PALM PIXI User Manual

User Guide

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Palm, Inc. and its suppliers assume no responsibility for any damage or loss resulting from the use of this guide. Palm, Inc. and its suppliers assume no responsibility for any loss or claims by third parties that may arise through the use of this software. Palm, Inc. and its suppliers assume no responsibility for any damage or loss caused by deletion of data as a result of malfunction, dead battery, or repairs. Be sure to make backup copies of all important data on other media to protect against data loss.

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You can view the Open Source License terms on your phone. Tap the center of the gesture area, and then tap the Launcher icon. Swipe left until the PDF View icon appears. Tap PDF View and then tap Open Source Information.pdf.

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You can also view the file on your computer. Connect your phone to your computer with the USB cable. On your phone, tap USB Drive. On your computer, locate and double-click the removable drive named for your phone. To locate the drive, do the following for your operating system:

•Windows Vista/Windows 7: Open Computer.

•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.

After you open the drive, double-click the file Open Source Information.pdf.

Chapter 1 Welcome

6Your Palm® Pixi™ Plus phone 7What’s in the box? 8 Where can I learn more?

Chapter 2 Basics

10 Get to know your phone 13 Set up your phone 13 Charge the battery 15 Turn the phone on/off 17 Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch 23 Open applications 24 Work with applications 27 Enter and save information 31 Use the menus 32 Search to find info and make calls 34 View and respond to notifications 35 Update the software on your phone 36 Use App Catalog to shop for new applications 40 Copy files between your phone and your computer

Chapter 3 Transferring data

46 I’m already using Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and/or

Microsoft Exchange

46 I want to keep using my current desktop app and

sync with an online account on my phone

47 I don’t need to sync, but I do want a copy of my data

backed up somewhere besides my phone

47 I’d rather sync directly with my computer

Chapter 4 Phone

50 Make calls 53 Receive calls 54 Use voicemail 54 What can I do during a call? 57 What’s my number? 57 View your call history 58 Save a phone number to Contacts 58 Use a phone headset 59 Customize phone settings

Chapter 5 Email and other messages

64 Email 74 Messaging

44 Data transfer overview 44 How do I get data from my old phone? 44 How do I get data off my computer?

Chapter 6 Personal information

84 Contacts 93 Calendar

Contents 3

100 Tasks 104 Memos 105 Clock 107 Calculator 107 Facebook

Chapter 7 Photos, videos, and music

110 Camera 110 Photos 114 Videos 116 YouTube 117 Music 119 Amazon MP3

Chapter 8 Web and wireless connections

124 Wi-Fi 126 Location Services 127 Web 131 Google Maps 132 VZ Navigator 134 Bluetooth

wireless technology

Chapter 11 Troubleshooting

156 For users of other Palm® devices 156 Battery 161 Screen and performance 162 Phone 163 Hands-free devices 164 Synchronization 166 Sending and receiving data in Email, Messaging, and

Web 167 Email 167 Messaging 168 Web 169 Calendar and Contacts 169 Camera 170 Amazon MP3 170 Transferring information from your computer 170 Backing up and restoring data 171 Updates 171 Transferring information from another Palm

webOS™ platform phone 172 Third-party applications 172 Making room on your phone

Chapter 9 Documents

Chapter 10 Preferences

4Contents

138 Doc View 141 PDF View

144 Backup 146 Date & Time 147 Device Info 150 Regional Settings 150 Screen & Lock 152 Sounds & Ringtones

Terms

Regulatory and Safety Information

Specifications

185 Specifications 188 Online accounts available for webOS phones

Index

Welcome

Congratulations on the purchase of your Palm® Pixi™ Plus phone.

In this chapter

6Your Palm® Pixi™ Plus phone 7 What’s in the box? 8 Where can I learn more?

Chapter 1 : Welcome 5

Yo u r P a l m® Pixi™ Plus phone

In one compact and indispensable device, you now have all of the following:

• An advanced wireless phone running the Palm

• A full suite of organizer applications: Contacts, Calendar, Memos, and

Ta s k s

• High-speed data transfer with EvDO and 1x support

• Wi-Fi capability

• A 2-megapixel digital camera

• GPS functionality

• Integrated text, multimedia, and instant messaging (IM)

• Tools to view and manage Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files

• App Catalog, where you can download applications designed for your

phone; select from an ever-expanding list of applications.

Yo ur Pa lm operating system, the Palm

Pixi™ Plus phone puts Palm’s new multitasking, gesture-based

webOS™ platform, inside a small, beautiful

device. Here are a few highlights of your new phone.

Gestures: On your Pixi Plus phone, you make calls, move around, and

manage your applications and info by making simple gestures either on the touchscreen or in the gesture area directly beneath the screen. For more information, see Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch, and go to

palm.com/support to see animations that demonstrate these gestures. Carry

the Gesture Guide (included in the box with your Pixi Plus phone) around with you and you’ll soon know all the gestures by heart.

Multitasking: You can have many applications open at once and easily

move among them. Go to the Launcher to open apps. See the lineup of your open apps in Card view. Tap an app to bring it into the foreground and work with it. For more information, see Open applications.

The Palm

Synergy™ feature: The Palm® Synergy™ feature on your Pixi

Plus phone displays information from several sources in a single view, so you can access your info quickly, without having to remember where you stored it.

webOS™ platform

For example, suppose you have a Google account for personal email, contacts, and calendar events, and an Exchange account for your corporate email, contacts, and events. The Email, Contacts, and Calendar applications on your Pixi Plus phone all provide a kind of view in which you can see information from both of those accounts in one place—but even though the information is brought into one view, the sources of that information are kept separate. For more information, read about linked contacts, layered calendars, and the single inbox for your email in Contacts, Calendar, and

Email.

NOTE See the online accounts table at the back of the user’s guide for the

current list of online accounts that you can set up on your phone and for information about the behavior of these accounts.

Thanks also to the Synergy feature, in the Messaging application, all your conversations with the same person are grouped together in one chat-style view. If you start an IM chat with Ed, for example, you can continue the same conversation when Ed signs out of IM by sending him a text message—and you can see it all in the same view. For more information, see

Messaging.

Universal search: Need to call Ed? Just type ed. If he’s listed in your

Contacts, you can get his numbers from the search results. Tap a number and you’ve made the call. Search works just as fast when you need to search the web. For more information, see Search to find info and make calls.

Sync: Your Pixi Plus phone gives you synchronization without a cable. You

can sync with online services that Palm has partnered with so that you can store and sync your info in online accounts. You can access your data even when you are not able to make a connection to the Web because a copy of your data is stored on the device.

Yo ur Pa l m pr o f i l e: When you set up your phone, you create a Palm profile.

Your profile gives you access to services like automatic updates and automatic, frequent backups of any of your info that is stored only on your phone and isn’t synchronized with an online account. See What is a Palm

profile?.

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WARNING Please refer to Regulatory and Safety Information for information

that helps you safely use your phone. Failure to read and follow the important safety information in this guide may result in property damage, serious bodily injury, or death.

What’s in the box?

All of the following items are included in the phone box:

Print material

• Getting Started guide

• Consumer Information About Radio Frequency Emissions and

Responsible Driving

• Gesture Guide

• Limited Warranty

• General User Guide: Important Safety and Legal Information

Hardware

• Palm Pixi Plus phone

• USB cable

• AC charger

• Standard lithium-ion battery (installed)

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Where can I learn more?

• On-device Help: Read short how-tos and watch animations on your new

phone.

To view all Help: Open Help .

To view Help topics for a single application: Open the application,

open the application menu, and tap Help.

• Online support from Palm: Visit palm.com/support to edit your Palm

profile, watch how-to animations, access the Data Transfer Assistant, and read comprehensive information about your phone.

• Customer service from Verizon Wireless: For questions about your

mobile account or features, contact Verizon Wireless’s customer care.

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Basics

You’re about to discover the many things about your

Palm

Pixi™ Plus 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

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Get to know your phone

Front view

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

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), or to move the cursor (see Tex t s el ect ion

gestures).

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.

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Touchscreen

Icons in the title bar

You can monitor the status of several items using icons in the area at the top of the phone screen:

Table 1. Title bar icons and descriptions

Item Description

The battery is being charged.

The battery is fully charged.

The battery is low. See Charge the battery.

1 Application name: Displays the name of the currently open application. Drag down over

the app 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).

Airplane mode is turned on. This means that the phone,

Wi-Fi feature, and Bluetooth

wireless technology feature are off (incoming calls go to voicemail). See Tur n wi re le ss

services off (airplane mode).

Wi-Fi is turned on. The number of filled-in bars denotes signal strength. See Wi-Fi.

The phone is searching for a Wi-Fi network.

The phone is on. The number of filled-in bars denotes signal strength. See Tur n w i re le ss se rv ic es o n.

Your phone is connected to a 1x data network. Data is not currently being transmitted over the network.

Your phone is connected to a 1x data network and data is being transmitted over the network.

Your phone is connected to an EvDO data network. Data is not currently being transmitted over the network.

Your phone is connected to an EvDO data network and data is being transmitted over the network.

Your phone is on and connected to the Verizon Wireless network.

The phone is searching for the Verizon Wireless network.

The Verizon Wireless network is not available.

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Table 1. Title bar icons and descriptions

Item Description

Bluetooth® wireless technology is turned on. See Bluetooth®

wireless technology.

A Bluetooth connection is in progress.

A Bluetooth connection has been made.

Your phone is performing a search on the characters you entered. If you are in Card view or the Launcher, your phone conducts a universal search (see Search to find info and make

calls). If you are in an application such as Contacts or

Memos, your phone searches for items within the app that match the search term you entered.

Your phone is in roaming coverage. See Set roaming and

data usage preferences.

TTY is turned on. See Enable TTY/TDD.

HAC is turned on. See Enable HAC.

Back view

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1 Camera flash 2 Camera lens 3 Speaker

Top view

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. Turn your device completely off before you remove the battery.

Set up your phone

What is a Palm profile?

Your Palm profile gives you the following benefits:

Complete setup

1 Press and hold the power button on the upper-left corner of your

phone until you see the Palm seconds).

2 Follow the onscreen instructions to complete setup.

3 To create a Palm profile, enter a working email address and select and

answer a security question (see What is a Palm profile?).

NOTE If you have a Palm profile from an old webOS phone that you no

longer use, you can enter that profile email address and username to download that profile information to your new phone. But if you are still using the other phone, you must create a new Palm profile for your Pixi Plus phone—you can’t use the same profile on two phones.

4 Your phone is ready to use. To learn how to make your first call, see

Make calls.

logo on the screen (approximately five

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:

• Automatic system and software updates are sent to your phone.

• A Palm profile account is automatically created for you on your phone. In

this account you can store Contacts and Calendar info that you don’t store in online accounts like Google or Exchange.

NOTE You cannot access Palm profile data on the profile website—you can

access the data on your phone only.

• Info stored in your Palm profile account, as well as info you have in

applications on your phone (like Memos and Tasks), is automatically backed up to servers administered by Palm.

• If your phone is lost or stolen, you can do a remote erase of the info on the

phone.

NOTE If you want to erase data on your phone while you are still in

possession of the phone—for example, before you give it to someone else— don’t do a remote erase. Instead, do a partial or full erase of the phone itself (see Erase data and reset your phone).

For detailed information about your Palm profile, see Backup.

Although you create a Palm profile by entering a valid email address, setting up a Palm profile is different from setting up email on your phone. To set up email, see Set up email. To change your Palm profile information after you have set it up, see Update your Palm Profile settings.

• Ve ri fy your Pal m profi le.

• 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?).

TIP If you don’t see the confirmation email in your Inbox, check your spam

mail folder in your desktop email program.

Charge the battery

When the battery is very low, the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the screen changes to red. When the battery is fully charged, the icon appears full and changes to green .

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WARNING Use only batteries and chargers that are approved by Palm with your

phone. Failure to use a battery or charger approved by Palm may increase the risk that your phone will overheat, catch fire, or explode, resulting in property damage, serious bodily injury, or death. Use of unapproved third-party power supply accessories may damage the phone and void the Limited Warranty for the product.

Although the battery may come with a sufficient charge to complete the setup process, we recommend that after setup you charge your phone until the battery icon in the upper-right corner of the screen is full to ensure that the battery is fully charged.

See Maximizing battery life for tips on making your battery’s power last longer.

2 Connect the small end of the USB cable to the charger/microUSB

connector.

3 Connect the other end of the USB cable to the AC charger.

1 On the right side of your phone, open the charger/microUSB

connector.

4 Plug the AC charger into a working outlet.

TIP You can also charge your phone battery by connecting your phone to

your computer using the USB cable. Charging this way takes much longer than using the AC charger. Do not, however, connect the Palm® TouchstoneTM charging dock (sold separately) to your computer.

Maximizing battery life

Battery life depends on how you use your phone. You can maximize the life of your battery by following a few easy guidelines:

• Charge your phone whenever you can. Charge it overnight. The battery

has a much longer useful life when it is topped off frequently than when it is charged after it is fully drained.

• Set your screen to turn off automatically after a shorter period of inactivity

(see Set the interval for turning the screen off automatically).

• Keep your battery away from direct sunlight and other sources of heat.

Temperatures over 113 degrees Fahrenheit (45 degrees Celsius) can permanently reduce the capacity and life span of any lithium-ion battery.

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• As with any mobile phone, if you are in an area with no wireless coverage,

your phone continues to search for a signal, which consumes power. Turn off your phone if you are outside a coverage area (see Tu rn w ir el es s

services off (airplane mode)).

• The fewer wireless connections you have, the less power is required of the

battery. Turn on airplane mode when you don’t need to be wirelessly connected. Airplane mode turns off your connection to the Verizon Wireless network, and it also turns off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth. You can turn

on Wi-Fi (see Wi-Fi) and Bluetooth (see Bluetooth

wireless technology)

separately when airplane mode is on. You can also turn off GPS (see

Location Services).

• If you set up an email account in the Email application, set the interval to

automatically download email to every two hours or less frequently (see

Enter advanced account settings).

• Lower the screen brightness (see Change screen brightness).

• Keep in mind that frequent use of instant messaging (IM) can reduce

battery life.

• Turn the phone completely off if you won’t be using it for an extended

period of time (see Turn everything (the screen and wireless services)

on/off).

• Buy an extra battery as a spare for long plane trips or periods of heavy use.

To purchase batteries that are compatible with your phone, go to

palm.com/store and click Accessories for your phone.

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 on, press power . Drag up to unlock the screen.

* Powe r

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.

Tur n th e ph one on /o ff

Your Pixi Plus 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.

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.

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Do one of the following:

Turn wireless services on

• 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.

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.

When you turn on your phone, it automatically connects to your mobile network so that you can make and receive phone calls and use other wireless services (if supported by the local network).

• If airplane mode is turned on, you need to turn it off before you can

connect to your mobile network. Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu. Tap Turn off Airplane Mode.

When your phone locates a signal, Ve rizo n Wirel es s 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.

* These indicate that wireless services are off (airplane mode).

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 Turn th e

Bluetooth feature on/off). To turn your phone back on, you must turn airplane

mode off.

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* These indicate that wireless services are on.

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:

Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch

Gestures are an important, basic part of your phone. They’re easy to learn, and they make working with the phone fast. You make most gestures with one finger. For a few, you need two. Make gestures with the tip of your finger. Don’t use your fingernail. Don’t bear down.

• Open Device Info and tap Reset Options. Tap Shut Down, and tap

Shut Down again.

• Press and hold power , and tap Power. Tap Shut Down/Swap

Battery, and tap Shut Down.

NOTE When you turn everything off, the phone’s alarms, ringer, and

notifications are also turned off.

To turn both the screen and wireless services back on, press and hold power .

To see short animations illustrating how to do gestures, go to

palm.com/support or tap Clips in Help on your phone (see Open applications for information on how to open Help).

You make gestures in two areas on your phone: the touchscreen and the gesture area. The gesture area is the black area extending along the bottom of the screen.

* Gesture area

When you’re working in an application, the gesture area displays a lighted bar in the center. The lighted bar also appears when you tap the center of the gesture area to maximize a card in Card view.

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Basic gestures

Ta p : Tap with the tip of the finger—not the fingernail. Tap fast and firmly,

and then immediately lift your fingertip off the screen. Don’t bear down on what you’re tapping. Don’t wait for a response; the response comes after you lift your finger. Don’t linger on the gesture; a tap takes a split second to do.

Tap the center of the gesture area to do the following:

• When you’re working in an application, tap the center of the gesture area

to see Card view. Card view shows you all the applications that are currently open, displayed as a series of cards (small active windows).

• When you’re in Card view, tap the center of the gesture area to maximize

the app in the center of the view.

Swipe: A swipe is most often a horizontal gesture, from right to left or left to

right. Do it fast, do it lightly. In a swipe, your fingertip just skims the surface of the touchscreen or gesture area.

One kind of swipe you’ll use a lot: Back. Make the back gesture from right to left anywhere in the gesture area. Back takes you up one level from a detailed view 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.

In Web, the back gesture performs the same function as the back button on the browser, allowing you to move back through previously viewed pages.

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The forward gesture, available in Web only, is a swipe from left to right anywhere in the gesture area. The forward gesture allows you to move forward through previously viewed web pages.

Drag: Drag is the gesture you make for a slow scroll up and down a list.

Slide your fingertip slowly along the surface—no need to bear down.

To close an application in Card view, flick the card up toward the top of the touchscreen. This is called throwing the card off the top of the screen.

In some applications, such as Email and Messaging, you can throw a list item off the side of the screen to delete the item.

If an application is maximized, you can flick up from the gesture area to the screen to minimize the app and display Card view. This is the up gesture. If you make the up gesture when Card view is displayed, you open the Launcher.

Scroll gestures

One kind of drag that you’ll use a lot brings up Quick Launch when you’re in an application. This drag gesture begins in the gesture area and ends on the touchscreen. As your fingertip slowly crosses the border between the gesture area and the touchscreen, it seems to drag Quick Launch into view. To open one of the apps in Quick Launch, move your finger to its icon. When you see the app name appear, lift your finger. The application opens.

You also make the drag gesture as part of a drag and drop.

Flick: As its name tells you, this is a quick gesture, great for scrolling long

lists. Do it fast, do it lightly; as with a swipe, your fingertip just skims the surface. The faster you flick, the faster and farther you scroll up or down a list.

Scroll slow: Drag the screen in the desired direction.

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Scroll fast: Flick the screen in the desired direction.

Stop scrolling: Tap or drag the screen while scrolling.

Zoom gestures

Zoom in/pinch out to increase the size of items on the screen in Email,

Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View, Google Maps: Place two fingers on the screen and spread them slowly apart.

Zoom out/pinch in to decrease the size of items on the screen in Email,

Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View, Google Maps: Place two fingers on the screen and bring them together.

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Zoom in or out a fixed amount in Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View:

Double-tap the screen.

Text se l e c t i o n g e sture s

TIP See Cut, copy, and paste information and Use the Copy All or Select All

feature for information on working with text you’ve selected.

Move the cursor: Tap the location to insert the cursor. Press and hold

Option . Place your finger anywhere onscreen and drag your finger in the

direction you want to move the cursor.

Select text when you can see a cursor: Tap the location to insert the

cursor. Press and hold Shift . Place your finger anywhere onscreen and drag your finger in the direction you want to select text. Tap the highlighted text to deselect it.

Insert the cursor in a text field: Tap the lo ca ti on.

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Select a paragraph of text: When you cannot insert a cursor in the text—

for example, on a web page or in an email message you received—the smallest amount of text you can select is a whole paragraph. Press and hold Shift , and then tap a paragraph. Tap an adjacent paragraph to add it to your selection (you can’t skip around). If you need to scroll down to select the next paragraph, release Shift , scroll, press Shift , and tap the paragraph. Tapping any part of the highlighted selection deselects it.

card in Card view is ready to be dragged when it changes size and becomes transparent.

Delete a list item

Throw the item off the side of the screen. If prompted, tap Delete to confirm the deletion.

Drag and drop

Tap and hold the item, drag it, and then lift your finger to drop it. You get a visual cue that the item is ready to be dragged. For example, an icon in the Launcher is ready to be dragged when you see a halo around the icon. A

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The delete gesture is available in applications such as Email, Messaging, Tasks, Music, and Bluetooth. If you can’t delete a list item by throwing it, open the item and look in the application menu for a delete command.

TIP To delete multiple list items, throw each one off the screen. If you get the

Delete confirmation prompt after throwing the first item, you don’t need to

tap it—just throw the second item, and the first deletion is confirmed automatically.

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.

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.

NOTE Don’t confuse this “drag up” with the up gesture, which is a flick up

from the gesture area to the screen that displays Card view.

2 Move your finger to the application icon. When you see the app name

appear, lift your finger. The application opens.

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).

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1 Tap the center of the gesture area to open Card view, and tap .

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.

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.

1 Arrow indicates that you can swipe up to see partially or fully hidden icons. 2 Page indicators show that there are two Launcher pages to the right—swipe right to left

on the screen to see them.

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.

Work with applications

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.

3 Tap the application icon.

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To make the back gesture, swipe right to left anywhere in the gesture area.

Display all open applications (Card view)

Move among open applications

1 In Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)), swipe left

or right on the screen to see other open apps.

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.

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.

TIP You can set a preference to move among open apps without first going to

Card view (see Turn advanced gestures on/off).

Reorder open cards

1 In Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)), tap and

hold a card to further reduce the size of the cards.

TIP You can also tap anywhere on the screen around the cards to reduce the

size of the cards.

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2 Tap and hold a card, and after the card becomes transparent, drag it to

another position.

Close an application

• In Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)), throw the

card off the top of the screen.

Change the applications that appear in Quick Launch

If Quick Launch contains five icons, you must remove an application from Quick Launch before you can add another one. You can remove any application except the Launcher.

1 Open the Launcher. Quick Launch appears at the bottom.

2 Tap and hold a Quick Launch icon, and after the halo appears around

the icon, drag it onto the Launcher.

3 Tap and hold an icon in the Launcher, and after the halo appears

around the icon, drag the icon onto the Quick Launch bar.

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Reorder Quick Launch icons

You can change the position of any Quick Launch icon except the Launcher icon.

1 In Card view, tap and hold a Quick Launch icon.

2 After the halo appears around the icon, drag it to another location.

Delete an application

You can delete applications that you installed on your phone.

1 While pressing and holding Option , tap the app icon.

2 Ta p Delete.

TIP You can also delete an application you installed by opening the Launcher,

opening the application menu, and tapping List Apps. On the list of applications, tap and hold an app name or throw the app of the side of the screen, and then tap Delete.

Reorder Launcher icons

1 In the Launcher, tap and hold an icon.

2 After the halo appears around the icon, drag it to another location.

3 To move the icon to another page, drag it to the left or right edge of

the screen. Don’t release the icon until the new page appears.

Enter and save information

Use the keyboard

1 Option: Press to enter numbers, punctuation, and symbols that appear above the letters on

the keys (see Enter alternate keyboard characters), or to move the cursor (see Tex t s el ect ion

gestures).

2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters and Text selection gestures. 3 Space 4 Backspace

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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.

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: .

• Tu rn of f C ap s L oc k: Pres s Shift .

Enter alternate keyboard characters

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.

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.

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: .

• Tu rn of f O p ti on Lo ck: P res s Option .

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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3 Scroll to find the character you want.

4 Tap the character to insert it.

Symbols and accented characters

Table 2. Symbols and accented characters

Press Sym and press…

a or A á à ä â ã å æ Á À Ä Â Ã Å Æ ª ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [] {} < >

b or B ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [] { } < > « » Ø μ |

c or C © ç Ç ¢

d or D † ‡

e or E é è ë ê ē É È Ë Ê € ¹ ¼ ½

to select…

«» Ø μ |

Table 2. Symbols and accented characters

Enter information in a field

Press Sym and press…

h or H ¢ € £ ¥ ƒ

i or I í ì ï î Í Ì Ï Î ÷ ‰

j or J ¡

k or K :-) :-( ;-)

l or L ` ‘ ’ ‚ "

m or M μ :-) :-( ;-)

n or N ñ Ñ ¿

o or O ó ò ö ô œ õ ø Ó Ò Ö Ô Œ Õ Ø º “ ” „ < > « »

p or P ¶ ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [ ] { } < > « » Ø μ |

q or Q \ ~ |

r or R ® ²

s or S ß š Š ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [ ] { } < > « » Ø |

t or T ™ ³ ¾

u or U ú ù ü û Ú Ù Ü Û [ ] { } < > « »

v or V ^

w or W ÷ ^ ±

to select…

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.

• 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.

Lists are hidden until you tap the currently displayed option for that list.

x or X x ¤

y or Y ÿ ý Ÿ Ý ¥ [ ] { } < > « »

zž Ž •

, or _ ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [ ] { } < > « » Ø μ |

. … ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [ ] { } < > « » Ø μ |

@° • Ø

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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.

you can select by dragging the cursor and paragraphs you can select by tapping them (see Text selection gestures).

1 Select the text you want to cut or copy (see Text selection gestures).

2 Open the application menu and tap Edit > Cut or Copy.

3 Open the app and insert the cursor where you want to paste the text

(see Text selection gestures).

4 Open the application menu and tap Edit > Paste.

TIP You can also use keyboard shortcuts to cut, copy, and paste. After

selecting the text or inserting the cursor, press and hold the gesture area until a light appears under the surface of the gesture area, and press X (cut), C (copy), V (paste), or A (copy/select all, in apps that support this feature).

Use the Copy All or Select All feature

Some applications offer a Copy All menu option. For example, in Messaging, you can start or open a conversation, open the application menu, and tap Edit > Copy All. This saves the entire conversation as plain text, which you can paste in a memo, email message, and so on.

2 Tap th e lis t i te m yo u w an t.

Cut, copy, and paste information

You can copy any selectable text, and you can cut any selectable text that you yourself entered, for example, in a memo or an email. This includes text

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Other apps offer a Select All menu option. For example, in Memos, you can open a memo, open the application menu, and tap Edit > Select All. This highlights the full memo text, which you can cut or copy.

Some apps offer both the Copy All and Select All features to perform different text selection tasks:

Email: In an open email message in Email, use Copy All to copy the entire message (including header info such as sender, recipient, and subject), or use Select All to select just the message body text (see Copy messages).

Contacts: On the contact details screen, use Copy All to copy the contents of the contact entry as plain text; or, on the contact edit screen, insert the cursor in a field and use Select All to highlight the contents of that field.

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