Palm PRE User Manual

Palm® Pre™ Phone User Guide

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Intellectual Property Notices

© 2009 Palm, Inc. All rights reserved. Palm, Pre, Synergy, and the Palm and Pre logos are among the trademarks
or registered trademarks owned by or licensed to Palm, Inc. Microsoft and Outlook are trademarks of the Microsoft
group of companies. Exchange ActiveSync Enabled. Facebook
Google and Google Maps are trademarks of Google, Inc. Amazon, Amazon MP3, and the Amazon MP3 logo are
trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Any reference to Palm Products’ capabilities provided by the
Documents To Go Software contained in Palm Product packaging, or in marketing, promotional, or other
mass-distribution materials for the Palm Products (e.g., sales slicks, website, FAQs), distributed during the term of
this Agreement shall be noted with “provided by Documents To Go
mutually agreed statement, and shall also include DataViz contact information. All other brand and product names

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is a registered trademark of Facebook, Inc.

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, a product of DataViz, Inc.”, or a similar

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Disclaimer and Limitation of Liability

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.

Patent pending. This product also is licensed under United States patent 6,058,304.
Use of this device requires providing a valid email address, mobile phone number, and related information for

account setup and activation. A data plan is also required. Unlimited usage data plan strongly recommended or
additional data charges may apply.

Open Source License Information

You can view the Open Source License terms on your phone. Press the Center button and then tap the Launcher
icon. Swipe left until the PDF View icon appears. Tap PDF View, then tap Open Source Information.pdf.

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, open Computer (Vista), My Computer (XP), or Finder (Mac) and
double-click the Palm Pre drive. Then double-click the file Open Source Information.pdf.

Recycling and Disposal

This symbol indicates that Palm products should be recycled and not be disposed of in unsorted
municipal waste. Palm products should be sent to a facility that properly recycles electrical and
electronic equipment. For information on environmental programs visit palm.com/environment

As part of Palm’s corporate commitment to be a good steward of the environment, we strive to use

environmentally friendly materials, reduce waste, and develop the highest standards in electronics
recycling. Our recycling program keeps Palm handhelds, phones, and other products out of landfills through
evaluation and disposition for reuse and recycling.

Palm customers may participate in the recycling program free of charge. Visit palm.com/recycle

.

for additional

details and information about how you can help reduce electronic waste.

Table of Contents

Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Your Palm® Pre™ Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

About This User Guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Where Can I Learn More? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Section 1: Your Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

1A. Set Up Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

Set Up Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18

Turn the Phone On/Off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

Make Your First Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

Set Up Your Voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

Create Sprint Account Passwords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26

Section 2: Your Palm® PreTM Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

2A. Basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

What’s in the Box? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32

Get to Know Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

Charge the Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

2B. Move Around on Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43

Use Gestures: Tap, Swipe, Drag, Flick, Pinch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44

Open Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Work With Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59

Enter Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67

Use the Menus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

Search to Find Info and Make Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76

View and Respond to Notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Update the Software on Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82

Use App Catalog to Shop for New Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

Copy Files Between Your Phone and Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92

2C. Transferring Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95

Data Transfer Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

Transferring Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97

2D. Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105

Make Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Receive Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110

Use Voicemail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

What Can I Do During a Call? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112

What’s My Number? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

View Your Call History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118

Save a Phone Number to Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

What Are All Those Icons? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120

Use a Phone Headset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122

Customize Phone Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124

2E. Your Media and Entertainment Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131

Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

YouTube . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140

Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Amazon MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147

2F. Your Personal Information Organizer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154

Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172

Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Memos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

Clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193

Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

2G. Your Documents and Other Productivity Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

Doc View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198

PDF View . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204

2H. Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209

Backup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210

Date & Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215

Device Info . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216

Regional Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220

Screen & Lock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221

Sounds & Ringtones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224

Section 3: Web and Data Services and Other Wireless Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227

3A. Using Web and Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229

Get Started With Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Access Data Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230

Use Sprint TV® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

NASCAR Sprint Cup MobileSM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232

NFL Mobile Live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233

3B. Your Email and Other Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235

Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255

3C. Your Connections to the Web and Wireless Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269

Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270

Location Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277

Google Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287

Sprint Navigation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288

Bluetooth® Wireless Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291

Section 4: Your Resources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297

4A. Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299

For Current Palm® Smartphone Users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300

Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301

Screen and Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310

Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312

Hands-free Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315

Synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316

Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319

Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321

Wi-Fi . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Web . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323

Calendar and Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326

Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Amazon MP3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328

Transferring Information From Your Computer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329

Backing Up and Restoring Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330

Updates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Third-party Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331

Making Room on Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 333

4B. Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

Section 5: Your Safety and Specifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341

5A. Regulatory and Safety Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

FCC Statements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 344

Antenna Care/Unauthorized Modifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Industry Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345

Radio Frequency (RF) Safety Exposure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 346

Hearing Aid Compatibility (HAC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 348

Protecting Your Battery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 349

Power Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 351

Recycling and Disposal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352

User Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353

Product Handling & Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357

Driving Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 358

ESD Safety . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 362

5B. Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365

Specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 366

Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 369

Welcome

Your Pal m® Pre™ Phone

Your Palm® Pre™ phone puts Palm’s new multitasking, gesture-based operating system, the

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Palm

webOS™ platform, inside a small, beautiful device with a keyboard that you can slide

out whenever you need it. Here are a few highlights of your new phone.
Gestures: On your Pre 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”
on page 44, and go to palm.com/support
The Get Started Guide in your Pre phone’s box has a detachable gesture guide to put in a
pocket and consult when you need to—you won’t need it very long.

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”
on page 56.

The Palm

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

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 Pre 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” on page 154, “Calendar” on page 172, and “Email” on page 236.

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Synergy™ feature: The Palm® Synergy™ feature on your Pre phone displays

to see animations that demonstrate these gestures.

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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” on page 255.

Universal search: Need to call Ed? Just slide out the keyboard and 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” on page 76.

Sync: Your Pre 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.

Your Palm profile: 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.

About This User Guide

We know you’re eager to start using your Palm® Pre™ phone right away, and the sections of
this guide are designed to help you do just that.

䢇 Section 1: Your Setup guides you through the process of setting up your new phone and

your Sprint service.

䢇 Section 2: Your Palm® PreTM Phone shows you the basics of your phone and service

with quick, easy-to-follow instructions. This section also describes the call features on
your phone and shows you how to use Sprint service features such as voicemail and call
waiting. This section also shows you how to use the camera and how to transfer and
listen to music files on your phone. Finally, it guides you through the process of using the
full-featured organizer that gives you instant access to your contacts, calendar, tasks,
memos, and more.

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䢇 Section 3: Web and Data Services and Other Wireless Connections shows you how to

use Web browsing, messaging, and email. It also describes other types of wireless
connections, such as Wi-Fi and Bluetooth

䢇 Section 4: Your Resources answers frequently asked questions and shows you what to do

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wireless technology.

if something goes wrong.

䢇 Section 5: Your Safety and Specifications outlines recommended safety and maintenance

guidelines and lists the technical specifications for your Pre phone.

WARN ING

Please refer to “Regulatory and Safety Information” on page 343 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.

Where Can I Learn More?

While Using Your Phone

䢇 On-device Help: Read short how-tos and watch animations on your new phone.

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

menu, and tap Help.

䢇 Online Support from Sprint: Visit sprint.com/palmpresupport to access the User Guide,

how-to videos, tutorials, and helpful support information.

䢇 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.

If You Need More Information

䢇 Sprint Customer Service: For questions about your account or features available on the

network, contact Sprint or visit sprint.com

Help .

for the latest information and help.

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Manage Your Account

Online: sprint.com

䢇 Access your account information.
䢇 Check minute usage (depending on your Sprint service plan).
䢇 View and pay your bill.
䢇 Enroll in Sprint online billing and automatic payment.
䢇 Purchase accessories.
䢇 Shop for the latest Sprint phones.
䢇 View available Sprint service plans and options.
䢇 Learn more about data services and other great products like games, ringtones, and

more.

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From your Palm

Phone and do any of the following:

Open

䢇 Check minute usage and account balance: Enter *4 and tap .
䢇 Make a payment: Enter *3 and tap .
䢇 Access a summary of your Sprint service plan or get answers to other questions: Enter

Pre™ phone

*2 and tap .

From any other phone

䢇 Sprint Customer Service: 1-888-211-4727.
䢇 Business Customer Service: 1-8 00 -927- 2199.

Sprint 411

You have access to a variety of services and information through Sprint 411, including
residential, business, and government listings; assistance with local or long-distance calls;
movie listings; and hotel, restaurant, shopping, and major local event information. There is a
per-call charge and you are billed for airtime.

䢇 Open Phone . Enter 411 and tap .

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Sprint Operator Services

Sprint Operator Services provides assistance with placing collect calls or with placing calls
billed to a local telephone calling card or third party.

䢇 Open Phone . Enter 0 and tap .

To learn more and to see the latest in products and services, visit Sprint online at sprint.com

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Your Setup

Section 1

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Set Up Service

In This Section

⽧ Set Up Your Phone (page 18)

⽧ Turn the Phone On/Off (page 20)

⽧ Make Your First Call (page 24)

⽧ Set Up Your Voicemail (page 25)

⽧ Create Sprint Account Passwords (page 26)

Section 1A

Setup

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Set Up Your Phone

Activate Your Phone

䢇 If you purchased your phone at a Sprint Store: It is probably activated and ready to use.
䢇 If you received your phone in the mail, and it is a new Sprint account or a new line of

service: Your phone is designed to activate once you have completed setup (see
“Complete Setup” on page 18).

䢇 If you received your phone in the mail and you are activating a new phone for an existing

number on your account: You need to go online to activate the number on your new
phone. From your computer’s Web browser, go to sprint.com/activate
onscreen instructions to activate your phone.

If you have problems with activation, contact Sprint Customer Service at 1-888-211-4727 for
assistance.

Complete Setup

1. Press and hold the power button on the upper-right corner of your phone until you

see a logo on the screen (approximately five seconds). Please be patient while your
phone starts up.

2. Slide out the keyboard (see “Slide Out the Keyboard” on page 33).

3. Follow the onscreen instructions to complete setup. (To create a Palm profile, enter a

working email address and a password (see “What Is a Palm Profile?” on page 19). Be
sure to make a note of your email address and password and keep the note in a safe
place.)

and complete the

Important

If you see a notification that an update is available, tap Install Now to install it.
Palm periodically sends you over-the-air updates of the applications and
features of your phone.

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

Call” on page 24.

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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:

䢇 Verify your Palm profile.
䢇 Select a security question and answer.
䢇 Follow a link to learn about getting data like contacts and appointments onto your phone

from your desktop organizer software (see “Transferring Data” on page 97).

Setup

Tip

If you don’t see the confirmation email in your Inbox, check your spam mail
folder in your desktop email program.

What Is a Palm Profile?

Your Palm profile gives you the following benefits:

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

䢇 Info stored in your Palm profile account, as well as in other sources of info on your phone

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

䢇 Should your phone be lost or stolen, you can do a remote erase of the info on the phone.

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You cannot access Palm profile data on the profile website—you can access
the data on your phone only.

Note

If you want to erase data on your phone while you still are in possession of
the phone—for example, before you give it to someone else—don't do a
remote erase; instead, perform a partial or full erase from the phone itself
(see “Erase Data and Reset Your Phone” on page 217).

For detailed information about your Palm profile, see “Backup” on page 210.

Turn the Phone On/Off

Your Pre phone's screen can be turned on and off separately from its wireless services (which
are the Phone , Wi-Fi , and Bluetooth

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applications). 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.

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To turn the screen on, do one of the following:

䢇 Press power . Drag up to unlock the screen.

* Power

䢇 Slide out the keyboard.
䢇 Press Center . This wakes up the screen only when the keyboard is slid out.

To turn the screen off: Press power .
To save power, the screen dims automatically after a period of inactivity, then turns off. If you’re

on a call when the screen dims and turns off, the call is not affected. To brighten the screen if
it has dimmed, tap the screen.

Setup

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” on page 221).

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Turn Wireless Services Off (Airplane Mode)

Airplane mode turns off your phone as well as the Bluetooth® wireless technology and Wi-Fi
features. Use airplane mode when you are on a plane or anywhere else you need to turn off
all wireless services. You can still use apps like Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Music, Doc View,
and PDF View.

Do one of the following:

䢇 Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu. Tap Turn on

Airplane Mode.

䢇 Press and hold power and tap Airplane Mode.

When your phone is in airplane mode, the airplane mode icon appears in the upper-right
corner 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 other wireless
features on individually. For Wi-Fi, see “Turn Wi-Fi On and Off” on page 271.
For Bluetooth, see “Turn the Bluetooth Feature On/Off” on page 291. To turn
your phone back on, you must turn airplane mode off.

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Turn Wireless Services On

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).

䢇 Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu. Tap Turn off

Airplane Mode.

When your phone locates a signal, Sprint appears in the upper-left 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 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.

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Turn Everything (the Screen and Wireless Services) On/Off

䢇 To turn both the screen and wireless services off: Press and hold power and tap

Tur n O ff .

䢇 To turn both the screen and wireless services back on: Press and hold power .

Make Your First Call

1. Press power . (This wakes up the screen.)

2. If necessary, drag up to unlock the screen.

3. Tap .

4. Tap numbers on the dial pad.

Tip

Tap the onscreen backspace icon to delete numbers one at a time. Tap and
hold the icon to delete all the numbers.

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5. Tap to dial.

6. Tap to end the call.

For more ways to make calls, see “Make Calls” on page 106.

Adjust Call Volume

䢇 When you’re on a call, press the Volume button on the side of your phone to adjust the

call volume.

* Volume

Set Up Your Voicemail

All unanswered calls to your phone are automatically transferred to your voicemail, even if
your phone is in use or turned off.

To set up your voicemail:

1. Press Center to display Card view.

2. Press and hold 1 on the keyboard to dial the Sprint voicemail system. (When the

search results screen appears, continue holding 1 until the Phone application
appears.)

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3. Follow the voice prompts to do the following:

䡲 Create your password.
䡲 Record your name announcement.
䡲 Record your greeting.

Note

Voicemail Passcode: Sprint strongly recommends that you create a

passcode when setting up your voicemail to protect against unauthorized
access. If you do not have passcode protection on your voicemail, anyone
with access to your phone can listen to your messages.

For more information about using your voicemail, see “Use Voicemail” on page 112.

Create Sprint Account Passwords

As a Sprint customer, you enjoy unlimited access to your personal account information, your
voicemail account, and your data services account. To ensure that no one else has access to
your information, you need to create passwords to protect your privacy.

Account Password

If you are the account owner, you create an account username and password when you sign
on to sprint.com
website.) If you are not the account owner (if someone else receives the bill for your Sprint
service), you can get a subaccount password at sprint.com

Voicemail Password

You create your voicemail password when you set up your voicemail. See “Set Up Your
Voicemail” on page 25.

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. (To get started, click Need to register for access? in the sign-in area of the

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Data Services Password

With your phone, you can elect to set up an optional data services password to control
access and authorize Premium Service purchases.

To learn more or to change your passwords, sign on to sprint.com
Service at 1-888-211-4727.

or call Sprint Customer

Setup

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Your Palm® PreTM Phone

Section 2

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