Phone Settings; Quick Dial; Redial - IBM Simon User Manual

power on and off
using the on screen Phone
Power
button. To save battery power,
you
can keep your phone
off
while you work
with
the Mobile
Office.
You can also leave the
phone
on
when you
turn
the main power
off,
if
you want
to
be able
to
receive calls.
Phone Settings
The Phone
Settings
button
takes you from
the
Phone Menu to the Phone
Settings
screen.
From
this
screen,
you can set your
phone
to answer
automatically,
retry automatically, answer with
any
key, accept pages, set Vox (voice activated
transmitter), and
change the emergency
number.
Quick
Dial
This feature
lets
you
place calls quickly
by touching
Quick Dial and the button
containing
the
desired
number. You can program
16 frequently
used
numbers: eight
on
the first screen and another
eight
on a second screen.
Touch the down arrow to
see
the second screen, and the
up arrow
to see the
first
screen.
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phone numbers must be
in the Address
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in
Quick
Dlal.
To put
a
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Quick
Dial.
touch any blank Quick
Dial
bi;iton.
An insiruction
screen will appear.
Touch
OK after you
read the
instructions.
Next, the
Address Book
index screen will appear.
Touch
the
tab for the last
name
of the
person
you want
in
Quick
Dial,
and all the phone
numbers for that
letter
will
appear.
Touch the
button
with the
desired
number, and that
number
will appear
in
Quick
Dial.
To change a Quick
Dial number, touch
Add/Change,
then the
button
you want to
change.
Follow the
steps
on the screen.
To erase a Quick
Dial
number, touch
Erase, then the
button
with
the
number
you want to
erase.
Redial
Touch the
Redial button to call the last
number
dialed on the
phone.
This feature is
useful when
a
number is
busy the first time you try
it.
Retry Automatically
This feature
is
convenient
if
you are
in a busy
cellular
area.
To set
Retry Automatically,
touch
Menu,
then
Phone Settings,
and then touch
Retry
Automatically
to check
it.
When this feature
is
active and you
place a
call,
the phone will try
to
connect
to the cellular system
10 times every three
seconds until
it
can place
the
call.
Keep in
mind
that this feature will
keep trying to connect to a
busy
cellular system, but will not
keep trying to call
a
busy phone number.
See
"Phone
Settings"
on
page
27.
Ringer Tone/'Volume
To adjust the
ringer
volume, touch
Menu, then
Sound
Settings, and adjust the
slider.
You
have
three
ringing
tones that you
may
select:
Standard,
Bell, and
Beeps.
When you touch
a
Ringing Tone
check
box,
you
hear that tone at the
current volume.
Touch OK when you
finish.
Roaming Preference
(For
complete information
on roaming, see
the
materials
you
received
from your cellular
system
provider.)
When you got your Simon,
you
subscribed to a cellular telephone service.
Cellular
telephone services cover only a certain area.
lf you
use
your phone outside
of
this area, you
are
"roaming."
Use
this feature to set your roaming
preferences.
Touch
Menu,
then Roaming
Preferences
to
get to
the
Roaming
screen.
You can select a
roaming
preference,
select which NAM
(phone number) you
want to use
if
you have
more than one, and set
up
your area code. (See "Area
Code" on
page
18.)
"NAM" is the cellular
telephone
term for your
telephone's number.
You can have as
many as four
NAMs
in Simon, each for a different cellular
area.
This can be useful
if
you
travel frequently
among
different cellular system areas.
lf you have
more
than one
NAM,
you can
select the
NAM
you
want,
or you can check Auto
NAM.
(See
the screens
on
"Setting Up
Roaming" on
page
31.)
lf you
check
Auto
NAM, Simon will automatically switch to
the
right
NAM
for the current cellular
area.
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