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Samsung Telecommunications America (STA), Inc. All Intellectual Property, as defined below, owned by or which is otherwise the property of Samsung or its Headquarters: respective suppliers relating to the SAMSUNG Phone, 1301 East Lookout Drive Suite 150 Richardson, TX 75082 Tel: 972.761.7000...
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EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE EXPRESS WARRANTY CONTAINED ON THE WARRANTY PAGE ENCLOSED WITH THE PRODUCT, THE PURCHASER TAKES THE PRODUCT "AS IS", AND SAMSUNG MAKES NO EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY OF ANY KIND WHATSOEVER WITH RESPECT TO THE PRODUCT,...
Contents Unpack Make sure you have every item Your phone Buttons, features, and locations Get started First steps to operate your phone Menu functions All menu options listed Solve problems Help and personal needs Health and safety information...
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Use road safety at all times Do not use a hand-held phone while driving. Park the vehicle first. Switch off the phone when refuelling Important Do not use the phone at a refuelling point (service station) or near fuels or chemicals. safety Switch off in an aircraft Wireless phones can cause interference.
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Be aware of special regulations Accessories and batteries Meet any special regulations in force in any area and Use only Samsung-approved accessories and always switch off your phone whenever it is forbidden batteries. Use of any unauthorised accessories could to use it, or when it may cause interference or danger.
User’s Manual Right soft key jack Power on/off/ You can obtain the following accessories for Left soft key Menu exit key your phone from your local Samsung dealer. Volume keys Back key • Standard Battery • Extended Battery Dial key...
Get started When the phone is completely charged (the battery icon stops blinking), unplug the adapter from the First steps to operate your phone power outlet. Install and charge the phone Remove the adapter from the phone. Install the battery: Plug the adapter into the phone.
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Get started Keys and display Power on or off Key(s) Description Power on 1. Open the phone. Perform the function indicated on the bottom line of the display. 2. Press and hold to turn on the phone. In Idle mode, access menu options directly. In Menu mode, scroll through the menu 3.
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Key(s) Description End a call. Hold down to switch the phone on and off. In Menu mode, cancel input and return the phone to Idle mode. Enter numbers, letters, and some special characters. In Idle mode, hold down to access your voicemail.
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Overview of menu functions To access Menu mode, press from the idle screen. 1 Calls 4 Voice kit 1 Outgoing 1 Voice dial 2 Incoming 2 Voice memo 3 Missed 5 Tools 4 Erase history 1 Today 2 Contacts 2 Scheduler 1 Find 3 Task list 2 Add...
Incoming (Menu 1.2) Menu functions This menu lets you view up to 20 of the most recent All menu options listed calls you have received if you are a subscribe to the Caller Line Identification service. Contact your service Calls (Menu 1) provider for further details about this service.
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Menu functions Contacts My phone # (Menu 2.3) (Menu 2) Use this feature to check your phone number. Contacts allows you to store frequently used phone numbers and the associated names in your personal Group setting (Menu 2.4) directory to make it easy for you to make a call without having to remember or enter the phone In this menu, you can change the default group names number.
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Messaging Outbox (Menu 3.3) (Menu 3) You can view the messages you have sent in this Use the Messaging menu to send and receive short message box. When you access this menu, a list of text messages to and from other mobile phones. In messages displays.
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Menu functions Msg setting Voice dial (Menu 3.6) (Menu 4.1) You can change the various settings for using the The voice dial feature allows you to make phone calls message feature. by saying one of names you have saved in Contacts. In this menu, you can: In this menu, you can: •...
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Tools with scheduled events are indicated by blue box on the (Menu 5) calendar day. The Tools menu provides you various convenient features like a calendar, task list, memo pad, D-day Task list (Menu 5.3) counter, alarm, and calculator. This feature allows you to enter a list of tasks you To access this menu, press in Idle mode and need to be done and assign both a priority and a...
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Menu functions Alarm clock Display (Menu 5.6) (Menu 6.1) This menu allows you to set an alarm to ring at a This menu enables you to customize various settings specific time. for display and the lights. In this menu, you can: Calculator (Menu 5.7) •...
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Roaming • customize additional tones for the phone. (Menu 6.4) • select the key tone type and adjust the key tone Roaming is a feature, which is only relevant in areas volume. where there are at least two cellular service providers •...
• activate the contact match feature. Solve problems • restrict outgoing calls. Help and personal needs • set how to answer incoming calls. To save the time and expense of an unnecessary • turn the automatic redealing or answering features service call, perform the simple checks in this section on or off.
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Your correspondent cannot reach you “Enter PUK” • The PIN code was entered incorrectly three times • Be sure your phone is switched on. ( pressed in succession, and the phone is now blocked. Enter for more than one second.) the PUK supplied by your service provider.
• A clear description of the problem evaluation of scientific studies. Then contact your local dealer or Samsung after-sales The standards include a substantial safety margin service. designed to assure the safety of all persons, regardless of age and health.
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SAR compliance for body-worn operating configurations is limited to the specific belt-clip/holster supplied or approved by SAMSUNG, if available. The use of * In the U.S. and Canada, the SAR limit for mobile phones used by the public is 1.6 watts/kg (W/kg) averaged accessories that do not satisfy these requirements over one gram of tissue.
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• If left unused, a fully charged battery will discharge itself over time. • Use only Samsung-approved batteries and recharge your battery only with Samsung- approved chargers. When a charger is not in use,...
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disconnect it from the power source. Do not leave • Dispose of used batteries in accordance with local the battery connected to a charger for more than a regulations. Always recycle. Do not dispose of week, since overcharging may shorten its life. batteries in a fire.
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Health and safety information • Position your wireless phone within easy reach. Be • Do not engage in stressful or emotional able to access your wireless phone without conversations that may be distracting. Make the removing your eyes from the road. If you get an people with whom you are talking aware that you incoming call at an inconvenient time, let your are driving and suspend conversations that have...
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Operating Environment Pacemakers Pacemaker manufacturers recommend that a Remember to follow any special regulations in force in minimum distance of 15 cm (6 inches) be maintained any area and always switch off your phone whenever it between a wireless phone and a pacemaker to avoid is forbidden to use it, or when it may cause potential interference with the pacemaker.
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Health and safety information Other Medical Devices Potentially Explosive Environments If you use any other personal medical devices, consult Switch off your phone when in any area with a the manufacturer of your device to determine if it is potentially explosive atmosphere and obey all signs adequately shielded from external RF energy.
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Emergency Calls If certain features are in use (call barring, for example), you may first need to deactivate those This phone, like any wireless phone, operates using features before you can make an emergency call. radio signals, wireless and landline networks as well as Consult this document and your local cellular service user-programmed functions, which cannot guarantee provider.
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Health and safety information • For vehicles equipped with an air bag, remember • Keep the phone and all its parts and accessories that an air bag inflates with great force. Do not out of the reach of small children’s. place objects, including both installed or portable •...
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Acknowledging Special Precautions • Do not use harsh chemicals, cleaning solvents or strong detergents to clean the phone. Wipe it with and the FCC and Industry Canada a soft cloth slightly dampened in a mild soap-and- Notice water solution. • Do not paint the phone.
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Health and safety information Appendix A: CERTIFICATION provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. INFORMATION (SAR) This equipment generates, uses and can radiate radio THIS MODEL PHONE MEETS THE GOVERNMENT’S frequency energy and, if not installed and used in REQUIREMENTS FOR EXPOSURE TO RADIO WAVES.
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operating positions accepted by the FCC with the The FCC has granted an Equipment Authorization for phone transmitting at its highest certified power level this model phone with all reported SAR levels in all tested frequency bands. Although the SAR is evaluated as in compliance with the FCC RF exposure determined at the highest certified power level, the guidelines.
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Health and safety information Appendix B: Guide to Safe and tool, but good judgment must be exercised at all times while driving a motor vehicle whether on the phone or Responsible Wireless Phone Use not. Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association The basic lessons are ones we all learned as “Safety is the most important call you will ever make.”...
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Wireless Phone “Safety Tips” incoming call at an inconvenient time, if possible, let your voice mail answer it for you. Below are safety tips to follow while driving and using 4. Suspend conversations during hazardous driving a wireless phone which should be easy to remember: conditions or situations.
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Health and safety information with times you may be stopped at a stop sign, red 9. Use your wireless phone to help others in light or otherwise stationary. But if you need to dial emergencies. Your wireless phone provides you a while driving, follow this simple tip-dial only a few perfect opportunity to be a “Good Samaritan”...
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Industry Association and the wireless industry have The term wireless phone refers here to hand-held conducted educational outreach to inform wireless wireless phones with built-in antennas, often called phone users of their responsibilities as safe drivers cell, mobile, or PCS phones. These types of wireless and good citizens.
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Health and safety information wireless phones are absolutely safe. Wireless phones require the manufacturers of wireless phones to notify emit low levels of radio frequency energy (RF) in the users of the health hazard and to repair, replace or microwave range while being used. They also emit recall the phones so that the hazard no longer exists.
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• National Institute for Occupational Safety and Base stations are thus not the primary subject of the Health safety questions discussed in this document. • Environmental Protection Agency Federal 4. What is FDA doing to find out more about the Communications Commission possible health effects of wireless phone RF? •...
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Health and safety information scientific oversight, obtaining input from experts in since the exposure level drops off dramatically with government, industry, and academic organizations. distance. For example, you could use a headset and CTIA-funded research is conducted through contracts carry the wireless phone away from your body or use a to independent investigators.
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discouraged from using wireless phones at all. For meet safety requirements regardless of whether they example, the government in the United Kingdom are used against the head or against the body. Either distributed leaflets containing such a recommendation configuration should result in compliance with the in December 2000.
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Health and safety information claims. According to FTC, these defendants lacked a requirements for hearing aids and wireless phones so reasonable basis to substantiate their claim. that no interference occurs when a person uses a compatible phone and a compatible hearing aid at the 9.
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been genetically engineered or treated with cancer wireless phones would provide some of the data that causing chemicals so as to be pre-disposed to develop are needed. Lifetime animal exposure studies could be cancer in the absence of RF exposure. Other studies completed in a few years.
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Health and safety information STANDARD LIMITED WARRANTY FCC RF Safety Program: http://www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/ What is Covered and For How Long? SAMSUNG Environmental Protection Agency (EPA): TELECOMMUNICATIONS AMERICA, L.P. (SAMSUNG) http://www.epa.gov/radiation/ warrants to the original purchaser ("Purchaser") that SAMSUNG’s Phones and accessories ("Products") are Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s...
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Product. Repaired/ SAMSUNG for charging the battery, (ii) any of the replaced leather cases and pouches will be warranted seals on the battery are broken or show evidence of for a period of ninety (90) days.
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Health and safety information equipment shall become the property of SAMSUNG. COMPLIANCE OF THE PRODUCT WITH THE If SAMSUNG determines that any Product is not REQUIREMENTS OF ANY LAW, RULE, SPECIFICATION covered by this Limited Warranty, Purchaser must pay OR CONTRACT PERTAINING THERETO.
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PURCHASER ACKNOWLEDGES IS AND WILL ALWAYS NEGLIGENCE OR GROSS NEGLIGENCE) OR FAULT BE CONSTRUED TO BE LIMITED BY ITS TERMS OR AS COMMITTED BY SAMSUNG, ITS AGENTS OR LIMITED AS THE LAW PERMITS. EMPLOYEES, OR FOR ANY BREACH OF CONTRACT OR...
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* Some of the contents of this manual may differ from your phone, depending on the software installed or your service provider. World Wide Web http://www.samsungmobile.com...
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