Palm PIXEW User Manual
Palm Pixi User Guide
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indows Vista: Open Computer.
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•Windows XP: Open My Computer.
•Mac: Open Finder.
• Linux (Ubuntu): The drive is displayed on the desktop.
• Other Linux distribution: The location of the drive may vary by system.
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Contents
Chapter 1 Basics
6 Get to know your phone
8Set up your phone
8 Turn the phone on/off
9 Open applications
10 Work with applications
11 Enter and save information
12 Use the menus
13 Search to find info and make calls
14 View and Respond to Notifications
Chapter 2 Phone
16 Make calls
17 Receive calls
17 Use voicemail
17 What can I do during a call?
18 Set up and use a Bluetooth
Chapter 3 Email and other messages
20 Email
21 Messaging
Chapter 4 Personal information
24 Contacts
25 Calendar
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hands-free device
Chapter 5 Photos, videos, and music
28 Camera
28 Photos
28 Videos
29 Music
Chapter 6 Web and wireless connections
32 Wi-Fi
32 Web
32 Bluetooth
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wireless technology
Chapter 7 Documents
34 Doc View
34 PDF View
Chapter 8 Preferences
38 Screen & Lock
38 Sounds & Ringtones
Chapter 9 Learn More
42 While using your phone
42 If you need more information
Contents 3
Regulatory and Safety Information
Index
4Contents
Basics
You’re about to discover the many things about your
®
Palm
Pixi™ phone that can help you better manage
your life and have fun, too. As you become more
familiar with your phone, you’ll want to personalize
the settings and add applications to make it uniquely
yours.
But first, take the few easy steps in this chapter to set
up your phone and get it running. Then learn about
the key features that make moving around on your
phone and accessing your information easy: gestures,
menus, search, notifications, and more.
In this chapter
6Get to know your phone
8 Set up your phone
8 Turn the phone on/off
9 Open applications
10 Work with applications
11 Enter and save information
12 Use the menus
13 Search to find info and make calls
14 View and Respond to Notifications
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Get to know your phone
Front view
IMPORTANT Be careful not to scratch, crush, or apply too much pressure on
the touchscreen. Do not store your phone in a place where other items might
damage it.
Keyboard
1 Option: Press to enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols that appear above the letters on
the keys. See Enter alternate keyboard characters.
2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters.
3 Space
4 Backspace
5 Enter: Press to enter a line return (for example, in a memo or in an email message you are
composing) or to accept information you entered in a field. See Enter information in a field.
6 Sym: Press to enter symbols and accented characters that don't appear on the keys. See
Enter characters from the symbols table.
1 Earpiece
2 Touchscreen: Tap and make other gestures directly on the screen. See To u c h s c r e e n .
3 Gesture area: Make the back gesture and begin other gestures here.
4 Keyboard: See Use the keyboard.
5 Microphone
6 Ringer switch: Slide to turn the ringer and notification sounds on or off. (Red means off.)
The ringer switch does not affect music or video playback sounds.
7 Vo lu me
8 Charger/microUSB connector
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Touchscreen
1 Application name: Displays the name of the currently open application. Tap the name to
open the application menu.
2 Launcher: See Open an application in the Launcher.
3 Scroll arrow: Swipe up or down to see icons that are on the page but hidden.
4 Quick Launch: See Open an application in Quick Launch.
5 Connection icons: Show the status of wireless service connections and battery strength
(see Icons in the title bar). Tap the icons to open the connection menu.
6 Page indicators: Show how many Launcher pages are to the right or the left of the
currently displayed page. Swipe left or right on the screen to see other pages.
7 Notification icons: Show missed calls, new voicemail and email messages, and more. Tap
the bottom of the screen to view notification details (see View all your notifications).
Back view
1 Camera flash
2 Camera lens
3 Speaker
To p vie w
1 3.5mm headset jack
2 Powe r: Press to wake up or turn off the screen. Press and hold to turn wireless services on
and off, replace the battery, or turn your device completely on and off.
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Set up your phone
Verify your profile
After you finish setup, look for an email on your computer at the address you
used for your Palm profile. Click the link in the email to do the following:
• Ve ri fy you r P a lm prof il e.
• Follow a link to learn about getting data like contacts and appointments
onto your phone from your desktop organizer software (see How do I get
data off my computer?).
To turn the screen on, press power . Drag up to unlock the screen.
* Powe r
TIP If you don’t see the confirmation email in your Inbox, check your spam
mail folder in your desktop email program.
Tu r n t h e p ho n e o n /o f f
Your Pixi phone’s screen can be turned on and off separately from its
wireless services (which are the Phone app, Wi-Fi app, and
Bluetooth app). This means you can wake up the screen to use just the
organizer features of your device (Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, Memos, and so
on) without turning on the phone and other wireless features. Also, when
the screen is turned off, the phone can be on and ready for you to receive
phone calls or messages.
Turn the screen on/off
Turn the screen on and leave the wireless services turned off when you want
to use only the organizer features, for example, when you’re on a plane and
you must turn off all wireless services, but you want to look at your calendar.
To turn the screen off, press power .
To save power, the screen dims automatically after a period of inactivity and
then turns off. You can be on a call when the screen dims and turns off—this
does not affect the call. To brighten the screen after it dims, tap the screen.
TIP You can set how long the screen stays on during a period of inactivity (see
Set the interval for turning the screen off automatically).
Turn wireless services off (airplane mode)
Airplane mode turns off your phone as well as the Wi-Fi and Bluetooth®
wireless technology features. Use airplane mode when you are on a plane or
anywhere else you need to turn off all wireless services. You can’t browse
the web, but you can still use apps like Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Music,
Doc View, and PDF View.
Do one of the following:
• Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu.
Tap Turn on Airplane Mode.
• Press and hold power and tap Airplane Mode.
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When your phone is in airplane mode, the airplane mode icon appears
at the top of every screen, and Airplane Mode appears in the upper-left
corner of the screen in the Launcher, Card view, and Phone. Your phone is
not connected to any mobile network.
TIP When your phone is in airplane mode, you can turn the Wi-Fi and
Bluetooth features on individually (see Turn Wi-Fi on and off and Tu r n t he
Bluetooth feature on/off). To turn your phone back on, you must turn airplane
mode off.
Turn wireless services on
NOTE When you turn everything off, the phone’s alarms, ringer, and
notifications are also turned off.
• Press and hold power , and tap Power. Tap Shut Down/Swap
Battery, and tap Shut Down.
• Open Device Info and tap Reset Options. Tap Shut Down, and tap
Shut Down again.
To turn both the screen and wireless services back on, press and hold
power .
When you turn on your phone, it connects to a mobile network so that you
can make and receive phone calls and use other wireless services (if
supported by the local network).
• Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu.
Ta p Turn off Airplane Mode.
When your phone locates a signal, your wireless carrier appears in the
upper-left corner of the screen in the Launcher, Card view, and Phone,
and the signal-strength icon appears at the top of the screen.
When you are inside a phone coverage area, the bars on the
signal-strength icon are filled in. If you’re outside a coverage area, the
bars in the signal-strength icon appear dimmed with an X.
Turn everything (the screen and wireless services) on/off
Usually, turning your phone off and/or putting it in airplane mode is
sufficient for normal periods when you have the phone with you but you’re
not using it. On rare occasions, however, you may want to put your phone
into deep sleep because you are not going to use it for an extended period.
At those times, do one of the following:
Open applications
You can have as many applications open at one time as you like, limited only
by the amount of memory available on your phone at the time.
Open an application in Quick Launch
Quick Launch is the bar of five icons that is always available at the bottom of
Card view and the Launcher. To open an application from Quick Launch,
just tap the icon.
Quick Launch can display no more than five icons. By default it displays,
from left to right, Phone, Contacts, Email, Calendar, and the Launcher. You
can change the order of icons (except the Launcher icon) in Quick Launch
(see Reorder Quick Launch icons), or swap in whatever applications you like
(see Change the applications that appear in Quick Launch).
When an application fills the whole screen, make the following gesture to
display Quick Launch and open one of its applications.
1 Drag up slowly from the gesture area to the screen.
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2 Move your finger to the application icon. When you see the app name
appear, lift your finger. The application opens.
Work with applications
Open an application in the Launcher
The Launcher displays all your applications that are not on Quick Launch.
The Launcher includes multiple pages, which you can organize to group
apps the way you want (see Reorder Launcher icons).
1 Tap the center of the gesture area to open Card view, and tap .
TIP You can also open the Launcher by flicking up twice from the gesture
area to the screen. If you are in Card view, just flick up once to open the
Launcher.
2 To find the app you want, swipe up or down to see all the icons on a
page. Swipe left or right to see other pages.
3 Tap the application icon.
To close the Launcher, do one of the following:
• Tap the center of the gesture area.
• Ta p .
• Make the up gesture: Flick up from the gesture area to the screen.
Go up one level in an app (back gesture)
The back gesture takes you up one level from a detailed level to a more
general view of the application you're working in. For example, when you
finish reading an email message, make the back gesture to close the
message and return to your list of messages. Or when you finish writing a
memo, make the back gesture to close and save the memo and return to the
display of all your memos. When you make the back gesture in an
application and that's the only screen of that app that's open, you minimize
the app and go back to Card view.
To make the back gesture, swipe right to left anywhere in the gesture area.
Display all open applications (Card view)
Card view displays open applications as small cards, so that you can easily
scroll through them and drag them to change their order.
When an application fills the screen and you want to go to Card view, do
one of the following:
• Tap the center of the gesture area.
• Make the up gesture: Flick up from the gesture area to the screen.
Open an application using search
1 Tap the center of the gesture area to open Card view.
2 Enter the name of or a keyword for the application (see Universal
search application keywords).
3 When the application icon appears in the search results, tap it.
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Move among open applications
1 In Card view, swipe left or right on the screen to see other open apps.
2 Tap a card to maximize the application.
TIP You can also maximize the center card in Card view by flicking down
from the screen to the gesture area.
5 Enter: Press to enter a line return (for example, in a memo or in an email message you are
composing) or to accept information you entered in a field. See Enter information in a field.
6 Sym: See Enter characters from the symbols table.
TIP You can set a preference to move among open apps without first going to
Card view (see Turn advanced gestures on/off).
Close an application
• In Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)), throw the
card off the top of the screen.
Enter and save information
Use the keyboard
Enter uppercase letters
By default, the first letter of each sentence or field is capitalized and the
remaining text you enter is lowercase. To enter other uppercase letters, do
one of the following:
• Press Shift and press the letter key. The Shift symbol appears: . You
don’t need to hold down Shift while you press the letter key.
• Turn on Caps Lock: Press Shift twice. The Caps Lock symbol
appears: .
• Turn off Caps Lock: Press Shift .
Enter alternate keyboard characters
Numbers, punctuation, and symbols appear above the letters on the keys. To
enter these characters, do one of the following:
• Press Option and press the key for the character. The alternate
character symbol appears: . You don’t need to hold down Option while
pressing the second key.
• Enter a series of alternate characters: Press Option twice to turn on
Option Lock. The Option Lock symbol appears: .
• Turn off Option Lock: Press Option .
1 Option: See Enter alternate keyboard characters.
2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters.
3 Space
4 Backspace
Enter passwords
You can see each character of a password only as you enter it, so be careful.
Be sure Caps Lock and Option Lock are off unless you need them. For
information on how to enter characters, see Enter uppercase letters and
Enter alternate keyboard characters.
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Enter characters from the symbols table
You can enter symbols and accented characters that don’t appear on the
keys by using the symbols table. See Symbols and accented characters for a
list of the available symbols and accented characters.
1 Press Sym to display the symbols table.
2 Narrow the list by pressing the key that corresponds to the character
you want. For example, to enter an é, press e. See the table below for a
list of corresponding characters.
• Press Enter . If a screen contains multiple fields, pressing Enter accepts
the information you just entered and jumps the cursor to the next field.
• When you are done entering information on the screen containing the
field, make the back gesture to accept the information and back out of the
screen (see Go up one level in an app (back gesture)).
Select items in a list
Lists enable you to select from a range of options. Lists are different from
menus (see Use the menus), which give you access to additional features.
TIP The symbols and accented characters are grouped according to their
similarity to the corresponding key. In some cases, the symbol is related to the
alternate character on the key, not the letter. For example, to type a ¢ or other
currency symbol, press Sym + h. Why? Because the alternate character on the
H key is $.
TIP If you press the wrong key, press Backspace to return to the full list of
symbols and accented characters. You can then press another key.
3 Scroll to find the character you want.
4 Tap the character to insert it.
Enter information in a field
You can enter information in a field by typing or by pasting previously
copied information (see Cut, copy, and paste information).
Applications with text fields support the auto-correct feature. If the app
recognizes a common misspelling, it auto-corrects the word. To cancel the
auto-correction, press Backspace .
To accept the information you entered, do one of the following:
• Tap outside the field.
Lists are hidden until you tap the currently displayed option for that list.
1 Tap the currently displayed option to open the list. For example, when
creating a new event in Calendar, tap 15 minutes before to display the
list of reminder options.
2 Tap the list item you want.
Save information
• On most screens, your information is saved automatically. Just make the
back gesture to close the screen (see Go up one level in an app (back
gesture)), and your info is saved at the same time.
• You info is also saved if you minimize an app screen to a card, and throw
the card off the top of the screen to close the app.
• On screens with a Done button, tap Done to save your information.
Use the menus
Most applications have an application menu hidden in the upper-left corner,
which provides access to additional features. There is also a connection
menu hidden in the upper-right corner, which provides access to wireless
services.
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Some applications have additional menus. For example, in Photos, tap an
open picture and tap to display a menu of tasks you can do with the
picture (see Photos).
To get the most out of your phone, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself
with the additional features available through the menus in various
applications.
Open the application menu
The application menu contains options for the application you are working
in, such as Cut and Copy, Preferences, Help, and other application-specific
commands.
1 Do one of the following:
1 Do one of the following:
• Tap the upper-right corner of the screen.
• Drag down from the upper-right corner of the phone (above the
screen) onto the screen.
2 Tap a menu item to turn that wireless feature on or off or to open a list
of options for that feature (see Turn wireless services off (airplane
mode) for more information). If the menu displays a
downward-pointing arrow at the bottom, it means that more
options are available. Scroll the menu to see the additional options.
Search to find info and make calls
• Tap the application name in the upper-left corner of the screen.
• Drag down from the upper-left corner of the phone (above the
screen) onto the screen.
2 Tap a menu item to open it. If a menu item displays a right-pointing
arrow , tap the item to open a submenu of options for that item—
for example, tap the Edit menu item to open a submenu containing
Cut, Copy, and Paste options. If the menu displays a
downward-pointing arrow at the bottom, it means that more
options are available. Scroll the menu to see the additional options.
Open the connection menu
The connection menu lets you manage wireless services—the phone, Wi-Fi,
and Bluetooth
DID YOU KNOW? The connection menu also displays the current day and
date and the battery charge level.
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wireless technology.
Use universal search
You can search for contacts and applications on your phone, or search the
web.
1 Open Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)) or the
Launcher (see Open an application in the Launcher).
2 Begin typing a search term or keyword (see Universal search
application keywords). As you type, search displays any contact names
and application names that match the character or application names
that are associated with the keyword. As you continue typing, the
search results narrow.
3 Do one of the following:
• To look up or get in touch with someone: Tap a contact name to
open the person’s contact information. Tap a phone number to dial
it, an email address to send a message, and so on. If only the contact
name is displayed, tap the name to display ways to get in touch. You
can also tap Add Reminder to add a reminder message to the
contact (see Assign a reminder message to a contact).
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• To perform a web search: Tap the search term you entered to open a
list of web search options, and tap the option. If your search returns
no contacts or applications, the web search options are displayed
automatically.
• To open an application: Tap the application.
Search within an application
In applications such as Contacts, Memos, Doc View, and PDF View, you can
search for entries or files. From the list view, enter the file name; a few words
from a memo; or a contact name, initials, address, or number. See the
individual application sections for details.
You can also enter a search term in the Help application to search for help
content related to the term.
View and Respond to Notifications
Respond to a notification
1 Tap anywhere on the bottom of the screen to display your
notifications.
2 Tap a notification to act on it. If a notification icon has a number next
to it, the number indicates how many items are included in the
notification—how many voicemail or email messages you have, and
so on.
Notifications show up at the bottom of the screen to notify you of new
voicemail and messages, upcoming appointments, missed calls, and more.
Do one of the following:
• Tap the notification to act on it.
• For some types of notifications, throw the notification off the side of the
screen to dismiss it.
View all your notifications
For most types of notifications, if you do not tap a notification after a few
seconds, it becomes an icon in the lower-right portion of the screen.
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Phone
Yo ur P a lm® Pixi™ phone enables you to effectively
manage multiple calls. You can answer a second call,
swap between calls, and set up a three-way
conference call. You can also work with other
applications while on a call. Your Pixi phone helps you
to do all these tasks with ease.
In this chapter
16 Make calls
17 Receive calls
17 Use voicemail
17 What can I do during a call?
55 What’s my number?
18 Set up and use a Bluetooth® hands-free device
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Make calls
For information on turning the phone off and back on, see Turn the phone
on/off.
TIP If you turn off the preference to show contact matches in the dial pad (see
Show contact matches), this changes how you dial using the keyboard in the
Phone application. In Phone, after you enter the number with the keyboard,
tap the onscreen dial icon to dial.
Dial using the onscreen dial pad
The onscreen dial pad is useful when you need to dial numbers that are
expressed as letters and when you need large, brightly lit numbers that you
can tap.
1 Open Phone .
2 Tap the dial pad numbers to enter the number.
3 Tap to d ia l.
Dial by contact name using universal search
1 Open Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)) or the
Launcher (see Open an application in the Launcher).
2 Begin typing the contact first or last name, or initials.
3 Tap one of the contact’s phone numbers to dial it. If only the contact
name appears, tap the name to display the phone numbers for that
contact, and tap the number.
Dial using a speed dial
See Assign a speed dial to a contact for instructions on creating a speed dial.
• In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold the speed-dial key
you assigned to the number.
Dial by contact name in the Phone application
See How do I add names and other info into Contacts? for instructions on
adding contacts to your phone. You can also look up and dial contacts using
universal search (see Dial by contact name using universal search).
1 Open Phone .
2 Using the keyboard, enter a name or initials until the contact you want
appears.
3 Tap the number.
Redial the last number dialed
Dial using the keyboard
1 In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, use the keyboard to enter the
number. You do not need to press Option to enter numbers, *, or #.
2 When you finish entering the number, tap it to dial.
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1 Open Phone .
2 Tap . When the contact name or number appears at the top of the
screen, tap again to dial.
Receive calls
Use voicemail
If you want to answer calls, your phone must be on. This is different from
having only the screen turned on (see Turn the phone on/off). When your
phone is off, your calls go to voicemail.
TIP You can pick the ringtone for incoming calls (see Select the ringtone for
incoming calls). You can set a ringtone for individual contacts as well (see Add
a ringtone to a contact).
Answer a call
Do one of the following:
• If the screen is on when the phone starts ringing, tap .
• If the screen is off, drag up to unlock the screen and answer the call.
DID YOU KNOW? If you are playing music or a video on your phone and a
call arrives, playback pauses automatically and resumes when you hang up or
ignore the call.
Ignore a call
Set up voicemail
1 In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold 1 . When the
search results screen appears, continue holding 1 until the Phone
application appears.
2 Follow the voice prompts to set up your voicemail.
Listen to voicemail messages
1 Do one of the following:
• In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold 1 .
• Tap a voicemail notification at the bottom of the screen.
• Open Phone . Then tap .
• Open Phone . Then tap and hold 1 onscreen.
2 Follow the voice prompts to listen to your messages.
What can I do during a call?
To send a call immediately to voicemail, do one of the following:
• Ta p .
• Press power twice.
To reply to a caller who is in your Contacts list after you ignore a call, tap the
ignored call notification. This opens the caller’s contact entry, where you can
select a reply method. To reply to a caller who’s not in your Contacts list, go
to your call history (see View your call history).
Manage a call
Do any of the following:
• Put the call on speaker: Tap .
• Mute the microphone so you can’t be heard: Tap .
TIP You don’t need an on-hold button to put a call on hold. Just tap the mute
icon to mute your end of the line.
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