Palm Pre Get Started

S t e U p Y o r u P h o n
To use your Palm ® Pre™ phone, you must
agree to Palm's terms and conditions
and create a Palm profile—do so by
entering a working email address.
Why do I need a Palm profile?

Activate Your Phone

Turn On Your Phone
A Palm profile gives you access to
services like automatic updates, backup
of your data, and more.
Setting up a Palm profile is different from
Activate your phone before you turn it
• If you purchased your phone at a
setting up email on your phone. To set
Sprint Store, it is probably activated on (see previous page). Press and hold
up email, see page 11.
and ready to use. the power button until you see a logo.
Wait for setup to start (please be patient).
• If you received your phone in the mail
To slide out the keyboard, hold the phone
and it is a new Sprint account or a
in both hands and gently push up with
new phone number, your phone is
your thumbs.
designed to activate automatically
once you have completed setup
(see page 4). Power button
• If you received your phone in the mail
and you are switching the number
from a previous Sprint phone, do not
turn on your new phone yet. First,
go to sprint.com/activate on your
computer's Web browser and follow
the instructions to activate the
number on your new phone.
If you have any problems with activation,
contact Sprint Customer Service at
1-888-211-4727 from another phone.
Use of this device requires providing a valid email address,
mobile phone number, and related information for account
setup and activation. A data plan is also required. Unlimited
usage data plan strongly recommended or additional data
charges may apply.
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e O e v v r e i w
I've finished setup. Can I use my 1 Earpiece
phone? 1
2 Speaker (on back)
Your phone is ready to use! Go ahead
3 Touchscreen
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and make calls (see pages 17–18), set up
4 Volume: See page 18.
email (see page 11), and use all the other
applications on your phone. 5 Gesture area
If you see a notification that an update is 6 Microphone
available, tap Install Now to install it.
7 Center button: Press to go to
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Palm periodically sends updates to
Card view.
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enhance the applications and features
8 Orange key: Press to enter numbers
on your phone.
and symbols that appear above the
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letters on the keys. Press twice to
How do I transfer data from my
lock it.
computer? 5
9 Shift: Press twice for Caps lock.
On your computer, look for an email at
10 Space
the address you used for your Palm
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profile. Click the link in the email to verify
11 Camera lens and flash (on back)
your Palm profile. The link takes you to a 7
12 Charger/microUSB connector
website where you can do a one-time
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data transfer to your phone from 13 Backspace
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selected desktop organizers like Palm ® 14 Enter
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Desktop and Outlook ® . This transfer is
15 Sym: Press to select characters like
the way to get the data from your old
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currency symbols and accented
Palm smartphone to your Pre phone.
characters.
16 16 Headset jack
17 Ringer switch: Slide to turn the ringer
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and notification sounds on and off.
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18 Power: Press to wake up or turn off
the screen. Press and hold to turn
the device on and off.
Top
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Move Among Open
Open Applications Find It Fast
Applications
Tap an icon to open an application. You can open and use multiple In Launcher or Card view > enter a
applications at the same time. To move word, name, or first and last initials.
Quick Launch: Displays up to five icons.
among them, press the Center button to
You can open the Quick Launch from Your phone displays any matching
shrink the app you're using. You're now
any screen. Drag out any icon except results. Tap the one you want.
in Card view, where all open apps
Launcher and then drag in another one.
Tap a phone number to dial it! Or tap the
appear as small windows (cards).
Launcher: Displays all your apps (when name > to send a text message.
In Card view, swipe left or right on the
you open the Launcher, Quick Launch
To search the Web, tap the text you
screen to scroll through open apps.
appears also). Scroll up and down to see
entered and tap the search option
the whole page, and left and right to see When you see the app you want, tap it.
you want.
all pages.
To close the app, throw the card off the
See the Gesture Guide to learn how to top of the screen.
access Quick Launch and the Launcher.
Launcher,
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Quick Launch
Page
indicator
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Phone Contacts Email Calendar Launcher
Make a Call Set Up Email Gesture Guide
Touch the screen or gesture area lightly
when performing gestures.
Launcher > . Launcher > .
Be sure to take the gesture tutorial:
See pages 17–18. Enter the settings to get messages from
Go to palm.com/support.
any of your email accounts.
Setting up email from some providers
automatically adds your contacts and
Turn on your phone
calendar data from that provider to
Press the power button.
your phone. See page 13.
Open Launcher
Press Center > tap
Back: Go up a level in an app, save data
Quick swipe left in gesture area.
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Minimize app and go to Card view Open menus
Press Center.
Application:
Tap the upper-left corner.
Connection:
Tap the upper-right corner. e upper rig er.
Resize cards and change card order Open Quick Launch
Tap and hold a card. Drag cards to Drag up slowly and move your finger to
change the order. the app you want.
Close an app Delete a list item te e a list item e
In Card view, throw the card off the top of Throw the item off the side of the screen. w the item off the side o w the item off the side of the item off the side o
the touchscreen. hscreen. screen. screen.