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Samsung SGH-F500 User Manual

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Printed in Korea
Code No.:GH68-XXXXXA
English (EU). 01/2007. 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.
  • Page 2 SGH-F500 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 Be aware of special regulations Accessories and batteries Meet any special regulations in force in any Use only Samsung-approved batteries and area and always switch off your phone accessories, such as headsets and PC data whenever it is forbidden to use it, or when it cables.
  • Page 5 About this Guide • 3G Your phone is capable of operating in a 3G environment, allowing This User’s Guide provides you with much greater data transfer condensed information about how to use speed, video streaming, your phone. and video conferencing. In this guide, the following instruction icons appear: Special...
  • Page 6 • Music player • Bluetooth Play music files on your Transfer media files and phone. You can enjoy high personal data, and connect quality videos and music. to other devices using wireless Bluetooth technology. • Camera and camcorder Use the camera module on •...

  • Page 7: Table Of Contents

    View messages ........19 Contents Use Bluetooth ......... 20 Switch applications ........21 Unpack Multimedia player functions Make sure you have each item Use multimedia functions: the music player, Get started camera, media album, and document viewer First steps to operating your phone Use Multimedia player keys ......
  • Page 8 Overview of menu functions To access Menu mode, press <Menu> in Idle mode. 1 Call log 5 Messages 7 Applications 8 Alarms 1 Create message 1 Calendar 2 Inbox 2 Memo 2 Phonebook 9 Settings 3 Email inbox 3 Task 4 Drafts 4 Voice recorder 1 Phone settings...

  • Page 9: Unpack

    • User’s Guide 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. To AC power outlet...

  • Page 10: Power On Or Off

    Phone layout Removing the battery cover Front view Earpiece Camera lens Navigation keys Phone display (Up/Down/Left/ Right) Headset/ Adapter jack Right soft key Power on or off Application Volume keys switch key Left soft key 1. Press and hold [ Power on/off/ Switch on Video call key...

  • Page 11: Switch Between Phone Mode And Multimedia Player Mode

    Get started Switch between Phone mode Rear view and Multimedia Player mode Your phone provides you with entertaining multimedia functions, as well as traditional phone functions. When you switch on your phone, it goes into traditional Phone mode using the small display on the front side.
  • Page 12 In Idle mode, access your Enter numbers, letters, and favourite menus directly. some special characters. In Menu mode, scroll through menu options. Enter special characters or In Idle mode, access Menu perform special functions. mode. In Menu mode, select the highlighted menu option or Multimedia player keys confirm input.
  • Page 13 Get started Common keys UMTS (3G) network Slide down to switch between Connecting to UMTS (3G) Phone mode and Multimedia network Player mode. Slide up to lock the multimedia Call in progress player keys. Out of your service area Adjust the phone volume. Video call in progress Roaming network Icons...

  • Page 14: Access Menu Functions

    Access menu functions New message: In Phone mode • : Text message • : Multimedia message 1. Press a desired soft key. Select an • : Email option 2. Press the Navigation keys • : Voicemail to move to the next or •...

  • Page 15: Enter Text

    Get started In Multimedia Player mode ABC mode To enter a word: You can access menu functions and options Press the appropriate key by touching or dragging on the multimedia until the character you want player keys. Further details are described in appears on the display.

  • Page 16: Customise Your Phone

    Other • Press [1] to enter To change the profile operations Call ringer puntuation marks or properties: melody special characters. 1. In Idle mode, press • Press [ ] to insert a <Menu> and select space. Settings → Phone • Press the Navigation keys settings →...
  • Page 17 Get started To change the sound profile: 4. Slide down to switch the screen to the 1. In Idle mode, press multimedia player <Menu> and select display. Settings → Phone settings → Phone 5. Press [ ] and select Set profiles.

  • Page 18: Step Outside The Phone

    Step outside the phone 1. In Idle mode, press Phone lock <Menu> and select Begin with call functions, web browser, Settings → Security → messaging, and other special features Change phone Make or answer calls password. 2. Enter the default To make a voice call: password, 00000000, Make a call...

  • Page 19: Browse The Web

    Step outside the phone 1. When the phone rings, 4. During a multi-party call: Answer a press [ • Press <Options> call and select Split to 2. For a video call, press have a private <Show me> to allow the conversation with one other person to see you.

  • Page 20: Use Phonebook

    • To scroll through browser 4. Specify contact Navigate items, press [Up] or information. the web [Down]. 5. Press <Options> and • To select an item, press select Save, or press [OK]. <Save> to save the contact. • To return to the previous page, press <Back>.

  • Page 21: Send Messages

    Step outside the phone Send messages 3. Select Image or video and add an image or a 1. In Idle mode, press Send a text video clip. <Menu> and select message Messages → Create 4. Select Sound and add a message →...

  • Page 22: View Messages

    View messages 1. In Idle mode, press Send an <Menu> and select 1. In Idle mode, press email View a text Messages → Create <Menu> and select message message → Email. Messages → Inbox. 2. Enter the email subject. 2. Select a text message. 3.

  • Page 23: Use Bluetooth

    Step outside the phone Use Bluetooth 3. Enter a Bluetooth PIN or Your phone is equipped with Bluetooth the other device’s technology, enabling you to connect the Bluetooth PIN, if it has phone wirelessly to other Bluetooth devices one, and press <OK>. and exchange data with them, talk hands- When the owner of the free, or control the phone remotely.

  • Page 24: Switch Applications

    5. Search for and select a • Call: open the dialling Available device. screen. applications • Messages: access the 6. If necessary, enter the Messages menu. Bluetooth PIN and press <OK>. • Browser: launch the web browser. 1. When a device attempts Receive to access your phone, 1.

  • Page 25: Multimedia Player Functions

    Multimedia player functions Perform the following Press Lightly options: Use multimedia functions: the music player, press and • : Opens an camera, media album, and document viewer release. option list. • : Functions as Use Multimedia player keys the left soft/ How to use navigation key.
  • Page 26 Multimedia player keys lock 1. In a menu, press [ ] to You can lock the multimedia player keys to Select an open an option list. prevent any unwanted phone operations option from accidentally pressing any of the keys. 2. Scroll up or down by dragging up or down on In Idle mode, slide up.

  • Page 27: Play Music

    → USB • Download from a connection → Media computer using the player. optional Samsung PC Studio. See Samsung PC 2. Connect your phone and Studio User’s Guide. computer with an optional PC data cable. • Receive via Bluetooth 3.
  • Page 28 7. Click Start Sync. • Press [ / ] to adjust the volume. 8. When synchronisation is • Drag to the left or finished, disconnect the right on the key to phone from the PC. access the all music list or check the 1.
  • Page 29 Multimedia player functions 5. Slide down to return 6. Select the playlist you the screen to the want. multimedia player 7. Press [ ] to begin display. playback. 6. Press [OK] to begin playback. Sound output 1. From the screen, drag to Create a switches to the headset.
  • Page 30 7. Access the playlist you While you using the music Select a created. player, music files are sorted playlist automatically on the most 8. Press [ ] and select Add played music list or recent music from → a source music list.
  • Page 31 Multimedia player functions From the music player • Do not play: remove the Use player screen, press [ ]. Depending file from the current options on the current playlist, playlist. available options vary: • Send via: send the file • Transfer to phone/ via multimedia message, Transfer to Bluetooth...

  • Page 32: Use The Camera

    Use the camera • Details: access the file • Do not take photos of people without properties. their permission. • Key management: • Do not take photos in a place where manage license keys. cameras are not allowed. • Do not take photos in a place where From the music player you may interfere with another Customise...
  • Page 33 Multimedia player functions In Capture mode, adjust the • Frames: apply a Adjust an image to be captured: decorative frame. image • Press [ / ], or press [2] • White balance: adjust or [3] to zoom in or out. the colour temperature of the camera.
  • Page 34 • Scene programs: set 1. In Capture mode, press Record a whether to use Night shot [ ] to switch to Record video mode. mode. • Shutter sound: select 2. Aim the lens at the the sound that you hear subject and make any when you press the desired adjustments.
  • Page 35 Multimedia player functions In Record mode, adjust the • White balance: adjust Adjust an image to be recorded: the colour temperature of image the camera. • Press [ / ], or press [2] or [3] to zoom in or out. •...

  • Page 36: View Photos And Videos In Album

    1. In Record mode, drag to 1. From the file list, select a Play videos View the left on the key to photo. photos as a open the My video clips slide show 2. Press [ ] to open the list.

  • Page 37: Play Videos

    Multimedia player functions • Hold [ ] to move • DivX Registration forward in a file. Code: check the registration code of your • Drag up or down on phone for playing the key to adjust the downloaded video files. volume.

  • Page 38: Menu Functions

    Menu functions Menu Description Copy all Copy all of the contacts All menu options listed stored on the SIM card to This section provides brief explanations of the phone’s memory, or menu functions on your phone. vice versa. Service number View the SDN (Service Call log Dialling Number) list assigned by your service...
  • Page 39 Menu functions Bluetooth Menu Description Connect the phone wirelessly to other History Access the list of pages Bluetooth devices. you have accessed recently. Browser Advanced Clear the cache or delete cookies or to change the Menu Description browser display settings. Home Connect your phone to Browser...
  • Page 40 Menu Description Menu Description Drafts Access messages that SOS messages Speficy options for you have saved to send sending and receiving an at a later time. SOS message. Outbox Access messages that Memory status Check the amount of the phone is attempting memory currently in use to send or has failed to in each message folder.
  • Page 41 Menu functions Applications Menu Description Timer Set a period of time for Menu Description the phone to count Calendar Keep track of your down. schedule. Stopwatch Measure elapsed time. Memo Make memos for things that are important and SIM application Use a variety of manage them.
  • Page 42 Settings Menu Description Phone settings Set the phone to lock the Menu Description → Auto keypad keypad automatically Phone settings Change the sound lock when the display turns → Phone settings of the phone for off. profiles different events or situations.
  • Page 43 Menu functions Menu Description Menu Description Display settings Select the length of time Phonebook Change the settings for → Backlight the backlight or display settings using phonebook. time stays on when the phone Network Select the network to be is not used. settings →...
  • Page 44 Menu Description Menu Description Network Select a connection Security → Set the phone to restrict settings → profile to be used for Fixed dialling calls to a limited set of Streaming accessing a streaming mode phone numbers, if settings server. supported by your USIM/ SIM card.

  • Page 45: Health And Safety Information

    Health and safety Menu Description information Security → Set the phone to send Mobile tracker the preset tracking Exposure to Radio Frequency (RF) message to your family Signals or friends when someone tries to use your phone Certification Information (SAR) with another USIM/SIM Your wireless phone is a radio transmitter card,...
  • Page 46 1.6 watts per kilogram (1.6 exposure guidelines when used with a W/kg). The FCC exposure limit incorporates Samsung accessory designated for this a substantial margin of safety to give product or when used with an accessroy that...
  • Page 47 Health and safety information Consumer Information on Wireless telephone wiring in a house, typically Phones operate at far lower power levels, and thus produce RF exposures well within the FCC's The U.S. Food and Drug Administration compliance limits. (FDA) has published a series of Questions Do wireless phones pose a health and Answers for consumers relating to radio hazard?
  • Page 48 What is FDA's role concerning the • “Cooperate in providing users of wireless safety of wireless phones? phones with the best possible information on possible effects of Under the law, FDA does not review the wireless phone use on human health. safety of radiation-emitting consumer products such as wireless phones before FDA belongs to an interagency working...
  • Page 49 Health and safety information limit RF exposure. FCC relies on FDA and studies that showed increased tumor other health agencies for safety questions development used animals that had been about wireless phones. genetically engineered or treated with cancer-causing chemicals so as to be pre- FCC also regulates the base stations that the disposed to develop cancer in absence of RF wireless phone networks rely upon.
  • Page 50 What research is needed to decide What is FDA doing to find out more whether RF exposure from wireless about the possible health effects of phones poses a health risk? wireless phone RF? A combination of laboratory studies and FDA is working with the U.S. National epidemiological studies of people actually Toxicology Program and with groups of using wireless phones would provide some...
  • Page 51 Health and safety information experts in government, industry, and between your body and the source of the academic organizations. CTIA-funded RF, since the exposure level drops off research is conducted through contracts to dramatically with distance. For example, independent investigators. The initial you could use a headset and carry the research will include both laboratory studies wireless phone away from your body or...
  • Page 52 Some groups sponsored by other national phone is mounted against the waist or other governments have advised that children be part of the body during use, then that part discouraged from using wireless phones at of the body will absorb more RF energy. all.
  • Page 53 Health and safety information compensate, leading to an increase in RF defibrillators are safe from wireless phone absorption. In February 2002, the Federal EMI. FDA has tested wireless phones and trade Commission (FTC) charged two helped develop a voluntary standard companies that sold devices that claimed to sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and protect wireless phone users from radiation...
  • Page 54 Road Safety • Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA): Your wireless phone gives you the powerful http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/ ability to communicate by voice, almost radiofrequencyradiation/index.html anywhere, anytime. But an important • National institute for Occupational Safety responsibility accompanies the benefits of and Health (NIOSH): wireless phones, one that every user must uphold.
  • Page 55 Health and safety information 3. Position your wireless phone within easy 7. Do not engage in stressful or emotional reach. Be able to access your wireless conversations that may be distracting. phone without removing your eyes from Make people you are talking with aware the road.
  • Page 56 Using Your Phone Near Other “The wireless industry reminds you to Electronic Devices use your phone safely when driving.” For more information, please call 1-888- Most modern electronic equipment is 901-SAFE, or visit our web-site www.wow- shielded from radio frequency (RF) signals. com.com However, certain electronic equipment may not be shielded against the RF signals from...
  • Page 57 Health and safety information • should use the ear opposite the Vehicles pacemaker to minimize potential RF signals may affect improperly installed or interference. inadequately shielded electronic systems in motor vehicles. Check with the If you have any reason to suspect that interference is taking place, switch your manufacturer or its representative regarding phone off immediately.
  • Page 58 Areas with a potentially explosive network services and/or phone features are atmosphere are often but not always clearly in use. Check with local service providers. marked. They include below deck on boats, To make an emergency call: chemical transfer or storage facilities, 1.
  • Page 59 Health and safety information Your phone is not a toy. Children should not be allowed to play with it because they could This equipment generates, uses and can hurt themselves and others, damage the radiate radio frequency energy and,f not phone or make calls that increase your installed and used in accordance with the phone bill.
  • Page 60 Check regularly that all wireless phone equipment in your vehicle is mounted Changes or modifications made in the radio and operating properly. phone, not expressly approved by Samsung, will void the user’s authority to operate the • Do not store or carry flammable liquids, equipment.
  • Page 61 Health and safety information Product Performance aircraft is illegal and may be dangerous to the aircraft's operation. Getting the Most Out of Your Signal • Failure to observe these instructions may Reception lead to the suspension or denial of The quality of each call you make or receive telephone services to the offender, or depends on the signal strength in your area.
  • Page 62 Understanding How Your Phone • Avoid exposing your phone and Operates accessories to rain or liquid spills. If your phone does get wet, immediately turn Your phone is basically a radio transmitter the power off and remove the battery. If and receiver.
  • Page 63 + and - terminals of the battery (metal • Use only Samsung-approved batteries strips on the battery), for example when and recharge your battery only with you carry a spare battery in a pocket or Samsung-approved chargers.
  • Page 64 For electronic devices, damage batteries, safe disposal options for Li-Ion batteries, and warp or melt certain plastics. contact your nearest Samsung • Do not store the phone in cold areas. authorized service center. Always When the phone warms up to its normal recycle.
  • Page 65 Health and safety information stove or a radiator. The phone may • When the phone or battery gets wet, the label indicating water damage inside the phone explode when overheated. changes colour. In this case, phone repairs are • When the phone or battery gets wet, the no longer guaranteed by the manufacturer's label indicating water damage inside the warranty, even if the warranty for your phone...

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