Palm Pre 2, Pre 2 Rogers User Guide

User Guide

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Open Source License information

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.

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Chapter 1 Welcome

8Your Palm® Pre™ 2 phone 9What’s in the box? 9 Where can I learn more?

Chapter 2 Basics

12 Get to know your phone 16 Set up your phone 19 Charge the battery 20 Turn the phone on/off 22 Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch 28 Open applications 30 Work with applications 34 Enter and save information 39 Use the menus 41 View and respond to notifications 42 Create and work with favorites 42 Manage online accounts 43 Update the Palm 45 Use App Catalog to shop for new applications

Chapter 3 Just Type

52 Get in touch with a contact 52 Search the web 53 Find information in an application on your phone

webOSTM operating system

54 Create a new item such as a message or memo 54 Open an application 56 Customize Just Type

Chapter 4 Copy files and sync your personal data

58 Copy files between your phone and your computer 59 Overview: Get your personal data onto your phone 61 Transfer data from an old phone 61 Export data from a desktop organizer on your

computer 62 Get data from an online account in the cloud 63 Sync your desktop organizer and your phone

Chapter 5 Phone

66 Make calls 69 Receive calls 70 Use voicemail 73 What can I do during a call? 75 What’s my number? 76 View your call history 76 Work with favorites 78 Save a phone number to Contacts 78 Use a phone headset 80 Customize phone settings 84 Use SIM Toolkit

Contents 3

Chapter 6 Email, text, multimedia, and instant messaging

185 PDF View

86 Email 98 Messaging

Chapter 7 Contacts, Calendar, and other personal

information

110 Contacts 121 Calendar 129 Tasks 133 Memos 135 Clock 136 Calculator 136 Facebook

Chapter 8 Photos, videos, and music

142 Camera 143 Photos 148 Videos 151 YouTube 152 Music 155 Amazon MP3

Chapter 9 Web and wireless connections

160 Wi-Fi 163 Palm mobile hotspot 166 VPN 168 Location Services 170 Web 175 Google Maps 176 Bluetooth 179 Use your phone as a modem

wireless technology

Chapter 10 Documents

Chapter 11 Preferences

190 Backup 194 Date & Time 195 Device Info 198 Regional Settings 198 Screen & Lock 200 Sounds & Ringtones

Chapter 12 Troubleshooting

204 6Ts: Six ways to get your Palm® Pre™ 2 phone

working again 207 For users of other Palm 207 Battery 211 Screen and performance 213 Phone 214 Hands-free devices 215 Synchronization 218 Sending and receiving data in Email, Messaging, and

Web 218 Email 219 Messaging 219 Wi-Fi 220 Web 220 Calendar and Contacts 221 Camera 221 Photos, Videos, and Music 222 Amazon MP3 222 Transferring information from your computer 223 Backing up and restoring data 224 Updates 224 Transferring information from another Palm

webOS™ platform phone 224 Third-party applications 225 Making room on your phone

devices

4Contents

182 Quickoffice® mobile office software

Glossary of Terms

Online accounts available for Palm® webOS™ phones

Specifications

Regulatory and Safety Information

Index

Contents 5

6Contents

Welcome

Congratulations on the purchase of your Palm® Pre™ 2 phone.

In this chapter

8Your Palm® Pre™ 2 phone 9 What’s in the box? 9 Where can I learn more?

Chapter 1 : Welcome 7

Yo u r P a l m® Pre™ 2 phone

need to search the web, find info in an application on your phone, or start an action such as creating an email message, memo, or task. For more information, see Just Type.

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

• An advanced wireless phone running the Palm

webOS™ platform

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

Ta s k s

• High-speed data transfer with 3G (UMTS/HSDPA) and GPRS/EDGE

support

• Wi-Fi capability

• A 5-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

Pre™ 2 phone puts Palm’s new multitasking, gesture-based

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 2 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. Carry the Gesture Guide (included in the box with your Pre 2 phone) around with you and you’ll soon know all the gestures by heart.

The Palm

SynergyTM feature: The Palm® Synergy™ feature works in the

background to gather your information from the various online sources where you keep it and then display that information in a single view on your phone. 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 2 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 Online accounts available for Palm® webOSTM phones* 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.

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. You can also send email or surf the web while on a call.

Just Type: 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. Just Type works just as fast when you

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Sync: Your Pre 2 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. For more information, see Get data

from an online account in the cloud.

Yo u r Pa l m pro f i l e : When you set up your phone, you create a Palm profile.

Your profile gives you an account in which to create and store contacts and calendar events. It also 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

information is backed up?)

• AC charger

• Standard lithium-ion battery (installed)

• 3.5mm stereo headset

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.

Hardware

Print material

• Getting Started guide

• Gesture Guide

• Consumer Information About Radio Frequency Emissions and

Responsible Driving

• Limited Warranty

• General User Guide: Important Safety and Legal Information

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 .

• Palm Pre 2 phone

• USB cable

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• 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 a tool to help you export data from your desktop to your new phone (the Data Transfer Assistant, or DTA), and read comprehensive information about your phone.

• Customer service from your wireless service provider: For questions about

your mobile account or features, contact your wireless service provider’s customer care.

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Basics

You’re about to discover the many things about your

Palm

Pre™ 2 phone that will 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

43 Update the Palm 45 Use App Catalog to shop for new applications

webOSTM operating system

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Get to know your phone

Slide out the keyboard

• Hold the phone as shown below and gently push up.

Front view

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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 Vo lu me 4 Gesture area: Make the back gesture and begin other gestures here. See Use gestures: tap,

swipe, drag, flick, pinch.

5 Microphone 6 Keyboard: See Use the keyboard. 7 Charger/microUSB connector

NOTE The volume you set for each individual audio source is saved

automatically, whether the audio source is the earpiece of your phone, a wired headset, a wireless headset that uses Bluetooth

wireless technology, music heard through the speaker, music heard through a headset, and so on. When you return to using an audio source, the audio plays at the volume you left it the last time you used that source.”

TIP 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. Do not use harsh chemicals, cleaning solvents, or aerosols to clean the phone or its accessories.

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 Text se le ct i on

gestures).

2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters and Text selection gestures. 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.

To u c h s c r e e n

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 Connection icons: Show the status of wireless service connections and battery strength

(see Icons in the title bar). Drag down over the icons to open the connection menu.

4 Page indicator: Shows that there are Launcher pages to the right of the currently displayed

page. Tap to move to the next page.

5 Page name: Tap and hold to change the name (see Rename a Launcher page). 6 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.

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Icons in the title bar

Table 1. Title bar icons and descriptions

You can monitor the status of several items using icons 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.

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

Bluetooth

wireless technology feature, and Wi-Fi feature are off (incoming calls go to voicemail). See Tur n w i rel es s

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 Turn wir el es s s e rv ic es on.

Your phone is connected to a GPRS data network. See I can’t

tell if data services are available.

Item Description

Your phone cannot detect or read your SIM card. You can call your national emergency number only. See Set up your

phone.

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 global search on your phone (see Just Type). 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 Turn TTY/TDD on/off.

wireless technology is turned on. See Bluetooth®

Your phone is connected to an EDGE data network. See I

can’t tell if data services are available.

Your phone is connected to a 3G (HSDPA or UMTS) data network. See I can’t tell if data services are available.

When your phone is on and connected to your wireless service provider’s network, the provider’s name appears in the upper-left corner of Card view and most Phone screens.

The phone is searching for your wireless service provider’s network.

Your wireless service provider’s network is not available.

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Back view

The back cover of your Pre 2 phone is compatible with the TouchstoneTM charging dock (sold separately).

Top view

1 Power: 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.

2 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.

3 3.5mm headset jack.

Bottom view

1 Camera flash 2 Camera lens 3 Speaker

* Back cover release

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Set up your phone

Insert the SIM card and set up your phone

Your SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card contains information on your wireless account. Depending on your wireless service provider, this information might include your phone number and voicemail access number. You can also store contact information on your SIM card (see Use

SIM Toolkit.

To make calls or use your phone’s email or web features, you need to insert a SIM card. If you don’t have a SIM card, contact your wireless service provider.

To take advantage of the high-speed data connection available on your phone, you may need to have a 3G SIM card. Check with your wireless service provider for information.

2 Slide your thumbnail or a credit card into the hairline opening between

the back cover and the phone, starting at the bottom and moving halfway up one side until you hear the clasp (a) release.

3 Repeat step 2 to release the clasp (b) on the other side of the phone.

WARNING You must remove the battery first whenever you insert or remove

the SIM card.

1 Press and release the back cover release.

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4 Lift off the back cover.

5 To re mov e t h e battery: Grasp the tab and pull it down and out to lift

the battery out of the compartment.

6 Insert the SIM card.

WARNING You must remove the battery first whenever you insert or remove

the SIM card.

* Notch

7 Replace the battery. Make sure to leave the tab showing at the top of

the battery.

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8 Position the back cover over the phone and gently press the top two

clasps (a), located at the top corners. Then press the two clasps (b) halfway down either side of the phone.

10 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). Your phone need a few seconds to start up.

TIP If your phone does not turn on after you insert the battery and press and hold

power, you need to connect your phone to the AC charger to charge it.

11 Follow the onscreen instructions to complete setup.

12 To create a Palm profile, enter a working email address, create a

password for your profile, and select and answer a security question.

IMPORTANT Be sure to write down the email address and password that you

use to create your profile; you will need them later.

9 Slide out the keyboard, and then press the two clasps (c) at the bottom

corners.

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 you can’t use the same profile on two webOS phones at the same time.

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

Make calls.

Verify your profile

After you finish setup, look for an email on your computer at the address you used for your Palm profile. If you don’t see the confirmation email in your Inbox, check your spam mail folder in your desktop email program. Click the link in the email to do the following:

• Verify yo ur Palm p rofi le.

• Follow a link to learn about getting data like contacts and appointments

onto your phone from your desktop organizer software (see Export data

from a desktop organizer on your computer).

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What is a Palm profile?

Your Palm profile gives you the following benefits:

Charge the battery

• 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, open the web browser on your computer,

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.

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 .

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 device 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.

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

connector. The silver circle on the cable faces the front of the phone.

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.

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

3 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 (sold separately) to your computer.

TouchstoneTM charging dock

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.

• 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 45 degrees Celsius can permanently reduce the capacity and life span of any lithium-ion battery.

• 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 Tur n w ire le ss

services off (airplane mode)).

• 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).

• Use a Wi-Fi connection to download system updates and applications

from App Catalog (see Update the Palm

Use App Catalog to shop for new applications). Downloads occur faster

over Wi-Fi than over your wireless service provider’s data connection, and thus use less battery power.

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

battery life. Sign out of your IM account when you are not using it (see

Sign out of an IM account).

• Shut down the phone completely when you won’t be using it for an

extended period of time (see Shut down your phone).

webOSTM operating system and

• 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 phone on/off

Your Pre 2 phone’s screen can be turned on and off separately from its wireless services (which are the Phone app, Wi-Fi app, and Bluetooth 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 on, do one of the following:

• Press power . Drag up to unlock the screen.

• Slide out the keyboard.

* Power

app). This means you can wake up the screen to use just the

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TIP You can also unlock the screen by dragging up from the gesture area across

the onscreen lock icon.

To turn the screen off, press power .

To save power, the screen dims automatically after a period of inactivity, 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 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’t browse the web, but you can still use apps like Calendar, Contacts, Photos, Music, Quickoffice, and PDF View.

Do one of the following:

* 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 W i-F i on /off and Turn the Bluetooth feature on/

off). To turn your phone back on, you must turn airplane mode off.

• Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu.

Ta p 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.

Turn wireless services on

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 Tu rn o f f A i r p l a n e Mo d e .

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When your phone locates a signal, your wireless service provider name 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.

At those times, shut down the screen and wireless services completely by doing one of the following:

• 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.

* These indicate that wireless services are on.

When you are inside a coverage area, the bars of the signal-strength icon are filled in according to the strength of the signal. If you’re outside a coverage area, the bars in the signal-strength icon appear dimmed with an X.

Shut down your phone

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.

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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

until a logo appears onscreen.

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. Do not use your fingernail. Don’t bear down.

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.

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:

* Gesture area

When you’re working in an application, the center of the gesture area displays a lighted bar.

• Tap the bar to minimize the app and display Card view (see Display all

open applications (Card view)).

• The lighted bar also appears when you tap the center of the gesture area

to maximize a card in Card view.

• When the screen is off, the lighted bar pulses when a notification arrives

and continues to pulse until you tap the notification or turn on the screen (see Get notifications when the screen is locked or off).

• 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 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.

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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.

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, such as in

a list, in a document, or on a web page. Slide your fingertip slowly along the surface—no need to bear down.

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

lists, documents, or pages. 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.

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.

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.

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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

Scroll slow: Drag the screen in the desired direction.

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 (Email, Web,

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

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

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

Zoom in or out a fixed amount (Web, Photos, Quickoffice

mobile office

software, PDF View): Double-tap the screen.

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

For information on working with text after you select it, see Cut, copy, and

paste information and Use the Copy All or Select All feature.

Insert the cursor in a text field: Tap the location. See Cut, copy, and paste

information.

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.

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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.

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

for example, on a web page or in an email 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.

Drag an item

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

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Delete a list item

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

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 the Launcher

The Launcher displays all your applications. The Launcher includes multiple pages, which you can organize to group apps the way you want (see

Reorder Launcher icons and Reorder Launcher pages).

1 If you’re in an app, tap the center of the gesture area to display Card

view.

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 menu item.

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.

2 In Card view, 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

3 To find the app you want, flick up or down to see all the icons on a

page. To see other pages, swipe right or left on the screen, or tap the arrows in the upper-left and upper-right corner of the screen.

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1 Page indicator shows that there are pages to the right of the current page. Tap the arrow

to move to the next page.

2 Page name. Tap and hold to change the name.

4 Tap the application icon.

To close the Launcher, 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.

You can customize Quick Launch to contain the icons for apps you use most often. To open an application from Quick Launch, just tap the icon.

* Quick Launch

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 Line up your favorite applications in Quick Launch).

Open an application in Quick Launch

Quick Launch is the bar of five icons you can access from any app. Quick Launch always appears at the bottom of Card view.

NOTE If you have a notification or the dashboard is open (see View and respond

to notifications), you need to dismiss the open item to access Quick Launch.

When you’re in an app, 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.

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

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.

Open an application using Just Type

For detailed information on the Just Type feature, see Just Type.

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

2 Begin typing the name of the application or one of its keywords (see

Use application keywords).

3 When the application icon appears in the search results, tap it.

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:

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

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• Tap the center of the gesture area.

• Make the up gesture: Flick up from the gesture area to the screen.

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