Intellectual Property Samsung Telecommunications America (STA), Inc. All Intellectual Property, as defined below, owned by or which is otherwise the property of Samsung or its Headquarters: 1301 East Lookout Drive Suite 150 Richardson, respective suppliers relating to the SAMSUNG Phone,...
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EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE EXPRESS WARRANTY CONTAINED ON THE WARRANTY PAGE ENCLOSED WITH THE PRODUCT, THE PURCHASER TAKES THE PRODUCT “AS IS”, AND SAMSUNG MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT, INCLUDING BUT...
Drive safely at all times Do not use a hand-held phone while driving. Park the vehicle first. Switch off the phone when refueling Important Do not use the phone at a refueling point (service station) or near fuels or chemicals. safety Switch off in an aircraft Wireless phones can cause interference.
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Be aware of special regulations Accessories and batteries Meet any special regulations in force in any area and Use only Samsung-approved accessories and always switch off your phone whenever it is forbidden batteries. Use of any unauthorized accessories could to use it, or when it may cause interference or danger.
MEdia Net ............14 Contents Push to Talk ............. 15 My MEdia ............16 Unpack Address Book............ 17 Settings ............18 Make sure you have each item Your phone Solve problems Buttons, features, and locations Help and personal needs Get started Health and safety information First steps to operating your phone Overview of menu functions...
Headset jack External Power on/off/ You can obtain the following accessories for Dial key speaker Menu exit key your phone from your local Samsung dealer Volume keys Cancel/ • Standard Battery • Extended Battery Correct key Alphanumeric • Battery Charger •...
Get started Install the battery. Plug the travel adapter into the phone. First steps to operating your phone SIM card information When you subscribe to a cellular network, you receive a plug-in SIM (Subscriber Identity Module) card loaded with your subscription details, such as your PIN, and available optional services.
Power on or off Remove the adapter from the phone. Power on 1. Open the phone. 2. Press and hold to turn on the phone. Do not turn on 3. If necessary, enter the PIN and the phone when mobile phone press OK.
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Get started Keys and display Key(s) Description Key(s) Description End a call. Hold down to switch the phone on and off. Perform the function indicated on the In Menu mode, cancel input and return the bottom line of the display. phone to Idle mode.
Overview of menu functions To access Menu mode, press Menu in Idle mode. 9 Settings 1 Recent Calls 3 Games & Applications 6 Push to Talk 1 Time & Date 1 Current Contacts 1 Games 1 Contacts 2 Phone settings 2 Missed Calls 2 Alarm 2 Groups...
Calls Made Menu functions This menu displays the most recent calls you have All menu options listed dialed. Calls Received Recent Calls This menu displays the most recent calls you have Use this menu to view the calls you have dialed, received.
Messaging Call Time This menu displays the time log for calls made and Use the Messaging menu to send and receive instant received. The actual time invoiced by your service messages, short messages, multimedia messages, provider will vary. You can also reset all timers. and e-mails.
Menu functions My Messages Settings Use this menu to store all of the messages you have Use this menu to customize the settings for IM, SMS, received, sent, or failed to send. MMS, E-mail, Push message, and Broadcast. Templates Memory Status Use this menu to create, edit, and send text Use this menu to check the total amount of memory templates.
Games & Applications • set alarms to alert you to events. When you select Organizer, the month calendar with The Games & Applications feature enables you to keep today’s date marked with a blue box. track of your schedule and tasks and use convenient applications, such as voice recorder, converter, and Calculator calculator.
Menu functions MEdia Mall Stopwatch Use this menu to measure elapsed time. The precision You can access the web site preset by your service of the stopwatch is one one-hundredth of a second. provider to download various items, such as melodies, MIDlets, images, applications.
MEdia Net Shop Multimedia You can access the web site preset by your service Your phone is equipped with a WAP (Wireless provider to download images or sounds. Application Protocol) browser to allow you to access and navigate the Wireless Web using your phone. Shop Applications To access this menu, press Menu in Idle mode and You can access the web site preset by your service...
Menu functions Browser Profiles To access this menu, press Menu in Idle mode and select Push to Talk. Use this menu to set up proxy servers for the WAP browser. Contact your service provider for details. Contacts Clear Cache Use this menu to view a list of all of the contacts stored in the PTT group section of Phonebook.
Settings Graphics Use this menu to select the service setting you want to Use this menu to view the list of images downloaded use and configure various network settings that are from the web server or received in messages. required to send or receive PTT calls. Video Pending Invitation Use this menu to view the list of video clips...
Menu functions Address Book Speed dial Use this menu to assign speed dial numbers (2 to 9) You can store phone numbers on your SIM card and in for eight of your most frequently called numbers. your phone’s memory. The SIM card and phone’s memory are physically separate, but they are used as My name card a single entity called Phonebook.
Settings • delete all of the contacts from your phone’s memory, your SIM card, or both. Use this menu to customize your phone settings. You • view the number of contacts you have stored in can also reset the settings to their default values. Phonebook.
Menu functions Phone settings • adjust the brightness of the display for varying lighting conditions. Many different features your phone’s system can be • select the length of time the backlight and the customized to suit your preferences. display stay on. You can: •...
• select a ringtone to be used when you open or Bluetooth close the phone. Using Bluetooth wireless, you can connect the phone • set how the phone acts to alert you to a specific wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices and exchange event in Quite mode, instead of making sounds.
Menu functions • lock your phone. Voice Signal Settings • lock your media contents. Use this menu to change the default settings for using • activate the Fixed Dialing Number (FDN) mode to the Voice Signal feature. restrict outgoing calls, except to numbers on the Reset settings SIM card.
“Enter PUK” Solve problems • The PIN code has been entered incorrectly three times in succession, and the phone is now blocked. Help and personal needs Enter the PUK supplied by your service provider. To save the time and expense of an unnecessary service call, perform the simple checks in this section “No service,”...
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• A clear description of the problem • Check the signal strength indicator on the display Then contact your local dealer or Samsung after-sales ). The number of bars indicates the signal service. strength from strong ( ) to weak ( ).
The exposure limit set by the FCC for wireless mobile Health and safety information phones employs a unit of measurement known as the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). The SAR is a measure Exposure to Radio Frequency (RF) Signals of the rate of absorption of RF energy by the human Certification Information (SAR) body expressed in units of watts per kilogram (W/kg).
What kinds of phones are the subject of this 1900.Body-worn operations are restricted to update? Samsung-supplied, approved or none Samsung The term wireless phone refers here to hand-held designated accessories that have no metal and must wireless phones with built-in antennas, often called provide at least 1.5cm separation between the device,...
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exposure to RF is drastically lower because a person's Do wireless phones pose a health hazard? RF exposure decreases rapidly with increasing The available scientific evidence does not show that distance from the source. The so-called “cordless any health problems are associated with using phones,”...
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Health and safety information What is FDA's role concerning the safety of • “Design wireless phones in a way that minimizes wireless phones? any RF exposure to the user that is not necessary for device function; and Under the law, FDA does not review the safety of •...
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FDA shares regulatory responsibilities for wireless yielded conflicting results that often cannot be phones with the Federal Communications Commission repeated in other laboratories. A few animal studies, (FCC). All phones that are sold in the United States however, have suggested that low levels of RF could must comply with FCC safety guidelines that limit RF accelerate the development of cancer in laboratory exposure.
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Health and safety information However, none of the studies can answer questions hampered by difficulties in measuring actual RF about long-term exposures, since the average period exposure during day-to-day use of wireless phones. of phone use in these studies was around three years. Many factors affect this measurement, such as the angle at which the phone is held, or which model of What research is needed to decide whether RF...
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FDA and Cellular Telecommunications & Internet (RF). Since time is a key factor in how much exposure Association (CTIA) have a formal Cooperative a person receives, reducing the amount of time spent Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to do using a wireless phone will reduce RF exposure. research on wireless phone safety.
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Health and safety information described above would apply to children and kits can be used with wireless phones for convenience teenagers using wireless phones. Reducing the time of and comfort. These systems reduce the absorption of wireless phone use and increasing the distance RF energy in the head because the phone, which is the between the user and the RF source will reduce RF source of the RF emissions, will not be placed against...
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Studies have shown that these products generally do many other groups, was completed in late 2000. This not work as advertised. Unlike “hand-free” kits, these standard will allow manufacturers to ensure that so-called “shields” may interfere with proper operation cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators are safe from of the phone.
Health and safety information • Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): Road Safety http://www.epa.gov/radiation/ Your wireless phone gives you the powerful ability to • Occupational Safety and Health Administration's communicate by voice, almost anywhere, anytime. (OSHA): But an important responsibility accompanies the benefits of wireless phones, one that every user must http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/ uphold.
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3. Position your wireless phone within easy reach. Be 7. Do not engage in stressful or emotional able to access your wireless phone without conversations that may be distracting. Make removing your eyes from the road. If you get an people you are talking with aware you are driving incoming call at an inconvenient time, let your and suspend conversations that have the potential...
Health and safety information “The wireless industry reminds you to use your Using Your Phone Near Other Electronic Devices phone safely when driving.” For more information, please call 1-888-901-SAFE, or Most modern electronic equipment is shielded from visit our web-site www.wow-com.com radio frequency (RF) signals.
• should use the ear opposite the pacemaker to Vehicles minimize potential interference. RF signals may affect improperly installed or inadequately shielded electronic systems in motor If you have any reason to suspect that interference is taking place, switch your phone off immediately. vehicles.
Health and safety information areas), chemical plants or where blasting operations possible on all wireless phone networks or when are in progress. certain network services and/or phone features are in use. Check with local service providers. Areas with a potentially explosive atmosphere are often but not always clearly marked.
Restricting Children's access to your Phone Cautions Your phone is not a toy. Children should not be allowed Any changes or modifications to your phone not to play with it because they could hurt themselves and expressly approved in this document could void your others, damage the phone or make calls that increase warranty for this equipment, and void your authority your phone bill.
Health and safety information • Do not store or carry flammable liquids, gases or Product Performance explosive materials in the same compartment as Getting the Most Out of Your Signal Reception the phone, its parts or accessories. The quality of each call you make or receive depends •...
Understanding How Your Phone Operates • Avoid exposing your phone and accessories to rain or liquid spills. If your phone does get wet, Your phone is basically a radio transmitter and immediately turn the power off and remove the receiver. When it's turned on, it receives and transmits battery.
• Use only Samsung-approved batteries and battery in a pocket or bag. Short-circuiting the recharge your battery only with Samsung- terminals may damage the battery or the object approved chargers. When a charger is not in use, causing the short-circuiting.
For safe disposal options for Li-Ion • Do not use or store the phone in dusty, dirty areas, batteries, contact your nearest Samsung as its moving parts may be damaged. authorized service center. Always recycle. Do not •...
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Health and safety information • Do not paint the phone. Paint can clog the device's moving parts and prevent proper operation. • Do not put the phone in or on heating devices, such as a microwave oven, a stove or a radiator. The phone may explode when overheated.
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* Depending on the software installed or your service provider or country, some of the descriptions in this manual may not match your phone. * Depending on your country, your phone and accessories may appear different from the illustrations in this manual. World Wide Web http://www.samsungmobile.com...
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