Fourth edition (April 2004)
This user guide is published by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB, without any warranty.
Improvements and changes to this user guide
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 user guide.
Some of the services in this user guide are not
supported by all networks. This also applies to the
GSM International Emergency Number 112.
Please contact your network operator or service
provider if you are in doubt whether you can use a
particular service or not.
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Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient use
and the Limited warranty chapters before you use your
mobile phone.
T9™ Text Input is a trademark or a registered
trademark of Tegic Communications.
T9™ Text Input is licensed under one or more of the
following: U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,818,437, 5,953,541,
5,187,480, 5,945,928, and 6,011,554;
Canadian Pat. No. 1,331,057;
United Kingdom Pat. No. 2238414B;
Hong Kong Standard Pat. No. HK0940329;
Republic of Singapore Pat. No. 51383;
Euro.Pat. No. 0 842 463(96927260.8) DE/DK, FI, FR,
IT, NL, PT, ES, SE, GB; and additional patents are
pending worldwide.
Other product and company names may be the
trademarks of their respective owners.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
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.
More information and downloads are available at
www.SonyEricsson.com.cn or
wap.SonyEricsson.com.
Available services
Some services and functions described in this user’s
guide are network- or subscription-dependent.
Because of this, all menus may not be available in
your phone.
This symbol indicates that a service or
function is network or subscription
dependent.
Please consult your network operator for
more information about your subscription.
Note: Sony Ericsson advises users to back up their
personal data information.
The SIM card
When you register as a subscriber with a network
operator, you get a SIM (Subscriber Identity
Module) card. The SIM card contains a computer
chip that keeps track of your phone number, the
services included in your subscription, and your
phonebook information, among other things.
Note: Make sure that your information is saved to
the SIM card before you remove it from another
phone. For example, phonebook entries may have
been saved in the phone memory.
Always turn off the phone and detach the charger
before you insert or remove a SIM card.
To insert the SIM card and charge the battery
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 with the
connectors facing each other, and push until you
hear a click.
3. Place the back cover into the slots on the phone and
push until you hear a click.
4. Connect the charger to the phone at the flash symbol
with the symbol on the charger plug facing upwards.
5. It may take up to 30 minutes before the battery
charging icon appears in the display.
6. Wait approximately 4 hours or until the icon
indicates that the battery is fully charged. If you do
not see the battery icon after this time, press any key
to activate the display.
7. Remove the charger by tilting the plug upwards.
Turning on the phone and making calls
Your PIN (Personal Identity Number) is provided by
your network operator but not all operators require a
PIN to activate services.
If your PIN starts with the same digits as an
emergency number, for example 112, the digits are
not hidden with an * when you enter them. This is so
that you can see and call an emergency number
Note: 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 turn on the phone
1. Open the phone. Press and hold .
2. Enter your PIN, if you have one for your SIM card.
To make and receive calls
• Enter the area code and phone number, and press
YES to make the call.
• Press
NO or close the phone to end the call.
• When the phone rings, press
YES or open the
phone to answer the call. See “Flip functions” on
page 25.
Navigating the menus
The main menus are shown as icons on the desktop.
To go to the desktop, press the centre of the
navigation key. (See “Key functions - phone open”
on page 7.) Press left, right, up, or down to move
through menus. Press the navigation key to select
highlighted items.
Increase or decrease the
speaker volume during a call.
Enter the status menu in
standby. Press twice to reject
an incoming call. Press once
to turn off the ring signal
when receiving a call.
IR port.
A red light indicates low
status
battery.
external
Shows, for example, the time,
display
battery status, network strength,
profile, signal off, incoming
call, missed call, new text
message.
Make and answer calls. Select a menu, submenu or
an option.
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Navigation key. Press to enter the desktop
menus. Press up, down, left, right to move
through menus, lists and texts. Press the
navigation key as an alternative to .
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Press for options or help. Press and hold
for WAP.
Enter digits, 0-9, and letters.
Enter *. Shift between lower or upper case.
Microphone
Press to end or reject a call, go back one level in the
menus, or leave an option unchanged. Press and hold to
go back to standby mode from menus.
A quicker way to move through the menus is to use
shortcuts. Enter the menus by pressing and then
simply press the navigation key to enter the menu.
To get back to standby, press and hold
NO.
You can quickly and easily reach the settings you
use most by placing them in the menu My shortcuts.
See “My shortcuts” on page 25.
Online services
Online services are customized services
offered by network operators,
independently of mobile phones and mobile
phone manufacturers.
A SIM card which supports Online services works
in the same way as a normal SIM card. When you
have inserted your SIM card and turned on your
phone, your network operator can download data to
Delete, edit and rename
If you add items, for example, a phonebook entry,
a calendar item or a WAP bookmark, it can be
your SIM card. When you restart your phone after
the first data download, a new submenu appears
under the Connectivity menu.
deleted, edited or renamed.
Note: This menu only appears if your SIM card
To delete an item
• Select an item and press .
• Select an item, press , select Delete or
Delete all.
To edit items
supports this service. Some operators may not use
the name “Online services”. Your phone may not
support all of the services offered.
You can enter letters, for example, when you add
names to the phonebook, write text messages or
enter WAP addresses.
Apart from the way you normally enter letters in
Chinese input
This mobile phone has different input methods for
entering Chinese characters:
• Stroke input
• Pinyin input
your phone, using multitap input, you can use T9™ Text Input for entering text messages, if the input
language you select supports this. T9 Text Input is a
You can use these methods to, for example,
enter Chinese names and Chinese short messages.
predictive input method and is a quicker way to
write texts.
Before you start
Chinese is the default language. If you want to select
Input languages
Before you start entering letters, you need to
select the input languages that you want to use
another language or input method before you start
entering Chinese characters, please refer to the
following procedures:
when writing.
To select a menu language
To select input languages
1. Scroll to Settings,
YES, Language, YES, Input, YES.
2. Scroll to the language or alphabet that you want to
use for entering letters and press for each
Scroll to Settings, Language, Menus.
To select an input method
Scroll to Settings, Language, Input.
language you want.
3. Press
YES to exit the menu.
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 19.
In the Chinese editing mode, you can select and
switch quickly to another input method by pressing
and holding .
Switching between Chinese and English input
In the Chinese editing mode, you can select and
switch quickly to another input language by pressing
and holding .
General instructions
Regardless of which input method you choose, your
phone has a function to speed up the entry of
Chinese characters. Whenever you enter a stroke or
a Pinyin letter, a candidate row of the most
frequently used characters containing that stroke or
relating to that letter, appears at the bottom of the
input area.
If the character you want is not displayed in the
candidate row, press to present another candidate
row. Continue pressing until the character you
want is displayed. Alternatively, you can enter the
next stroke or Pinyin letter and a new set of
characters will immediately be displayed in the
candidate row. To go back to the previous row,
press . To enter a character in the candidate row,
move the cursor to that character and press
YES.
Alternatively, press and hold the key of which the
number corresponds to the character position.
For example, to enter the fourth character from the
candidate row, press and hold .
Input methods in detail
Stroke input
A Chinese character is built up of strokes. There are
more than 30 basic strokes, which are grouped into 5
stroke categories. Each category is represented on
the keypad by one of the keys - . The
Wild Card key , is used when you are not sure
of which stroke to use. For more information, please
see “For example, to enter “–Ýœ¢”” on page 16 and
“Example of using the Wild card key” on page 15.
The Wild card key , is used to supplement
unclear strokes in entering characters. If you want to
enter “ 五 ”, but you only know that “ 一 ” is the first
and the last stroke of the character and that the total
number of strokes is four:
• Enter , , , .
• The character is displayed in the candidate row.
Components
The basic building units of Chinese characters are
components that are made of strokes. After entering
the first stroke of the desired character, the
component and character candidates that started with
that stroke are displayed in the candidate row. Using
components is a fast method for entering complex
characters.
Note: The smaller candidates surrounded by dotted
frames are components, and the bigger candidates
without dotted frames are characters.
2. When “xin” is highlighted, move the cursor left or
right and select “ 信 ”.
If you want to enter any of the other suggested
Pinyin combinations, scroll or to the desired
Pinyin input
Press the keys containing the required Pinyin letters,
combination, then press
3. Select “ 息 ”.
and the phone will make various proposals on the
display, according to the pronunciation rules of
Mandarin.
Below is the key mapping of Pinyin letters
on the keypad:
Number Key Pinyin Letter
a b c
d e f
g h i
j k l
m n o
p q r s
Input punctuations, symbols and smilies
Under input mode, press and select Add
symbol to see the table of punctuations, symbols and
smilies. Press to enter a space into the text.
Latin input
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 if the
input language you select support this. T9 Text Input
is a predictive input method and is a quicker way to
write texts.
t u ü
w x y z
Note: On the keypad, the letter ü is replaced by v.
When saving names in the phonebook 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.
Note: Multitap input only applies when Latin
characters are selected as input language.
The following example shows how to write a name
in the phonebook.
To enter letters using multitap text input
1. Scroll to Phonebook,
Add new?,
YES.
2. Add the number,
YES, Add number, YES,
YES.
3. Press the appropriate key, - , or
, repeatedly until the character you want
appears in the display e.g., to enter an ‘A’,
press once, to enter a ‘B’, quickly press
twice, to shift between capital and lower-case letters,
press , then enter the letter.
See the Latin alphabet, abc, table below:
Press…to see/enter…
. , - ? ! ’ @ : ; / ( ) 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
W X Y Z 9
+ 0 Θ Ξ Ψ Ω
Space ↵ ¶
to delete letters and numbers
to shift between capital and lower-
You can use T9™ Text Input when writing text
messages. The T9™ Text Input method uses a builtin dictionary to recognize the most commonly used
words for each sequence of key presses. This way,
you press each key only once, even if the letter you
want is not the first letter on the key.
Note: A language must be selected to be able to use
the T9™ Text Input method. If you change input
method in Settings/Language/T9 input, this is valid
To enter letters using T9™ Text Input
1. Scroll to Messaging,
YES, Writ e new, YES.
2. For example, if you want to write “Jane”, press
, , , . A list of alternative words
or candidates are shown. If the candidates do not
include a word you want, you can add a new word to
the list whilst selecting.
3. Scroll
to select Jane.
4. When the word is highlighted, press to accept
without a space, or press to accept and add
a space.
for all input of texts – not only for the text you are
currently writing.
To add a word to candidates
1. Scroll to a similar candidate to the word you want to
The following shows how to start writing a
text message.
add, press , select Edit word,
2. Press repeatedly to delete one letter at a time.
Write the new word using multitap text input,
Tip: Press to enter a full stop. To enter other
punctuation marks, press and then
or
repeatedly. Press to accept and add a space.
Press and hold to select an input method for
the text you are currently writing.
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The word is added to the dictionary. The next time
you enter the word you just added to the dictionary,
it appears as one of the alternative words.
You can change the appearance of the display,
for example, the colours and wallpaper, by using
themes. Your phone comes with a number of
preset themes.
To select a theme
Scroll to Fun & Games,
YES, Themes, YES.
Calling Line Identification service). See “To add a
picture to a phonebook entry” on page 31.
• Enclose a black and white picture in a
text message.
• Send a picture via IR.
• Download a picture via WAP.
Handling pictures
You can also add, delete or rename 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.
To adjust the display contrast
Scroll to Settings,
YES, Display, YES, Contrast, YES.
Tip: When viewing your pictures in Fun & Games/
My pictures, you can set a wallpaper by
pressing .
Pictures
Your phone comes with a number of pictures.
All pictures are saved in Fun & Games/My pictures.
Yo u c an :
• Set a picture as a wallpaper when in
standby mode.
• Assign a picture to an entry in the phonebook.
When that person calls, the picture appears in the
To view your pictures
Scroll to Fun & Games,
The pictures are shown in thumbnail view. To get a
full view, press
YES.
Animations can only be viewed when inserting an
item in a text message. See “To insert an item in a
text message” on page 49.
You can send and receive pictures via IR and in text
messages. For more information on sending pictures
in messages, see “Messaging” on page 48.
Note: You are not allowed to exchange copyrightprotected material.
To send a picture
1. Scroll to Fun & Games,
2. Select a picture,
3. Select Send,
YES.
4. Select a transfer method,
YES, My pictures, YES.
YES. Press .
YES.
To receive a picture via Infrared
1. From standby, press , scroll to Turn on infrared,
YES.
2. When you receive the picture, press
YES to save it in
My pictures.
To receive a picture via a message
When you receive a picture via a message, a new
message appears in your Inbox. Highlight the picture
in the message by using the navigation key to select
it, press and select Saveto save it in
My pictures.
Ring signals and melodies
Your phone comes with a number of standard and
polyphonic melodies which can be used as ring
signals. See “Icons” on page 73 for more
information. You can create and edit melodies, and
send them to a friend, in a text message. You can
also exchange melodies via IR or download new
via WAP.
Note: You are not allowed to exchange copyrightprotected material.
From Settings/Sounds & alerts, you can also select:
• Message alert when messages are received.
• Key sound when using the keypad.
• Minute minder to beep after every minute
during calls.
To receive a sound or melody via Infrared
1. From standby, press , scroll to Turn on infrared,
YES.
2. When you receive the sound or melody, press
YES to
To set the vibrating alert
1. Scroll to Settings,
Vibrating alert,
YES, Sounds & alerts, YES,
YES.
2. Select the setting you want,
save it in My sounds.
Menu language
Increasing ring
You can choose a ring signal that rises in steps from
the lowest volume to the highest, or you can choose
a ring signal with constant volume.
To turn increasing ring On or Off
Scroll to Settings,
Increasing ring,
YES, Sounds & alerts, YES,
YES.
Most SIM cards automatically set the menu
language to the language of the country/region
where you bought your SIM card. If this is not the
case, the preset language is English.
Note: You can always choose Automatic by pressing
8888 in standby. You can always choose
English by pressing 0000 in standby. You can
always choose Chinese by pressing 0008
Sounds & alerts
in standby.
You can choose to be notified of an incoming call by
the buzzing of the vibrating alert. You can set the
phone’s vibrating alert to On, On if silent or Off.