Switching The Phone On/Off; Call Functions; Making A Call - Samsung SGH-A500 Owner's Manual

Getting Started

Switching the Phone On/Off

1. Open the folder.
2. Hold down the key for more than one
second to switch the phone on.
3. If the phone asks for a password, key in the
password and press the OK soft key. The phone
password is factory set to "00000000." For
further details, see page 101.
4. If the phone asks for a PIN, key in the PIN and
press the OK soft key. For further details, see
page 102.
The phone searches for your network. When it
finds the appropriate network, the idle screen,
illustrated below, is displayed. Now, you can
make or receive a call.
Note: The display language is factory set to English.
To change the language, use the Language
menu option ( 4.3 ); for further details, refer to
page 73.
5. When you wish to switch the phone off, hold the
key down for more than two seconds.
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Call Functions

Making a Call

When the idle screen is displayed, key in the area
code and phone number and press the
Note: If you have set the Auto Redial menu option
( 4.5 ) to ON (see page 74), the number is
redialled automatically up to ten times when
the person does not answer your call or is
already on the phone.
Making International Calls
1. Press and hold the 0 key down.
The + character appears.
2. Key in the country code, area code and phone
number and press the
Correcting the Number
To clear... Then...
The last digit Press the C key.
displayed
Any other digit Press the
in the number cursor is next to the right of the
digit to be cleared. Press the C
key. You can also insert a
missing digit by pressing the
appropriate key.
The whole Hold down the C key for more
display than one second.
key.
key.
or key until the
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