Includes RSA BSAFE cryptographic or security protocol software from RSA Security.
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FCC/INDUSTRY CANADA NOTICE
Your phone may cause TV or radio interference (for example, when using a telephone in close
proximity to receiving equipment). The FCC or Industry Canada can require you to stop using
your telephone if such interference cannot be eliminated. If you require assistance, contact
your local service facility. This device complies with part 15 of the FCC rules. Operation is
subject to the condition that this device does not cause harmful interference.
Use only approved accessories and batteries. Do not connect
incompatible products.
WATER-RESISTANCE
Your wireless phone is not water-resistant. Keep it dry.
CALLING
Ensure the phone is switched on and in service. Enter the phone number,
including the area code, then press the Talk key. To end a call, press the
End key. To answer a call, press the Talk key.
EMERGENCY CALLS
Ensure the phone is switched on and in service. Press the End key as
many times as needed (for example, to exit a call, to exit a menu) to
clear the display. Enter the emergency number, then press the Talk key.
Give your location. Do not end the call until told to do so.
A number of features included in this guide are called Network Services. These are
special services you arrange through your service provider. Before you can take
advantage of any of these Network Services, you must subscribe to them and
obtain instructions for their use from your service provider.
Note: Some networks may not support all language-dependent characters
and/or services.
• REGISTER YOUR PHONE
Make sure to register your phone at www.warranty.nokiausa.com or
1-888-NOKIA-2U (1-888-665-4228) so that we can better serve you, if you should
need to call the Nokia Customer Care Center or have your phone repaired.
•UPDATES
From time to time, Nokia updates this user guide to reflect changes or corrections.
The latest version may be available at
Also, an interactive tutorial may be available at www.nokiahowto.com.
•TERMS
This guide uses certain terms for the parts of the phone and the steps that you are
asked to perform.
•Highlighted options on the screen are enclosed within a dark bar. The
selection keys are used to act on the highlighted option.
•Selection keys are used to select
various phone options.
•Select means to press the Left selection key or the Right selection
key. In the example to the right, press
the Left selection key to select Menu,
or press the Right selection key to select Contacts.
•Scroll keys, located just below the screen, are used to move up and down in
the menus and contacts.
The phone keypad is locked to prevent any accidental key presses.
One or more new voice messages are waiting.
One or more new text messages are waiting. (If blinking, the text
message memory is full.)
Digital service is available.
Standard text input mode for entering alpha characters. Press # to
switch between uppercase and lowercase input.
Predictive text mode for quickly entering text messages. Press # to
switch between uppercase and lowercase input.
123 mode. This icon appears when you press and hold # while
entering text. You can now enter only numbers (not alpha
characters). Press and hold # again to return to text entry mode.
Special character mode. This appears when you press * while
entering text. Once the characters appear, you can select a special
character by selecting Insert.
Alarm clock is set.
• START SCREEN
When you switch on your phone, a welcome appears, then you see the start screen.
The start screen indicates that the phone is idling or standing by.
When you press Menu, a vertical scroll
bar appears on the right side of the screen.
This scroll bar has a tab which moves up or
down to indicate your location in the
menu.
• ANTENNA
Your phone has a built-in antenna. As with any other
radio transmitting device, do not touch the antenna
unnecessarily when the phone is switched on. Hold the
phone as you would any other telephone with the
antenna pointed up and over your shoulder.
• BATTERY
You will need to remove the battery when replacing it, or to view the phone label
(located under the battery). For important safety information on using batteries
and chargers, see
Install the battery
1 Place the battery in the
compartment with the label side
facing up and the golden
contact area of the battery
aligned with the contact prongs
inside the phone.
the phone, placing the end of the
cover approximately 1/4 inch past
the end of the phone. Lower the
back cover onto the phone.
1/4 inch
4 Press down slightly and slide the
cover until it locks
into place.
Remove the battery
If you purchase a new battery or need to access information on the phone label, you
may need to remove the battery. Make sure the phone has been turned off for at
least 10 seconds.
Important: Dispose of batteries according to applicable local regulations
(for example, recycling). Do not dispose as household waste.
1 Hold the phone with the back
facing you. At the bottom
corners of the phone, press the
battery cover with your thumb
and forefinger.
2 Place the thumb of your other
hand in the groove, approximately
1 inch from the top of the phone.
Apply pressure with the thumb,
slide the back cover toward you
to release it, then remove it.
that runs along the end
of the battery nearest
the top of the phone.
4 Place your thumbs on
the corners of the latch
and press away from
the battery.
5 Once the battery is
released from the latch,
it will lift slightly so that it
can be removed from the phone.
Warning: Use only your hands to remove the battery. Do not use any
objects that may damage the phone or the battery.
Charge the battery
Before you begin using your phone, you need to
prepare your phone by charging the battery.
1 Plug the charger into a standard wall
outlet; then connect the lead from the
charger to the bottom of the phone.
2 The battery power indicator (or battery
bar) appears on the screen and starts
scrolling.
Charging appears if the phone is on.
3 When the battery bar stops scrolling, the battery charge is complete.
Battery full appears if the phone is on.
4 Disconnect the charger from the phone.
IMPORTANT BATTERY INFORMATION
Use the following guidelines to obtain the best performance from your battery:
•With your phone turned off, charge your new battery for three hours before
its first use. Use the battery until it is fully discharged. Repeat this procedure
twice for a total of three charging cycles.
•Battery operation time may be less than the estimated times during the first
charges. This condition is normal.
•If the battery is fully discharged, the scrolling bars may not appear
immediately when charging.
•After the first charge, you can make and receive calls during the charging
cycle, but the calls interrupt the charge. When the phone call ends, the charge
will resume.
•The bars on the screen stop scrolling and remain constant when the phone is
charged. If you leave the phone connected to the charger, the battery receives
an additional charge.
Note: The battery will accept a “trickle charge” for an additional two hours.
See “Reference information” on page 52 for more information on batteries.
•Charging time depends on the charger and battery used. See “Batteries” on
page 60 for charging, talk, and standby times.
PROLONG BATTERY LIFE
For good operation times with NiMH batteries, discharge the battery from time
to time by leaving your phone switched on until it turns itself off. Ignore any
messages to recharge your battery and let the battery completely discharge.
Important: Do not attempt to discharge the battery by any other means.
• HEADSET
Your phone is compatible with the HDC-5, HDC-10, HDE-2, and HDB-5 headsets.
To connect the headset:
1 Plug the headset plug into the bottom of your phone.
2 Put the earbud into one ear.
With the headset connected, you can make and answer calls as usual.
The microphone for the headset hangs at the side of your head. Although the
microphone may seem far from your mouth, you can speak at a normal volume.
Note: You can set your phone to answer automatically when the headset
is connected. See “Automatic answer” on page 30 for more information.
•GET HELP
Find phone information
We recommend that you have the following available before contacting the Nokia
Customer Care Center or the service provider:
•Your phone model number (Nokia 2260)
•ESN (Electronic serial number—located on the label under the battery)
•Your billing address ZIP code
•The phone or accessory in question
The type label is located under the battery inside the back cover. Do not remove or
deface the label.
Nokia Customer Care Center, USACustomer Care Centre, Canada
Nokia Mobile Phones
7725 Woodland Center Blvd. Suite #150
Tampa, Florida 33614
Tel: 1-888-NOKIA-2U
(1-888-665-4228)
Fax: 1-813-249-9619
For TTY/TDD users: 1-800-24-NOKIA
(1-800-246-6542)
Nokia Products Ltd.
601 Westney Road South
Ajax, Ontario L1S 4N7
Tel: 1-888-22-NOKIA
(1-888-226-6542)
Fax: 1-905-427-1070
Web site: www.nokia.ca
Contact your service provider
You may want to save your service provider’s customer support telephone number
into your phone. This will let you easily contact your provider if you have questions
or issues with your phone service.
Accessibility information
Nokia is committed to making mobile phones easy to use for all individuals, including
those with disabilities. Nokia maintains an internet site that is dedicated to
accessibility solutions. For more information about phone features, accessories and
other Nokia products designed with your needs in mind, visit the web site at:
wireless phone use is prohibited or when it may
cause interference or danger.
To switch on the phone, press and hold the Power key
for 2 seconds.
To switch off the phone, press and hold the Power key.
• MAKE AND ANSWER CALLS
There are several ways to make and answer calls on your phone. You will discover
other tips throughout this guide when reading about the phone features.
Make a call
1 Enter the phone number, including the area code if needed.
2 Press the Talk key.
End a call
Press the End key to end the call or to cancel the call attempt.
Answer a call
When your phone rings, press the Talk key, press one of the scroll keys twice, or
press any key except the Power key or the End key.
Note: If Keyguard is active, the keypad will unlock when you have an
incoming call.
Silence an incoming call
Press the End key or select Silent to mute the ringing of an incoming call.
Adjust the earpiece volume during a call by pressing
the scroll keys located just below the screen.
•Press the Scroll up key to increase the volume.
•Press the Scroll down key to decrease the
volume.
• LOCK THE KEYPAD
Keyguard disables your keypad to prevent accidental key presses.
•To lock the keys, select Menu and press *.
•To unlock the keys, select Unlock and press *.
•To answer a call when Keyguard is active, select Answer or press the Talk key.
If you are connected to a headset or loopset, press and hold the End key to end
the call.
•After you end the call, Keyguard automatically becomes active again.
•If you need the phone lights while Keyguard is on, press the Power key to
quickly switch the lights on for 15 seconds.
•Connecting your phone to a car kit automatically disables Keyguard.
Note: When Keyguard is on, calls may be possible to the emergency
numbers programmed into your phone (such as 911 or other official
emergency number). Key in the emergency number and press the Talk key.
The number is displayed only after you have keyed in its last digit.
• SELECT SILENT PROFILE
If you do not want the phone to disturb others, you can select the profile in which
the ringing tone and all other tones are silenced.
1 At the start screen, quickly press and release the Power key.
2 Scroll to Silent and select Select.
• IN-PHONE HELP
Many menu items have brief help text. To view the help text, scroll to the menu
item and wait for about 15 seconds. Select More or press the Scroll down key to
continue reading the text. Select Back to exit, or wait a few seconds to return to
the current menu.
A menu is a list of choices you can make to change settings on your phone or use
various phone features. Each menu can contain several levels of submenus. You can
use menus and submenus two ways: by scrolling or by using a shortcut. This guide
uses the scroll method when describing how to use the phone features.
Scroll method
1 At the startscreen, select Menu; then scroll through the menus using the
Scroll up and Scroll down keys.
2 Use the scroll and selection keys to navigate the submenus.
3 Press the End key to return to the startscreen.
For example, when you see ”From the menus, select Profiles > Silent,” the scrolling
method is as follows: at the start screen, press the Left selection key (under the word
Menu), scroll to Profiles, press the Left selection key (under the word Select), scroll
to Silent, and press the Left selection key (under the word Options).
Shortcuts
Menus and options are numbered so that you can quickly find your way to an option.
The numbers appear in the top right corner of the screen and show your location in
the menu.
1 Select Menu.
2 Within 3 seconds, enter the first number of the menu function you want to
access.
3 Repeat until you have entered all the numbers.
For example, to select the Silent profile, select Menu 3-2-1.
Menu Tips
•You can scroll upward to quickly access the last option in a menu list.
•You can return to the previous menu level by pressing Back.
•To exit a menu and return to the start screen, press the End key. If you leave a
menu by pressing the End key, you cancel any changes you made.
•Some menus or menu options may not appear or may appear in a different order.
Ask your service provider for details.
You can use two methods for entering text and numbers.
•Standard mode is the only way to enter names into contacts and to rename
caller groups.
•Predictive text input is a quick and easy method for writing messages.
Press # to switch predictive text on or off and to use predictive text in various
modes. Press and hold # to switch between text and numeric entry. As you press #,
the following icons (not the descriptions) appear in the upper left of the display:
IconIndicates...
Uppercase text. Predictive text is Off.
Lowercase text. Predictive text is Off.
Uppercase text. Predictive text is On.
Lowercase text. Predictive text is On.
• STANDARD MODE
Enter text (Abc)
•Press a key once to insert the first letter on the key, twice for the second letter,
etc. If you pause briefly, the last letter in the display is accepted and the phone
awaits the next entry.
•Select Clear to backspace the cursor and delete a character.
•Select and hold Clear to backspace continuously and delete characters.
•Press the 0 key to enter a space and accept a completed word.
•Press the 1 key to enter a period (.).
•Press the 1 key repeatedly to cycle through special characters. Pause to insert
the displayed character.
•Press * to display all special characters. See “Punctuation and special
characters” on page 15.
Switch to and from numeric entry (123)
To switch to 123 mode from Abc mode, press and hold # at any message entry
screen until the icon in the upper left corner of the display switches from Abc to
123 (or vice versa).
Predictive text input allows you to enter text quickly using your keypad and the
built-in phone dictionary.
Activate predictive text
1 At any text entry screen, select Options > Predictive text.
2 Select the language of your choice.
Enter text
•For each letter of the word that you want to spell, press the corresponding key
on your keypad only once, even if the letter you want is not the first letter on
the key. The phone predicts the word you are trying to spell.
•If a displayed word is not correct, press * to see other matches. To move
forward through a list of matches, keep pressing *.
•Press the 0 key to accept the word, enter a space, and begin writing the next
word.
•If ? appears after a word, select Spell to add the word to the dictionary. See
“Add new words to the dictionary” on page 14.
•Press the 1 key to insert a period into your message.
•Press and hold * to display special characters. See “Punctuation and special
characters” on page 15.
Add new words to the dictionary
If you encounter a word that predictive text does not recognize, a question mark
(?) follows the word and Spell appears in the lower left of the display.
Select Spell, enter your new word using the keypad, and select OK. The word is
added to the dictionary and to the message that you are writing.
Keep these factors in mind when adding words:
•New words that you accept by selecting OK, the 0 key, or deleting the space
between two words are saved to the dictionary.
•Depending on the language and the length of the words, you may be able to
add hundreds of words to the dictionary.
•When the dictionary is full, the most recent addition replaces the first.
Predictive text example
To write Nokia with predictive text on and with the English dictionary selected,
press each of the following keys once:
The illustration above simulates your display each time a key is pressed.
• PUNCTUATION AND SPECIAL CHARACTERS
While at any text entry screen, press * to display special characters (press and hold
* if predictive text is on).
Navigate special characters using the 2, 4, 6, and 8 keys much as you would a
joystick. Once a character is highlighted, press the 5 key to insert the character into
your message.
To enter a symbol while adding a name to the phone book, press *.
To add a special character for creating a number string in the number box, press *.
The contact list can store up to 200 entries. An entry can consist of a number only or
a name and a number. An entry can also include an e-mail address.
• CONTACT LIST OPTIONS
At the start screen, select Contacts to access the following options:
Find—Search for a specific entry.
Add new—Add a new contact to your contact list.
Delete all—Delete names and numbers one by one or all at once.
Options—Go to options for memory status and scrolling view.
1-touch dialing—Assign up to eight keys for speed dialing.
• SAVE NAMES, NUMBERS, AND E-MAIL
ADDRESSES
For information on entering text, see “Text entry” on page 13.
Quickly save a name and number
1 Enter the phone number using the keypad; then select Save.
2 Enter a name and select OK.
Save an entry using the contact list menu
1 At the start screen, select Contacts > Add new.
2 Enter a name; then select OK.
3 Enter a number; then select OK.
Save an e-mail address to an existing contact
1 Find the name to which you want to add an e-mail address.
2 If you are not in the Name+number view, select Details.
3 Select Options > E-mail address.
4 Enter the e-mail address, and select OK.
1 At the startscreen, select Contacts > Find; then enter one or two letters of
the name you want to recall.
2 Select Find; then scroll to the appropriate entry.
You may want to use some of these alternate methods for recalling a number.
•At the start screen, select Contacts, enter the first letter of the name, and
scroll to the name.
•At the start screen, press one of the scroll keys to enter your list of names, and
scroll to the name you want to dial.
•At the start screen, press the Talk key to access a list of your last ten dialed
calls; then scroll to the one you want to dial.
•MAKE A CALL
When a contacts entry is highlighted, press the Talk key to dial the number.
• EDIT A NAME OR NUMBER
You can edit a name, a number, or both.
1 Recall the name or number you want to edit.
2 If you are not in the Name+number view, select Details.
3 Select Options > Edit.
4 Edit the name or number and select OK.
• DELETE NAMES AND NUMBERS
Deleting stored names and numbers removes them from your phone. Once you
delete an item, you can restore it only by re-entering it.
Individual entries
1 Recall the contact list entry you want to delete.
2 If you are not in the Name+number view, select Details.
3 Select Options > Delete > OK.
Entire contents
1 At the start screen, select Contacts > Delete all > OK.
2 Enter your security code and select OK.
Your phone provides a call log that registers information about calls you make and
receive. The call log keeps track of missed, received, and dialed calls. For call log to
work properly:
•You must be in a digital network, your service provider must support caller ID,
and it must be enabled.
•Your calls cannot be blocked.
•Your phone must be on and within the service area or in a compatible network
if roaming.
• CHECK MISSED, RECEIVED, OR DIALED
CALLS
1 From the menus, select Call log; then select either Missed calls, Received
calls, or Dialed calls.
2 Scroll to the number you want to view.
3 Select Options; then select one of the following options:
Call time—Show the time when the call was connected. (You must first set the
phone clock.)
Send message—Send a text message to the person who called you or whom
you called.
Edit number—Edit the number and save it with a name to your contact list.
Save—Enter a name for the number and save both to your contact list.
Delete—Delete the number from the call list.
View number—View the number. (The caller’s name and number must be
stored in the contact list.)
Call—Dial the number from the call log.
When the number of a missed, received, or dialed call is highlighted, you can call
the number by pressing the Talk key.
Call log
• CLEAR CALL LISTS
Warning: You cannot undo this operation.
1 From the menus, select Call log > Clear call lists.
2 Select either All, Missed, Received, or Dialed.
• CALL TIMERS
Your phone tracks the amount of time you spend on each call.