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Contents Sony Ericsson K790a
Getting Started ................... 4 Connectivity ..................... 60
Assembly, SIM card, battery, turning Settings, using Internet, RSS,
on, help, calls. synchronizing, Bluetooth, infrared,
USB cable, update service.
Getting to Know
More Features .................. 71
the Phone ........................... 8
Alarm clock, calendar, tasks, profiles,
Phone overview, icons, menus,
time and date, SIM card lock, etc.
entering letters, activity menu, file
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Bluetooth™ is a trademark or registered trademark Sony Ericsson of Bluetooth SIG Inc. GSM 850/1800/1900 BestPic, PlayNow, MusicDJ, PhotoDJ and VideoDJ This user guide is published by Sony Ericsson, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sony without any warranty. Improvements and changes Ericsson Mobile Communications AB. to this user guide necessitated by typographical Cyber-shot™ is a trademark of Sony Corporation. errors, inaccuracies of current information, or Memory Stick Micro™
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1 Restrictions: Software is confidential copyrighted Instruction symbols information of Sun and title to all copies is retained The following appear in the User by Sun and/or its licensors. Customer shall not modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, extract, guide: or otherwise reverse engineer Software. Software may not be leased, assigned, or sublicensed, Note in whole or in part. 2 Export Regulations: Software, including technical data, is subject to U.S. export control laws, includin
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PIN Getting Started You may need a PIN (Personal Identity Assembly, SIM card, battery, turning Number) for your SIM card to start on, help, calls. your phone and activate services. When you enter your PIN, each digit More information and downloads appears as *, unless it starts with the are available at same digits as an emergency number, www.sonyericsson.com/support. for example 112. This allows for emergency calls without entering a Assembly PIN. Press to correct mistakes. To use y
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SIM Card and Battery To insert SIM card and battery To charge the battery 1 Remove the battery cover. 1 Connect the charger plug to the phone with the symbol facing upwards. 2 Slide the SIM card into its holder with the contacts facing down. 2 It may take up to 30 minutes before the battery icon appears. 3 Insert the battery with the label side up and the connectors facing each other. 3 Wait approximately 2.5 hours or until the battery icon indicates a full charge. 4 Slide the battery cove
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Turning on your Phone You may be asked to register your phone Make sure the phone is charged and at Sony Ericsson. If you accept to register your phone, no personal data, such as a SIM card inserted before turning it your phone number, will be transferred on. After turning on, use the setup to or processed by Sony Ericsson. wizard to quickly and easily prepare for use. Standby After you have turned the phone on To turn on the phone and entered your PIN, the name of the service provider
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Help in your Phone Flight Mode Menu Help and information is available If you turn on the phone and Flight in your phone at any time. Mode menu is activated, select from Normal Mode with full functionality or To use the setup wizard Flight Mode with limited functionality. } Settings } the General tab } Setup Network, radio and Bluetooth Wizard and select an option: transceivers are turned off to prevent disturbance to sensitive equipment. Settings Download You can, for example, play mus
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Getting to Know the Phone Phone overview, icons, menus, entering letters, activity menu, file manager, memory card. Phone overview 1 10 34 2 11 3 12 4 20 5 6 13 12 15 17 7 14 8 15 16 9 17 18 19 Some icons on keys may differ. 8 Getting to Know the Phone This is the Internet version of the user's guide. © Print only for private use.
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1 Ear speaker 2 Photo key: (left) from standby, view camera album pictures in full view or (lower) with the camera for shoot modes. 3 Play/stop button 4 Memory Stick Micro™ (M2™) slot 5 Screen 6 Selection key 7 Internet key 8 Back key 9 Navigation key/Music player control 10 Power on/off button 11 Photo key: (right) from standby, view camera album thumbnail pictures or (upper) with the camera for camera scenes/video night mode. 12 Volume, camera digital zoom buttons 13 Selection key 14 Activit
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Menu Overview PlayNow™* Internet* Entertainment Online Services* Video Player Games VideoDJ™ PhotoDJ™ MusicDJ™ Remote Control Record Sound Demo Tour Cyber-shot™ Messaging Music Player Write New Now Playing Inbox Artists Email Tracks RSS Reader Playlists Drafts Outbox Sent Messages Saved Messages My Friends* Call Voicemail Templates Settings Radio File Manager** Contacts Camera Album New Contact Music Pictures Videos Themes Web Pages Games Applications Other 10 Getting to Know the Phone This is
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Calls** Organizer Alarms Applications All Answered Dialed Missed Calendar Tasks Notes Synchronization Timer Stopwatch Calculator Code Memo Settings** General Sounds & Alerts Display Calls Connectivity* Profiles Ring Volume Wallpaper Forward Calls Bluetooth Time & Date Ringtone Themes Manage Calls Infrared Port Language Silent Mode Startup Screen Time & Cost* USB Update Service Increasing Ring Screen Saver Show/Hide My No. Synchronization Voice Control Vibrating Alert Clock Size Handsfree Device
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Navigation The main menus are shown as icons. Some submenus include tabs. Scroll to a tab by pressing the navigation key left or right and selecting an option. Key Go to the main menus or to select highlighted items. Move through the menus and tabs. Select options shown immediately above these keys on the screen. Go back one level in the menus. Press and hold to return to standby or to end a function. Delete items, such as pictures, sounds and contacts. During a call, press and hold to
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- Press a number key and } Call to speed dial. Press for shortcuts when browsing % 62 To use Internet keypad shortcuts or access keys. Turn off the ringtone when receiving a call. Press and hold to set the phone to silent. The alarm signals even if the phone is set to silent. View status information in standby. Increase the volume during a call, or when using the Music Player. Zoom out when using the camera or viewing pictures. Press and hold to go back one track. Press twice to reject a cal
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Status Bar Shortcuts Some of the icons that may appear: Use keypad shortcuts to quickly go to a menu, and you can use predefined navigation key shortcuts to quickly Icon Description reach certain functions. Edit the EDGE network is available. navigation key shortcuts to suit your own needs. GSM network signal strength. Using keypad shortcuts Battery status. In standby, go to menus by pressing Battery charging, appears with and then enter the number of the battery status icon. menu. Menu
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To change the text input method Phone Language Before, or when entering letters, press Select the language to use in the and hold to change the method. phone menus or when writing text. Options when entering letters To change the phone language } More for options when writing } Settings } General tab } Language a message. } Phone Language. Select a language. To enter letters using multitap input In standby, you can also press Press - repeatedly until 8888 for automatic language. the
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To enter letters using T9 Text Input T9 Text Input dictionary. Next time you enter this word using T9 Text 1 To enter text, you have to be in a Input, it appears in alternative words. function where text input is possible, for example, } Messaging } Write Next word prediction New } Text Message. When writing a message, you can use 2 For example, to write the word “Jane”, T9 Text Input to predict the next word, press , , , . if previously used in a sentence. 3 If the word shown is the one
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Running Apps – applications that To insert and remove a memory card are running in the background. Select an application to return to it or press to end it. My Shortcuts – add, delete and change the order of shortcuts. When you select a shortcut and the application opens, other programs are closed or minimized. Internet – your Internet bookmarks. 1 Open the cover and insert as shown When you select a bookmark and (with the contacts facing down). the browser opens, other programs
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File manager menu tabs To move or copy files to a computer The file manager is divided into % 68 Transferring Files Using the USB three tabs, and icons are included Cable. to indicate where the files are saved. To create a subfolder All Files – all content in the phone 1 } File Manager and open a folder. memory and on a memory card. 2 } More } New Folder and enter On Memory Stick – all content on a name for the folder. a memory card. 3 } OK to save the folder. In Phone – all content in
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To make a call Calling 1 Enter a phone number (with international Calls, contacts, voice control, call country code and area code, if options. applicable). 2 } Call to make a voice call or } More Making and Receiving Calls to view options. Before you can make or receive any 3 } End Call to end the call. calls, you must turn on your phone You can call numbers from your contacts and be within range of a network. and call list % 20 Contacts, and % 6 Turning on your Phone. % 23 Call List. Y
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To turn the loudspeaker on or off Emergency Calls during a voice call Your phone supports international } More } Turn On Speaker or Turn emergency numbers, for example, Off Speaker. 112, 911. These numbers can normally be used to make emergency calls in Do not hold the phone to your ear when any country, with or without a SIM using the loudspeaker. This could damage card inserted, if a GSM network is your hearing. within range. To change the ear speaker volume In some countries, other
