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Samsung SGH-U808 User Manual

Samsung SGH-U808 User Manual

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may not match your phone exactly.
* Depending on your country, your phone and accessories may appear different from the illustrations in this guide.
Printed in Korea
World Wide Web
Code No.:GH68-18974A
http://www.samsungmobile.com
English. 05/2008. Rev. 1.0

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  • Page 1 * Depending on the software installed or your service provider or country, some of the descriptions in this guide may not match your phone exactly. * Depending on your country, your phone and accessories may appear different from the illustrations in this guide. Printed in Korea World Wide Web Code No.:GH68-18974A...
  • Page 2 SGH-U808 User’s Guide Draft version 2008.05.24...
  • Page 3 Drive safely at all times Do not use a hand-held phone while driving. Park your vehicle first. Switch off the phone when refuelling Important safety Do not use the phone at a refuelling point (service station) or near fuels or chemicals. Switch off in an aircraft precautions Wireless phones can cause interference.
  • Page 4 Be aware of special regulations Accessories and batteries Meet any special regulations in force in any area Use only Samsung-approved batteries and and always switch off your phone whenever it is accessories, such as headsets and PC data cables. forbidden to use it, or when it may cause Use of any unauthorised accessories could damage interference or danger.
  • Page 5 About this Guide • 3G Your phone is capable of operating in a 3G environment, This User’s Guide provides you with condensed allowing much greater data information about how to use your phone. transfer speed, video streaming, In this guide, the following instruction icons and video conferencing.
  • Page 6 • RSS reader • FM radio Use RSS reader to get the latest Listen to your favourite radio news from your favourite stations anytime, anywhere. websites. • Digital data printing • Camera and camcorder Print images, messages, and personal data directly from your Use the camera module on your phone.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Play music........... 21 Contents Listen to the FM radio ........24 Browse the web ........... 26 Unpack Use Phonebook ..........26 Send messages ..........27 Make sure you have each item View messages ..........29 Get started Use Bluetooth ..........30 First steps to operating your phone Menu functions Assemble and charge the phone ......
  • Page 8 Overview of menu functions To access Menu mode, press <Menu> in Idle mode. 1 Call log 4 Browser 7 Calendar 11 Alarm 1 Recent contacts 2 Missed calls 5 Messages 8 Camera 12 Settings 3 Dialled calls 4 Received calls 1 Create new message 1 Phone settings 5 Delete all...

  • Page 9: Unpack

    You can obtain various accessories from your local Samsung dealer. • The items supplied with your phone and the accessories available at your Samsung dealer may vary, depending on your country or service provider. • Use the purchased accessories with only Samsung-authorised devices.

  • Page 10: Power On Or Off

    Phone layout Removing the battery cover Front view Front Earpiece camera lens Display Volume keys Power on or off Navigation keys Menu access/ (Up/Down/Left/ Confirm key Right) (Centre) 1. Press and hold [ Switch on Memory card slot Right soft key 2.

  • Page 11: Keys And Icons

    Get started Keys and icons Rear view Keys Rear camera lens Speaker Perform the function indicated on the Flashbulb bottom line of the display. In Idle mode, access your favourite Multifunction jack menus directly. In Menu mode, scroll through menu options.
  • Page 12 Press and hold to switch the phone Enter special characters or perform on or off. special functions. End a call. In Idle mode, press and hold [ ] to activate or deactivate the Silent In Menu mode, cancel input and profile.
  • Page 13 Get started Icons Connecting to HSDPA (3G+) The following icons may appear on the top line network or transferring data in of the screen to indicate your phone’s status. HSDPA (3G+) network Depending on your country or service provider, the icons shown on the display may vary. Voice call in progress Signal strength Video call in progress...
  • Page 14 FM radio status: Memory card inserted • : On Profile setting: • : Off • : Normal • : Silent Bluetooth active • : Driving Bluetooth headset or hands-free • : Meeting car kit connected • : Outdoor • : Offline Alarm set Battery power level New message:...

  • Page 15: Access Menu Functions

    Get started Access menu functions Enter text 1. Press a desired soft key. • Press and hold [ ] to switch Select an Change the between T9 mode and ABC option text input 2. Press the Navigation keys to mode mode.
  • Page 16 T9 mode To enter a word: Symbol Press the keys corresponding to the symbols you want. mode 1. Press [2] to [9] to start entering a word. Other • Press [1] to enter 2. Enter the whole word before operations punctuation marks or special editing or deleting characters.

  • Page 17: Customise Your Phone

    Get started Customise your phone 3. Press <Options> and select Edit. 1. In Idle mode, press Display 4. Select Voice call ringtone <Menu> and select language → a category → a ringtone. Settings → Phone settings → Language → 5. Select Video call ringtone Display.
  • Page 18 In Idle mode, press [Volume] To create a theme: Key tone Themes for to adjust the key tone volume. 1. In Idle mode, press volume the display <Menu> and select Settings → Display 1. In Idle mode, press settings →My theme → Idle mode <Menu>...
  • Page 19 Get started 1. In Idle mode, press To apply a theme: Menu <Menu> and select 1. In Idle mode, press shortcuts Settings → Phone <Menu> and select settings → Shortcuts. Settings → Display 2. Select a key. settings →My theme → Select theme.

  • Page 20: Step Outside The Phone

    Step outside the phone 1. In Idle mode, press Phone lock Begin with call functions, camera, music player, <Menu> and select web browser, and other special features Settings → Security settings → Phone lock. Make or answer calls 2. Select On. 3.
  • Page 21 Step outside the phone 1. When the phone rings, 1. During a call, call the Answer a call Make a press [ second participant. multi-party If it is a video call, press The first call is put on hold. call <Show me>...

  • Page 22: Use The Camera

    Use the camera 1. In Idle mode, enter an area Make an IP code and phone number. call 1. In Idle mode, press and Take a photo 2. Press <Options> and hold [ select IP call. 2. Rotate the phone to the left The default IP call prefix for landscape view.
  • Page 23 Step outside the phone 1. In Idle mode, press 5. Press < > or [ ] to stop View a photo <Menu> and select My recording. The video is files → Images → My saved automatically. photos. 6. Press < >...

  • Page 24: Play Music

    • Download from a PC using updates. This may also affect some phone the optional Samsung PC functions. This problem is temporary and is not a phone defect. Studio. See Samsung PC Studio User’s Guide.
  • Page 25 Step outside the phone 4. Press [ ] to return to You can copy music files to your Synchronise Idle mode. phone by synchronising with with Windows Windows Media Player 11. 5. Connect your phone and Media Player PC with an optional PC 1.
  • Page 26 3. During playback, use the 6. Enter the name of your following keys: phone and click Finish. • Centre: pause or resume 7. Select and drag the music playback. files you want to the sync • Left: return to the list.

  • Page 27: Listen To The Fm Radio

    Step outside the phone Listen to the FM radio 1. From the music player Create a screen, press <Options> playlist 1. Plug the connecter of the and select Open playlist → Listen to supplied headset into the the radio All → Playlists. multifunction jack on the 2.

  • Page 28: Browse The Web

    By manual setup: 4. Press [Left] or [Right] to find available radio stations. 1. From the radio screen, Alternatively, press [Up] or press [Left] or [Right] to [Down] to select a stored select the radio station you radio station. want. 5.

  • Page 29: Use Phonebook

    Step outside the phone Use Phonebook • To scroll through browser Navigate items, press [Up] or the web 1. In Idle mode, enter a [Down]. Add a contact phone number and press • To select an item, press <Options>. [Centre]. 2.

  • Page 30: Send Messages

    Send messages 1. In Idle mode, press Find a contact <Contacts>. 1. In Idle mode, press Send a text 2. Enter the first few letters <Menu> and select message of the name you want. Messages → Create new message → Message. 3.
  • Page 31 Step outside the phone 1. In Idle mode, press 1. In Idle mode, press Send a Send an email <Menu> and select <Menu> and select multimedia Messages → Create new Messages → Create new message message → Message. message → Email. 2.

  • Page 32: View Messages

    View messages 1. In Idle mode, press View an email <Menu> and select 1. In Idle mode, press View a text Messages → My <Menu> and select message messages → Email inbox. Messages → My 2. Select an account. messages → Inbox. 3.

  • Page 33: Use Bluetooth

    Step outside the phone Use Bluetooth 1. In Idle mode, press Your phone is equipped with Bluetooth Search for <Menu> and select technology, enabling you to connect the phone and pair with Applications → Bluetooth wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices and a Bluetooth →...
  • Page 34 1. If necessary, enter the 1. Access an application, such Receive data Send data Bluetooth PIN and press as Phonebook, My files, <OK>. Calendar, Memo, or Task. 2. Press <Yes> to confirm that 2. Select an item. you are willing to receive. 3.

  • Page 35: Menu Functions

    Menu functions Menu Description IP call Select a default IP call prefix All menu options listed number. You can also add This section provides brief explanations of new prefix numbers. This menu functions on your phone. function is avalilable only if supported by your network.
  • Page 36 Phonebook Menu Description Speed dial Assign a speed dial number Menu Description for your most frequently Contact list Search for contact dialled numbers. information stored in Phonebook. My namecard Create a name card and send it to other people. FDN contacts Create a list of contacts to be used in FDN (Fixed Dialling Own number...
  • Page 37 Menu functions Music Menu Description Access and listen to all music files sorted by Fun club Access Samsung Fun Club, criteria. You can also make your own music the preset website providing playlists. Samsung mobile phone users with attractive download services of up-to- Browser date tones and wallpapers.
  • Page 38 1. All rights and responsibilities for the Java-based games message folder all at once. embedded in your phone and media contents provided by Samsung Fun Club, such as images, sounds, and Java Settings Set up various options for applications, belong to their respective owners.
  • Page 39 Menu functions My files Menu Description SOS messages Specify options for sending Menu Description and receiving an SOS Images, Access media files and other message. You can send an Videos, Music, files in the phone’s memory. SOS message by pressing Sounds, Other [Volume] 4 times when the files...
  • Page 40 Calendar Menu Description Keep track of your schedule. Image editor Edit your photos using various editing tools. Camera Image stamp Make an outline stamp of a photo and merge it with Use the camera embedded in your phone to another photo. take photos and record videos.
  • Page 41 Select a language for the embedded in your phone and media contents provided by → Language display text. Also, select Samsung Fun Club, such as images, sounds, and Java Fuzzy pinyin pairs so that applications, belong to their respective owners. you can easily enter characters that are similar in phonetic spelling.
  • Page 42 Menu Description Menu Description Phone settings Use the Navigation keys as Phone settings Set the phone to display or → Shortcuts shortcuts to access specific → Show caller block caller information on all menus directly from Idle information missed calls and incoming mode.
  • Page 43 Menu functions Menu Description Menu Description Light settings Select the length of time the Display Change the display settings → Backlight backlight or display stays on settings → Text for the text displayed on the time when the phone is not used. display idle screen.
  • Page 44 Menu Description Menu Description Display Select a transition when you Phonebook Activate the last name and settings → move between menus in settings → first name input fields on the Menu Menu mode. Search by contact list. You can search transition initials for a contact with the initial...
  • Page 45 Menu functions Menu Description Menu Description Browser Clear the cache. Select a Security Activate your phone settings connection profile to be used settings → password to protect your for accessing the wireless Phone lock phone against unauthorised web and change the profile use.
  • Page 46 Menu Description Menu Description Security Set the phone to restrict calls Setup wizard Quickly customise basic settings → to a limited set of phone settings of your phone. Fixed dialling numbers, if supported by Select the option you want mode your SIM card.

  • Page 47: Health And Safety Information

    Health and safety information The exposure limit set by the FCC for wireless Health and safety information mobile phones employs a unit of measurement known as the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR). Exposure to Radio Frequency (RF) The SAR is a measure of the rate of absorption Signals of RF energy by the human body expressed in Certification Information (SAR)
  • Page 48 For body worn operation, this model phone has been tested and meets the FCC RF This is because the phone is designed to exposure guidelines whenused with a Samsung operate at multiple power levels so as to use accessory designated for this product or when only the power required to reach the network.

  • Page 49: Consumer Information On Wireless Phones

    Health and safety information phone and the user's head. These RF exposures a particular phone. Additional product specific are limited by Federal Communications SAR information can also be obtained at Commission safety guidelines that were www.fcc.gov/cgb/sar. developed with the advice of FDA and other federal health and safety agencies.
  • Page 50 while being used. They also emit very low levels action if wireless phones are shown to emit of RF when in the stand-by mode. Whereas high radio frequency energy (RF) at a level that is levels of RF can produce health effects (by hazardous to the user.
  • Page 51 Health and safety information FDA belongs to an interagency working group of that are sold in the United States must comply the federal agencies that have responsibility for with FCC safety guidelines that limit RF different aspects of RF safety to ensure exposure.
  • Page 52 radio frequency energy (RF) exposures and primary brain cancer, glioma, meningioma, characteristic of wireless phones have yielded or acoustic neuroma, tumors of the brain or conflicting results that often cannot be repeated salivary gland, leukemia, or other cancers. in other laboratories. A few animal studies, None of the studies demonstrated the existence however, have suggested that low levels of RF of any harmful health effects from wireless...
  • Page 53 Health and safety information more years' follow-up may be needed to FDA has been a leading participant in the World provide answers about some health effects, Health Organization international such as cancer. This is because the interval Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) Project since its between the time of exposure to a cancer- inception in 1996.
  • Page 54 phone users. The CRADA will also include a the exposure level drops off dramatically broad assessment of additional research needs with distance. For example, you could use a in the context of the latest research headset and carry the wireless phone away developments around the world.
  • Page 55 Health and safety information increasing the distance between the user and risks. Hands-free kits can be used with wireless the RF source will reduce RF exposure. phones for convenience and comfort. These systems reduce the absorption of RF energy in Some groups sponsored by other national the head because the phone, which is the governments have advised that children be...
  • Page 56 user from RF absorption use special phone detailed test method to measure cases, while others involve nothing more than a electromagnetic interference (EMI) of implanted metallic accessory attached to the phone. cardiac pacemakers and defibrillators from Studies have shown that these products wireless telephones.

  • Page 57: Road Safety

    Health and safety information FDA continues to monitor the use of wireless • World health Organization (WHO): phones for possible interactions with other http://www.who.int/peh-emf/ medical devices. Should harmful interference • International Commission on Non-Ionizing be found to occur, FDA will conduct testing to Radiation Protection: assess the interference and work to resolve the http://www.icnirp.de...
  • Page 58 responsibility. When using your wireless phone 4. Let the person you are speaking with know behind the wheel of a car, practice good you are driving; if necessary, suspend the common sense and remember the following call in heavy traffic or hazardous weather tips: conditions.

  • Page 59: Operating Environment

    Health and safety information have the potential to divert your attention “The wireless industry reminds you to use from the road. your phone safely when driving.” 8. Use your wireless phone to call for help. For more information, please call 1-888-901- Dial 9-1-1 or other local emergency number SAFE, or visit our web-site www.wow-com.com in the case of fire, traffic accident or...

  • Page 60: Electronic Devices

    the safety of personnel, it is recommended that independent research and recommendations of the equipment should only be used in the Wireless Technology Research. normal operating position (held to your ear with Persons with pacemakers: the antenna pointing over your shoulder). •...

  • Page 61: Potentially Explosive Environments

    Health and safety information Potentially Explosive Environments Other Medical Devices If you use any other personal medical devices, Switch your phone off when in any area with a consult the manufacturer of your device to potentially explosive atmosphere and obey all determine if it is adequately shielded from signs and instructions.

  • Page 62: Emergency Calls

    Emergency Calls official emergency number). Emergency numbers vary by location. This phone, like any wireless phone, operates 3. Press using radio signals, wireless and landline If certain features are in use (call barring, for networks as well as user programmed example), you may first need to deactivate functions, which cannot guarantee connection those features before you can make an...

  • Page 63: Fcc Notice And Cautions

    Health and safety information FCC Notice and Cautions However, there is no guarantee that interference FCC Notice will not occur in a particular installation. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to • This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC radio or television reception, which can be Rules.
  • Page 64 • Check regularly that all wireless phone Changes or modifications made in the radio equipment in your vehicle is mounted and phone, not expressly approved by Samsung, operating properly. will void the user’s authority to operate the • Do not store or carry flammable liquids, equipment.

  • Page 65: Product Performance

    Health and safety information equipment is improperly installed and the If you're inside a building, being near a window air bag inflates, serious injury could result. may give you better reception. • Switch your phone off before boarding an Understanding the Power Save Feature aircraft.

  • Page 66: Ring Tones

    Availability of Various Features/ Maintaining Your Phone's Peak Performance Ring Tones For the best care of your phone, only authorized Many services and features are network personnel should service your phone and dependent and may require additional accessories. Faulty service may void the subscription and/or usage charges.

  • Page 67: Battery Precautions

    Health and safety information Battery Precautions • Use only Samsung-approved batteries and recharge your battery only with Samsung- • Never use any charger or battery that is approved chargers. When a charger is not damaged in any way. in use, disconnect it from the power source.

  • Page 68: Care And Maintenance

    Li-Ion batteries, contact • Do not use or store the phone in dusty, dirty your nearest Samsung authorized service areas, as its moving parts may be center. Always recycle. Do not dispose of damaged.
  • Page 69 Health and safety information • Do not store the phone in cold areas. When phone changes color. In this case, phone the phone warms up to its normal operating repairs are no longer guaranteed by the temperature, moisture can form inside the manufacturer's warranty, even if the phone, which may damage the phone's warranty for your phone has not expired.

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