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User Guide
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Contents 46 I’m already using Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, and/or Chapter 1 Welcome Microsoft Exchange 46 I want to keep using my current desktop app and ® 6Your Palm Pixi™ Plus phone sync with an online account on my phone 7What’s in the box? 47 I don’t need to sync, but I do want a copy of my data 8 Where can I learn more? backed up somewhere besides my phone 47 I’d rather sync directly with my computer Chapter 2 Basics Chapter 4 Phone 10 Get to know your phone 13 Set up your phone 50 Make cal
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100 Tasks Chapter 11 Troubleshooting 104 Memos 105 Clock ® 156 For users of other Palm devices 107 Calculator 156 Battery 107 Facebook 161 Screen and performance 162 Phone Chapter 7 Photos, videos, and music 163 Hands-free devices 164 Synchronization 166 Sending and receiving data in Email, Messaging, and 110 Camera Web 110 Photos 167 Email 114 Videos 167 Messaging 116 YouTube 168 Web 117 Music 169 Calendar and Contacts 119 Amazon MP3 169 Camera 170 Amazon MP3 Chapter 8 Web and wireless connect
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Welcome ® Congratulations on the purchase of your Palm Pixi™ In this chapter Plus phone. ® 6Your Palm Pixi™ Plus phone 7 What’s in the box? 8 Where can I learn more? Chapter 1 : Welcome 5
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® For example, suppose you have a Google account for personal email, Your Palm Pixi™ Plus phone contacts, and calendar events, and an Exchange account for your corporate email, contacts, and events. The Email, Contacts, and Calendar applications on your Pixi Plus phone all provide a kind of view in which you can see In one compact and indispensable device, you now have all of the following: information from both of those accounts in one place—but even though the information is brought into
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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: Print material • Getting Started guide • Consumer Information About Radio Frequency Emissions and Responsible Driving • Gesture Guide • Limited Warranty • General User G
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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 information about your phone. • Customer service from Verizon Wireless: For questions about yo
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Basics You’re about to discover the many things about your In this chapter ® Palm Pixi™ Plus phone that can help you better manage your life and have fun, too. As you become 10 Get to know your phone more familiar with your phone, you’ll want to 13 Set up your phone personalize the settings and add applications to make 13 Charge the battery it uniquely yours. 15 Turn the phone on/off 17 Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch But first, take the few easy steps in this chapter to set 23
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Get to know your phone IMPORTANT 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. Front view 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 selection gestures). 2 Shift: See Enter uppercase letters. 3 Space 4 Backspace 5 Enter: Press to enter a line retur
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Touchscreen Icons in the title bar You can monitor the status of several items using icons in the area 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, ® Wi-Fi feature, and Bluetooth wireless technology feature are off (incoming calls go to voicemail). See Turn wireless services off (airplane
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Table 1. Title bar icons and descriptions Back view Item Description ® ® Bluetooth wireless technology is turned on. See 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
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What is a Palm profile? Set up your phone Your Palm profile gives you the following benefits: Complete setup • Automatic system and software updates are sent to your phone. • A Palm profile account is automatically created for you on your phone. In 1 Press and hold the power button on the upper-left corner of your this account you can store Contacts and Calendar info that you don’t store ® phone until you see the Palm logo on the screen (approximately five in online accounts like Google or
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2 Connect the small end of the USB cable to the charger/microUSB WARNING Use only batteries and chargers that are approved by Palm with your connector. 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 phone and void the Limited Warranty for the product. Although the battery
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• As with any mobile phone, if you are in an area with no wireless coverage, Turn the screen on/off your phone continues to search for a signal, which consumes power. Turn off your phone if you are outside a coverage area (see Turn wireless Turn the screen on and leave the wireless services turned off when you want services off (airplane mode)). to use only the organizer features, for example, when you’re on a plane and • The fewer wireless connections you have, the less power is required
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Do one of the following: Turn wireless services on • Tap the upper-right corner of any screen to open the connection menu. When you turn on your phone, it automatically connects to your mobile Tap Turn on Airplane Mode. network so that you can make and receive phone calls and use other • Press and hold power and tap Airplane Mode. wireless services (if supported by the local network). When your phone is in airplane mode, the airplane mode icon appears at • If airplane mode is turned on, y
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Turn everything (the screen and wireless services) on/off Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch 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 Gestures are an important, basic part of your phone. They’re easy to learn, not using it. On rare occasions, however, you may want to put your phone and they make working with the phone fast. You make most gestures with into deep sleep because you
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• When you’re in Card view, tap the center of the gesture area to maximize Basic gestures the app in the center of the view. Tap: Tap with the tip of the finger—not the fingernail. Tap fast and firmly, Swipe: A swipe is most often a horizontal gesture, from right to left or left to and then immediately lift your fingertip off the screen. Don’t bear down on right. Do it fast, do it lightly. In a swipe, your fingertip just skims the surface what you’re tapping. Don’t wait for a response; the
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Drag: Drag is the gesture you make for a slow scroll up and down a list. To close an application in Card view, flick the card up toward the top of the Slide your fingertip slowly along the surface—no need to bear down. 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. If an application is maximized, you can flick up from the gesture area to the sc
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Scroll fast: Flick the screen in the desired direction. Zoom gestures Zoom in/pinch out to increase the size of items on the screen in Email, Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View, Google Maps: Place two fingers on the screen and spread them slowly apart. Stop scrolling: Tap or drag the screen while scrolling. Zoom out/pinch in to decrease the size of items on the screen in Email, Web, Photos, Doc View, PDF View, Google Maps: Place two fingers on the screen and bring them together. 20 Chapter 2 :
