Palm Pre P100EWW User Manual

User Guide

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• Windows XP: Open My Computer.

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Chapter 1 Welcome

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

Chapter 2 Basics

10 Get to know your phone 14 Set up your phone 15 Charge the battery 16 Turn the phone on/off 18 Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch 22 Open applications 24 Work with applications 27 Enter information 30 Use the menus 31 Search to find info and make calls 32 View and respond to notifications 33 Update the software on your phone 36 Copy files between your phone and your computer

Chapter 3 Transferring Data

40 Data transfer overview 40 How do I get data from my old phone? 40 How do I get data off my computer? 41 I’m already using Google, Facebook, and/or

Microsoft Exchange

42 I want to access the contacts, calendar events, and

tasks in my current desktop app, and then use the Synergy feature to access the same data on my phone

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

backed up somewhere besides my phone

43 I’d rather sync directly with my computer

Chapter 4 Phone

46 Make calls 48 Receive calls 49 Use voicemail 49 What can I do during a call? 52 What’s my number? 52 View your call history 53 Save a phone number to Contacts 53 Use a phone headset 55 Customize phone settings

Chapter 5 Email and other messages

58 Email 68 Messaging

Chapter 6 Personal information

78 Contacts 86 Calendar

Contents 3

93 Tasks 97 Memos 98 Clock 99 Calculator

Chapter 7 Photos, videos, and music

102 Camera 102 Photos 106 Videos 107 YouTube 109 Music

Chapter 8 Web and wireless connections

114 Wi-Fi 117 Location Services 118 Web 122 Google Maps 123 Bluetooth 125 Use your phone as a modem

wireless technology

Chapter 11 Troubleshooting

146 For users of other Palm® devices 146 Battery 149 Screen and performance 151 Phone 152 Hands-free devices 153 Synchronization 155 Email 156 Messaging 156 Wi-Fi 157 Web 158 Calendar and Contacts 159 Camera 159 Transferring information from your computer 159 Backing up and restoring data 160 Updates 160 Third-party applications 161 Making room on your phone

Terms

Chapter 9 Documents

Chapter 10 Preferences

4Contents

128 Doc View 131 PDF View

136 Backup 139 Date & Time 139 Device Info 141 Regional Settings 142 Screen & Lock 143 Sounds & Ringtones

Regulatory and Safety Information

Specifications

Index

Welcome

Congratulations on the purchase of your Palm® PreTM phone.

In this chapter

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

Chapter 1 : Welcome 5

Yo u r P a l m® Pre™ 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 with EVDO and 1x support

• Wi-Fi capability

• A 3-megapixel digital camera

• GPS functionality

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

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

Yo ur Pa lm operating system, the Palm

Pre™ 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 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. The

introductory piece 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.

The Palm

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

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

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, Calendar, and

Email.

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 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.

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.

Yo ur Pa lm pr of il 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.

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 serious bodily injury, death, or property damage.

For example, suppose you have a Google account for personal email, contacts, and calendar events, and an Exchange account for your corporate

6Chapter1:Welcome

What’s in the box?

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

Hardware

Print material

• Getting Started Guide

• Palm warranty

• End User License Agreement

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 formation 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.

• Palm Pre phone and pouch

• USB cable

• AC charger

• 3.5mm stereo headset

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8Chapter1:Welcome

Basics

You’re about to discover the many things about your

Palm

Pre™ 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.

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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 To u c h s c r e e n : Tap and make other gestures directly on the screen. See To u c h s c r e e n . 3 Vo lu m e 4 Gesture area: Make the back gesture and begin other gestures here. See Use gestures: tap,

swipe, drag, flick, pinch.

5 Microphone 6 Center: Press to display Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)). 7 Keyboard: See Keyboard. 8 Charger/microUSB connector

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. When you pack your phone away, use the pouch to protect it.

Keyboard

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

the keys. See Enter alternate keyboard characters.

2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters. 3 Space 4 Backspace 5 Enter: Press to enter a line return (for example, in a memo or in an email message you are

composing) or to accept information you entered in a field. See Enter information in a field.

6 Sym: Press to enter symbols and accented characters that don't appear on the keys. See

Enter characters from the symbols table.

To u c h s c r e e n

1 Application name: Displays the name of the currently open application. Tap the name to

open the application menu.

2 Launcher: See Open an application in the Launcher. 3 Scroll arrow: Swipe up or down to see icons that are on the page but hidden. 4 Quick Launch: See Open an application in Quick Launch. 5 Connection icons: Show the status of wireless service connections and battery strength (see

What are all those icons?). 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).

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What are all those icons?

Title bar icons and descriptions

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

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 ire le ss

services off (airplane mode).

Wi-Fi is turned on. Waves denote signal strength. See Wi-Fi.

The phone is searching for a Wi-Fi network.

The phone is on. Bars denote signal strength. See Tu r n

wireless services on.

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

Item Description

No wireless service provider network is available.

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

preferences.

TTY is turned on. See Enable TTY/TDD.

wireless technology is turned on. See Bluetooth®

See I can’t tell if data services are available.

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.

See I can’t tell if data services are available.

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

The phone is searching for a wireless service provider network.

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Back view

Top view

1 Powe r: Press to wake up or turn off the screen. Press and hold to turn your device and all

wireless services completely off and to turn your device back on after having turned it completely off.

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

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.

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?

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 (see Charge the battery).

2 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?). Be sure to make a note of your password and keep it in

a safe place.

IMPORTANT If you see a notification that an update is available, tap Install

Now to install it. Palm periodically sends updates to enhance the applications

and features on your phone.

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. Click the link in the email to do the following:

A Palm profile connects your phone to Palm to get automatic updates, back up your data, and more. Specifically, your Palm profile backs up data that is not stored in an online account such as Google or Exchange (see

Transferring Data).

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

access the data on your phone only.

Your Palm profile also allows you to do a remote erase of the data on your phone if your phone is lost or stolen.

NOTE If you want to erase data on your phone while you still have it—for

example, before you give it to someone else—perform a partial or full erase (see Erase data and reset your phone).

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.

• Verif y you r Palm profi le.

• Select a security question and answer.

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

onto your phone from your desktop organizer software (see Transferring

Data).

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Charge the battery

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 serious bodily injury, death, or property damage. Use of unapproved third-party power supply accessories may damage the device and void the 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.

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

connector.

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

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

connector. This is easier to do if you slide the keyboard out first.

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

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.

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 .

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:

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

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

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• 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 les s

services off (airplane mode)).

• Turn off the Wi-Fi (see Wi-Fi), Bluetooth (see Bluetooth

wireless technology), and GPS (see Location Services) features when you are not

using them.

• 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.

• 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.

• You can 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/us/products/phones/pre/index.html.

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.

• Press Center . This wakes up the screen only when the keyboard is

slid out.

Tur n th e ph one on /o ff

The screen and the wireless services—phone, Bluetooth® wireless technology, and Wi-Fi—of your phone can be turned off and on separately. 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.

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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.

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)

Turn wireless services on

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:

• 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.

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

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

menu. Tap Turn off Airplane Mode.

When your phone locates a signal, your wireless service provider’s 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.

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, For Bluetooth, see Turn the Bluetooth feature on/off. To turn your phone back on, you must turn airplane mode off.

When you are inside a coverage area, the bars of 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

• To turn both the screen and wireless services off: Press and hold

power and tap Tu rn Of f.

• To turn both the screen and wireless services back on: Press and hold

power .

You make gestures in two areas on your phone: the touchscreen and the gesture area. The gesture area is the black area extending from the bottom of the screen to halfway down the Center button.

* Gesture area

You also need to know about the Center button. Press the Center button to do the following:

• When you’re working in an application, press Center 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, press Center to maximize the app in the center

of the view.

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.

To see short animations illustrating how to do gestures, go to palm.com/

support or tap Clips in Help on your phone.

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Basic gestures

Ta p : Tap with the tip of the finger, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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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.

Scroll gestures

Scroll a specific amount: 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 to increase the size of items on the screen in Email, Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View, Google Maps: Pinch out: Place two fingers on the screen and spread them slowly apart.

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Zoom out to decrease the size of items on the screen in Email, Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View, Google Maps: Pinch in: Place two fingers on the screen and bring them together.

Zoom in or out a fixed amount (Web, Photos): Double-tap the screen.

Place the cursor in a text field: Tap the location.

Move the cursor: Tap the location to insert the cursor. Press and hold the orange key. Place your finger anywhere onscreen and drag your finger in the direction you want to move the cursor.

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

Text selection gestures are available in any editable text field—that is, any field or screen where you can insert a cursor.

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Select text: 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.

Delete a list item

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

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.

Drag and drop

Tap and hold the item, drag it, and then lift your finger to drop it. Sometimes 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 changes size and becomes transparent.

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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.

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

1 Drag up slowly from the gesture area to the screen.

Quick Launch is the bar of five icons that is always available at the bottom of Card view and the Launcher. To open an application from Quick Launch, just tap the icon.

Quick Launch can display no more than five icons. By default it displays, from left to right, Phone, Contacts, Email, Calendar, and the Launcher. You can change the order of icons (except the Launcher icon) in Quick Launch (see Reorder Quick Launch icons), or swap in whatever applications you like (see Change the applications that appear in Quick Launch).

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).

1 Press Center and tap .

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

respond to notifications), you need to dismiss them to access Quick Launch.

When an application fills the whole screen, make the following gesture to display Quick Launch and open one of its applications.

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

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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 down to see partially or fully hidden icons. 2 Page indicators show that there are two Launcher pages to the right—swipe right to see

them.

Open an application using search

1 Press Center to open Card view.

2 Enter the name of the application.

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.

To close the Launcher, do one of the following:

• Press Center .

• Tap .

• Flick up from the gesture area to the screen.

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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,

press Center .

TIP You can also open Card view by flicking up from the gesture area to the

screen.

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 maximized application

windows with a full swipe in the gesture area (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.

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.

2 Tap a card to maximize the application.

2 Tap and hold a card, and after the halo appears around the icon, drag it

to another position.

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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.

3 Tap and hold a Launcher icon, and after the halo appears around the

icon, drag the icon onto the Quick Launch bar.

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

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

2 Tap and hold a Quick Launch icon, and then drag the icon onto the

Launcher.

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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.

Delete an application

You can delete applications that you have installed on your phone.

1 While pressing and holding the orange key, 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, and tap Delete.

Enter information

Use the keyboard

1 Orange: See Enter alternate keyboard characters. 2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters. 3 Space 4 Backspace 5 Enter: Press to enter a line return (for example, in a memo or in an email message you are

composing) or to accept information you entered in a field. See Enter information in a field.

6 Sym: 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.

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• Turn on Caps Lock: Press Shift twice. The Caps Lock symbol

appears: .

• Tur n off C a ps Lo ck : Pr es s Shift .

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 $.

Enter alternate keyboard characters

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

• Press the orange key and press the key for the character. The alternate

character symbol appears: . You don’t need to hold down the orange key while pressing the second key.

• Enter a series of alternate characters: Press the orange key twice to

lock the alternate character feature. The alternate character lock symbol appears: .

• Turn off the alternate character feature: Press the orange key.

Enter passwords

You can see each character of a password only as you enter it, so be careful. Be sure Caps Lock and alternate character lock are off unless you need them. For information on how to enter characters, see Enter uppercase letters and

Enter alternate keyboard characters.

Enter characters from the symbols table

TIP If you press the wrong key, press Backspace to return to the full list of

symbols and accented characters. You can then press another key.

3 Scroll to find the character you want.

4 Tap the character to insert it.

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

h or H ¢ € £ ¥ ƒ

to select…

« » Ø μ |

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.

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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 “ ” „ < > « »

Symbols and accented characters

To accept the information you entered, do one of the following:

Press Sym and press…

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 ÷ ^ ±

x or X x ¤

y or Y ÿ ý Ÿ Ý ¥ [ ] { } < > « »

zž Ž •

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

. … ~ \ ` • ÷ ^ [ ] { } < > « » Ø μ |

@° • Ø

to select…

• 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.

• If 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.

1 Tap the currently displayed option to open the list. For example, when

creating a new event in Calendar, tap No Reminder to display the list of reminder options.

Enter information in a field

You can enter information in a field by typing or by pasting previously copied information (see Cut, copy, and paste information).

Applications with text fields support the auto-correct feature. If the app recognizes a common misspelling, it auto-corrects the word. To cancel the auto-correction, press Backspace .

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Save information

• On most screens, your information is saved automatically. Just make the

back gesture to close the screen (see Go up one level in an app (back

gesture)), and your info is saved at the same time.

• On screens with a Done button, tap Done to save your information.

Use the menus

Most applications have an application menu hidden in the upper-left corner, which provides access to additional features. There is also a connection menu hidden in the upper-right corner, which provides access to wireless services.

2 Tap the list it em yo u wa nt .

Cut, copy, and paste information

You can cut or copy any editable text. Tap the text to insert the cursor—if the cursor appears, you can edit the text. You can’t edit text on a web page or in an email message, unless it is a message you are composing.

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 Insert the cursor where you want to paste the text (see Tex t se lec ti on

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 the Center button lights up, and press X (cut), C (copy), or V (paste).

Some applications have additional menus. For example, in Photos, tap an open picture and tap to display a menu of tasks you can do with the picture (see Photos).

To get the most out of your phone, it’s a good idea to familiarize yourself with the additional features available through the menus in various applications.

Open the application menu

The application menu contains options such as Cut and Copy, Preferences, Help, and other application-specific commands.

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