displayed on the Stocks tab at a preset time. If you want to change the download time or turn off auto download, tap Menu > Settings and change these download settings. You can also change the color for displaying stock price increases to red, if that is what’s being used in your country.

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3.11 Photos & Videos

Easily browse through your photos and video clips and view them in full screen right from the Photos & Videos tab. You can also open the Camera and capture photos and video clips.

On the Photos & Videos tab, you can:

Flip through photos and videos by

• swiping your finger up or down the screen.

Tap the displayed photo or video to

• view or play it in full screen.

Tap the Camera button ( ) or Video

• Camera button ( ) on the right side of the screen to capture a photo or video using the Camera.

Tap Slideshow to view the photos

• as a slideshow. If a video is selected, tap Play.

Tap Albums to view photos and videos

• using the Albums program. (See “Viewing Photos and Videos Using Albums” in Chapter 12 for details.)

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3.12 Music

Enjoy listening to music while on the go. Download or copy entire albums or selected music tracks to your phone and listen to them using the Music tab.

Your phone searches for all supported music files from the following locations: Phone:\My Music (including all subfolders) \My Documents (including all subfolders) Storage Card: \Storage Card (including all subfolders) For information about supported music file formats, see “Specifications” in the Appendix.

Playing music

Swipe your finger up or down the screen to browse through all the music tracks stored in your phone and storage card to find the music you want to listen to.

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Tap to update album covers. (You can also tap Menu > Update Album Art and choose what to download and update.)

Updating album covers may result in additional data charges.

Shows the repeat mode (Repeat All, Repeat One, or Repeat Off).

Shows whether shuffle mode is on or off.

Press and hold on the thin bar below the album art to display the progress bar. Drag your finger right or left on the progress bar to move forward or backward in the current track.

Tap the Play button to play the selected music track.

Tap the Next button to go to the next music track.

Tap the Previous button to go to the previous music track.

Setting repeat and shuffle modes

Tap Menu > Repeat, and then choose whether to repeat the current track, repeat all tracks in the current album or playlist, or not to repeat. To turn shuffle mode on or off, tap Menu > Shuffle.

The icons on the upper-right side of the Music tab show whether repeat and shuffle modes are enabled.

Repeat One Repeat All Shuffle On

Finding albums and music tracks in the Library

The Library organizes music into categories, such as All Songs, Artists, Albums, Genres, and more. If you added new albums or

music tracks to your phone, you can find them in the Library.

On the Music tab, tap Library.

The tabs at the bottom of the Library screen correspond to the different categories. Select a category.

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For example, if you are looking for songs by a particular artist, slide to the Artists tab and then tap the artist name. To browse through all music tracks that are stored on your phone and storage card, slide to the All Songs tab.

Tap the first track or any track in the list. The music then begins playing on the Music tab, starting from the track that you selected.

The Music tab plays music tracks that are in the Now Playing list of the Library. When you select a category in the Library such as Artists and play the music, the Now Playing list will be replaced with the music tracks from that category.

Playlists

There are two types of playlists that can be added to the Library and played on the Music tab:

Custom playlists ( ) that are created on your phone.

• Windows Media® Player playlists ( ) that are synchronized

•

with Windows Media Player on your computer. (These playlists cannot be edited and deleted from your phone.)

If a Windows Media Player playlist contains a combination of music, video and image files, only music files in the playlist are synchronized to your phone and other media types are filtered out.

To create a playlist

1. On the Music tab, tap Library.

Tap or slide to the Playlists tab.

Tap Menu > New, enter a playlist name, and then tap Done.

On the Playlists screen, tap the playlist you have just created, and then tap Add Songs.

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5. On the subsequent screen, tap or slide your finger across the

tabs to select a category. For instance, to select music tracks from a certain album, tap the Albums tab and then tap the album that you want.

Select the check boxes of the music tracks that you want to add to your playlist, or tap Menu > Select All to choose all the music tracks.

Tap Done.

Tap Add Songs again and repeat step 5 to 7 to add more music tracks. When you have finished adding music tracks to your playlist, tap Back to return to the Playlists screen.

To play back a playlist

1. On the Music tab, tap Library.

Tap or slide to the Playlists tab.

On the Playlists screen, tap to select a playlist.

Tap the first track or any track in the playlist. The Music tab then plays the tracks from the playlist, starting from the track that you selected.

Playlists are not automatically updated when music files have been deleted from the phone’s memory or storage card.

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3.13 Weather

Your phone automatically connects to the Internet to download weather information. On the Weather tab, it displays the weather information of your current location and other preselected cities. The current day’s weather as well as the weather conditions for the next four days of the week are displayed.

On the Weather tab, you can:

Swipe your finger up or down the

• screen to view the weather in other cities.

Tap Update Now to download the

• latest weather information.

Tap More Detail Online to open the

• Web browser and view more weather information on the website. (This option is not available when you are viewing the weather for your current location.)

Tap Menu and choose to add, remove,

• or rearrange cities, or change weather settings.

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Adding a city

The Weather tab can display weather information of up to 15 cities, including your current location. Follow the steps below to add a city to this tab.

On the Weather tab, tap Menu > Add Location.

On the Add Location screen, enter the first few letters of a country or city name. The screen then displays a matching list of locations. Scroll through the list and then tap the name of the desired city.

Your phone then downloads the weather information of the city that you selected and adds it to the Weather tab.

Weather settings

You can change the displayed temperature to Celsius or Fahrenheit on the Weather tab. You can also enable or disable auto download options and change the download time.

On the Weather tab, tap Menu and then choose whether to display temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit.

To change other weather settings, tap Menu > Settings and then choose from the following options:

Download data automatically. When this option is selected,

•

weather information is automatically downloaded at the set download time whenever you select the Weather tab. To change the download time, tap the box that shows the preset time and then choose another time interval.

Clear this option if you prefer to manually download weather information.

Download when roaming. Select this option only if you want

•

to allow automatic download of weather data when roaming. This may incur additional data charges.

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3.14 Twitter

3.15 Footprints

Enjoy twittering directly from your phone. On the Twitter tab, you can type in and send your tweets. This tab also readily displays the most recent tweets from the people that you follow.

See “Twittering on Your Phone” in Chapter 9 for details.

Record the chronicles of your life. Wherever you go, take photos of the places you visited and store their GPS location and other details to your phone. From the Footprints tab, you can then easily flip through the photos and find your favorite places again.

For more information about using Footprints, see “HTC Footprints” in Chapter 11.

3.16 Settings

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Changing or tweaking settings is as easy as one, two, three. With the phone settings neatly organized on the Settings tab and labeled with clear descriptions, you can easily find what you are looking for and just tap your way to the setting you want to change.

For more information about changing phone settings, see Chapter 14.

Chapter 4

Staying Close

4.1 It’s All About People

Bringing people who matter most closer to you—that’s what your phone is all about.

Add everyone you know to your phone to keep them within reach. For even faster communication, you can put people you keep in touch with often up front on your Home screen’s People tab. You can also add your own personal details to your phone and easily send this information to others.

Since your phone organizes text and multimedia messages, email conversations, and phone logs of a person all in one place, you get to see at a glance all communications with that person. Your phone also keeps you in tune with your social circles by integrating Facebook information into the contact details of people on your phone.

In this chapter, learn how to share your personal details, add people’s contact details to your phone, and put your favorite contacts on the Home screen’s People tab. Also learn how to view the exchange of messages and conversations with a contact.

To find out how you can reach out to people and share your thoughts, photos and videos in social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, see Chapter 9.

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4.2 Adding and Sharing Your Personal Details

You can save your phone number and personal details to your phone and easily send them to your family, friends, and other people.

Adding your personal details

My Contact Card stores your personal details on your phone. There

are two ways to add your personal details to My Contact Card.

To enter your personal details to My Contact Card

On your phone, enter your personal details directly to My Contact Card.

On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All People.

Tap Me to open the My Contact Card screen.

To add your personal photo, tap the Contact Photo icon ( ) on the upper-left corner of the My Contact Card screen. Choose whether to use your Facebook photo, select a photo from Albums, or take a photo using the Camera.

If you chose to use your Facebook photo, enter the email address and password that you use for your Facebook account when you are prompted to log into Facebook.

Enter your name, phone number, and email address in the fields provided. Scroll down the screen and fill in more personal details.

Tap Done.

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To sync your Outlook contact card from your computer and save to the phone’s My Contact Card

If you are using Microsoft® Office Outlook® on your computer, you can create your own contact card containing your personal details on your computer and sync it along with other Outlook contacts to your phone. To find out how to sync your computer with your phone, see Chapter 6.

After synchronization is complete, do the following:

1. On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All People.

2. Scroll through your contacts list and tap your name. Tap Menu > Save to My Contact Card.

You can save any contact or SIM contact to My Contact Card.

Sharing your personal details

Send your personal details in a text or multimedia message to your family, friends, and people you know so they can easily add you to their phone.

On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All

1. People.

Tap the Send button ( ) that appears to the right of Me (My

Contact Card). Choose whether to Send by SMS or Send by MMS.

3. Select the Select all check box to share all your personal details,

or select the check boxes of the types of contact information you want to share.

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5. Tap Done. A new message is then created. If you’re sharing your

personal details in a multimedia message, the information will be included as an attachment in your message.

Compose your message and send it. For more information about

sending text and multimedia messages, see Chapter 7.

4.3 Adding Contacts to Your Phone

There are several ways to add contacts to your phone. You can:

Create new contacts on your phone. See “Creating new contacts”

• for details.

Sync Outlook contacts from your computer to your phone. See

• Chapter 6 for details.

Sync contacts from your existing Microsoft® My Phone account,

• if you have one. See “Synchronizing With Microsoft My Phone” in Chapter 6 for details.

Creating new contacts

On your phone, you can create contacts complete with all sorts of contact information such as mobile, home, and work phone numbers, email addresses, home and work street addresses, and more. You can also create SIM contacts with phone numbers and email addresses only and store them on your SIM card.

To create a contact

1. On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All People.

Tap New to create a new contact.

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3. Enter the contact name, mobile phone number, and email

address in the fields provided. To add another phone number, tap

Add Number. To add another email address, tap Add Email.

Scroll down the screen to fill in more contact details.

To link the contact with his or her Facebook account, tap Link at the bottom of the New Contact Card screen. (For more information about Facebook, see “Facebook Updates and Events” in this chapter.)

To add the photo of your contact, tap the Contact Photo icon ( ) on the upper-left corner of the New Contact Card screen. Choose whether to use the Facebook photo, select a photo from Albums, or take a photo.

When you have finished entering all the contact details, tap Done.

Tap More at the bottom of the New Contact Card screen to enter additional contact information.

To create a SIM contact

1. On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All People.

Tap Menu > New Contact > SIM.

Enter the contact name, phone number and email address, and then tap Done.

Importing SIM contacts to your phone results in duplicate contact names in the contacts list.

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4.4 Working With Favorite Contacts

You need to have contacts already stored on your phone before you can add them as favorite contacts to the Home screen’s People tab. If there are no existing contacts, create or sync them first on your phone. See “Adding Contacts to Your Phone” in this chapter for details.

Adding favorite contacts to the People tab

You can add up to 15 favorite contacts to the Home screen’s People tab.

SIM contacts cannot be added as favorite contacts.

1. On the Home screen, slide to the People tab.

Tap an empty slot. (If slots are occupied, scroll down the screen to find more available slots.)

Scroll down the contacts list to find the contact that you want to add to the People tab. If you have a long list of contacts, you can filter the list first by entering the first few letters of the person’s name in the text box on top of the contacts list.

When you find the contact that you want, tap the contact name.

Select a phone number or email address to use when calling or sending a message to the selected contact.

If this contact does not have an associated photo, the subsequent screen lets you take a photo of the contact or select an existing photo.

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If you selected the contact photo and it has a large size, you need to crop the photo. On the subsequent screen, a crop box appears on the photo. Center this box on the person’s face and then tap Done.

To remove a favorite contact from the People tab, press and hold the photo of the contact you want to remove until the phone vibrates and the photo enlarges slightly, and then drag it away from its container. Release the photo when it turns red.

To remove multiple contacts, tap Menu > Remove Favorite, tap the photos of the contacts you want to remove, and then tap Done.

Quickly calling or sending a message to a favorite contact

On the Home screen’s People tab, the following icons are shown on each photo to indicate the type of contact method that is associated to each favorite contact.

Mobile phone

Home phone

Work phone

SMS text messaging

Scroll through your favorite contacts by swiping your finger up or down the screen. Place a call or create a new message to send to a favorite contact by simply tapping the person’s photo.

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4.5 Viewing and Managing Your Contacts

To look for contacts on your phone, go to the Home screen’s People tab and then tap All People. The People screen then opens.

On the People screen, tap or slide your finger right or left at the bottom of the screen to switch between the following tabs:

1 2 3 4 5

1 All Lists all contacts on your phone and on the SIM card. This

2 Favorites Shows the favorite contacts that you have added to the

3 Groups Allows you to create groups of contacts so that you can

4 Updates

and Events

5 Call

History

tab lets you create, delete, or edit a contact, import SIM contacts to your phone, or save a contact to your SIM card. Tap a contact to open the Contact Details screen. You can also use this tab to open or update My Contact Card.

If you imported SIM contacts to your phone and duplicated contacts are displayed, tap Menu > View > Contacts to filter and display only contacts stored on your phone.

Home screen’s People tab. You can also add favorite contacts through this tab.

easily send text, multimedia and email messages to a group of people without having to enter each contact one at a time. See “Contact Groups” in this chapter for details.

Displays notifications when there are updates that occurred in Facebook. This tab also shows events of your stored contacts. See “Facebook Updates and Events” in this chapter for details.

Lists all your dialed numbers, and received and missed calls. See “Using Call History” in Chapter 2.

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The “f” icon indicates that the photo is the contact’s Facebook profile photo.

Your phone will use the contact’s Facebook photo when you have linked to the contact’s Facebook profile. If there is a contact photo already stored on your phone, the Facebook photo will not show in your contact even if you have linked to the contact’s Facebook profile.

The “!” icon appears when:

You receive a new text, multimedia or email message, or when you miss a call from the contact. The contact has new updates or events in Facebook.

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This is a SIM contact.

Tap this button to send My Contact Card in a text or multimedia message. See “Sharing your personal details” in this chapter for details.

Tap this button to search for contacts.

Use this Quick Scroll bar to quickly scroll to contact names that begin with a certain letter. Press and hold on the scroll bar and then slide your finger up or down.

The Facebook status appears when the contact has a new status message in Facebook.

From the menu, you can choose between creating a phone contact or SIM contact, delete contacts, filter the contacts list by groups, and more.

Browsing and finding contacts

On the People screen, the All tab shows you the complete list of contacts that are stored on your phone and your SIM card. Swipe upward or downward on the screen to scroll through the contacts list. Use the Quick Scroll Bar or the Search button to quickly find the contacts that you want.

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4.6 Viewing Contact Information and Exchange of Communications With the Contact

Your phone organizes contact details, text and multimedia messages, email conversations, Facebook information, and phone logs of a contact all in one place. Simply tap a contact name from the contacts list to view all these information.

After you selected a contact, the Contact Details screen opens. On this screen, tap or slide your finger right or left at the bottom of the screen to switch between the following tabs: Details, Messages, Email,

Updates and Events, and Call History.

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1 Details Shows a person’s contact details. From this tab, you can

2 Messages Displays exchanged text and multimedia messages with

3 Email Displays all received email messages from the contact. 4 Updates and

Events

5 Call History Lists all incoming, outgoing, and missed calls to and from

call or send a text, multimedia, or email message to the contact, edit or delete the contact information, or save the contact to your SIM card.

the contact. You can also reply with a text message directly on this tab.

Displays notifications when the contact has updates on his or her Facebook account. This tab also shows events of the contact. See “Facebook Updates and Events” in this chapter for details.

the contact. This tab also lets you call the contact and delete the phone logs of the contact. See “Using Call History” in Chapter 2 for details.

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Changing the number for sending text and multimedia messages

By default, the number that’s entered to the Mobile field in the contact details is the primary phone number to which your text and multimedia messages are sent when you tap Send Message on the Contact Details screen.

If a contact has two or more mobile phone numbers for personal use and work, you can change the primary phone number on the Contact Details screen for sending messages to the contact.

On the Home screen, slide to the People tab and then tap All People.

Tap a contact from the contacts list.

On the Contact Details screen, tap the Change number button ( ) that appears on the right side of the Send Message item. On the subsequent screen, tap another phone number to use for sending text messages to the contact.

4. A new message is then created. Compose and send your message. (For more information about sendiing text and multimedia messages, see Chapter 7.)

HTC HD Mini User Guide

Specifications and Main Features

Frequently Asked Questions

User Manual

Contents

1.1 Inside the Box

1.2 Getting to Know Your Phone

Front panel

Back panel

Left panel

Bottom panel

Top panel

1.3 Before Charging the Battery and Turning On Your Phone

Removing the back cover

Inserting the SIM card

Inserting the battery

Inserting a microSD card

Replacing the back cover

1.4 Charging the Battery

1.5 Starting Up

Turning the power on

Setting up your phone for the first time

Switching to Sleep mode

Turning the power off

1.6 Home Screen

1.7 Status Icons

1.8 Notifications

1.9 Start Screen

Moving an icon to another location

1.10 Lock Screen

Locking your phone

Unlocking your phone

Lock screen notifications

Receiving a call when the phone is locked

1.11 Adjusting the Volume

Adjusting the single volume

Setting a single volume

Adjusting the phone call volume

1.12 Using Finger Gestures

Finger scrolling

Finger panning

Pinch zooming

1.13 Connecting Your Phone to a Computer

2.1 Making Calls

Making a call from the Phone dialer screen

Calling voicemail

Making calls from received messages and calendar reminders

Making an emergency call

Making an international call (plus code dialing)

Home dialing

2.2 Answering and Ending Calls

Accepting or rejecting an incoming call

During a call

2.3 Using Call History

2.4 Speed Dial

Creating a Speed Dial entry

Making a call using Speed Dial

2.5 Making Conference Calls

Selecting participants and starting the conference call

Making the first call and adding calls to the conference

During the conference call

Making a conference call from an email

2.6 Turning the Phone Connection On and Off

3.1 About the Home Screen

3.2 Switching Between the Tabs of the Home Screen

3.3 Personalizing Home Screen Tabs

3.4 Home

Changing the wallpaper

Updating weather information

Selecting another location to display on the Home tab

Changing the date and time

Setting the alarm clock

Adding and removing quick links

3.5 People

3.6 Messages

3.7 Mail

Adding your Internet email account

Adding your Outlook work account

Checking and reading email

3.8 Internet