Palm Pre 2 User Guide (World Ready) - DevDB

Your Palm ® Pre 2 phone
In one compact and indispensable device, you now have all of the following:
• An advanced wireless phone running the Palm ® webOS platform
• A full suite of organizer applications: Contacts, Calendar, Memos, and
Tasks
• High-speed data transfer with 3G (UMTS/HSDPA) and GPRS/EDGE
support
• Wi-Fi capability
• A 5-megapixel digital camera
• GPS functionality
• Integrated text, multimedia, and instant messaging (IM)
• Tools to view and manage Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files
• App Catalog, where you can download applications designed for your
phone; select from an ever-expanding list of applications
Your Palm ® Pre 2 phone puts Palm’s new multitasking, gesture-based
operating system, the Palm ® webOS platform, inside a small, beautiful
device with a keyboard that you can slide out whenever you need it. Here
are a few highlights of your new phone.
Gestures: On your Pre 2 phone, you make calls, move around, and manage
your applications and info by making simple gestures either on the
touchscreen or in the gesture area directly beneath the screen. For more
information, see Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch. Carry the
Gesture Guide (included in the box with your Pre 2 phone) around with you
and you’ll soon know all the gestures by heart.
Multitasking: You can have many applications open at once and easily
move among them. Go to the Launcher to open apps. See the lineup of your
open apps in Card view. Tap an app to bring it into the foreground and work
with it. For more information, see Open applications. You can also send
email or surf the web while on a call.
Just Type: Need to call Ed? Just slide out the keyboard and type ed. If he’s
listed in your Contacts, you can get his numbers from the search results. Tap
a number and you’ve made the call. Just Type works just as fast when you
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need to search the web, find info in an application on your phone, or start an
action such as creating an email message, memo, or task. For more
information, see Just Type.
The Palm ® Synergy TM feature: The Palm ® Synergy feature works in the
background to gather your information from the various online sources
where you keep it and then display that information in a single view on your
phone. You can access your info quickly without having to remember where
you stored it.
For example, suppose you have a Google account for personal email,
contacts, and calendar events, and an Exchange account for your corporate
email, contacts, and events. The Email, Contacts, and Calendar applications
on your Pre 2 phone all provide a kind of view in which you can see
information from both of those accounts in one place—but even though the
information is brought into one view, the sources of that information are
kept separate. For more information, read about linked contacts, layered
calendars, and the single inbox for your email in Contacts, Calendar, and
Email.
NOTE See Online accounts available for Palm ® webOS TM phones* for the current
list of online accounts that you can set up on your phone and for information about
the behavior of these accounts.
Thanks also to the Synergy feature, in the Messaging application, all your
conversations with the same person are grouped together in one chat-style
view. If you start an IM chat with Ed, for example, you can continue the
same conversation when Ed signs out of IM by sending him a text
message—and you can see it all in the same view. For more information,
see Messaging.
Sync: Your Pre 2 phone gives you synchronization without a cable. You can
sync with online services that Palm has partnered with so that you can store
and sync your info in online accounts. For more information, see Get data
from an online account in the cloud.
Your Palm profile: When you set up your phone, you create a Palm profile.
Your profile gives you an account in which to create and store contacts and
calendar events. It also gives you access to services like automatic updates