Palm CENTRO UserManual

Table of Contents

Contents of the box	4
Setup	5
Insert the SIM card	5
Insert the battery	6
Insert a memory card	7
Complete the setup	8
Navigation	9
Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off	9
Highlight and select items	10
Select menu items	10
Use the keyboard	11
Open applications	13
Your phone	14
Open the Phone application	14
Turn your phone on and off	14
Make and receive calls	15
Set up voicemail	16
What can I do when I’m on a call?	16
Your Push To Talk application	18
Set up Push To Talk	18
Add a PTT contact	19
Make a PTT call	20
Your messages	21
Messaging	21
Instant Messaging	22

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Your web browser		23
Browse the web		23
Shop at AT&T Mall		24
Explore AT&T Music		24
Your email		25
Choose email options		25
Set up a personal email account with Xpress Mail		25
Set up corporate email		27
Create and send email in Xpress Mail		28
Your contacts and calendar		29
Contacts		29
Calendar		31
Synchronization		32
Why synchronize information?		32
Synchronize for the first time		32
Your music, pictures, and videos		34
Listen to music		34
Take pictures and videos		36
Troubleshooting		38
Tips and tricks		40
Keyboard		40
Phone		40
Data		41
Typing			41

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Contents of the box

Smart device and hardware

Tip

Missingsomething? Need help? Call

AT&T customer service: 1-800-331-

0500 or call 611

from your Centro.

Rechargeable battery

Palm® Centro™ smart device

AC charger

CD

You must install the software from this CD even if you already have Palm® Desktop software installed on your computer

USB sync cable

Documentation and software

•Getting Started Guide (this guide)

•Getting Started CD, which includes the following:

•Palm® Desktop software or a link to this software

•Link to instructions on how to get bonus software from My Centro

•User Guide

•Palm warranty and end user license agreement

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Setup

Insert the SIM card

1. Press the battery door near the top and slide the battery door downward to remove it from your Palm® Centro™ smart device.

2. If the battery is installed, remove it.

3. Remove the stylus to make it easier to install the

Stylus

SIM card. Replace it after you finish these steps.

4. Insert the straight end of the SIM card into the SIM card holder so that the notch is on the right and the metal contacts face down.

5. Push the SIM card forward until it fits into place.

6. Replace the battery door.

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Insert the battery

1.Remove the battery door.

2.Align the metal contacts on the battery that came with your Centro with the contacts inside the battery compartment.

3.Insert the battery into the compartment at a 45-degree angle, and then press it into place.

4. Slide the battery door onto the back of your Centro until it clicks into place.

Your Centro screen wakes up, and setup begins automatically.

Battery contacts

Centro contacts

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Insert a memory card

The card slot on your Centro enables you to add microSD memory cards (sold separately) to expand the storage capacity of your device. The card slot has a push-push mechanism: push in gently to insert a card; push in gently to remove it.

1.Remove the battery door from your Centro.

2.Open the door of the card slot.

3.Position your Centro with the screen facing you, and hold the memory card with the

printed side facing you. The notch on the memory card should be in the upper-right corner, next to the IR port.

4.Insert the memory card into the card slot until you feel the card lock into place.

5.Close the door of the card slot and replace the battery door.

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Complete the setup

1.Select the language you want to use.

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

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

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

Quick Tour .

4.Recommended: Review the Basics and Phone sections of the Quick Tour before using your Centro.

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Navigation

Wake up the touchscreen and turn it off

The phone and the touchscreen of your Palm® Centro™ smart device can be turned off and on separately. When you wake up the touchscreen and leave the phone off, you can still manage your calendar, play music files, or write email offline.

When you take your Centro out of the box and turn it on for the first time, the phone is already on. You just need to wake up the touchscreen.

1.Press and release

Power/End to wake up the

touchscreen.

2.Press Center to turn off Keyguard.

3.Press and release

Power/End to turn off the

touchscreen and lock the keyboard.

To move around the touchscreen, use the 5-way navigator, or tap items on the touchscreen with the stylus.

Center	Up	Applications
		Power/End
Left		Right

Down

Tip

You can set how long the touchscreen stays on. Press

Applications, select Preferences, select Power, and then adjust the

Auto-off after setting.

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Tip

Most menu items have a shortcut. To use a menu shortcut, press

Menu + the shortcut letter. For example, in Calendar, you can press Menu + D to delete an event.

Highlight and select items

The highlight identifies which item is affected by your next action. Use Left , Right , Up , and

Down on the 5-way to move the highlight from one item to another. The highlight can take two forms: a border glow around an entire screen, an onscreen button, or a pick list; and light text on a dark background.

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

Select menu items

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

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

2.Press Right and Left to switch between menus.

Menu shortcut letter

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

4.Press Center to select the menu item, or press Menu to close the menu and cancel your selection.

Use the keyboard

	Backlight (Option	+ P)
	Backspace
Option	Return
Shift/Find	Menu
Space	Alt

Enter lowercase and uppercase letters

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

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

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

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Did You Know?

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

Tip

Alternate characters are grouped by their similarity to the base key. For example, the alternate characters for the E key are É, È, Ë, and Ê. You can find a complete table of the alternate keys in the

User Guide on the Getting Started CD.

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

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

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

Enter accented characters

1.Enter the character that corresponds to the character you want. For example, press E if you want É.

2.Press Alt .

3.In the pop-up list, highlight the character you want, and then press Center to select the highlighted character.

Enter an underscore and other symbols

To enter characters such as an underscore (_), a bullet (•), a backslash (\), a percent symbol (%), and an equal sign (=), press Alt by itself after a space or at the beginning or end of a line.

For example, to enter an underscore, press Alt after a space or at the beginning or end of a line, and then select the underscore character on the pop-up list of alternate characters. Remember to delete the space before the underscore.

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Open applications

When you open an application, you automatically close the application you were previously using and save any information you created in that app.

Use the quick buttons

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

Calendar

Phone

Use Applications View

You can access all available applications through Applications View.

1.Press Applications .

2.Use the 5-way to highlight the application you want to use.

3.Press Center to open the selected application.

Messaging

Applications

Tip

In Applications View, you can enter the first few letters of an application name to highlight it. For example, if you press P,

you highlight Phone; if you quickly press PR, you highlight Prefs. If you pause and then press R, you highlight the first application that starts with R.

Did You Know?

You can cycle through various categories of applications by pressing

Applications repeatedly.

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Your phone

Tip

Don’t remember your mobile phone number? To find your phone number, press Phone, press Menu, select Options, and then select Phone Info.

Open the Phone application

Press Phone to open the Phone application. The Phone application has five tabs so you can navigate among its features.

Dial Pad Call Log

Main

Favorites Contacts

Turn your phone on and off

When your phone is on, it is connected to the AT&T network (provided you’re in a coverage area) so that you can make and receive phone calls and use wireless services.

1. Press Power/End to wake up the	Signal-strength icon
touchscreen.

2. Press and hold Power/End to turn on your phone.

You know your phone is on and that you’re inside a coverage area when you see AT&T and the signalstrength icon at the top of the Phone app.

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

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

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