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Chapter 14: Calling Your Favorite Person
Communicating Hands Free
More and more places prohibit the use of mobile phones without a hands-
free headset. Luckily for you, BlackBerry offers hands-free options.
Using the speaker phone
The speaker phone function is useful under certain situations, such as when
you're in a room full of people who want to join in the conversation. Or you
might be all by your lonesome in your office but are stuck rooting through
your files — hard to do with a BlackBerry scrunched up against your ear. (We
call such moments multitasking — a concept so important that we devote an
entire upcoming section to it.)
To switch to the speaker phone while you're on a phone call, press the
Speaker button onscreen (refer to Figure 14-3, earlier in this chapter).
Pairing your BlackBerry with
a Bluetooth headset
Your Storm comes with a wired hands-free headset, so you can start using
yours by plugging it into the headset jack on the right side of the Storm. You
can adjust the headset's volume by pressing the volume up or volume down
keys.
Using the wired hands-free headset can help, but the wired headset can get in
the way if you're multitasking on your BlackBerry. The whole Bluetooth wire-
less thing comes in here. You can buy a Bluetooth headset to go with your
Bluetooth-enabled BlackBerry.
After you purchase a Bluetooth headset, you can pair it with your BlackBerry
Storm. Think of pairing a Bluetooth headset with your Storm as registering
the headset with your Storm so that it recognizes the headset.
First things first: You need to prep your headset for pairing. Now, each head-
set manufacturer has a different take on this process, so consult your headset
documentation for details.
With that out of the way, continue with the pairing as follows:
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