Micromax A60 User Guide
User manual
A60
A guide to your First Micromax Android!
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INTRODUCTION
Congratulations on purchasing your First Micromax Android phone! Your phone is a
manual in itself with step-wise details on how to use it successfully. However, you can
always refer to this guide for a quick understanding of the functions in this phone.
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Table of Contents
1 Safety ........................................................................................................................... 4
1.1 Safety Precautions ................................................................................................ 4
2 Dope on Android ........................................................................................................ 5
2.1 What is an Android? ..................................................................................... 5
2.2 Why an Android? .......................................................................................... 5
2.3 V2.1 Éclair ...................................................................................................... 5
2.4 Curious Logo ...................................................................................... 5
2.5 Yummy to Use! .............................................................................................. 5
2.6 Android Market ............................................................................................. 6
3 Understanding your Phone ........................................................................................ 6
3.1 Phone and Accessories ................................................................................. 6
3.2 Your Phone .................................................................................................... 6
3.3 Description Icons .......................................................................................... 7
3.4 Inserting & Removing the battery ............................................................... 8
3.5 Charging the battery ..................................................................................... 8
3.6 Power ON/OFF .............................................................................................. 9
3.7 Enter main menu .......................................................................................... 9
3.8 Enter sub menu ............................................................................................. 9
3.9 Main interface ............................................................................................... 9
3.10 Use notification panel ................................................................................ 10
3.11 Expand main interface ................................................................................ 10
3.12 Add icons on the main interface ................................................................ 10
3.13 Move icons on the main interface ............................................................. 10
3.14 Delete icons on the main interface ........................................................... 10
3.15 Change wallpapers ...................................................................................... 10
3.16 Install APK through file manager ............................................................... 10
4 Using your Phone...................................................................................................... 11
4.1 Main Menu & Its Functions ........................................................................ 11
5 Inputting Text ............................................................................................................ 13
6 Maintenance ............................................................................................................. 14
7 Taking Care of your Device ...................................................................................... 14
8 After Services ............................................................................................................ 14
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11..11 SSaaffeettyy PPrreeccaauuttiioonnss
Please read through the following briefings carefully, and act in accordance with
these rules, so as to prevent causing any danger or violating any law.
Safe driving
1) Do not use the phone while driving. When you have to use the phone, please use
the personal hands-free kit.
2) Please put the phone safely in the phone stand. Do not put it onto any passenger
seat or any place from which it may fall down in case of vehicular collision or
emergency braking.
Turn OFF during a flight: Flight is influenced by interference caused by the phone. It
is illegal to use a phone on the airplane. Please turn off your phone during a flight.
Turn OFF the phone when within an area where blasting takes place: Be sure to
strictly observe the related laws and statutes by turning off the phone when you are
within, or in the vicinity of, an area where blasting takes place.
Turn OFF the phone when any dangerous goods are in vicinity: Please turn off your
phone when you are close to a gas station or in the vicinity of any place where fuel
and chemical preparations, or any other dangerous goods are stored.
In hospital: Please obey the related rules or bylaws of the hospital when using your
phone in a hospital. Be sure to turn off your phone when near any medical
equipment. Your use of any wireless transmission equipment, inclusive of the phone,
will interfere with any medical equipment that is not protected fully, and other
electronic equipment items, too. Should you have any question in this regard, please
consult a related physician or medical equipment supplier.
Interference: Each and every phone’s performance may be affected due to radio
interference.
Professional service: The phone must be installed or repaired by no other personnel
than professionals. You are likely to suffer a huge risk when you install or repair this
phone by yourself, which also goes against the warranty rules.
Fittings and battery: You shall use the fittings and battery acknowledged by the
phone manufacturer only. Using unauthorized accessories may tamper the warranty
of the device.
Emergency call: You may enter a telephone number (112, etc.) to ask for emergency
help after making sure that the phone has been turned on and is in the service status.
Press the Send Key to call out.
Disclaimer: Micromax will not bear any responsibility for any incompliance with the above
mentioned guidelines or improper usage of the mobile phone. Micromax keeps the right to
make modifications to any of the content here in this user guide without public
announcement in advance. The content of this manual may vary from the actual content
displayed in the mobile phone. In such a case, the latter shall govern.
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DDooppee oonn AAnnddrrooiidd
22..11 WWhhaatt iiss aann AAnnddrrooiidd??
Android is an operating system for touchscreen smartphones; a mobile operating
system (OS) that was devised way back in 2003 by Andy Rubin and Rich Miner only to
sell it to Google, which first announced the launch of Android in the year 2007. The
Android operating system consists of Java applications running on a Java based object
oriented application framework.
In simple terms Android is your desktop in a phone!
22..22 WWhhyy aann AAnnddrrooiidd??
Apart from the fact that an Android based OS is exceptionally easy to understand &
use, one of its greatest advantages is that it makes available a large number of
applications for you to choose from. As of date, Android phones, through Android
market place, provide approximately 70,000 applications varying from social
networking sites like facebook , twitter etc to apps related to fitness, health,
entertainment, games, travel, utilities, sports and many more. All of it which can be
downloaded with eases on your phone.
22..33 VV22..11 ÉÉccllaaiirr
Your Micromax Android (A60) phone is integrated with the latest Android version- 2.1.
This enables you with benefits like-
• Optimized hardware speed
• Support for more screen sizes and resolutions
• Revamped User Interface (3D UI)
• New Browser UI and HTML5 support
• New contact lists
• Improved Google Maps
• Improved virtual keyboard
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Live Wallpapers
• Cool Widgets
22..44 CCuurriioouuss LLooggo
Android Green is the color of the Android Robot that represents the Android operating
system
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22..55 YYuummmmyy ttoo UUssee!!
Android’s each version has been named after pastries. Like all software and operating
systems Android gets regular updates which are quite intriguingly named using words
associated with pastries and pastry baking moving forwards in alphabetical order. So
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