
Contents
Getting started 3
Make and receive the first call.
Getting to know your phone 6
Key functions, quick keys, entering letters, Chinese input.
Transferring and exchanging information 71
Bluetooth wireless technology, synchronization.
More features 77
Calendar, alarm clock, stopwatch, timer, games.

Sony Ericsson
Fifth edition (October 2002)
This manual is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB, without any warranty.
Improvements and changes to this manual
necessitated by typographical errors, inaccuracies
of current information, or improvements to
programs and/or equipment, may be made by Sony
Ericsson Mobile Communications AB at any time
and without notice. Such changes will, however,
be incorporated into new editions of this manual.
Please contact your network operator or service
provider if you are in doubt whether you can use a
particular service or not.
Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient
use and the Limited warranty chapters before you
use your mobile phone.
The BLUETOOTH trademarks are owned by
Bluetooth SIG, Inc.
T9™ Text Input is a trademark or a registered

Getting started
About this user’s guide
For ease of reference, the “Getting to know your
phone” chapter gives a quick overview of the
main functions of the phone, shortcuts and
general information.
Available services
Some services and functions described in this user’s
Assembly
Before you can use your phone you need to:
• insert the SIM card.
• attach and charge the battery. See “SIM card and
battery information” on page 4.
Note: Always turn off the phone and detach the
charger before you insert or remove a SIM card.

SIM card and battery information
It may take up to 30 minutes before an icon
appears in the display when charging.
1. Insert the SIM card. Make sure the SIM card is placed
under the silvery holders.
2. Place the battery on the back of the phone and push
until you hear a click.
3. Connect the charger to the phone at the flash symbol.
The flash symbol on the charger plug must
You have to insert the SIM
card and charge the battery
before you can use the phone.
≈≈≈≈ 30 min.

Making and receiving calls
If you make a mistake while entering your PIN,
delete the wrong number by pressing .
If you enter the wrong PIN three times in a row, the
SIM card is blocked and the message PIN blocked
appears. To unblock it, you need to enter your PUK
(Personal Unblocking Key). Your PUK is provided by
your network operator.
To make and receive calls
On/off
My Network

Getting to know your phone
Key functions
Vo l u m e
key
Increase or decrease the
volume of the earpiece
during a call. Scroll through
menus, lists and text. Enter the
Status menu in standby. Slide
up or down twice to reject an
incoming call. Slide up or
Press the joystick up, down,
left or right to move through
the menus, lists and texts.
Press the joystick as an
alternative to .
Press and hold to turn the
phone on or off or to go back

Quick keys
The table describes some of the most useful key
combinations using shortcuts.
To... When in standby:
make an emergency call enter the international
emergency number and
press
YES
enter and move through
the main menus
press or
reach a contact beginning
with a specific letter
press and hold any of the
keys -
reach a phone number at a
specific position.
press the position number
and
speed dial press any of the number
keys - and
YES
find a contact in the Call
contact list
press and hold
To... When in standby:

reject a call quickly slide the volume
key up or down twice
when receiving a call or
press
NO
To... During a call:
put a call on hold press
YES
retrieve a call press
YES
again
To... When in standby:
To... When entering letters
using multitap text input:
reach the second letter or
character of a key
slide the volume key up
and press any of the
number keys
reach the third letter or
character of a key
slide the volume key down
and press any of the
number keys
shift between capital and
press , then the letter

Using shortcuts
A quicker way to move through the menus is to use
shortcuts. Enter the menus by pressing or and
shift between input
languages
press and hold
enter a p (pause)
press and hold when
entering a pause in a dial
string or melody
To... When entering letters
using T9
™
Text Input:
To... When entering letters
using multitap text input:
shift between
input methods
press and hold
shift between
input languages
press and hold
To... When entering letters
using T9
™
Text Input:

Delete, edit and rename
If you add items, for example, a contact, a note,
an appointment or a bookmark, it can be deleted,
edited or renamed.
There are two ways to delete items:
• Select an item and press .
• Select an item, press , select Delete or Delete all.
There are two ways to edit items:
After the first data download and after restarting your
phone, a new menu appears in your phone as the first
submenu under the Connect menu.
• To enter your new menu system, scroll to Connect/
Online services.
Note: This menu only appears if your SIM card
supports this service. Some operators may not use the
name “Online services”. Your phone may not support
all of the services offered.

Entering letters
You can enter letters, for example, when you add
names to the phone book, write text messages or enter
WAP addresses.
Apart from the way you normally enter letters in
your phone, using multitap text input, you can use
T9™ Text Input for entering text messages and
e-mail, for example, if the input language you select
supports this. T9™ Text Input is a predictive input
method and is a quicker way to write texts. See “T9™
When writing, you can switch to one of your selected
input languages by pressing and then selecting
Language. See “The list of options” on page 14.
Multitap text input
When saving names in the phone book or when writing
WAP addresses, you enter letters using multitap text
input. You press each key as many times as needed to
show the letter you want. In the following example,
we are going to write a name in the Phone book.

• To shift between capital and lower-case letters, press
, then enter the letter.
Tip: You can also use the volume key as a shortcut to
certain letters:
To enter a ‘B’, slide the volume key up and press .
To enter a ‘C’, slide the volume key down and press
.
T9™ Text Input
Press… to get…
Space - ? ! ‚ . : ; " ’ < = > ( ) _ 1
A B C Å Ä Æ à Ç 2 Γ
D E F è É 3 ∆ Φ
G H I ì 4
J K L 5 Λ
M N O Ñ Ö Ø ò 6
P Q R S ß 7 Π Σ
T U V Ü ù 8

To enter letters using T9™ Text Input
1. Scroll to Messages,
YES
, SMS,
YES
, Write new,
YES
.
2. For example, if you want to write the word “Jane”,
press , , , .
3. If the word shown is the one you want:
• press to accept and add a space.
(To accept a word without adding a space,
press .)
If the word shown is not the one you want:
•press
or
repeatedly to view alternative words
you enter the word you just added to the dictionary,
it will appear as one of the alternative words.
4. Continue writing your message. See also “Sending text
messages” on page 58.
Tip: Press to enter a full stop. To enter other
punctuation marks, press and then
or
repeatedly. Accept by pressing .
Press and hold to select an input method.

• Input method – A list of input methods available for
the current input language is shown.
• Candidates – for T9™ Text Input only
Select On to show a list of alternative words.
• Accept word – for T9™ Text Input only
Accept the suggested word.
• Help.
Turning off the T9™ Text Input
If you wish, you can turn off the T9™ Text Input.
To select Chinese as the input language
1. Scroll to Settings,
YES
, Language,
YES
, Input,
YES
.
2. Scroll to Chinese and press . Confirm and exit by
pressing
YES
.
Switching between Chinese input methods
In the Chinese editing mode, press and hold
to switch to another input method. Press and
hold to switch to another input language.
You can also switch to another input language or

one that you want, press
YES
to enter it, or use or
to go to the character that you want.
If the character that you want is not displayed in the
candidate row, press , and a new candidate row is
displayed. Press again until the character you want
is displayed, or enter the next stroke or letter and a new
set of characters will be displayed in the candidate row.
To go back to a row that was previously displayed,
press or .

The eight stroke categories are defined in the
table below:
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke Character
!"#"$"%"&
'"(")"*"+
,"-"."/"0
^"_"`"a"b
c"d"e"f"g
h"i"j"k"l
m"n"o"p"q
r"s"t"u"v
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke Character

Example of Stroke input
Your phone has an association function which is
designed to associate a stroke with a component,
a component with a character, or a character with
words or phrases.
To enter words
In this example, we are going to enter “ ”• ”.
1. Enter the first stroke
“ – ”.
Six components and characters starting with “ – ”
™"š"›"œ"•
ž"Ÿ" "¡"¢
£"+"„"¤"¥
P"¦"§"¨"©
ª"«"¬"-
Key
Stroke
Category
Basic
Stroke Character

Sequence rules
You must enter a Chinese character stroke by stroke,
in the right order. The rules for the sequence of strokes
and components are:
• Over first then down:
• Left slope first then right slope:
• From top to bottom:
• From left to right:
• From outside to inside:
Below is the key mapping of Pinyin letters on
the keypad.
Key Pinyin letter
1
a b c
2
d e f
3
g h i
4
j k l
5

For example, “ , ” character:
Simplified Pinyin
You enter Pinyin consonants until the desired character
appears at the bottom.
Example of continuous and simplified Pinyin
To enter the phrase “ ¸¹¸º ” using
Continuous Pinyin:
•Enter
BUJI
, press
YES
four times to select the suggested
characters. The phrase “ ¸¹¸º ” appears.
To:
Enter (z) Briefly press
9999
Enter (h) Briefly press
44
Enter (o) Briefly press
666
Enter (n)
Briefly press
66
Enter (g)
Briefly press
4
Enter (1)
Press
1

Personalizing your phone
You can adjust the phone settings to suit your
own requirements.
Note: If you change a setting which is included in
a profile, the active profile is also changed.
See “Profiles” on page 29.
Master reset
Themes
You can change the appearance of the display, for
example, the colours and background picture, by using
themes. Your phone comes with some pre-set themes.
You cannot delete these, but you can create new
themes and download them to your phone. For more
information, visit www.SonyEricsson.com or
wap.SonyEricsson.com.
• To select a theme, scroll to Fun & Games/Themes.
If you need to adjust the display contrast, scroll to

To receive and save a theme
1. From standby, press and scroll to
Receive item,
YES
.
Both the infrared port and the Bluetooth function are
activated for three minutes.
2. When you receive the theme, press
YES
to save it
in Themes.
Pictures
Your phone comes with a number of pictures. You can
Handling pictures
You can add, edit, or delete pictures in My pictures.
The number of pictures that can be saved depends on
the size of the pictures. File types supported are GIF,
JPEG and WBMP.
The pictures are shown in thumbnail view. To get a
full view, press
YES
.
To view your pictures
• Scroll to Fun & Games,
YES
, My pictures or

To edit and save a picture
1. Scroll to Fun & Games,
YES
, My pictures,
YES
.
2. Select a picture,
YES
.
3. Press , select Edit. You can now start to edit the
picture. You can only edit WBMP pictures. See the
table below.
4. Press , select Save,
YES
. The picture is saved in
My pictures.
To draw a picture
move the cursor right.
move the cursor down and left.
move the cursor down.
move the cursor down and right.
move the cursor 1, 5 or 10 spaces.
view the Options menu.
save and exit the picture.
Press… to…

Exchanging pictures
You can exchange pictures via IR, Bluetooth wireless
technology, MMS or e-mail. Please note that you are
not allowed to exchange copyright-protected material.
For more information on sending pictures in messages,
see “Messaging” on page 57.
Tip: Save a web album’s e-mail address in your phone
book and you can save pictures in that album if you
send the pictures as attachments.
To receive and save a picture
1. From standby, press and scroll to
Receive item,
YES
.
Both the infrared port and the Bluetooth function are
activated for three minutes.
2. When you receive the picture, press
YES
to save it in
My pictures.
• When you receive a picture via a text message or a
multimedia message, a new message appears in your

To use a picture as the screen saver
You can select a picture, saved in the phone, and use it
as the screen saver.
1. Scroll to Settings,
YES
, Display,
YES
, Screen saver,
YES
.
2. Scroll to Select,
YES
.
3. Scroll to the picture you want to use as the screen
saver,
YES
.
4. Press
YES
to save.
Ring signals and melodies
• To turn the ring signal on or off, press and hold
from standby and select Turn on silent or
Turn off silent.
All signals except the alarm and timer signals are
turned off.
Composing melodies
You can compose and edit melodies using the keypad
for notes and to set tones.

3. Press
YES
again to save and name it, or press NO to
continue composing.
Note: To edit a melody, scroll to Fun & Games/My
sounds, select the melody and press .
To use the piano
1. In the Composer, slide the
volume key up to activate
the piano.
Receiving melodies
You can receive a sound or melody via IR, Bluetooth
wireless technology, SMS or MMS, or download it via
WAP. When you receive the sound or melody,
press
YES
to save it in My sounds.
If you use infrared make sure that the infrared ports
are facing each other.
Increasing ring
You can choose a ring signal that rises in steps from

To set a specific ring signal for a caller
1. Scroll to Phone book,
YES
, Personal rings,
YES
,
Add new?,
YES
.
2. Enter the first letter of the contact name,
YES
.
3. Select a contact,
YES
.
4. Select a ring signal,
YES
.
Sounds & alerts
You can choose to be notified of an incoming call by
the buzzing of the vibrating alert. You can set the
If you turn on the minute minder, you hear a beep
once every minute during a call.
Menu language
Most SIM cards automatically set the menu language
to the language of the country or district where you
bought your SIM card. If this is not the case, the preset
language is English.
To change the menu language

• To set the display contrast, scroll to Settings/Display/
Contrast.
Time settings
The time is always displayed in standby.
• To set the time, scroll to Settings/Time and date/
Set time.
You can choose a 12-hour clock or a 24-hour clock.
• To set the time format, scroll to Settings/Time and
When your phone changes network, and the time
sent out from the operator deviates from the time in
your phone, you are asked whether you want to update
the time if you have turned on Auto time zone. If you
press
YES
, the time is updated automatically.
Answering mode
When using a portable handsfree kit, you can choose to
answer a call by pressing any key (except the
NO
key)
or set the phone to answer the call automatically.

My phone numbers
You can check your own phone number(s).
• To check your phone number, scroll to Phone book/
Special numbers/My numbers. If your number is not
saved on your SIM card, you can enter it yourself.
Keypad lock
You can lock the keypad to avoid dialling a number
by accident.
My shortcuts
You can place your favourite functions that you want
to reach quickly and easily in the My shortcuts menu.
To add a function to my shortcuts
1. Scroll to My shortcuts,
YES
, Edit shortcuts,
YES
.
2. Select a function from the list by pressing .
3. Enter the position number you want for this function in
your menu and press
YES
.
4. Press
YES
to exit the list.

• To rename a profile, scroll to Settings/Profiles/Edit
profile/Profile name.
You can reset all profile settings to the way they were
set when you bought your phone.
• To reset all profiles, scroll to Settings/Profiles/
Reset profiles.
Automatic activation
Some profiles, for example In car, are automatically
Calling
Before you can make or receive any calls, you must
turn on the phone and be within range of a network.
See “Making and receiving calls” on page 5.
Making calls
1. Enter the area code and the phone number.
2. Press
YES
to make the call.
3. Press
NO
to end the call.