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6Chapter1:Welcome
Yo u r Pa l m
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Pre™ phone
In one compact and indispensable device, you now have all of the following:
• An advanced wireless phone running the Palm
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webOS™ platform
• A full suite of organizer applications: Contacts, Calendar, Memos, and
Ta s k s
• High-speed data with EVDO and 1x support
• Wi-Fi capability
• A 3-megapixel digital camera
• GPS functionality
• Integrated text, multimedia, and instant messaging (IM)
• Tools to view and manage Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files
Yo ur Pa lm
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Pre™ phone puts Palm’s new multitasking, gesture-based
operating system, the Palm
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webOS™ platform, inside a small, beautiful
device with a keyboard that you can slide out whenever you need it. Here
are a few highlights of your new phone.
Gestures: On your Pre phone, you make calls, move around, and manage
your applications and info by making simple gestures either on the
touchscreen or in the gesture area directly beneath the screen. For more
information, see Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch, and go to
palm.com/support to see animations that demonstrate these gestures. The
introductory piece in your Pre phone’s box has a detachable gesture guide to
put in a pocket and consult when you need to—you won’t need it very long.
Multitasking: You can have many applications open at once and easily move
among them. Go to the Launcher to open apps. See the lineup of your open
apps in Card view. Tap an app to bring it into the foreground and work with
it. For more information, see Open applications.
The Palm
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Synergy™ feature: The Palm
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Synergy™ feature on your Pre
phone displays information from several sources in a single view, so you can
access your info quickly, without having to remember where you stored it.
For example, suppose you have a Google account for personal email,
contacts, and calendar events, and an Exchange account for your corporate
email, contacts, and events. The Email, Contacts, and Calendar applications
on your Pre phone all provide a kind of view in which you can see
information from both of those accounts in one place—but even though the
information is brought into one view, the sources of that information are
kept separate. For more information, read about linked contacts, layered
calendars, and the single inbox for your email in Contacts, Calendar, and
Email.
Thanks also to the Synergy feature, in the Messaging application, all your
conversations with the same person are grouped together in one chat-style
view. If you start an IM chat with Ed, for example, you can continue the
same conversation when Ed signs out of IM by sending him a text
message—and you can see it all in the same view. For more information, see
Messaging.
Universal search: Need to call Ed? Just slide out the keyboard and type ed. If
he’s listed in your Contacts, you can get his numbers from the search results.
Tap a number and you’ve made the call. Search works just as fast when you
need to search the web. For more information, see Search to find info and
make calls.
Sync: Your Pre phone gives you synchronization without a cable. You can
sync with online services that Palm has partnered with so that you can store
and sync your info in online accounts. You can access your data even when
you are not able to make a connection to the Web because a copy of your
data is stored on the device.
Yo ur Pa lm prof il e: When you set up your phone, you create a Palm profile.
Your profile gives you access to services like automatic updates and
automatic, frequent backups of any of your info that is stored only on your
phone and isn’t synchronized with an online account.
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 serious
bodily injury, death, or property damage.