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Owner’s Record The serial number is located inside battery compartment. Record the serial number in the space provided below. Refer to these numbers whenever you call upon your Sony dealer regarding this product. Model No. COM-1 Serial No. _______________________ WARNING You are cautioned that any changes or modifications not expressly approved...
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If you have any questions about this product: Visit: http://www.sony.com/mylo Contact: Sony Customer Information Services Center at 1-(888)-476-6972 Write: Sony Customer Information Services Center 12451 Gateway Blvd., Ft. Myers, FL 33913 Model COM-1...
Table of Contents For Detailed Information ....4 Things to Do With Your Personal Communicator What’s in the Box......4 Overview........6 Communication — Skype ..27 Communication Preparation — Google Talk ......28 The Parts of Your Personal Communication Communicator ......7 — Yahoo! Messenger....29 The status bar ......
Preparation The Parts of Your Personal Communicator Front (USB) connector ( page 00) Speaker ( page 00) Connects your unit to a computer. Outputs the other user’s voice during Internet phone calls.
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To connect the supplied headset To (headset) jack Receive button Clip Answers or ends a call. Holds the remote controller to your clothes. Microphone Picks up your voice during Skype calls. Continued ...
To insert and remove a “Memory Stick Duo” Insert a “Memory Stick Duo” as illustrated below. When the “Memory Stick Duo” is inserted into the unit, the “Memory Stick Duo” indicator lights up. Grip the groove with your finger, and gently pull in the direction Terminal side indicated by the arrow.
Step 1: Preparing a Power Source Installing the supplied battery Make sure that the battery is inserted before using the unit. Using the unit powered by the AC adapter or by your computer without the rechargeable battery may lead to the following undesirable conditions: –...
Step 2: Setting up Your Personal Communicator Turning on your unit Slide and hold down the POWER switch until the POWER indicator lights up green. Wait until the start-up screen disappears. When you use your Personal Communicator for the first time, the initial set-up wizard appears. Once the initial set-up is completed, the set-up wizard will no longer appear when the unit is turned on.
Entering your information Follow the on-screen instructions to enter information about yourself and your location. Entering “My Profile” items creates your user profile, visible to other users connected via the Ad Hoc Application ( page 00). Use the following buttons and the keyboard ( page 00) to fill in the items. Center button Activates the selected item or confirms an entry.
Registering an access point If you regularly connect to particular access points, register them with your device, and configure your unit to automatically connect to them when they are detected. You can even specify the order in which the unit will try to connect to them.
Wireless LAN Settings — Ad Hoc Mode Warning Turn off the WIRELESS LAN switch when in crowded places, such as in a crowded train, If a person nearby is using a pacemaker, it is possible that the radio waves could affect the pacemaker. The unit’s Ad Hoc Application enables you to communicate with a nearby user without connecting to the Internet.
Connecting to wireless LAN in Ad Hoc mode When you select the Ad Hoc application on the Communication menu, the unit automatically connects to the wireless LAN in Ad Hoc mode. The WIRELESS LAN indicator lights up green, and the status indicator lights up orange. WIRELESS LAN Status indicator switch...
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Select a user you want to add to your Contact List. A message is sent to the selected user, asking for permission to add the user to your Contact List. If the user agrees to be added, his or her profile information is registered in your Ad Hoc Contact List and your profile information is registered in his or her Contact List.
Basic Operations The Home Menu The Home menu is the starting point to access the various applications and features of your unit. To display the Home menu, press the HOME button. HOME To start an application from the Home menu Press /...
The Context Menu On most screens, you can display a list of operations called the Context menu. To display the Context menu, press the OPTION button. The options vary depending upon the screen you are viewing. OPTION Context menu What’s Up Screen The What’s Up Screen shows the status of nearby contacts.
Info Screen When an event occurs, such as a new message being received or a chat invitation arriving, an event icon appears on the status bar of the display. When this happens, press INFO to view detailed information about the event. To see information about the currently music when viewing another application window, press INFO twice.
Communication — Yahoo! Messenger Yahoo! Messenger is an Internet communication tool from Yahoo!, It offers the following features: • Text conversation with other Yahoo! Messenger users • Sending Yahoo e-mails Before starting Yahoo! Messenger Register for a Yahoo! Messenger ID. If you have not yet signed up for Yahoo! Messenger, select “Get a New Yahoo! ID”...
Communication — Ad Hoc Application Ad Hoc communications allows COM-1 users to interact with each other one on one. With an Ad Hoc connection, you can enjoy such features as Music Streaming, where you stream music between your device and a friend’s COM- 1 Personal Communicator.
Communication — Address Book If you have friends with IDs on the contact lists of multiple programs, you can gather each friend’s various IDs into a single registration in the Address Book. The Address Book is always conveniently available on the What’s Up screen ( ...
When the unit is connected to the Internet via a wireless access point, you can browse websites. 1 Select “Web” from the Home menu. The unit automatically connects to the wireless LAN in infrastructure mode, and the Web browser menu appears. 2 Browse websites as you would on a computer.
Music Your unit is a music player, able to play music files stored on the unit or on other COM-1 units nearby. See the Operating Instructions (available as a PDF file on the supplied CD-ROM) or the File Structures section of this document ( ...
Photo Your unit can display photos on the built-in display. You can get photos onto your device in a variety of ways, including transferring them from a computer via the transfer software on the supplied CD-ROM, transferring them from a computer by dragging and dropping with Windows Explorer, and transferring them by way of a “Memory Stick Duo.”...
Tools The Tools menu includes the following administrative features: • “Settings”: Adjust a variety of settings for the unit. • “Connection Manager”: Manage the list of wireless LAN access points. • “File Manager”: Display the folders and files stored in the unit’s memory and “Memory Stick Duo.”...
For More Information File Structures The folder structures of the unit’s internal memory and of a “Memory Stick Duo” are described below. Folder structure of the internal memory Depending on the file category or the software program or feature used to transfer files to the unit, the files are stored in different folders, as shown in the following table.
Folder structure of “Memory Stick Duo” Depending on the file category or the software application or feature used to store files to the “Memory Stick Duo,” the files are stored in different folders, as described in the following table. ROOT OMGAUDIO HIFI DCIM...
Utility With the “Utility,” you can: • Update the software in your unit by downloading an update file from the Web and applying the update to your unit. • Back up the data on your unit to your computer and later restore your unit with the saved backup data.
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• JPEG, developed by The Independent JPEG Group, PNG, developed by The PNG Development Group, Glenn Randers-Pehrson, Andreas Dilger, Guy Eric Schalnat and Group 42, Inc. XML Parser, “expat”, developed by James Clark Zlib, developed by Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler SSLeay, developed by Eric Young OpenSSL, developed by the OpenSSL project http://www.openssl.org/...