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Samsung SGH-E848I 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
Code No.:GH68-15042A
World Wide Web
English. 06/2008. Rev. 1.0
http://www.samsungmobile.com

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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 Code No.:GH68-15042A World Wide Web...
  • Page 2 SGH-E848I User’s Guide...
  • 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. precautions Switch off in an aircraft Wireless phones can cause interference.
  • Page 4 Avoid unnecessary contact with the antenna when the phone is switched on. Use of authorised software Emergency calls Use only Samsung-authorised software. The use of Key in the emergency number for your present any unauthorised software could damage your location, then press phone.
  • Page 5 About this Guide • Camera and camcorder Use the camera module on your This User’s Guide provides you with condensed phone to take a photo or record information about how to use your phone. a video. In this guide, the following instruction icons appear: Special Indicates that you need to pay careful...
  • Page 6 • FM radio • SOS message Listen to your favourite radio Send SOS messages to your stations anytime, anywhere. family or friends for help in an emergency. • Voice recorder • Bluetooth Record memos or sounds. Transfer media files and personal data, and connect to other devices using wireless Bluetooth technology.

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    Play music........... 22 Contents Listen to the FM radio ........24 Browse the web ........... 25 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 # Settings 1 Recent contacts 3 Fun club 1 Phone settings 2 Missed calls 4 Bookmarks 2 Light settings 8 Camera 3 Dialled calls 5 Enter URL 3 Display settings...

  • 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

    Power on or off Improperly connecting the adapter can cause serious damage to the phone. Any damages by misuse are not covered by the warranty. Switch on 1. Open the phone. 2. Press and hold [ ]. FRONT FRONT 3. If necessary, enter the PIN and press <OK>.

  • Page 11: Phone Layout

    Get started Phone layout Rear view Front view Mirror Camera lens Earpiece Display Navigation keys Web access/ (Up/Down/Left/ Confirm key Right) Left soft key Right soft key Volume keys Camera key Delete/Menu exit key Dial key Memory card slot Alphanumeric keys Power key Multi-function Special function keys...

  • Page 12: Keys And Icons

    Keys and icons Make or answer a call. Keys In Idle mode, retrieve the numbers recently dialled, missed, or received. Perform the function indicated on the End a call. bottom line of the display. Delete characters from the display. In Idle mode, access the following In Menu mode, cancel input and menus: return the phone to Idle mode.
  • Page 13 Get started Icons Enter special characters or perform The following icons may appear on the top line special functions. of the screen to indicate your phone’s status. In Idle mode, press and hold [ ] to Depending on your country or service provider, activate or deactivate Silent mode.
  • Page 14 Call in progress Bluetooth hands-free car kit or headset connected Out of your service area or Offline mode Synchronised with PC SOS message feature active Music playback in progress Memory card inserted Music playback paused Alarm set Silent mode (Mute) Browsing Internet Silent mode (Vibration) Roaming network...

  • Page 15: Access Menu Functions

    Get started Access menu functions Whisper mode, during a call 1. Press a desired soft key. Select an Mute mode, during a call option 2. Press the Navigation keys to New message: move to the next or • : Text or Multimedia previous option.

  • Page 16: Enter Text

    Enter text 4. If necessary, press [Up] or [Down] to find the character Change the 1. In the text entry screen, you want. text input press and hold [ ]. mode 5. Press the number key 2. Select the mode you want. corresponding to the character.
  • Page 17 Get started ABC mode To enter a word: Symbol Press the corresponding number mode key to select a symbol. Press the appropriate key until the character you want appears Other • Press [1] to enter on the display. operations punctuation marks or special characters in ABC mode and English To enter a word:...

  • Page 18: Customise Your Phone

    Customise your phone 4. Select Voice call ringtone. 5. Select a ringtone category. 1. In Idle mode, press Display <Menu> and select 6. Select a ringtone. language Settings → Phone settings 7. Press <Options> and → Language → Display. select Save profile. 2.
  • Page 19 Get started 1. In Idle mode, press You can switch the phone to Idle mode Silent mode <Menu> and select Silent mode to avoid disturbing wallpaper Settings → Display other people. In Idle mode, settings → Home screen press and hold [ ]. →...

  • Page 20: Step Outside The Phone

    Step outside the phone 1. When the phone rings, Answer a call Begin with call functions, camera, music player, press [ web browser, and other special features 2. To end the call, press [ ] or [ ] to unlock the keypad Make or answer calls and press [ 1.

  • Page 21: Use The Camera

    Use the camera 3. Repeat step 1 and 2 to add more participants. 1. In Idle mode, press and hold Take a photo 4. During a multi-party call: ] to turn on the camera. • Press <Options> and 2. Aim the lens at the subject select Select one →...

  • Page 22: Play Music

    Record mode. wireless web. phone • Download from a PC using 3. Press [ ] or [ ] to start the optional Samsung PC recording. Studio. See Samsung PC 4. Press [ ] or [ ] to stop Studio User’s Guide.
  • Page 23 Step outside the phone 2. Connect your phone and PC When inserting a memory card with a large amount of with an optional PC data files, your phone might work cable. rather slowly for a few 3. Select Sync digital media minutes while database files to this device when a updates.
  • Page 24 1. In Idle mode, press • Right: skip to the next Play music <Menu> and select Music. file. Press and hold to files scan forward in a file. 2. Select a playlist → a music • Up: open the playlist. file.

  • Page 25: Listen To The Fm Radio

    Step outside the phone 4. Select the added playlist. 3. Press [ ] to turn on the radio. 5. Press <Options> and select Add → a source. 4. Press [Left] or [Right] to find available radio 6. Select a playlist → a file, or stations.

  • Page 26: Browse The Web

    By manual setup: • To scroll through browser Navigate items, press [Up] or 1. From the FM radio screen, the web [Down]. press <Options> and • To select an item, press select Add. [ ]. 2. Enter the frequency of the •...

  • Page 27: Send Messages

    Step outside the phone Send messages 3. For Phone, select a number type. 1. In Idle mode, press Send a text 4. Specify contact information. <Menu> and select message Messages → Create new 5. Press <Options> and message → Text select Save or [ ] to save message.
  • Page 28 1. In Idle mode, press 8. Press <Options> and select Send a <Menu> and select Send. multimedia Messages → Create new 9. Press [ ]. message message → Multimedia 10.Enter destination numbers message. or email addresses and 2. Select Subject. press [ ].
  • Page 29 Step outside the phone 9. Press [ ]. 1. In Idle mode, press <Menu> Send an and select Messages → 10.Enter email addresses and email Create message → Email. press [ ]. 2. Select Subject. 11.Press <Options> and select Send to send the 3.

  • Page 30: View Messages

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

  • Page 31: 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 → wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices and a Bluetooth Bluetooth →...
  • Page 32 1. When a device attempts to 1. Access an application, such Receive data Send data access your phone, press as Phonebook, My files, <Yes> to permit the Calendar, or Memo. connection. 2. Select an item. 2. If necessary, press <Yes> 3.

  • Page 33: Menu Functions

    Menu functions Menu functions Menu Description Area code Find and retrieve area and All menu options listed country codes to quickly This section provides brief explanations of and easily dial phone menu functions on your phone. numbers. Call manager → Check the time record for Call time calls made and received.
  • Page 34 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 Own number...
  • Page 35 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 playlists. providing Samsung mobile phone users with attractive download services of up-...
  • Page 36 1. All rights and responsibilities for the Java-based games embedded in your phone and media contents provided by Streaming Select a connection profile Samsung Fun Club, such as images, sounds, and Java settings to be used for accessing a applications, belong to their respective owners.
  • Page 37 Menu functions Menu Description Menu Description My messages Access messages that you SOS Messages Specify options for sending have received, sent, or that and receiving an SOS have failed during sending. message. You can send an SOS message by pressing Templates Make and use templates of [Volume] 4 times when the...
  • Page 38 My files Camera Use the camera embedded in your phone to Menu Description take photos and record videos. Images, Videos, Access media files and Music, Sounds, other files stored in the FM radio Other files phone’s memory. Listen to music or news via the FM radio on Memory card Access the files stored on a your phone.
  • Page 39 1. All rights and responsibilities for the Java-based games time in another part of the embedded in your phone and media contents provided by world. Samsung Fun Club, such as images, sounds, and Java applications, belong to their respective owners. Calculator Perform arithmetic functions.
  • Page 40 Settings Menu Description Phone settings → Change the time and date Menu Description Time and date displayed on your phone. Phone settings → Change the sound settings Phone profiles of the phone for different Phone settings → Set how the phone reacts if events or situations.
  • Page 41 Menu functions Menu Description Menu Description Phone settings → Set how the phone reacts Light settings → Adjust the brightness of Slide settings when you open it for an Brightness the display for varying incoming call, and when lighting conditions. you close it while using a Light settings →...
  • Page 42 Menu Description Menu Description Display settings Enter the greeting that is Phonebook Select a default memory → Greeting displayed briefly when the settings → Save location for saving message phone is switched on. new contacts to contacts. Display settings Select a transition when Phonebook Activate the last name and →...
  • Page 43 Menu functions Menu Description Menu Description Calendar Select the default calendar Network settings Select the network to be settings → view mode. → Select used while roaming outside Default view by network of your home area, or let the network be chosen Browser settings Clear the cache.
  • Page 44 Menu Description Menu Description Security settings Activate your PIN to Security → Change your current PIN2, → PIN lock protect your SIM card Change PIN2 if supported by your SIM against unauthorised use. code card. Security settings Lock access to call logs, Setup wizard Quickly customise basic →...

  • Page 45: Health And Safety Information

    after extensive reviews of the scientific Health and safety information literature related to the biological effects of RF energy. SAR certification information The exposure limit set by the FCC for Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter wireless mobile phones employs a unit of and receiver.
  • Page 46 Samsung accessory designated for this power required to reach the network. In product or when used with an accessory that...
  • Page 47 reported SAR levels evaluated as in phones. The FDA publication includes the compliance with the FCC RF exposure following information: guidelines. What kinds of phones are the subject of The FCC has granted an Equipment this update? Authorization for this model phone with all The term wireless phone refers here to reported SAR levels evaluated as in hand-held wireless phones with built-in...
  • Page 48 Health and safety information because a person's RF exposure decreases stand-by mode. Whereas high levels of RF rapidly with increasing distance from the can produce health effects (by heating source. The so-called “cordless phones,” tissue), exposure to low level RF that does which have a base unit connected to the not produce heating effects causes no telephone wiring in a house, typically...
  • Page 49 products such as wireless phones before • “Design wireless phones in a way that they can be sold, as it does with new drugs minimizes any RF exposure to the user or medical devices. However, the agency has that is not necessary for device function; authority to take action if wireless phones and“Cooperate in providing users of are shown to emit radio frequency energy...
  • Page 50 Health and safety information • “Occupational Safety and Health these base stations operate at higher power Administration than do the wireless phones themselves, the RF exposures that people get from these • “National Telecommunications and base stations are typically thousands of Information Administration times lower than those they can get from The National Institutes of Health participates...
  • Page 51 few animal studies, however, have them, the studies investigated any possible suggested that low levels of RF could association between the use of wireless accelerate the development of cancer in phones and primary brain cancer, glioma, laboratory animals. However, many of the meningioma, or acoustic neuroma, tumors studies that showed increased tumor of the brain or salivary gland, leukemia, or...
  • Page 52 Health and safety information actually using wireless phones would actual RF exposure during day-to-day provide some of the data that are use of wireless phones. Many factors needed. Lifetime animal exposure affect this measurement, such as the studies could be completed in a few angle at which the phone is held, or years.
  • Page 53 its inception in 1996. An influential result of and studies of wireless phone users. The this work has been the development of a CRADA will also include a broad assessment detailed agenda of research needs that has of additional research needs in the context driven the establishment of new research of the latest research developments around programs around the world.
  • Page 54 Health and safety information “If you must conduct extended The scientific evidence does not show a conversations by wireless phone every day, danger to users of wireless phones, you could place more distance between your including children and teenagers. If you body and the source of the RF, since the want to take steps to lower exposure to exposure level drops off dramatically with...
  • Page 55 causes brain tumors or other ill effects. Their phone is mounted against the waist or other recommendation to limit wireless phone use part of the body during use, then that part by children was strictly precautionary; it was of the body will absorb more RF energy. not based on scientific evidence that any Wireless phones marketed in the U.S.
  • Page 56 Health and safety information RF absorption use special phone cases, while What about wireless phone interference others involve nothing more than a metallic with medical equipment? accessory attached to the phone. Studies Radio frequency energy (RF) from wireless have shown that these products generally do phones can interact with some electronic not work as advertised.
  • Page 57 EMI. FDA has tested wireless phones and Additional information on the safety of RF helped develop a voluntary standard exposures from various sources can be sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and obtained from the following organizations: Electronic Engineers (IEEE). This standard •...
  • Page 58 Health and safety information • International Commission on Non- When driving a car, driving is your first Ionizing Radiation Protection: responsibility. When using your wireless phone behind the wheel of a car, practice • http://www.icnirp.de good common sense and remember the •...
  • Page 59 the road. If you get an incoming call at to plan calls when your car will be an inconvenient time, let your voice mail stationary. If you need to make a call answer it for you. while moving, dial only a few numbers, check the road and your mirrors, then 4.
  • Page 60 Health and safety information 9. Use your wireless phone to help others in For more information, please call 1-888- emergencies. If you see an auto 901-SAFE, or visit our web-site www.wow- accident, crime in progress or other com.com serious emergency where lives are in Provided by the Cellular Telecommunications danger, call 9-1-1 or other local &...
  • Page 61 for the safety of personnel, it is pacemaker to avoid potential interference recommended that the equipment should with the pacemaker. only be used in the normal operating These recommendations are consistent with position (held to your ear with the antenna the independent research and pointing over your shoulder).
  • Page 62 Health and safety information If you have any reason to suspect that regulations posted in these areas instruct interference is taking place, switch your you to do so. Hospitals or health care phone off immediately. facilities may be using equipment that could be sensitive to external RF energy.
  • Page 63 Switch your phone off when in any area with contains chemicals or particles, such as a potentially explosive atmosphere and obey grain, dust or metal powders, and any other all signs and instructions. Sparks in such area where you would normally be advised areas could cause an explosion or fire to turn off your vehicle engine.
  • Page 64 Health and safety information wireless phone networks or when certain accurately as possible. Remember that your network services and/or phone features are phone may be the only means of in use. Check with local service providers. communication at the scene of an accident; do not cut off the call until given permission To make an emergency call: to do so.
  • Page 65 FCC Notice • This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) this device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation. •...
  • Page 66 Cautions vehicle. Faulty installation or service may be dangerous and may invalidate any Changes or modifications made in the radio warranty applicable to the device. phone, not expressly approved by Samsung, will void the user’s authority to operate the equipment.
  • Page 67 • Check regularly that all wireless phone aircraft is illegal and may be dangerous equipment in your vehicle is mounted to the aircraft's operation. and operating properly. • Failure to observe these instructions may • Do not store or carry flammable liquids, lead to the suspension or denial of gases or explosive materials in the same telephone services to the offender, or...
  • Page 68 Health and safety information If you're inside a building, being near a window may give you better reception. Understanding the Power Save Feature Maintaining Your Phone's Peak If your phone is unable to find a signal after Performance 15 minutes of searching, a Power Save For the best care of your phone, only feature is automatically activated.
  • Page 69 • Try not to hold, bend or twist the phone's all areas. Downloadable Ring Tones may be antenna. available at an additional cost. Other conditions and restrictions may apply. See • Don't use the phone if the antenna is your service provider for additional damaged.
  • Page 70 Health and safety information • Use the battery only for its intended • Use only Samsung-approved batteries purpose. and recharge your battery only with Samsung-approved chargers. When a • If you use the phone near the network's charger is not in use, disconnect it from base station, it uses less power;...
  • Page 71 Li-ion contact your nearest Samsung batteries are particularly affected by authorized service center. Always temperatures below 0 °C (32 °F). recycle. Do not dispose of batteries in a fire. • Do not short-circuit the battery.
  • Page 72 Health and safety information Care and maintenance • Do not store the phone in hot areas. High temperatures can shorten the life of electronic Your phone is a product of superior design and devices, damage batteries, and warp or melt certain craftsmanship and should be treated with care.
  • Page 73 • When the phone or battery gets wet, the label indicating water damage inside the phone changes colour. In this case, phone repairs are no longer guaranteed by the manufacturer's warranty, even if the warranty for your phone has not expired. •...

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