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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706
User Guide
BT VERVE 500
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Welcome… to your BT Verve 500 Digital Cordless Telephone Answering Machine Slim, elegantly designed digital cordless telephone. • Integrated answering machine with 28 minutes digital • recording time. 1.5" 4K Colour display with helpful icons. • 255 Name and number phonebook to store all your contact • numbers for easy dialling. Copy contacts from your mobile phone SIM card to the BT • Verve 500 phonebook. * SMS – to send and receive text messa
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 This User Guide provides you with all the Got everything? information you need to get the most from BT Verve 500 handset • your phone. BT Verve 500 base • 1 x MT-Li-ion 3.7V 600mAH • rechargeable battery pack You must first set up your phone before you Mains power adaptor • can use it. This doesn’t take long and is easy (item code 032214) to do. Just follow the simple instructions in Telephone line cord • ‘Getting Started’, on the next few pag
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 4 In this guide Getting started Redial list . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .18 Location . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Call a number from the redial list . . . . . . . .18 Setting up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 Copy a number from the redial list Set the time and date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8 to the phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19 Keypad lock
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 In this guide 5 Sound settings Incoming message record time . . . . . . . . . .44 Handset earpiece/speaker volume . . . . . . .29 Time stamp on/off . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 External call ringer melody and volume . . .29 Monitoring/call screening . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Internal call ringer melody and volume . . .30 Recording quality . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46 Base ringer melody and volume . . . . . . . .
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 6 In this guide Caller Display Using additional handsets Calls log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57 Internal calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72 View and dial from the Calls log . . . . . . . . .57 Transferring calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 Copy a Calls log number to the 3-Way Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73 phonebook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Getting started 7 WARNING Location Do not place your BT Verve 500 in the bathroom or other humid areas. You need to place your BT Verve 500 within 2 metres of the Handset range mains power socket and telephone socket so that the cables The BT Verve 500 has a range of 300 will reach. metres outdoors when there is a clear line of sight between the base and Make sure it is at least 1 metre away from other electrical handset. Any obstruction betwee
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 8 Getting started Talk/Standby time Insert the MT Li-ion 3.7V 600mAh rechargeable battery supplied In ideal conditions, fully charged handset batteries should give about by plugging the small battery connector plug into the socket 12 hours talk time or 120 hours inside the battery compartment. Make sure the battery wires are standby time on a single charge. The tucked in and then slide the battery compartment cover back on. base must remain plu
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Getting started 9 The charge capacity of rechargeable 2. ClockSetting is displayed, press OK to select. batteries will reduce with time as they wear out, giving the handset less 3. The current time and date setting is displayed. Enter 2 digits talk/standby time. Eventually they for the hour and 2 for the minute (e.g. for 2.15pm, enter will need to be replaced. New battery packs are available from the BT Verve , , , ). The cursor moves across 50
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 10 Getting to know your phone Handset buttons Earpiece 4K Colour Display Middle Soft Key In standby mode, press to access the phonebook page 20. Left Soft Key Right Soft Key In standby mode, press to access the redial list. In standby mode, press to open the main menu, page 13. In talk mode, press to display the in-call options. In talk mode, press to switch secrecy on/off, page 17. In menu mode, press to go back to the previous display. In men
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Getting to know your phone 11 Handset display icons – These are the symbols you will see on your handset’s screen Antenna and range bars Ringer off Lock Displayed in standby mode to Displayed when the handset Displayed when the keypad is indicate handset is in range of ringer volume is switched off. locked. the base. Flashes if you go out of range. Handset Alarm clock Displayed when a call is in Displayed when an alarm is set. The number of ba
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 12 Getting to know your phone Standby display When in standby mode, the display shows the handset name and number, the RANGE and BATTERY symbols, the time and date and the 3 soft key options: Redial, (Phonebook) and Menu. Range Battery Handset name and number Time Date Phonebook Answering machine and base buttons Volume +/- Delete Use to adjust the loudspeaker volume. Press and hold to delete the current message, page 52.
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Getting to know your phone 13 Character map The following table shows you where each letter and punctuation character can be found. This will be helpful when Navigation buttons storing a name in the phonebook, see page 21. Up Button Symbol Button Symbol SPACE 1 ? £ $ ¥ @ & § # P Q R S 7 _ _ A B C 2 Ä À Á Â Ã Å Æ Ç T U V 8 Ü Ù Ú Û _ Left Right D E F 3 Ë É È Ê W X Y Z 9 _ _ G H I 4 G Ì Í Î Ï Î ˇ i 0, . : ? ! _ ; ¿” ’ J K L 5 * + - / = < > ( )% \
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 14 Getting to know your phone Menu map Text Phonebook Display Alarm Clock Sound Setting Settings Answer Machine Write New Entry Wallpaper Clock Setting Handset Volume Handset Settings Play Message Inbox View Entry Contrast Alarm Setting Earpiece Auto Answer Message List Draft Edit Entry Speaker Register HS Skip forward Outbox Delete Entry Handset Ring Dim Mode Delete message Service Center Delete All Melody Handset Name Skip back SMS Center 1 P
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Using the phone 15 Switch the handset power on/off 1. From standby mode, press and hold to switch off. You will When you make a call, Calling and the icon are displayed and the red hear a long beep and the display will go blank. In Use light on the base comes on, Or Call timer Your handset will automatically time Press and hold to switch back the handset on. You will the duration of all external calls. The handset display shows the call hear a
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 16 Using the phone Receive a call When you receive a call, the phone rings and the icon Caller Display If you have subscribed to your flashes in the display. network’s Caller Display service, the caller’s number (or name if stored in To answer the call: the phonebook) is displayed instead of ExternalCall. See page 57 for 1. If your handset is on the base and auto talk is on, pick up more information. the handset. If the number is longer than 1
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Using the phone 17 Secrecy (mute) During a call, you can talk to someone nearby without your caller hearing. 1. Press the Secrecy soft key. MuteOn appears in the display and your caller cannot hear you. 2. Press the Secrecy soft key again to return to your caller. Handsfree Handsfree lets you talk to your caller without holding the handset. It also enables other people in the room to listen to your conversation over the loudspeaker. Make a call
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 18 Using the phone Answer a call in handsfree When the phone rings: 1. Press . The call is transferred to the loudspeaker. Switch to handsfree during a call During a call: Press repeatedly to toggle 1. Press . The call is transferred to the loudspeaker. between handsfree and handset mode. 2. Press to end the call. During a handsfree call, press UP or DOWN to change the handsfree volume. There are 5 volume levels in handsfree mode. Redial list
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 Using the phone 19 You will not be able to copy a number Copy a number from the redial list to the phonebook to the phonebook if the phonebook is already full. If you try to, the display 1. Press Redial soft key. The last number called is displayed. will show Directory Full. You will need to delete a number in the 2. Press UP or DOWN to scroll to the number you want to copy. phonebook first, see page 22. 3. Press Option soft key. 4. Use UP
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Verve 500 – New Style – Edition 3 – 07.09.06 – 7706 20 Using the phone To unlock the keypad: 1. Press and hold again. The display will return to standby. Paging handsets You can alert a handset user that they are wanted or locate a If you have more than one handset registered to your BT Verve 500 base missing handset. you will need to stop the paging ring on individual handsets. The paging 1. Press on the base. The paged handset(s) ring and ring will stop automatically after one PagingCall is d
