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Craig Johnston Joe Hutsko

800 East 96th Street, Indianapolis, Indiana 46240 USA

My Palm® Pre Copyright © 2010 by Pearson Education, Inc.

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Contents at a Glance Prologue

Getting Started with Pre

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Chapter 1

Transferring Your Data, Docs, and Media to Pre

Chapter 2

Making, Receiving, and Managing Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54

Chapter 3

Managing Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84

Chapter 4

Working with Date and Time, Calendar, To Do,

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and Memos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100 Chapter 5

Connecting to the Internet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120

Chapter 6

Email

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Chapter 7

SMS, MMS, and Instant Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .152

Chapter 8

Listening to Audio and Watching Video

Chapter 9

Shooting, Storing, and Viewing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .186

Chapter 10

Working with Palm Pre Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .200

Chapter 11

Customizing Your Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .210

Chapter 12

Maintaining Your Palm Pre

Chapter 13

New and Notable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230

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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .240

Table of Contents Prologue: Getting Started with Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Touring Your Pre

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Reviewing Your Pre’s External Controls and Features Identifying Status Icons

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Getting in Touch with Pre’s Touchscreen Gestures Mastering Pre’s Keyboard

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Tapping into Universal Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .25 Using this Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28

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Transferring Your Data, Docs, and Media to Pre . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Copying Pictures, Audio, Video, and Documents to Pre

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Using Your Palm Pre As a Thumb Drive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .33 Understanding Pre’s Always-in-Sync Approach . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37 Understanding Synergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .38 Adding Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks to Pre

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Adding Data Using Online Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .41 Adding a Google Gmail Account

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Transferring Your Data Using Palm Data Transfer Assistant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .44 Backing Up and Preparing Your Data Before You Transfer to Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .45 Backing Up Microsoft Outlook Data

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .46

Exporting Palm Desktop for Mac Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 Importing Palm Desktop Data into iCal and Address Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .49 Running Palm Data Transfer Assistant

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Making, Receiving, and Managing Calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54 Configuring Phone Settings

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Setting Phone Ringtone and System Sounds

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Adjusting Other Phone Preferences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61 Adjusting Screen Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .65

Making Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .66 Dialing with the Dial Pad

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Finding and Calling Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68 Dialing Contacts with Phone

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .69

Dialing Contacts from Launcher or Card View Dialing with the Contacts App

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Assigning and Dialing with Speed Dial Keys

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Saving and Dialing with Launcher Favorites

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Dialing with Call Log

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Dialing from Messages and Web Pages

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Handling Incoming Calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74 Managing Calls

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Entering Numbers During a Call

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Making and Managing a Second Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77 Sending Messages Saving Caller Info

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Using Apps While on a Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .81 Using a Wired or Bluetooth Hands-Free Headset . . . . . . . . .81 Managing Your Phone Account

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Managing Contacts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 Synergy

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Adding Synergy Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87 Adding Corporate Email on your Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89 Using Contacts on Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .90 Searching for a Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .91 Launching the Contacts Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92 Adding Contacts

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Adding a Contact Manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93 Adding a Contact from an Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95 Changing or Deleting Contacts

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Deleting a Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .97 Changing a Contact

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Working with Date and Time, Calendar, To Do, and Memos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 Date and Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .102 Setting Up the Date and Time

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Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103 Creating a Task List and Task

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Marking a Task As Complete

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Deleting Completed Tasks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .107 Viewing Your Calendars

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Configuring the Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 Adding a New Event (Appointment) Viewing an Event

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Working with Google Maps

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Adding Google Weather to Your Calendar

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Event Reminder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Memos (Notes) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .117 Creating a Memo

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Emailing a Memo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119

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Connecting to the Internet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Devices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 Connecting to Wi-Fi Networks

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Setting up a Wi-Fi Network Connection The Web Browser

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Using the Web Browser

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Adding a Web Page to the Launcher

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Browsing Multiple Web Pages at One Time

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Sharing a Web Link . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .129 Accessing Your Browsing History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Configuring your Palm Pre Browser

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Bluetooth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133 Pairing Your Palm Pre with an Accessory

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Pairing Your Palm Pre with a Computer, Phone, or Car Hands-Free System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134

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Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Understanding Email on Palm Pre Configuring Email

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Adding an Automatic Personal Email Account

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Adding a Manual Personal Email Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .141 Adding a Corporate (Microsoft Exchange) Email Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143 Editing your Mail Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .145 Using Mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .146 Using the Mail Main Screen

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Composing an Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148 Attaching Files to Your Emails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .150 Reading and Managing Emails

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SMS, MMS, and Instant Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Adding Accounts

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Adding an IM Account Using Messaging

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Contacting Buddies and Managing Conversations . . . . .156 Sending a Standard Text (SMS) Message

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Sending Multimedia Files (MMS) with Your Text Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .160 Receiving Text (SMS) and Multimedia Files (MMS) . . . . . .162 Configuring Messaging

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Listening to Audio and Watching Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Getting Music and Video onto Your Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .165 Using iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166 Synchronizing Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .167 Synchronizing Video . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .168 Using doubleTwist

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Installing doubleTwist on Windows

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Installing doubleTwist on Mac OSX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171 Creating a doubleTwist Account

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Using doubleTwist

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Synchronizing Music Using doubleTwist

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Synchronizing Video Using doubleTwist

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Using the Amazon MP3 Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .175 Purchasing Music Using the Amazon MP3 Store . . . . . . . .176 Getting Amazon MP3 Music into iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .178 Using the Palm Music Player

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Finding Music to Play . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .179 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180

Controlling a Song While It’s Playing Listen to Podcasts

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Searching YouTube for Related Material While Listening to Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182 Watching Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183 Synchronizing Videos using iTunes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183 Playing Videos Transferred to Your Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184 Playing YouTube Videos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .184

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Shooting, Storing, and Viewing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Shooting Your World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187 Taking Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188 Viewing and Sharing Your Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .189 Viewing Photos

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Sharing and Using Photos

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Assigning a Photo to a Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .191 Setting a Photo as your Palm Pre’s Wallpaper

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Send a Photo to Someone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192 Upload a Photo to Facebook or Photobucket

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Configuring the Photos Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .194 Removing an Account or Changing its Password . . . . . . .195 Synchronizing Photos Using iTunes Getting Photos Off Your Palm Pre iPhoto in Mac OSX

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Disk Mode in Mac OSX and Windows Let Windows Import Your Photos

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Working with Palm Pre Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 Using the Palm App Catalog

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Setting Up an App Catalog Account . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .202 Finding Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .204 Purchasing Applications

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Keeping Applications Up to Date Deleting Applications

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Organizing Your Applications in Launcher

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Changing the Quick Launcher Applications

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Customizing Your Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Using Your Palm Pre While Flying

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Toggling Airplane Mode On and Off Changing Your Pre’s Configuration

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Set Language and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .213 Changing the Country or Region Screen and Lock Settings

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Password Protect Your Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .217 Sounds & Ringtones

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Maintaining Your Palm Pre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 Keeping Your Palm Pre Clean and Scratch Free

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Getting the Most Out of Your Palm Pre’s Battery . . . . . . . . . . . .222 Keeping Your Palm Up to Date . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .222 Updating WebOS

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If Your Palm Pre Update Fails . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .224 Running Through First-Time Setup Getting Help with Your Palm Pre

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New and Notable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 The Palm Pre Plus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .232 The Palm Pixi and Pixi Plus

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The Palm OS Emulator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234 Using Classic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .234 Installing Your Palm Applications Using HotSync

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Manual Application Installation

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Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240

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About the Authors Craig James Johnston has been involved with technology since his high school days at Glenwood High in Durban, South Africa, when his school was given some Apple 2 Euro Pluses. From that moment, technology captivated him, and he has owned, supported, evangelized, and written about it ever since. Craig has been involved in designing and supporting large-scale enterprise networks with integrated email and directory services since 1989. Craig has held many different IT-related positions in his career, ranging from sales support engineer to mobile engineering a 35,000-smartphone infrastructure at a large bank. In addition to designing and supporting mobile computing environments, Craig writes about them for Smartphone Essentials and CrackBerry.com, a leading BlackBerry blog. Craig also co-hosts the CrackBerry.com podcast and his own Mobile Computing Authority podcast.You can also see Craig’s previous published work in his books Professional BlackBerry and My BlackBerry Curve. Craig enjoys high-horsepower, high-speed vehicles and tries very hard to keep to the speed limits while driving them. Originally from Durban, South Africa, Craig has lived in the United Kingdom, the San Francisco Bay Area, and New Jersey, where he now lives with his wife Karen and a couple of cats. Joe Hutsko is the author of Green Gadgets for Dummies and Macs All-in-One for Dummies, Second Edition. For more than two decades, Joe has written about computers, gadgets, and video games for numerous publications and websites, including The New York Times, Macworld, PC World, Fortune, Newsweek, Popular Science, TV Guide, The Washington Post, Wired, Gamespot, MSNBC, and Salon. Joe’s first novel, The Deal, was recently rereleased in trade paperback with a new foreword by the author (tinyurl.com/hutskodeal), and you can find links to Joe’s stories on his tech blog, JOEyGADGET.com. As a kid, Joe built a shortwave radio, played with electronic project kits, and learned the basics of the BASIC programming language on his first computer, the Commodore Vic 20. In his teens, he picked strawberries to buy his first Apple II computer. Four years after that purchase (in 1984), he wound up working for Apple, where he became the personal technology guru for the company’s chairman and CEO. Joe left Apple in 1988 to become a writer and worked on and off for other high-tech companies, including Steve Jobs’ one-time NeXT. He authored a number of video game strategy guides, including the bestsellers Donkey Kong Country Game Secrets: The Unauthorized Edition and Rebel Assault: The Official Insiders Guide.

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Dedication

Dedication To Stephen King and Douglas Adams, who kept me away from the real world, and Capital Radio 604, which kept me entertained and accurately informed when I wasn’t reading. —Craig James Johnston This book is dedicated to my co-author, Craig Johnston, whose commitment and hard work makes My Palm Pre mostly his and only a little bit mine. Thank you, Craig, for a job well done. —Joe Hutsko

Acknowledgments I would like to express my deepest gratitude to the following people on the My Palm Pre team who all worked extremely hard on this book. Michelle Newcomb, my acquisitions editor who worked with me to give this project an edge. Todd Brakke, my development editor who made sure we stuck to the successful My series format. In addition to the team at Pearson, special thanks to Zeenat Subedar of Edelman PR, and to Rosie Pulido, Karen Chan, and Jon Zilber at Palm. —Craig James Johnston Thanks to my literary agent, Carole Jelen, for pitching the proposal for this book to Que Acquisition Editor Michelle Newcomb, and a big thank you to you, Michelle, for saying yes. Kudos to Development Editor Todd Brakke for his thoughtful suggestions and good sense of humor. And finally, super-duper thanks to my friends and family, without whom none of this would be possible. —Joe Hutsko

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Prologue

Getting Started with Pre Welcome to your new Palm Pre. The good news is your Pre is easy enough to use that getting started with your Pre is no big deal. Because you probably activated your Pre when you purchased it, the minute you left the store you most likely began doing some of the cool things your Pre can do. By now you’ve probably made and received calls, text and email messages, browsed the web, listened to some music or Internet radio, and maybe even downloaded a few free programs using the Apps Catalog. But the fact that you’re holding this book in your hands suggests you want to go beyond the basics to maximize the very personal relationship you’ve begun with your Pre. In this prologue, you get a crash course on how to operate your Pre’s buttons, switches, and keyboard, and how to use your fingertips to control your Pre’s touchscreen interface. I’ll also give you a strategy on how you can get the most out of this book.

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Touring Your Pre Palm’s Pre designers say they fashioned the Pre to resemble a smooth stone, and that’s nearly what it looks and feels like in your hand when it’s powered off. With only barely visible controls and features on the outside, you learn in no time that, to do most things with your Pre, your fingers do most of the walking on its touchscreen. When you need to type in words and numbers, slide open the Pre’s hidden keyboard to enter alphanumeric information, and then slide it closed when you finish typing. By learning about a handful of fingertip gestures you can use to interact with your Pre’s screen, and about a few special keys you can press when you use the keyboard, operating your Pre becomes second nature almost immediately after you begin to use it.

Prepping Pre for Lift-Off If you bought your Pre at a your carrier’s store, it’s probably activated, and you’re ready to follow along with the rest of this chapter. If your Pre was shipped to you and you’re using a new phone number, your Pre automatically activates after you create your Palm profile. If your Pre was shipped to you and you’re switching numbers from a previous phone, you must activate your Pre online by visiting your carrier’s website with your desktop computer’s web browser. To use your Pre, you must create a Palm profile using a valid email address. Your Palm profile is your gateway to automatic updates and data backups, and what you use to access Palm’s web-based reset and erase feature if your Pre is stolen or you run into a problem that requires you to completely reset your Pre. Your Palm profile and the email you use to create it are not the same as setting up the Pre’s email application to send and receive email on your Pre (see Chapter 6, “Email”).

Reviewing Your Pre’s External Controls and Features Get acquainted with your Pre’s external buttons, switches, ports, and keyboard. There are two versions of the Palm Pre. The original Palm Pre, and the Palm Pre Plus. The original Palm Pre has a center button in the gesture area. This button has been removed on the Palm Pre Plus. Instead, the Palm Pre Plus detects a tap in the gesture area as a press of the center button. This also helps to keep the Palm Pre’s design lines cleaner.

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Palm Pre Plus Front Headset jack Ringer On/Off switch Power button

Touchscreen

Volume

Micro-USB/ charger port

Gesture area Microphone Keyboard

Original Palm Pre Front

Center button (original Palm Pre only)

Gesture area

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• Power button: Press to wake up or put your Pre to sleep. Press and hold to turn your Pre on; if your Pre is already on, press and hold to display options to turn Pre off or select Airplane Mode, which turns off all of Pre’s wireless features but lets you continue to use your Pre to listen to music, watch a video, or make changes to your contacts. When receiving a call press once to mute the ringer (and vibration feature if it’s turned on), or press twice to reject the call and send the caller directly to your voicemail. • Ringer On/Off switch: Switch right to silence your Pre’s ringer and notification sounds, such as new email alerts or schedule alarms.When you turn off sounds by switching the ringer switch to the right, a red dot appears to the left of the switch, and a muted speaker icon appears momentarily on the screen to indicate your Pre’s sounds are muted.When muted, your Pre vibrates when you receive a call or an alert—but only if you turned on the vibrate feature on the Sounds & Ringtones settings card. • Keyboard: Type letters and symbols with a single press of each key. Press (or press and hold) the Orange key and then another key to type numbers or symbols shown in the upper half of the keys; press the Orange key twice to lock it. Press (or press and hold) the Shift key to type uppercase letters; press Shift twice to turn on Caps Lock. Press the Symbol (Sym) key to display a list of special symbols. Press the Orange key or Shift key twice to lock either. • Volume: Press the upper and lower rocker buttons to increase or decrease the volume. Your Pre changes the volume based on what you’re currently doing with it. Adjusting the volume when you’re not having a phone conversation or listening to audio or watching a video increases or decreases your Pre’s ringtone output level. Changing the volume when you’re having a phone conversation increases or decreases the earpiece, headset, or speakerphone output level, depending on which you use during your call. Pressing volume up or down while listening to music or watching videos changes the volume level for those activities. • Earpiece: The earpiece provides sound output during phone conversations (when you don’t have a headset plugged in or a Bluetooth wireless headset connection). • Microphone: The microphone picks up your side of phone conversations or listens for voice commands that can control certain apps (when you don’t have a headset plugged in or a Bluetooth wireless headset connection).

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• Touchscreen: View and interact with programs and information on the touchscreen display using fingertip gestures. A built-in sensor detects when Pre’s orientation changes between vertical and horizontal, and rotates what’s on the display accordingly. • Gesture area: Swipe left anywhere in this zone to perform the Back gesture, which takes you back one level in an app, or saves information you typed or a setting or option you selected or changed, and then returns you to the previous level of an app’s screen. You don’t need to swipe left across the entire Gesture area to do the Back gesture; a small inch-long swipe will do. Optionally, you can turn on the Switch Applications option in the Screen and Lock preferences to switch between running apps by swiping left or right across the entire length of the Gesture area. • Center button: Press to minimize open application and display Card view and Quick Launch. The Center button briefly lights up when you perform certain gestures in the Gesture area. The Center button exists on the original Palm Pre; however, the Center button functionality is duplicated on the Palm Pre Plus by tapping in the gesture area. • Gesture LEDs: On the original Palm Pre, two LED lights embedded beneath the Gesture area light up to confirm certain gestures in the Gesture area. On the Palm Pre Plus, a thin LED line lights up to confirm gestures.

It’s Not All Good Although as I write this the three LEDs embedded beneath the Center button and the Gesture area only light up to confirm gestures, I can imagine (and hope we’ll see) other interesting uses, such as throbbing the Center button LED to alert you of new voicemail messages or missed calls when Pre’s screen is off. Potential other uses for the left and right LEDs might include assigning notifications to indicate new text messages or emails, or to alert you to upcoming right or left turns when using GPS navigation apps, or guide you directly to a location or another person when you’re hoofing it on foot, sort of like a smart compass.

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Palm Pre Plus Back Power button

Headset jack

Flash Camera

Speaker

• Headset jack: Plug headsets or stereo headphones into this jack. • Speaker: Incoming call ringtones, speakerphone phone conversations, music, audio, alert sounds, alarms and other audio emit from the speaker (when you don’t have a headset plugged in or a Bluetooth wireless headset connection). • Camera lens and flash: The Pre’s camera lens is used by the Pre’s camera app and other programs to capture images. The LED flash above the camera lens can provide flash illumination when capturing images in dimly lit or dark environments. • Back Cover: The original Palm Pre has an option to replace the back cover with one that works with the Touchstone charging unit. The Touchstone uses induction to wirelessly charge the Palm Pre when it is placed on the unit. The Palm Pre Plus ships with the Touchstone back cover instead of the regular back cover. This will likely further encourage the use of this wireless charging method.

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Going the Extra Battery Mile Pre’s capability to juggle many applications at once is a standout feature that separates it from most other smart phones, which typically run only one app (and certain background services such as push notifications) at a time. The not so great thing is all that processing power required to do all that app juggling—or multitasking—decreases Pre’s battery life. One way to squeeze more waking hours out of your Pre is to invest in an extended life battery, such as the Innocell 1350 Extended Life Battery ($45; www.seidioonline.com), which provides a 20% capacity boost over Pre’s standard battery.

Identifying Status Icons Besides the time, battery level, and your carrier network’s name and signal strength, Pre displays a number of other status icons and indicators at the top of the touchscreen. These include Phone is on but phone carrier network is unavailable. Pre is attempting to find carrier network signal. Airplane mode is on; all wireless connections—carrier network, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth—are off. Battery charge level. Battery is charging. Phone carrier signal strength; more bars mean a stronger signal. Phone voice and data roaming on and active. TTY is on. Data connection speed is 1x. Data connection speed is EvDO. Wi-Fi is on; bars indicate signal strength. Wi-Fi is on and attempting to find nearby Wi-Fi network. Bluetooth is on. Bluetooth is connected to a Bluetooth headset or other device and standing by. Bluetooth is connected and actively in use. Pre is searching characters you type in Universal Search (card view or Launcher view) or in application card view (such as Memos).

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Getting in Touch with Pre’s Touchscreen Gestures Although your Pre has a tiny keyboard for entering alphanumeric information, most of the time you control Pre by letting your fingertips do the walking on Pre’s touchscreen to perform a number of touch-sensitive actions known as gestures. Network, battery, and other status indicators

Wireless carrier Time of day

Date Background wallpaper

Notifications

Screen lock icon, drag up to unlock Pre

When you press the Power button to wake Pre from sleep, the screen activates and displays the time and the Screen Lock icon. Sliding open the keyboard to wake Pre lets you bypass having to drag the screen lock to unlock Pre. Optionally, you can lock your Pre with a simple numeric PIN code or lengthier alphanumeric password that you must tap in to unlock your Pre.

Tap in PIN or password to unlock

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To turn on the Secure Unlock feature, tap Launcher > Screen & Lock and scroll down.

Choose Secure Unlock type

Most of the time you should just put Pre to sleep when you aren’t using it, rather than power it off. Pre wakes when you tap the Power button or slide open the keyboard. When asleep, Pre uses less power than when the screen is on. Powering Pre completely off and then turning it on again can often fix random problems such as slow-as-molasses performance or other inexplicable behaviors. Powering off Pre clears its working memory space but does not erase any of your personal data or applications you downloaded. Fingertip gestures include dragging the Lock icon to unlock Pre, tapping buttons or icons, flicking up or down to scroll through lists or web pages, dragging over text you want to select, dragging and dropping items to rearrange where they appear, and pinching or pushing two fingertips together or apart to zoom in or out of a picture or block of text.

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Drag or flick up and down to scroll

Swipe left for Back gesture

Swipe right to go forward on web Tap on-screen buttons to use them

Most types of gestures are self-evident based on what’s actively displayed on Pre’s touchscreen. A few gestures are not so obvious because they require a little fancy finger work, or because you do them in the dedicated but unlabeled space known as the Gesture area. The Gesture area is the horizontal space between your Pre’s center button and the bottom edge of the touchscreen. The series of figures that follow are intended to serve a dual-purpose role: to help you get in touch with every gesture you can do on your Pre’s touchscreen, while simultaneously introducing you to many of Pre’s fundamental concepts and features.

Launcher area

Quick Launch area

Quick Launch apps

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Doing things with Pre begins by launching an application from Quick Launch or Launcher. When no apps are running, Quick Launch is always one hand at the bottom of Pre’s touchscreen. You can replace or mix and match Pre’s four default Quick Launch apps (Phone, Contacts, Email, Calendar) with whichever apps or other icons you prefer, such as the four apps you use the most.

Launcher page 2

Drag up or down to see more icons

Scroll up/down indicators Swipe left or right to switch Launcher pages

Launcher page indicators

Swipe left to go Back to All Inboxes

Drag up and down to scroll

Flick up or down to scroll fast; tap to stop

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Most of the time you interact with programs maximized on the screen to utilize all of Pre’s touchscreen display.

“Throw” items off the side of the screen to delete

In certain apps, you can delete items—such as emails, text messages, or tasks—by flicking them off the left or right edge of the screen. In Pre lingo, this action is referred to as throwing.

Drag left and right to scroll sideways

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Press Center button to display Card view (tap the gesture area on the Palm Pre Plus)

When you want to run another app, open Card view to minimize the active app and display Quick Launch; then tap a Quick Launch app icon or Launcher. Drag up from Gesture area to touchscreen to open the Quick Launch wave.

Drag left or right on the Quick Launch wave and let go on an app to launch it.

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To bypass Card view and open another app instantly (or open Launcher), tap and hold in the Gesture area and drag up to the touchscreen to reveal the floating Quick Launch wave; then slide left or right to move to the desired app (or Launcher) and let go.

Tap and hold on card; then drag to rearrange When you have lots of cards open at the same time, tap anywhere between cards to zoom in or out to see more or fewer cards.

Flick a card off the top edge of the screen to close the app

Throw an app card off the screen to close the app by flicking its minimized app card up and off the screen.

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Tap to open Application menu

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Status information

The top of Pre’s touchscreen displays information such as the time, battery level, network, and Wi-Fi connection status and signal strength, and a menu in each corner. The Application menu contains the Edit submenu (Cut, Copy and Paste) and other items such as Preferences or Settings, commands, and Help.

Tap to turn connections on/off

The Connections menu offers a quick and easy way to turn Bluetooth and WiFi on or off, choose a Wi-Fi network or Bluetooth device, or turn Airplane Mode on or off. Choose Airplane Mode to turn off Pre’s phone network, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth features all at once.

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Spread two fingers apart to zoom in

Pinch two fingers together to zoom out

In certain apps you can zoom in or out of what’s displayed on Pre’s screen, such as a picture on a web page you’re viewing with the Web app, or a street intersection you’ve pinpointed using Google Maps.

Double-tap to zoom in or out

Sometimes you want to zoom in or out a fixed amount to narrow in on, for instance, one of several columns displayed on a web page.

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Tap to open a Web link

Rotate Pre to change the screen’s orientation

Rotating your Pre can change the screen’s orientation between vertical (tall but narrow), and horizontal (wide but shorter), which is particularly handy for reading web pages or documents containing small, difficult to read text.

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Most recent item subject, message or detail Number of new items for app Tap icon to open app and see all new items

Tap to open or act on specific item Flick notifications off screen to dismiss

Pre alerts you with notification banners at the bottom of the screen whenever new items or information arrives on your Pre, such as voicemail messages, email and text messages, or upcoming appointments.

Tap to redisplay

If you ignore a notification for more than a few seconds, the notification banner disappears, and a Notification icon appears in the lower-right corner, alongside any other notifications you ignored or haven’t gotten around to because you were in a meeting or otherwise occupied.Tap the Notification icon area in the bottom-right corner to redisplay the notification (or notifications).

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Tap and hold, drag, and then release to move items

You can use drag and drop to move or reorder items such as notification banners, emails, tasks, Web bookmarks, and memos. You can also reorder app (and other) icons on Quick Launch and Launcher pages by dragging and dropping them wherever you want, as I describe in Chapter 11,“Customizing Your Palm Pre Applications.”

Launcher Lock-Down The Launcher icon is the only icon you can’t remove from Quick Launch because it’s what you tap to display Launcher pages that contain all the other apps that aren’t displayed in Quick Launch.

Mastering Pre’s Keyboard Slide out Pre’s keyboard whenever you need to enter, change, or search for information.

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Press to type letters

Press to Backspace or change automatic uppercase to lowercase

Press for numbers and symbols above letters; press twice to lock

Press for special symbols and accented characters

Shift key; press twice for Caps Lock Press for space or to take picture in Camera app

Type letters as you normally would. Press Shift when you need to capitalize a letter, or hold it down when you need to capitalize more than one letter. Pre automatically capitalizes the first letter you type in a new sentence in messages or memos, and in certain other text fields. Press Backspace immediately after the auto-cap letter appears to instantly change it to lowercase.

It’s Not All Good One of Pre’s distinct features is its vertical slide-down keyboard, which makes Pre instantly attractive to people who prefer a physical keyboard over virtual, onscreen keyboards like those found on Apple’s iPhone and Blackberry’s Storm, to name a few. In my perfect world? Give me both. A slide-out keyboard and a virtual, on-screen keyboard. I actually type twice as fast on my iPhone as I do on Pre’s physical keyboard, which is especially handy when I’m walking my dog and I can reply to emails or send messages using only one hand. I bet by the time you read this Palm or a savvy WebOS developer will have already created an onscreen keyboard option you can download for free or buy at a reasonable price.

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Tap to choose symbol or accented character

Tap a text field to activate the cursor

The cursor appears in fields and other areas where you can enter or work with text, numbers, and symbols using Pre’s keyboard. Tap a text field or within text to set cursor location.

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Hold Orange key and drag to move cursor

To move the cursor in a text field, hold the Orange key (it’s gray on the Pre Plus), and then drag your fingertip on the touchscreen in any direction.

Press and hold Shift and drag in any direction to select text

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Tap App menu then Edit and choose Cut, Copy, or Paste

Cut, Copy and Paste Shortcut Tap and hold on the Gesture area; then press X to cut selected text, C to copy selected text, or V to paste selected text at current cursor location.

As I write this, you can cut or copy text only in editable fields, such as in an email you’re composing, but you can’t copy displayed text, such as a quote from a website news story you’re reading using the Web app. One trick for copying text from emails you receive is to hit the Reply button to create a new Reply message; then scroll down to the text you want to copy from the sender’s original message, select the text, and then tap Mail’s application menu and choose Copy. Now you can paste the text wherever you want. Hopefully by the time you read this, Palm (or a third-party developer) will offer an update or add-on that enables you to copy text from any source.

Tapping into Universal Search Pre’s Universal Search feature makes it easy to find things you’re looking for, including a contact’s phone number or email address, an app, or a review of the new Mexican restaurant around the block.

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Begin typing in Card view or Launcher

It’s Not All Good As I write this, Universal Search searches only Pre Contacts and Applications but not other items such as emails, calendars, SMS and IM messages, tasks, or memos. You can search for SMS and IM messages, tasks, or memos from within Pre’s Messaging, Tasks, or Memos apps, but you cannot search for emails or calendar events from within the Email or Calendar apps. Hopefully by the time you read this, Palm will have released an update that brings Universal Search to these applications and items, and to other app items as well.

To search, open Card view or Launcher and begin typing a name, first and last initials, a word, or a phrase, and Pre displays suggested matches from your contacts or apps collection. As you type, Pre first attempts to find apps or names in Contacts that may match what you’re looking for—until you reach a letter or letters that do not match any of your contacts. For example, type “Hillary,” and Pre displays all three of your friends and associates named Hillary, including “Hillary Smith,”“Hillary Bell,” and “Hillary Hartman.”Tap the Hillary whose information you want to see to open her contact card. From there you can call or send an email or text message.

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Tap to search other sources

Your three Hillary contacts disappear as suggested matches if you continue to type one or more letters because Pre knows you have no contacts other than the three it suggested, and Pre displays other sources you can tap to search, including Google and Google Maps, Wikipedia, and Twitter. (I’ll show you other ways you can search Pre throughout this book.)

Type to begin searching app content

Begin typing when viewing the main app card for some apps—such as Contacts, Doc View, and Memos, to name three—and Pre searches only that app’s content for items that match your search word or phrase. Type “bis” in Memos, for instance, and Pre hides memos that don’t contain those letters and shows only memos that do, including a shopping list with dog biscuits on the menu and a memo with a link to Bisquick recipes.

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Using this Book This book has been designed to help you transform the Pre, your Pre, by helping you learn about and use its features quickly, efficiently, and confidently. If you flipped through the book before you purchased it, you probably noticed the book contains lots of pictures that help to illustrate how to do things with your Pre. The things you learn to do in My Palm Pre are organized as tasks, and the actions you take to learn each task are presented in concise, easy-todigest steps. As you know, using your Pre is a touchy-feely experience, with your fingertips calling most of the shots to do most things. When you need to tap something on the screen, such as a button or item, or type information, you see a callout with the step number pointing to where you need to tap or type. When you need to drag, swipe, or flick your finger on the screen, such as to scroll a web page up or down, or throw an app off the screen to close it, you see the following icon:

Arrows indicate the directions you can swipe, flick, or drag your finger. The pinch and unpinch gestures you use to zoom in or out on some screens are indicated by the following icons:

When you need to tap twice, such as to zoom in or out a fixed amount, you see the following icon:

When you need to rotate Pre to reorient the screen, you see this icon:

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Because Pre connects to both Windows and Mac computers, this book is designed for readers using either, or both, platforms. Where necessary, task sections may contain specific information and steps devoted to each type of computer, such as which apps you can use to store pictures and music. Feel free to ignore sections and steps that don’t match the your computer.

A Note About Notes Notes like this one offer additional details or optional information that isn’t necessarily part of a series of steps but can be useful or helpful.

Tips Welcome Tips such as this one call your attention to timesaving shortcuts, alternative ways to do things, supplementary figures or specifics, and occasional (and hopefully interesting) factoids.

It’s Not All Good

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As awesome as Pre is, like most gadgets, it isn’t perfect.You see this element when I want to call your attention to topics or issues I think you ought to be aware of.Whenever possible I’ll explain a workaround to get around a particular quirk or limitations. Other times I’ll mention a nonexistent or half-baked Pre feature or capability that I hope will appear in a future software update or new Pre model (or other WebOS-based device).The good news is you won’t see many of these little ditties because although Pre isn’t perfect, it is a really amazing gadget.

THIS ISN’T A HUGE BOOK I’m assuming you picked up this book instead of a competing tome that’s as thick as the uncut edition of Stephen King’s The Stand because you want to learn the coolest, most productive, and most entertaining things you can do with your Pre as quickly and easily as possible. (Not a swipe, Steve—I’m your Number One fan!) In other words, this book’s approach is short, sweet, and to the point. Occasionally, I point out things I didn’t have room to cover in the tasks and provide a summary of other tasks that you can do. Although you won’t find detailed task descriptions for these other things I mention, you can typically figure out how to perform them based on their similarity to the detailed tasks. In other cases, I’ll point you to resources where you can find out more about other things I mention.

Add an account instantly begins downloading your contacts and calendars to Pre

In this chapter, you learn how to transfer your contacts, calendars, tasks, memos, documents, music, pictures, videos, and other data to your Pre. Topics include the following: B Dragging and dropping media and documents to Pre B Considering Pre’s on-again/off-again relationship with iTunes

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Transferring Your Data, Docs, and Media to Pre Thanks to preloaded apps such as the web, YouTube, and Calculator, Pre is interesting and fun to play with right out of the box. But the real fun (and getting real work done) begins after you copy your favorite media files such as music tracks, videos, and pictures, and your important business and personal contacts, documents, spreadsheets, and other useful data. The good news is getting your stuff onto Pre isn’t complicated, thanks to Pre’s capability to automatically download your Gmail or Exchange contacts, calendars, email inboxes, Facebook friends, and AIM and Google Talk instant messaging buddies over-the-air (aka the cloud).

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In this chapter, you also learn how you can execute a one-time transfer of your existing Palm Desktop, Outlook for Windows, or Mac Address Book and iCal contacts and calendar items to your Pre (and how to then keep them in sync over the air), and how a nifty feature called Synergy enables your Pre to tap into multiple sources of your data and display it all in a single, unified view, while keeping data from each source separate. You also learn how to connect your Pre to your Mac or Windows computer so you can easily copy documents and media files to your Pre.

Copying Pictures, Audio, Video, and Documents to Pre Copying music tracks, pictures, videos, ringtones, and documents is as easy as connecting Pre and your PC or Mac with a USB cable and then dragging and dropping what you want onto Pre the same way you would to a hard drive or USB memory drive. That’s because Pre’s USB Drive feature makes Pre behave as though it actually were a USB memory drive.

Palm Pre as a drive Drag and drop music, pictures, videos, and documents to Pre

Pre apps can use a variety of common file types, including image, video, audio, text, .RTF, .PDF, and Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) files. Windows computer users can also use Windows Media Player to transfer music to and from Pre.

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It’s Not All Good iTunes to Pre: You’re Not Welcome Here At the time Pre launched, Pre owners could use Apple’s iTunes program on a Mac or PC to copy DRM-free (Digital Rights Management) music tracks, photos, movies, TV shows, and ringtones to Pre. By connecting Pre to a PC or Mac and tapping Media Sync (instead of a USB Drive), Pre fooled iTunes into thinking it was an iPod. Industry watchers predicted it was only a matter of time before Apple put a stop to Pre’s masquerade act and they were right. Six weeks after Pre launched, Apple crippled Pre’s capability to sync with iTunes by releasing the iTunes 8.2.1 update, which in Apple’s words “provides a number of important bug fixes and addresses an issue with verification of Apple devices.” In other words,“Adios, Pre.” However, a few weeks later, Palm released the WebOS System 1.1 update—and like magic, Pre regained its capability to mimic an iPod and sync with iTunes 8.2.1 until another iTunes update again disrupted this feature.This game of cat and mouse will likely continue ad nauseaum, and whether you can sync your Pre with iTunes will depend on which version of Pre and iTunes you run. Fortunately a number of other methods and third-party programs make it easy to transfer media to your Pre—some of which are more elegant and easier to use than iTunes.

>>>step-by-step Using Your Palm Pre As a Thumb Drive To copy files from your computer to Pre (and vice versa), you connect Pre to your computer with a USB cable, put Pre in USB drive mode, and then simply drag and drop files to Pre, which appears on your computer as a removable drive. 1.

Connect Pre to your computer with the USB cable included with your Pre. The USB connection options appear on Pre’s screen. Tap USB Drive on Pre.

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Deaf, Dumb, and Blind When Pre is in USB Drive (or Media Sync) mode, Pre’s phone and useable features are turned off, which means you can’t receive or make calls—or do anything other than use Pre as a USB drive until you eject Pre.

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Organizing Files with Folders Pre contains a few preconfigured folders, including DCIM (where Pre stores camera snapshots you shoot), ringtones, and wallpapers. You may see other folders Pre apps create as needed, such as downloads and screen captures (which is where Pre automatically saves the image file created when you capture the contents of Pre’s screen by pressing Orange+Sym+P or Gray+Sym+P for the Palm Pre Plus). To make it easier to organize and keep track of files you copy to your Pre, create new folders on your Pre with descriptive names such as Videos, Vacation Pics, Homework, Research, Music, E-books, Work Documents, Podcasts—or any name you want.

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Don’t Just Unplug Your Pre When you have your Palm Pre connected to a desktop computer (Windows, Mac OSX, or Linux), never just unplug it—doing so almost always damages files on the Pre. Before you unplug your Palm Pre, always eject the Palm Pre drive as noted here.

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Pre’s screen changes from the USB drive icon to whatever it displayed before you connected Pre to your computer. A USB notification icon appears in the lowerright corner. Disconnect the USB cable from your computer and Pre, or leave it connected if you want to charge your Pre’s battery. At this point you can open any files you copied to your Pre by using the Pre apps that recognizes each particular file type. You can open many file formats for photos, videos, and music; Microsoft Office files; and PDF files.

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Copying Amazon Music Purchases from Pre to Your Computer You can copy music you purchase from Amazon using Palm Music Assistant, which lets you copy music from your phone directly to your desktop music player. Go to palm.com/music-assistant.

Understanding Pre’s Always-in-Sync Approach When it comes to transferring and staying in sync with contacts, calendars, and tasks, Pre has its head in the cloud, so to speak. The cloud (also known as cloud computing) refers to an increasingly growing number of programs and services for transferring, storing, and keeping data in sync between smart devices and computers over-the-air via the Internet and wireless mobile phone data connections. Apple’s MobileMe service is an example of a cloud application and service. But unlike MobileMe, which requires a $99 yearly subscription, Pre gives you cloud services at no extra cost. Automatically filling up Pre’s Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and Email apps with your important data over the cloud is a cinch if you have a Gmail, Facebook, or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account (or combination of all three). Simply add the details of one or more of those accounts in Pre’s Email, Contacts, or Calendar app and your information flows over the air and into your Pre in each relevant app. This approach is a dramatic contrast to other Palm smartphones models such as Treo or Centro, which depend primarily on connecting to your PC to keep your contacts, calendar, and other media in sync between the big computer and the little one posing as a smartphone. Both Mark/Space and Chapura, companies that for years have offered programs to transfer files and information and keep everything in sync between smartphone and PC, offer Pre versions of their programs but with a twist. Unlike most other versions of their products, which mainly rely on a USB cable to make the connection, Mark/Space Missing Sync for Palm Pre (www.markspace.com) and Chapura Pocket Mirror (www.chapura.com) each make the data sync connection via Wi-Fi. In the following sections I explain the Synergy Pre feature that combines data from multiple sources into unified views across Pre’s apps and then shows you how to get your basic contacts, calendar events, tasks, email, and instant messaging accounts onto your Pre.

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Understanding Synergy Using the Synergy feature, Pre taps into multiple sources of your data and displays it all in a single, unified view, while still keeping data from each source separate. That means appointments in your Exchange calendar at work and your personal Google calendar both appear in Pre’s Calendar app in a single, unified view.

Events from multiple calendars appear in a single view

Multiple types of messages, including instant messages SMS, and MMS messages, are automatically organized by the person who sends them and are displayed in Pre’s Messaging app as a single, unified conversation. Ditto for email. Pre displays all your email in a unified inbox view. Optionally, Pre rounds up all flagged email messages in another unified inbox view and tapping on individual inboxes enables you to view only messages for that specific email account. Details about every person you communicate with displays in a single view, regardless of where the details originate. For instance, say you have your friend Nick’s email address and phone number in Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, his IM name on AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), and his birthday on your personal Google calendar.

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Synergy automatically links together any information it finds in common among the various sources and displays everything in a unified view on Nick’s contact card in the Contacts app.

Multiple contact sources merge in single view for each contact

What’s more, if Nick uses Facebook, any information in his profile—such as his profile photo, anniversary, street address, and any other email addresses or phone numbers—automatically appear on Nick’s contact card.You can also create new links between contact sources for any links Pre doesn’t automatically discover and connect together on your behalf. And If you find you have too much or repetitive information for a contact, you can unlink sources from the contact.

Adding Contacts, Calendars, and Tasks to Pre You can add your personal data to your Pre in two ways: • Automatically: Add one or more online accounts and Pre automatically populates the Contacts, Calendar, Tasks, and Email apps with data and stays in sync between your online account and Pre. • Manually: Use Palm Data Transfer Assistant to transfer data from Microsoft Outlook for Windows, or from Address Book and iCal for Macs.

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You can choose one or both methods to transfer data to Pre. For instance, you may have contacts and calendar events you want to manually transfer from your Mac to your Pre using the Palm Data Transfer Assistant. At the same time you might also have a Facebook account and a Google Calendar account that you want to automatically add so that information for those appears on your Pre as well.

Keeping Data in Sync and Importing from Hotmail, Yahoo, and Other Accounts Information you manually import to your Pre can stay in sync with an online source you optionally select, such as a Google Gmail account or an Exchange ActiveSync account, at the time of the import. You can also choose to import your data to your Pre’s local profile, which is automatically backed up every day but is not kept in sync with an online source. To manually import contact, calendar, and task data from other sources, such as Hotmail or Yahoo, turn to the chapters dedicated to those topics.

Data on your Pre that links to an online account stays in sync whenever you make changes to the data, whereas data on your Pre that’s not linked to an online source backs up every day to your online Palm profile. For instance, your Pre has a Memo app for jotting notes; however, Google does not offer a way to link and sync Pre Memos to online notes. So, notes you create with Memo back up to your Palm profile. The following table describes where your data resides and whether it stays in sync with online sources or backs up to your online Pre profile.


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Data Location Syncs with your Gmail account. Syncs with your Google Contacts. Stays in sync with Google Calendar. Backs up to your online Palm Profile. Backs up to your online Palm Profile.

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Syncs with your Microsoft Exchange account. Syncs with your Microsoft Exchange account.

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Syncs with your Microsoft Exchange account. Syncs with your Microsoft Exchange account. Backs up to your online Palm Profile.

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Appears on Pre, and contacts you create or edit on Pre back up to your online Pre Profile but are not reflected on the Facebook website. Appears on Pre, and calendar events you create or edit on Pre back up to your online Pre Profile but are not reflected on the Facebook website. Backs up to your Palm Profile. Backs up to your Palm Profile.

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Tasks Notes

For the complete lowdown on adding, changing, managing, and deleting Contact, Calendar, Email, and Messenger accounts and data, refer to the chapters dedicated to each of those topics.

Adding Data Using Online Accounts Adding a Google Gmail account in one Pre app automatically adds the account in other Pre apps. So, add a Google Gmail account to Contacts, and Pre automatically adds the account to Messaging and Calendar, which in turn populates Tasks with any task items you may have associated with your Google Calendar.

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>>>step-by-step Adding a Google Gmail Account For these steps, I show you how to add a Gmail account to Pre’s Contacts application; however you can choose to add your account in Calendar, Email, or Messaging, and the screens and steps are mostly the same. Ditto for adding an Exchange or Facebook account rather than (or in addition to) a Gmail account. 1.

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Transferring Your Data Using Palm Data Transfer Assistant If you use Outlook 2003 or later (Windows), or your Pre is replacing a Palm smartphone that you kept in sync using Palm Desktop software, you can use Palm Data Transfer Assistant for Windows to do a one-way transfer of your Outlook or Palm Desktop data to Pre. From either of these programs you can transfer contacts, calendar events, tasks, and notes/memos to Pre. If you transfer data from Palm Desktop, you must have version 6.2 or later installed. (You can download the latest version of Palm Desktop at www.palm.com/support.) For Mac Address Book contacts and iCal events and tasks, you can use Palm Data Transfer Assistant for Mac to do a one-way transfer of that data to Pre. If your Pre is replacing a Palm smartphone that you kept in sync using Palm Desktop software, you can export your Palm Address Book and Palm Calendar as data files and import them into Mac Address Book and iCal; then perform a one-way transfer to your Pre using Palm Data Transfer Assistant. Keep in mind that your one-way data transfer is not the same as synchronizing your data. The one-way process is used to initially copy your data from your computer to your Pre, but after you perform the one-way transfer, Pre does not stay in sync with your computer. You can keep Pre data in sync with a Google Gmail account or a corporate Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync account. If you want to keep Pre in sync with data on your computer rather than have it automatically sync over the air, you can purchase a third-party program such as Mark/Space Missing Sync for Pre (Windows and Mac; www. markspace.com) or Pocket Mirror (Windows; www.chapura.com).

Bringing Over Web Bookmarks/Favorites Unfortunately you can’t drag and drop your web browser’s bookmarks the way you can drag and drop music, video, or document files to your Pre. That doesn’t mean you’re out of luck when it comes to keeping your computer and Pre Web bookmarks in sync. To learn more about how to add, manage, remove, and sync bookmarks, check out Chapter 5,“Connecting to the Internet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Devices.”


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Using the Palm Data Transfer Assistant involves the following steps: 1. Download the Data Transfer Assistant from palm.com/support and

install it on your computer. 2. Connect Pre to your computer with the USB cable; then run the Data

Transfer Assistant on your computer. 3. On Pre, choose whether you want to import your data to an online

account or to your Pre Profile. Choosing an online account imports and syncs your transferred data to one of your online accounts, such as Google Gmail or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. Choosing your Pre Profile imports your transferred data to your Pre, which is automatically backed up on a daily basis so you always have a backup of your data. Keep in mind that changes you make to your data occur only on your Pre, and your data is not kept in sync with, or accessible from, an online account or Web-based service.

Tip If you want to keep your Pre in sync with Google Gmail but you don’t have a Gmail account, go to www.gmail.com and create a new Gmail account before proceeding to the next section.

Backing Up and Preparing Your Data Before You Transfer to Pre Back up your Windows Palm Desktop or Outlook data, or your Mac Address Book and iCal data, before you transfer that data to your Pre. • If you’re using Palm Desktop for Windows, perform HotSync to make sure your data is up to date between your PC and the Palm smartphone you’re replacing with Pre. • If Pre is replacing another brand of phone that you kept in sync with Microsoft Outlook, such as a Windows Mobile phone, perform a sync to make sure your data is up to date between your PC and the phone you’re replacing. • If you use Microsoft Outlook but don’t sync with a mobile phone, back up your Outlook data to your PC’s internal hard drive or an external backup drive.

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• If you use Palm Desktop for Mac, perform a HotSync to make sure your data is up to date between your Mac and the Palm smartphone you’re replacing with your Pre. After performing HotSync, you must export your Palm Desktop data to data files before you can import those data files into Address Book and iCal, as explained in the following sections, “Exporting Palm Desktop for Mac Data,” and “Importing Palm Desktop for Mac Data into iCal and Address Book.” • If you’re using Address Book and iCal on your Mac but you do not sync either or both with a phone, back up your contacts, calendar events, and to-do items to your Mac’s internal hard drive or an external backup drive.

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Exporting Palm Desktop for Mac Data Exporting your Palm Desktop Calendar and Address data is a twostep process. You export and save your calendar events to one backup file; then you export and save your addresses to a second backup file. 1. From the Palm Desktop choose File, Export to open the Export dialog. 2.

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After downloading and installing Data Transfer Assistant for Mac or Windows (www.palm.com/ support), run the Palm Data Transfer Assistant. (If you see a license agreement and have no objection to it, accept it.) When the Data Transfer Assistant Welcome screen appears, click Next. The USB connection instructions screen appears.

Sorry Mac, No Memos The Windows Welcome screen shows icons for Memos, Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks, and the Mac Welcome screen shows icons for Calendar, Contacts, and Tasks but not Memos.

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How Long Until My Data Appears?

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The data transfer process can take anywhere between a few minutes to 10 minutes or more if you have lots of contacts. Pre does not display a progress indicator or a notification about the data transfer until the transfer process is complete.

CHOOSING BETWEEN GOOGLE OR EXCHANGE ACCOUNT OR PALM PROFILE When deciding where you want Pre to store your imported data, consider these factors: Google Or Exchange Account: • Works with the Palm Synergy feature. • Data is synchronized every 15 minutes (or sooner) and accessible anytime via your Web browser; data is stored on Google Calendar and Contacts servers. • You can export data from Google Calendar or Contacts and import that data into another program or service if necessary.

Microsoft Exchange: • Works with the Palm Synergy feature. • Requires user account with access to Microsoft Exchange and Outlook Web Access services; data is backed up on the company’s or organization’s Exchange Server. • Data is synchronizing continuously and available anytime via your Web browser. • You can export your data from Microsoft Exchange Calendar, Contacts, Tasks, and Notes and import into other programs or services if necessary. Palm Profile: • Your data is backed up and can be restored if your Pre is lost or stolen, or needs to be replaced. • You don’t want or need to sync with a web-based service such as Google or Microsoft Exchange. • Adding, editing, and deleting data occurs only on your Pre, and you cannot use a desktop application or web-based service to access, add, edit, or delete data backed up to your Palm profile. • Your data is stored on your Palm and automatically backed up daily to Palm’s online backup service.

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Configuring Pre settings Making calls Receiving calls Managing calls Getting information about your cell account

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Making, Receiving, and Managing Calls

Configuring Phone Settings Before diving into making and receiving calls with Pre, spend a few minutes configuring your Pre’s phone preferences settings to work the way that suits you best. To begin, tap Phone to open the Phone app card.

Numbers and contacts appear here

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Face Time: Auto-Off Screen Pre’s built-in proximity detector senses when you’re holding Pre to your ear during a phone call and automatically shuts off the touchscreen, so your cheek doesn’t accidentally tap a button or hang up on the call. The touchscreen turns on again when you draw Pre away from your face.

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The Sounds and Ringtones preferences card is where you choose and adjust the volume of the ringtone Pre plays when you receive a call, whether Pre vibrates when you receive a call, and whether you want to hear system sounds such as new items notifications, event reminders, and the ding-dong sound Pre plays when you attach it to the charger. 1.

Tap the app menu and choose Sounds & Ringtones. The Sounds & Ringtones card appears.

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Tap Vibrate ON or OFF button beneath Ringer Switch Off to toggle whether Pre vibrates when you have the ringer switch set to Off. If you want to know when you’ve got a call when the ringer is turned off (say, you’re in a movie theater or meeting) then you should leave this option enabled.

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Tap the Add Ringtone button to view any audio and music files you copied to your Pre. A list of audio files appears. Scroll up and down the list to see Pre’s audio files, or begin typing the name of an artist, song, ringtone, or audio filename to search for audio tracks that match your search criteria. Once you find the one you want to use, tap it to add it to the main list of ringtones.

Ringtones of Your Own Drag and drop your own custom ringtones, music tracks, and other audio files to Pre in USB drive mode, as explained in this chapter and Chapter 9,“Shooting, Storing, and Viewing Photos.”

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Deleting Ringtones Swipe left or right on a ringtone (or audio file) name to delete it from the Ringtone list. When the Delete/Cancel buttons appears, tap Delete to remove the ringtone from the Ringtone list. If the ringtone you want to delete from the list is the currently selected ringtone, you must choose another ringtone before you can delete the ringtone you want to remove from the ringtone list. Deleting a ringtone or audio file from the Ringtone list only removes it from the list and does not delete the file from your Pre.

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Adjusting Other Phone Preferences The Phone Preferences allow you to tweak how your Palm Pre works as a phone. Some of the options in this preferences screen allow your Palm Pre to assist you when you travel, or set up dialing shortcuts. 1.

Tap the app menu and choose Preferences to open the Phone preferences card; then scroll up and down to change any of the options on the card. Note that the first item listed is your Palm Pre’s phone number, should you forget what it is. (It happens to all of us!)

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Tap Show Contact Matches ON or OFF to toggle whether Pre displays only numbers or numbers and letters when you use the keyboard with the Phone card. With the option OFF, Pre recognizes only numbers typed on the keyboard. With the option ON, Pre recognizes numbers and letters, and displays contact matches as you type letters, initials, or numbers.

Press Orange or Gray for Numbers When Show Contacts Matches is ON you must press the Orange key (Gray key on the Palm Pre Plus) to type numbers. Press twice to turn on NUM LOCK.

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Tap the pop-up menu to choose whether Pre plays Short (default) or Long tones when you press the numbers on the dialpad or number keys on the keyboard. Long tones are sometimes required when accessing certain phone services that prompt you to choose from a list of numbered options.

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Tap Dialing Shortcuts to adjust set up shortcuts for when you enter specific numbers. This feature allows you to tell your Palm Pre to watch for a certain number length, and when it sees it, your Pre automatically adds extra numbers before it dials the number. For example, my Palm Pre has a different area code than my home town’s area code of 609, but I don’t want to have to dial the correct area code when calling my friends. I want to just dial the 7 digit part of their numbers and have my Palm Pre take care of the area code.

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In the Accessibility section, tap On/Off to toggle Pre’s TTY/TDD (text telephone) feature ON if you connect Pre to a TTY/TDD device used to assist users with hearing, speech, or language disabilities or difficulties. When a TTY/TDD device is plugged into Pre’s headphone jack, all audio (speaker, earpiece) is disabled. When turned ON, a TTY/TDD icon appears in the status area at the top of the screen. In the Network Settings section, tap to have Pre check for and update the carrier network settings if updated settings are available. This is only for Palm Pre’s running on CDMA carrier networks like the U.S.-based Sprint and Verizon networks. In the Preferred Roaming List section, tap when roaming outside your home network coverage zone to have Pre find the strongest alternative carrier signals. This is only for Palm Pre’s running on CDMA carrier networks like the U.S.-based Sprint and Verizon networks.

Reset Voicemail Count Not shown here is also a Reset Voicemail Count section that allows you to set your listed number of voicemail notifications to zero in the event that your Pre shows one or more new voicemail notifications even when you have no new voicemail messages.

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Adjusting Screen Settings The Screen & Lock preferences card is where you adjust screen brightness and how long before the screen automatically shuts off to save battery power. It’s also where you can change Pre’s background wallpaper, turn on an app switching gesture option, set a password for unlocking your Pre, and choose whether you want to see notifications on the screen when Pre is locked. 1.

Open the launcher and tap Screen & Lock to open the Screen & Lock preferences card.

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In the Screen section, drag the slider left or right to decrease or increase the screen’s brightness to the level that’s most comfortable to your eyes. Dimming brightness to the lowest but stillreadable level draws less power and can extend Pre’s battery life when it isn’t connected to a power source.

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Tap Turn Off After; then choose a time span from 30 seconds up to 3 minutes that your Pre’s screen stays on before it turns itself off to conserve battery life.

4. In the Wallpaper section, tap Change Wallpaper; then tap All Images or Wallpapers (or any other picture group collections you may have stored on your Pre) to browse and choose a new wallpaper background. 5.

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In the Secure Unlock section, tap the pop-up menu and choose Simple PIN or Password. Then type a PIN or password, and type it a second time to confirm it; press Done to close the PIN or password entry card. With Secure Unlock turned on, your Pre will prompt you for a PIN or password to unlock it.

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It’s Not All Good If your Pre runs on either CDMA carriers such as Sprint and Verizon, or on GSM carriers that only support GPRS or EDGE, it won't be able to handle both voice and data traffic at the same time (unless you can connect to a Wi-Fi network). However, GSM carriers such as AT&T and T-Mobile do allow simultaneous voice and data traffic. As mentioned in the Prologue, those wireless carriers and others are expected to offer Pre in 2010, if they don't already do so by the time you read this.

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Tap Call to initiate the call.

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Tap Delete to delete numbers one at a time, or tap and hold Delete to clear the dial pad phone number field.

DIALING WITH THE KEYBOARD To use the Pre’s keyboard to type in phone numbers—or to search for and call the phone number of a contact you have stored on your Pre—tap orange (gray on the Palm Pre Plus) number keys to enter a number into the dialpad phone number field; then tap Call. Note that typing C, R, or any of the other letters that share the orange/gray numbers keys displays matches for both names and numbers. Your Pre dials the number and then the call card appears; if the number matches one of your contacts, the contact’s info displays. Next, use the call screen to manage your call, as described in the section “Managing Calls” later in this chapter.

Note that if you turned Preferences > Show Contact Matches ON (see previous section “Adjusting Other Phone Preferences”), your Pre recognizes numbers and letters and displays contact matches as you type letters, initials, or numbers. You must press the Orange key to type numbers; press twice to turn on NUM LOCK. With the option OFF, Pre recognizes only numbers typed on the keyboard, and you do not need to press the Orange key to type numbers.

Finding and Calling Contacts You can quickly dial phone numbers stored in your contact cards from the Phone app, Launcher page, or card view, as the following sections explains. To learn how to work with your Contacts in more detail, see Chapter 3, “Managing Contacts.”

Turn On Show Contact Matches To follow the steps in this section please set Phone > Preferences > Show Contact Matches ON.

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Tap Phone; then tap the Contacts icon or just begin typing a contact’s name.

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Fast Initial Finds Type a contact’s initials to quickly hone in on a contact you want to call.

Dialing Contacts from Launcher or Card View 1. Tap Launcher or drag up from the gesture area to open card view and begin typing a contact’s name or initials. Contact names appear as you type; contacts for whom you’ve created Launcher favorites appear above the list of contact matches. 2.

Tap a contact name to display the contact’s card details; then tap the number you want to call. Pre opens the Phone app, dials the number, and then the call card appears as described earlier, in the section “Dialing with the Dial Pad.”

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Tap Contacts; then find and tap on the contact card for the person you want to assign to a speed dial key. Tap app menu > Set Speed Dial.

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Grayed Keys Already Assigned Grayed-out keys indicate keys already assigned to a speed dial number. The lightly grayed out 1/E key is permanently assigned to Voicemail.

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Saving and Dialing with Launcher Favorites You can save a contact card as a Launcher Favorite and then tap that icon in Launcher to open the contact’s contact card. To save a contact’s phone number as a Launcher Favorite you need to go to the Contacts application, select the contact you want to save as a Launcher favorite, and then use the following steps: 1.

Tap the Contacts app menu and select Add To Launcher.

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Dialing with Call Log Like most any cellular phone, Pre keeps track of calls you make, receive, or miss in the Call Log. In addition to reviewing records of calls made, received, or missed, you can use this log to directly contact someone. For instance, if you check the log to see a missed call there’s no need to ferret out the caller’s contact card (assuming you have one for that individual) when you can simply dial them from the missed calls log. 1.

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Returning Missed Calls A notification banner and buttons to Call Back or Dismiss the notification appears briefly when you don’t answer a call (but not for calls you ignore; see “Handling Incoming Calls”). Tap Call Back or Dismiss to do either.

Dialing from Messages and Web Pages Pre recognizes phone numbers across most apps, including Email, Web, Messaging, and Google Maps. When Pre recognizes a phone number in one of these apps it formats that number as a link—tap a phone number in email, text or instant messages, or on web pages, and your Pre launches the Phone app and dials the phone number.

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Copy and Paste Phone Numbers You can paste phone numbers copied from other apps into the dial pad phone number field; then press Call to dial the number.

Handling Incoming Calls Your Palm Pre wouldn’t be a Smartphone if it didn’t offer you multiple ways to achieve the same action. You can answer calls a few different ways with your Palm Pre depending on the circumstance of the call.

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To answer an incoming call: • Drag to unlock and answer if your Palm Pre is locked • Tap to answer if you are working in an application • Press the headset button to answer if you are listening to music • Slide open the keyboard to answer if the keyboard is closed

Auto-Mute Music or audio you’re listening to or video you’re watching automatically pauses when you receive a call. When you end (or ignore) a call, the music or video resumes right where it left off.

When receiving a call you also silence the ringer or send a call directly to voicemail. To silence an incoming call, you can • Press the power button. • Press the volume button. • Slide the ringer switch to the off position (Red). Ringer switch Power button

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Alternatively, you can ignore an incoming phone call and thereby send it to voicemail; tap the red End Call button.

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Managing Calls There are several ways to manage an active call (or calls) with your Pre. If you are on a call, and another call comes in, you need to be able to handle that situation. Maybe you want to add the incoming call to the call you are on, or ignore the call and send it to voicemail. Another option could be setting up a three-way phone conference with yourself and two other people. The following sections explore each of these scenarios.

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Call duration or status Tap to hang up Tap Speaker to activate speakerphone Tap Mute so you can’t be heard

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Entering Numbers During a Call Sometimes it’s necessary to enter numbers into your phone while in the middle of a call, such as when accessing your voicemail or responding to customer service prompts. To do this with your Pre, place or answer your call and then tap the Key Pad button called out in the previous figure. Enter any necessary numbers and, when you’re done, tap Key Pad again to hide the dial pad.

>>>step-by-step Making and Managing a Second Call Pre makes it easy to conduct calls with more than one person at the same time. 1.

Place or answer a call as described in the “Making Calls” section; then tap Add Call. The dial pad appears.

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Minding Your Minutes Note that multiple calls count as individual calls as far as your Pre’s calling plan goes, so if you’re speaking with two people at once, each minute you’re on the horn counts as 2 minutes of usage on your calling plan.

Sending Messages While you are talking to someone on the phone, and you already have a contact record for them, tap on their picture to reveal their contact card. When you see the contact card, you can send an SMS by tapping on the SMS bubble next to his phone number, or an email by tapping on his email address.

Tap the SMS icon to initiate a text message

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To learn more about using email with your Pre, refer to Chapter 6,“Email.”To learn more about text messaging with your Pre, refer to Chapter 7,“SMS, MMS, and Instant Messaging.”

Saving Caller Info When someone calls you, you can save her number to Contacts. If you are still on the phone with her, tap the Add to Contacts icon next to her number. Choose whether you want to add the number as a new contact or to an existing contact.

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Now complete the new contact card by adding the person’s name and any other details. More detail on adding contacts to your Pre can be found in Chapter 3,“Managing Contacts.”

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Using Apps While on a Call While you are on the phone with someone, you can use any of the applications on your Palm Pre without disconnecting the caller. Press the Home button to switch to other applications, or tap the Launcher to choose which application to start.

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You can use other Pre apps while on a phone call

Your current call details display in the notification area at the bottom of the screen at all times enabling you to tap on the call to jump right back to the phone application.

Using a Wired or Bluetooth Hands-Free Headset If you have previously paired a Bluetooth headset with your Palm Pre or you have plugged in a wired headset, you can use it on a phone call.

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This icon indicates the presence of a headset

While on a call, the speaker button displays a Headset icon. If you press this button you hear the caller in your headset, and your voice will be picked up by the microphone that is located where the left and right side cables meet. The microphone also has a button on it which enables you to answer an incoming call, respond to a call waiting, and hang up on a caller. Press the button once for each of these functions.

Press the headset button to answer or hang up a call

If you want to stop using your headset and use either the Palm Pre as the handset or the speakerphone, tap the Headset button again or disconnect your headset.

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Managing Your Phone Account To view or change your calling plan, check your usage, make payments, or purchase accessories for your Pre, visit your carrier’s web site with your computer’s web browser for the easiest-to-use experience. If you are on the road however, you can achieve some of these tasks on your Palm Pre.

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On CDMA versions of the Palm Pre (Sprint and Verizon in the U.S.) these special codes do not retrieve information to your screen as they do with GSM carriers like T-Mobile, AT&T, Vodacom, O2, and so on, but simply connect you to Sprint or Verizon customer support.

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Managing Contacts Managing all your contacts on a cell phone can be an arduous task. It’s not unheard of for a user to have information for a hundred contacts or more loaded into their phone. This makes being able to organize and manage your contacts very important. It’s a task that gets more complicated on a phone like the Pre, where you can communicate with your contacts in so many different ways (voice, text, instant messaging, and so on). Fortunately, as I’ll detail in the next section, the Palm Pre includes a feature, called Synergy, that helps make keeping track of all of the information for contacts you maintain, both online and off, extremely simple. Additionally, the Contacts application itself enables you to keep all your contacts in one place, search for them, and take actions on them such as email, call, text, or MMS.

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Synergy Synergy is a unique feature of the Palm Pre that takes a regular Smartphone contacts feature to the next level by enabling you to combine all of your own contact information, and all the contacts you have connected to it, into one place. So, if you have contacts on your Facebook account, a Yahoo! Mail account, and a LinkedIn account, you can bring them all together on your Palm Pre. It’s all a part of the Contacts application, which you can open from your Pre’s home screen.

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Because Synergy is such an important feature, let’s spend a few minutes setting it up. Synergy works by combining contacts and calendars from multiple locations on the Internet into one view. It does not synchronize changes between these different contacts and calendars, but it does combine the information on your Palm Pre. As you can see here, all of my contact information is listed in one easy-to-reference place.

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Synergy has combined the information from all sources (like Facebook and Google) into one view

When you add new contacts to your Palm Pre, those contacts synchronize with your Default Account.Your Palm Pre sets the Default Account to your Palm Pre account (or Palm Profile account), which is a free account set up when you activated your Pre.You can change your Default Account to be any online account, like Google. When you add new contacts to your Palm Pre, they are always stored in your Default Account.Think of your Default Account like your master account. All other accounts are read-only, which means that your Palm Pre will only read information from them and not add any information.

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Tap one of the profiles to review its information or make changes to it. You can take several actions when reviewing an account associated with a contact’s profile. You can unlink it (if you don’t think it should be linked to this contact), set it as the Primary profile for that contact (which makes the Palm Pre use the picture from that profile when displaying the contact), or Delete the profile to remove it from contacts altogether. If you don’t want to make any changes to the profile, click Cancel.

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>>>step-by-step Searching for a Contact 1. In Card View or Launcher, type the person’s first or last name. Universal Search pops up and displays the list of matches. In this example, I entered “Craig” resulting in a list of contacts with the name Craig. Notice that it doesn’t matter if it’s a first or last name.

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>>>step-by-step Adding a Contact Manually You can add new contacts directly to your Palm Pre’s contacts by entering the information manually. 1.

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Adding a Contact from an Email One way to add new contacts is to get their information from an existing email. After all, the person’s name and email address are already right there in the From field so why not just add them to your Contacts directly. 1.

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When you finish making changes to the contact’s information, tap Done to save it.

Adding Information to an Existing Contact If you tap Add To Existing in step 3, you see all your contacts. From here you can search for and then tap the one to which you want to add this new contact.

Remember that when you add contacts to your Palm Pre, those contacts synchronize with your Default Account and not all Synergy account profiles. Your Palm Pre uses your Palm Profile as the default account unless you change it. To change it tap on the top-left corner, and choose Preferences and Accounts as previously discussed.

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While you have a contact open, tap Edit.

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Working with Date and Time, Calendar, To Do, and Memos Continuing with the Synergy vein, your Palm Pre can synchronize multiple calendars from online services such as Google, Microsoft Exchange, and Facebook. All calendars display in one view enabling you to see your work and personal life in one place. If you want, you can choose not to synchronize your Palm Pre’s calendar with any online services, but just keep it on the Smartphone. While you can do that, it is wasting much of the value of the Synergy system. For example, if you use the Google calendar, and one at work, you can now see both of those calendars on one screen, easily being able to cut down on scheduling conflicts. Let’s start by setting the time and date, and then we can move on to your calendar and tasks. If your date and time are wrong, your calendar is useless.

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Date and Time Before we start setting up calendars to synchronize with, we have to make sure that your Palm Pre has the correct time and date. Although your Palm Pre will function just fine with the wrong date and time, the calendar needs this to be accurate, or you will always be late for your appointments.

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Tap the Date & Time icon from the Launcher.

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Tasks Tasks allows you to keep track of things you need to do. For example, walk the dog, pay bills, call someone, and so on.Your Palm Pre can keep track of your tasks and remind you when they are due.You can also keep track of your progress on each task.Tasks can be used in addition to calendar appointments.

>>>step-by-step Creating a Task List and Task Your Palm Pre enables you to create lists of tasks. Each task list can contain one or many tasks. This helps you keep track of tasks more easily because they appear by category. 1.

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10. Enter task notes.You can put just about anything you want here. In the context of this task, which is about finding topics for a podcast, I might enter some possible topic areas I want to consider covering. 11.

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It’s Not All Good Exchange Tasks If you synchronize with Exchange, you cannot have task lists, you can only have tasks. Your Palm Pre handles this by adding a task list called Exchange. Under the Exchange task list, you see all tasks that you have synchronized from Exchange.

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>>>step-by-step Marking a Task As Complete After you have populated the Tasks application with tasks and task lists, you can start checking off completed tasks. 1.

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>>>step-by-step Viewing Your Calendars Let’s start by opening the Calendar application and becoming familiar with the layout of the main screen, the buttons, and what they do. 1.

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Configuring the Calendar Now that you are familiar with the main calendar screen, let’s set up and configure the Calendar application. Setting up your calendar involves adding one or more online calendars with which your Palm Pre can synchronize and configuring the way it behaves. For example, what sound plays when you are alerted of an upcoming appointment, or when your work day starts and ends? 1.

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Working with Google Maps There is no chapter dedicated to Google Maps, but I thought I’d go over how to use it because we just showed you how to map a meeting’s address. Having Google Maps preloaded on your Palm Pre offers a lot of benefits because it allows you to see real-time traffic information, satellite and map views, and it can give you turn-by-turn driving directions. All of this is very useful for your appointments, but also as a standalone feature.

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NO ADDRESS NEEDED Instead of typing in an address when using Google Maps, you can just type in what you are looking for. For example, type “pizza” and Google Maps searches for pizza restaurants around your current location. Once you find one, simply tap it to see the phone number and address.

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>>>step-by-step Creating a Memo The first step is to create one or more memos. You can type the memo text and even change the color of the memo. 1.

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Connecting to the Internet, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth Devices Your Palm Pre can connect to the Internet in two main ways. By default your Palm Pre uses its cellular data connection, which is always available if you have cellular coverage. When you launch the web browser or use an application that communicates over the Internet, your Pre uses the cellular connection. If, however, you are in range of a wireless network, also called a Wi-Fi network, you can associate with that network and take advantage of the increased speeds. In this chapter we cover how to connect to Wi-Fi networks and use the web browser. In addition we cover using Bluetooth to connect to Bluetooth accessories such as hands-free head sets.

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Connecting to Wi-Fi Networks Your Palm Pre always connects to the Internet over its cellular data connection, but you can make use of Wi-Fi networks to enjoy much higher speeds and an improved web browsing experience. Applications that can stream video and audio can also benefit from these high speeds. The great thing about Wi-Fi networks is that they are all over the place. You can typically find them in places like coffee shops, airports, restaurants, hotels, and probably in your home.

>>>step-by-step Setting up a Wi-Fi Network Connection Here is how to connect to a Wi-Fi network. 1.

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LEAVE WI-FI ON It is always best to leave your Wi-Fi radio on at all times so when you are in range of Wi-Fi networks with which you have already associated your Palm Pre, it joins them automatically. Some people think that leaving the radio on drains the battery, but this is not the case. In fact, Wi-Fi networks are far more efficient at saving battery power than cellular networks.

The Web Browser Your Palm Pre comes with a web browser that enables you to browse the Internet as if you were sitting at a desktop computer. Browsing the Internet on a phone is normally a frustrating activity where the phone tries to change the web pages to suit its screen. In many cases the websites you visit direct your phone to a stripped down mobile version of the website. The Palm Pre’s web browser accesses the Internet almost exactly like a desktop computer does. The web pages appear almost exactly like they do on a desktop computer with the layout and formatting in place. In addition to a great web browsing experience, you can do a few tricks with the web browser such as saving links directly to the Launcher. Let’s take a look.

>>>step-by-step Using the Web Browser 1.

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Adding a Web Page to the Launcher One cool feature of the Palm Pre is that it enables you to add a web page directly to the Palm Pre Launcher. This enables you to tap directly on that page to launch it, instead of first launching the web browser and tapping the bookmark. This is how to do it. 1.

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Browsing Multiple Web Pages at One Time On your Palm Pre you can open many web pages at one time, allowing you to switch between websites. Each website becomes a new Card on your Palm Pre’s screen as if it were a separate running application. To open multiple web pages, do the following. 1.

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Sharing a Web Link If you find a web page that you want to email to someone, you can do it right on your Palm Pre. To share a web link, do the following: 1.

With the web browser open and the page you want to share opened in it, tap on the application menu on the top-left part of the screen.

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Accessing Your Browsing History Sometimes you want to go back to a website where you’ve already been but cannot remember its address. Your Palm Pre keeps a history of which websites you visit so that you can find them. To access your browser history, do the following: 1.

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Configuring your Palm Pre Browser You can configure some settings for your Palm Pre web browser that control how it works and clear its cookies, cache, and history. To configure your Palm Pre browser, do the following. 1.

With the browser already open, tap on the application menu on the top-left part of the screen.

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Tap the Yes/No switch next to JavaScript to enable or disable JavaScript support. JavaScript can be useful on web pages that make use of it because it helps to add attractive formatting to a web page. JavaScript does many other things on web pages, so you might want to leave it enabled at all times to improve your browsing experience.

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Bluetooth Bluetooth is a type of wireless network technology that enables devices and accessories to communicate within a small area. This is sometimes called a Personal Area Network. Although you can connect two computers or two smartphones together using Bluetooth, the most common use is to connect a phone to an accessory such as a headset or an in-car hands-free system.

>>>step-by-step Pairing Your Palm Pre with an Accessory 1.

Tap Bluetooth from the Launcher.

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Pairing Your Palm Pre with a Computer, Phone, or Car Hands-Free System Sometimes you need to connect your Palm Pre to a computer, another phone, or a car’s Bluetooth handsfree system. Here is how to do that: 1.

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Setting up your email Sending and receiving email Working with attachments Configuring email

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Understanding Email on Palm Pre Your Palm Pre connects to your email accounts wirelessly over the Internet enabling you to send and receive email without needing to sit in front of a computer. The main Email screen, which is accessed by tapping the Email icon on the Launcher, is broken up into two parts. The top part, which is called Favorites, shows your favorite folders and your Smart Folders. Smart Folders can be All Inboxes, All Flagged, or both. Flagged messages are messages that you set as flagged. We cover this later.

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The lower part of the screen shows your email accounts. If you expand each email account by tapping the arrow, you see that account’s folders.

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>>>step-by-step Configuring Email Here is how you configure the Email application and set up your email accounts. 1.

Tap the Email icon from the Launcher.

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Adding an Automatic Personal Email Account Let’s start with a personal email account, such as Gmail. These common accounts can be set up with almost no input from you. If you have added a Gmail account for synchronizing contacts, you will not need to add it again for email. If this is the first time you are setting up any accounts, you will be taken straight into the Add An Account screen when you tap on the mail icon. 1.

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Once you receive the login error, tap OK to return to the Add An Account screen.

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Go straight to manual setup To go directly to a manual email setup, tap the application menu in the top left of the screen and tap Manual Setup. This is useful if you already know that your Palm Pre will not be able to automatically figure out the mail server settings. 4.

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9. Enter the information required for the Outgoing Mail Server. Like the information for the incoming email server, this information should come from your email account provider. Enter the outgoing server name. Toggle Use Authentication on or off depending on whether your provider’s outgoing mail server requires you to log in to access it. If Use Authentication is enabled, provide your username and password. Finally, enter the port number, which is usually 25. 10.

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Tap Add An Account to add a new email account as shown at the end of the section,“Configuring Email,” earlier in this chapter.

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Enter your domain name. This will be the Active Directory domain name where your network account resides.

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Guess at the Settings When setting up an Exchange account on your Palm Pre, you can normally guess at the settings. For example, most companies use the same name for the incoming mail server. If your email address is [email protected] then it is very probable that your incoming mail server name will be https://webmail.AllHitRadio.com. From logging into your network on a daily basis, you probably already know the domain name and your login and password. So if you can’t get hold of your network administrator, take a guess at the settings.

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Editing your Mail Accounts After you have set up your mail accounts you may want to go and edit some of the defaults. For example by default your Palm Pre sets Exchange accounts to only keep three days of past emails. Many users need email downloads from further back in the past. Here is how you can make that change and many others. 1.

From the Mail Preferences screen (which you can see in the “Configuring Email,” section earlier in this chapter), tap the account you want to modify. For this example we will modify the Exchange account we just created.

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5. Under the Sync heading, tap Show Email to change how far back your Palm Pre synchronizes mail with your mailbox back at the office. If you want all of your email downloaded to your Pre, then choose All from the available options. If your mailbox is large, you should go with one of the other choices. 6. Tap Get Mail to choose what happens when new email arrives in your mailbox back at the office. If you choose As items arrive, then your Palm Pre will get those emails immediately. Your other choices allow you to set your Palm Pre on a schedule to pick up your email, or set it to Manual which means it only gets email when you tap on that email account.

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Swipe from right to left in the gesture area to save your settings and return to the previous screen.

Using Mail Now that you have set up the Mail application to work the way you want it to, and added your email accounts, it is time to use it to send and receive email. Let’s go over the Mail Application’s main screen.

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Tap to expand the Favorites view. This shows your All Inboxes and All Flagged view, plus any folders that you marked as favorite folders. Each email account’s Inbox is automatically marked as a favorite folder. We cover how to select which folders are favorites a bit later.

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Composing an Email We now cover how to compose a new email on your Palm Pre. It seems simple enough, but let’s step through it so you have practice. 1.

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Saving or Discarding an Unsent Email If you start to compose an email that you decide to finish and send later, you can choose Save As Draft from the Email application menu. If you no longer want to send an email you started composing, you can instead tap Discard Message from the application menu.

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Attaching Files to Your Emails What if you want to send someone a picture or video? You can do this right from your Palm Pre by simply attaching those files to your email. 1.

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Reading and Managing Emails When you receive emails, you can read them, of course, but you can do other things to manage them, such as moving them to folders and flagging them for follow-up. 1.

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SMS, MMS, and Instant Messaging Your Palm Pre uses a single application called Messaging to combine all types of messaging other than email. With this one application you can send and receive Short Message Service (SMS or text messaging) messages and Multimedia Message Service (MMS) messages, and chat with your friends and family using Instant Messaging (IM). Like all other Palm Pre applications, the Messaging application makes use of the Palm Pre’s Synergy concept to seamlessly combine all your accounts into one place.

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Adding Accounts The first time you run the Messages application, it gives you an opportunity to add new instant messaging (IM) accounts. It is already set up with the SMS account (which can also be used for MMS) associated with your Pre’s phone number.

The Messaging Screen If you’ve already run the Messaging application at least once, launching the app again sends you to the main Messaging screen shown later, in the section “Using Messaging.”

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Tap the Messaging icon from the Launcher. This opens the Your Messaging account screen, from which you can add new messaging accounts and see a list of messaging accounts already configured for your phone.

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Using Messaging Now that you added your IM accounts, you can start using the Messaging application to send and receive SMS, MMS, and IM. SMS is short for Short Message Service, and is used to send short 163 character text messages between mobile phones. MMS is short for Multimedia Message Service and is used to send files between mobile phones, most commonly pictures and video. IM is short for Instant Messaging and is used mostly on desktop computers to chat with your friends. Regardless of which method of communication you want to use, you start out at the main Messaging screen shown here.

>>>step-by-step Contacting Buddies and Managing Conversations The main screen of the Messaging application has two sections, Conversations and Buddies. The Conversations section shows you all your SMS, MMS, and IM conversations. This is useful because it keeps all your chats in one place and

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Defining Instant Messaging Instant Messaging, or IM, is a method of chatting to your friends via an IM client. IM clients are provided by different vendors like Google (GTalk), Yahoo!, and AOL (AIM). Typically you install and use these IM clients on desktop computers, but they are now available on many smartphones including the Palm Pre. Having one or more IM clients on a mobile phone allows you to stay in touch even when you are mobile. As we mentioned before, your Palm Pre keeps all IM friends and chats in the same application along with SMS and MMS. In addition to chatting with your friends, you can set your status to show what you are doing, or to indicate that you don’t want to be disturbed.

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Sending a Standard Text (SMS) Message Unlike IM, which is an Internet-based service, SMS and MMS are traditional cell phone concepts where you can send quick messages and other files to the cell phones of other people in your contacts list. 1.

With the Messaging application open, tap to create a new SMS or MMS message. Note that this button is available to you regardless of whether you are on the Conversations or Buddies screens. On the screen that follows you can select a person or persons to receive your text message.

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If you are not in the Messaging application when you receive a new SMS or MMS, you see it on the bottom of the screen in the notification area. If you tap the notification, it expands to show you more of the message.

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Listening to Audio and Watching Video Your Palm Pre is a very capable multimedia Smartphone. In addition to watching YouTube videos, you can purchase music from the Amazon Store right on your Palm Pre.Your Palm Pre can not only play music, but display the album art for each song.While listening to music, you can run other applications and the music keeps playing in the background.You can synchronize audio and video from your computer (Windows or Mac) via iTunes, or by simply copying them over to your phone. In addition to synchronizing your audio and video content with iTunes, you can use other solutions like The Missing Sync from Mark/Space or doubleTwist from doubleTwist Corporation.

Getting Music and Video onto Your Palm Pre Before you can start enjoying your favorite tunes and watching your favorite videos or movies, you need to get them onto your Palm Pre. You can do this in several ways, which include using iTunes (knock on wood), or some other downloadable apps, such as Missing Sync for Palm Pre by Mark/Space or doubleTwist by doubleTwist Corporation.

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Although Missing Sync for Palm Pre is a $40 fully featured synchronization solution for Mac and Windows that synchronizes calendar, contacts, and multimedia, doubleTwist is a free application that concentrates on multimedia only, leaving your Palm Pre to synchronize everything else over the air. As mentioned in detail later in this chapter, Apple can lock out iTunes synchronization and as the writing of this book has proceeded, it’s beginning to look more and more like the Pre will be locked out for good. Given this uncertainty, this chapter covers both synchronizing with iTunes (in the hopes that this remains an option) as well as using doubleTwist, which, as mentioned, is free.

Using iTunes There is no synchronization software from Palm that enables you to synchronize your Palm Pre with a computer. The compromise is that Palm has configured each Palm Pre to pretend that it is an Apple iPod. This means that when you connect your Palm Pre to a computer that has Apple iTunes installed, iTunes starts and thinks that a real iPod is connected. You can synchronize all your media to the Palm Pre this way.

It’s Not All Good Fake iPod Because your Palm Pre fakes its identity enabling it to leech off Apple’s technology, Apple can at any time update iTunes so that it no longer supports this fake iPod. This has happened twice during the writing of this book. When Apple updates iTunes, it rightfully tries to eliminate this fake iPod. As a Palm Pre user, you are left with a difficult decision. Either upgrade iTunes to gain the extra features and lose the capability to synchronize or do not upgrade. If Apple updates iTunes and manages to lock out the Palm Pre, Palm works to release a new version of the firmware that achieves the fake-out again. This continues the cat-and-mouse game, and the losers are the Palm Pre users. Hopefully Palm will stop this practice and build its own software. Apple is completely within its rights to try to eliminate this leeching and eventually there may become a time when Palm cannot update its firmware to continue the fake-out.

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>>>step-by-step Synchronizing Music The following steps assume that you already have Apple’s iTunes installed on your PC running Windows or a Mac. The steps are valid for the Windows and Mac version of iTunes. 1.

After making sure that your Palm Pre connects to your PC or Mac using the supplied Micro-USB cable, tap Media Sync on your Palm Pre’s screen.

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On your computer, iTunes loads (if it doesn’t, launch it manually) and shows your Palm Pre connected as an Apple iPod. Click the Music tab to configure which music synchronizes to your Palm Pre.

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Select to synchronize your entire iTunes music library. If your iTunes music library is too large to fit on your Pre, you should instead leave this option disabled.

5. Select to synchronize only some of your music library.Then using either the Playlists, Genres, or Artists lists, select what music you want to synchronize to your Palm Pre. 6.

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Synchronizing Video While we are in iTunes, let’s go over how to synchronize video. 1.

Click the Movies tab to configure which movies are synchronized to your Palm Pre.

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Check the box marked Sync TV Shows. If you leave this option disabled then no TV shows can be synced to your Pre.

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It’s Not All Good Because this is not a real iPod, if in the past you purchased music, movies, or TV shows through the iTunes store that have Digital Rights Management (DRM) on them, that content will not play on your Palm Pre. Only songs/movies/shows that are DRM-free (for example, if they were purchased using iTunes Plus) or that have been obtained from another source, such as a CD or some other DRM-free source, will play. Luckily, Apple no longer uses DRM for music, so any new or recently purchased music will be DRM-free. If you have older music in iTunes, you can purchase the DRM-free versions of those songs through iTunes at a reduced rate. However, it is unlikely that there will be any DRM-free TV shows.

Using doubleTwist doubleTwist is a free application that allows you to synchronize music and video from iTunes on Windows or Mac to your Palm Pre. It also allows you to synchronize pictures from iPhoto on a Mac and your My Pictures directory in Windows to your Palm Pre. It is important that we cover doubleTwist here because of the on again, off again iTunes/Palm Pre relationship.

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>>>step-by-step Installing doubleTwist on Windows Before we begin, make sure you download the Windows version of doubleTwist from http://www.doubletwist.com. After you have the app downloaded, use these steps to get it installed. 1.

Double-click on the doubleTwist install file that you downloaded. On the first screen, click Install. There is precious little to configure for a doubleTwist installation. Just follow the prompts.

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Synchronizing Music Using doubleTwist doubleTwist allows you to synchronize music from your iTunes library to your Palm Pre. It also allows you to drag music from folders on your computer to your Palm Pre.

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While music is synchronizing to your Palm Pre, a pie chart appears next to your Pre in doubleTwist. It shows the progress of that synchronization. You can click on other parts of doubleTwist and work with other media while the music copies over in the background.

NO ITUNES? If you don’t want to use iTunes (or you don’t have it installed) and have music stored in folders on your computer, click Music under the Library heading. Browse through the music and drag the songs you want to your Palm Pre. doubleTwist will copy them for you.

>>>step-by-step Synchronizing Video Using doubleTwist doubleTwist allows you to drag videos from your iTunes library and folders on your computer to your Palm Pre. Make sure your Palm Pre is plugged into your computer and is visible in doubleTwist and then follow these steps. 1.

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Using the Amazon MP3 Store Although you can use iTunes to synchronize your music, if you purchase music using iTunes, the songs can play fine on your computer and on an iPod or iPhone, but because your Palm Pre is a fake iPod, the music may not play. Music that has been ripped from a CD and imported into iTunes can play on your Palm Pre because it does not contain any DRM. One other way around this is to use the Amazon MP3 Store which is right on your Palm Pre. When you purchase music using this application, the music can play on your Palm Pre.

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10. You can see your purchased songs downloading.When the download is complete, you have full access to the music you purchased through the Palm Music Player, which is covered later in this chapter in the section “Using the Palm Music Player.”

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Getting Amazon MP3 Music into iTunes After you purchase music from the Amazon store on your Palm Pre, you can immediately play it and enjoy it. But what if you want to copy that music into iTunes so that you can play it on your computer? You can download a piece of software called the Palm Music Assistant from the Palm website that helps you do this. Visit http://www.palm.com and browse through the support downloads to find and download the Palm Music Assistant. After you download the Palm Music Assistant, double-click it to install it. No questions are asked during the installation so it should be pretty easy. 1.

After you download and install the Palm Music Assistant, launch it. Connect your Palm Pre to your computer, and tap Music Sync on the Palm Pre.

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From the Launcher, tap Music to launch the Music Player. The main Music Player screen categorizes your songs by Artist, Album, Song, Genre, and Playlist.

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To listen to podcasts, from the main Music Player screen tap Playlists. Podcasts are among the items listed in the Podcasts Playlist. Tap Podcasts.

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Searching YouTube for Related Material While Listening to Music While you play a song, you might wonder what other related material is available. One thing that you can do is perform a YouTube search from the Music Player. 1.

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>>>step-by-step Synchronizing Videos using iTunes Because your Palm Pre pretends to be an Apple iPod, you can use iTunes to synchronize videos to it. Bearing in mind that because your Palm Pre is not a real iPod, all movies that you purchase on iTunes cannot play on your Palm Pre. Only movies that you create outside of iTunes and import can play. 1.

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Playing Videos Transferred to Your Pre Watching videos on your Palm Pre is not much different from listening to music. Here’s how you do it: 1.

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11. Tap Email to share a link to this video by email. A regular email is automatically composed with a link to this video in the body of the email.You can then choose the recipients and send it. Email is covered in more detail in Chapter 6. 12. Tap Text Message to share a link to this video via SMS or text message. A text message is automatically created for you with a link to the video in the body of the message.You can then choose the recipients and send it.You can read more about sending SMSs in Chapter 7.

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Shooting, Storing, and Viewing Photos Your Palm Pre has a 3.2 Megapixel camera with a Light Emitting Diode (LED) flash. This is a good camera for a phone and produces decent-looking photos. Other than taking photos on your Palm Pre, you can synchronize photos to it from your computer. When photos are stored on your Palm Pre you can share them with others on your Smartphone, or via email, MMS, or on social networking sites like Facebook.

Shooting Your World What would a phone be these days without a camera? Not many phones sell without them, but not all have great cameras. The camera on your Palm Pre is lacking some features compared to a dedicated digital camera, but you can still take good pictures. Your Palm Pre has a flash that will help with low-light, close up pictures. The interface is simple and allows you to tap to take a photo and control how the flash works.

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Viewing and Sharing Your Photos You can do many things with the photos on your Palm Pre including sharing them with others via email, MMS, or Facebook. You can also use the photos as contact pictures or your Palm Pre’s wallpaper. The Photo application groups the photos by album. These photo albums are sometimes just a date, and sometimes an actual photo album depending on which program was used to move them to your Palm Pre.

>>>step-by-step Viewing Photos Let’s start with simply viewing your photos.Your Palm Pre stores photos and other pictures in photo albums, making them easier to find. Let’s take a look. 1.

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>>>step-by-step Configuring the Photos Application

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Synchronizing Photos Using iTunes Because your Palm Pre pretends to be an Apple iPod, you can use iTunes to synchronize photos to it. Normally these photos are already in photo albums, and you can select which ones to copy over to your Palm Pre. 1.

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Getting Photos Off Your Palm Pre So far, we have shown you how to get photos onto your Palm Pre. But what if you want to get those prized memories onto your desktop computer? There are three ways that this can be done. All the steps in the following sections start with you plugging your Palm Pre into your desktop computer using the USB cable and tapping the USB Drive option that appears on your Pre after it has established a connection with your computer.

Tap to have your computer recognize your Palm Pre as a USBbased storage device

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Disk Mode in Mac OSX and Windows You can manually import your photos from your Palm Pre to your OSX or Windows-based computer. If you are on a Mac, click on your Palm Pre in your Finder, or double click the drive on your desktop. If you are using Windows, you should see your Palm Pre in Explorer or My Computer. Browse to the DCIM folder on your Plam Pre, then to the folder called 100PALM. This is where you will find all the photos you have taken with your Palm Pre’s camera. Drag or copy and paste the photos you want to another folder on your computer. Navigate through these folders using Mac OSX Finder

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Once you are done, make sure you eject the Palm Pre to prevent damage to its memory.

Let Windows Import Your Photos When you plug in your Palm Pre, Windows normally pops up with an AutoPlay Wizard. If you click Import Pictures, Windows will walk you through a step-by-step process of selecting and importing your photos to your My Pictures folder.

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Working with Palm Pre Applications Your Palm Pre is a great Smartphone just the way it is. It comes pre-installed with some useful applications such as the web browser, email client, YouTube client, Google Maps, and many more; however, you can expand what your Palm Pre can do for you by installing new applications. Because your Palm Pre is essentially a small computer, it can do almost anything an application wants it to do. For example, you can install games, keep up with friends on Twitter, look for a company using the Yellow Pages, or check your stock portfolio.

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Using the Palm App Catalog The Palm App Catalog is your gateway to all Palm Pre applications. The Palm App Catalog is right on your Palm Pre, and it enables you to search for and install Palm Pre applications. After you install an application, the Palm App Catalog alerts you to any updates and enables the application to update automatically.

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Keeping Applications Up to Date Many times developers need to update their applications to add features or fix problems. Luckily you don’t have to worry about constantly checking for updates to applications you’ve downloaded because the Palm App Catalog keeps track of those updates for you. 1.

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Organizing Your Applications in Launcher After you get to the point where you’ve downloaded multiple applications, you might want to move them around in the Launcher so that you have your most used applications on one screen. Let’s cover how to work with your applications in the Launcher and move applications to and from the Quick Launcher. Let’s start with rearranging applications in the Launcher. 1. To rearrange the applications in the Launcher, instead of tapping an

application, tap and hold your finger on it for one second. 2. You will then be able to drag the application to a new location on the

screen. 3. To drag the application to another screen, drag it to the edge of the

screen. The screen will flip to the adjacent screen and your application will remain under your finger. Release the application in its new position. You can also, if you choose to do so, rearrange or place new applications on the Quick Launcher; the row of four applications at the bottom of your screen. 1. To rearrange an application in the Quick Launcher, tap on the applica-

tion you want to move, and keep holding your finger on it. 2. Slide the application left and right to move it to its new position.

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>>>step-by-step Changing the Quick Launcher Applications The Quick Launcher can only have four applications in it (plus the Launcher icon of course). So, before you move a new one to the Quick Launcher, you must first move one out. 1.

Tap the Launcher icon to see the full Launcher.

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Customizing Your Palm Pre You can tweak a few things to personalize your Palm Pre. You can change the wallpaper, change the system sound volume, and set what happens when you use the ringer switch. The great thing about this is that you can personalize your Palm Pre and make it your own. You can make your Palm Pre stand out from the pack, instead of it looking and sounding just like every other Palm Pre. For example you may want to put a picture of your family, pet, or loved one in the background of your Palm Pre by making it the wallpaper image.

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Using Your Palm Pre While Flying When you fly, you are always told to turn off all electronic devices during takeoff and landing, and never to use cell phones, which can be a problem if you want to use your Pre during a flight to watch movies, listen to music, and so on. Fortunately, you can continue to use your Palm Pre during flights by engaging Airplane Mode. Airplane Mode turns off all radios inside the Pre, which include the cellular radio, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi.

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ENABLE WI-FI OR BLUETOOTH WHILE IN AIRPLANE MODE Even though your Palm Pre is in Airplane mode, you can re-enable Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, or both. Let’s say the plane you are flying on has Wi-Fi. You would be able to surf the web, do email and IM, and all other data related functions. If you wanted to listen to music or watch a movie using your stereo Bluetooth headset, you would want to turn Bluetooth back on. To enable WiFi or Bluetooth while in Airplane Mode, tap the icon of the airplane, then tap either Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, then tap Turn on Wi-Fi or Turn on Bluetooth. Now you can comply with regulations, and have fun at the same time.

Changing Your Pre’s Configuration Your Pre has a host of different settings that let you tweak how it operates to better suit your needs. Let’s say you bought your Palm Pre from someone who speaks a different language than you, or uses a different currency. The first thing you’d want to do is change the language and currency your Palm Pre uses. You might also find yourself needing to change the default country so that things like currency and time are displayed in the appropriate formats. In the following sections we take a look at everything you can do to tweak how your Palm displays information.

>>>step-by-step Set Language and Formats If you want to change the language or the number formatting that your Palm Pre uses, follow these steps. 1.

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Password Protect Your Palm Pre You can protect your Palm Pre’s data with either a numeric PIN or a password. This helps to thwart prying eyes, or even outright thieves looking to steal your device, from seeing your personal information. 1.

Tap Secure Unlock to set either a numeric PIN or password that must be entered before your Palm Pre is unlocked. If you choose PIN or Password, you will be prompted to enter them.

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Sounds & Ringtones The Sounds & Ringtones app allows you to set the behavior of the Ringer switch on the top-right part of your Palm Pre. It also lets you adjust the ringer volume and enable or disable system sounds. 1.

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To control how your Palm Pre reacts when the Ringer switch is set to the Off position, tap Ringer Switch Off. Your choices are Vibrate and Mute. Setting this to Mute means that when the Ringer switch is in the Off position, all notifications are silenced. Setting it to Vibrate means that your Palm Pre will vibrate for all alerts.

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In this chapter, you learn how to maintain your Palm Pre. One of the most important maintenance events is to keep your Palm Pre’s operating system, webOS, up to date. We also cover some general maintenance and care tips. Topics include the following: B Upgrading webOS B Battery maintenance B Device maintenance

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Keeping Your Palm Pre Clean and Scratch Free When using your Palm Pre, oils from your hands can leave smudges on the screen. To keep your Palm Pre’s screen clean, rub it with a microfiber cloth or pad specifically designed for phone screens. Because the Palm Pre’s screen is plastic, do not use any fabric that might scratch the screen. A scratched screen is hard to fix. Never use chemicals to clean the Palm Pre’s screen. A damp cloth can do the trick.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Palm Pre’s Battery Battery life is important when using your Palm Pre and the longer it lasts, the more time you have to use your phone during any given day. Here are some tips to extend your Palm Pre’s battery. • Change the email fetch interval. Do you really need to check for new mail every 5 minutes? If not, then set this value to something much higher, like once an hour. You can always force a manual email check when needed. • Try and reduce your use of Instant Message (IM). Because IM is realtime, your Palm Pre will be constantly sending and receiving data and that eats up battery charge. • Turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and GPS when you are not using them. This is rather an inconvenience but if you need to squeeze a few more minutes out of your battery, you can do so by turning these radios off. • For CDMA versions of the Palm Pre (Sprint and Verizon in the US for example), in bad coverage areas, put your Palm Pre into Airplane mode. Your Palm Pre uses up a lot of battery power in low coverage areas so if you need to preserve battery power, pay attention to this. In fact, bad coverage accounts for the biggest drain on battery life during a given day. • If you have a choice, use Wi-Fi. If you are in an area with Wi-Fi and can associate to that Wi-Fi network, do so. The Wi-Fi radio is much more power efficient than the cellular network radio. As soon as you associate successfully with the Wi-Fi network, your Palm Pre stops using the cellular network for data. This also saves on battery life. • Don’t let your Palm Pre’s battery run down completely. If possible, try and have some charge in it before you plug it in to charge. This extends the life of the battery. • Carry a spare battery with you. If possible, keep two batteries charged and carry them with you just in case you have a heavy day of voice and data usage.

Keeping Your Palm Up to Date Just as the applications on your Palm occasionally need to be updated, so does webOS, the operating system that makes your Pre run. Palm is constantly improving the Palm Pre by adding features or fixing bugs.

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Tap Updates from the Launcher. Your Palm Pre immediately starts looking for updates. If your Pre finds an update, information about that update displays.

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If you update your Palm Pre’s webOS and now it won’t boot, Palm has a web browser tool called webOS Doctor. This tool resets your Palm Pre to its factory defaults, which should allow it to boot up properly again. webOS Doctor runs in any web browser on any computer. Here is how to use it. 1.

If your Palm Pre shows a yellow triangle with an exclamation point in it, on your desktop computer open a web browser and go to http://www.palm.com/ROM.

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You are asked if you have Java 1.5 installed. If you don’t know, click Test Java. You will be redirected to the Sun web site where a little Java test program runs in your web browser. If the Java test works, you can return to the webOS Doctor page and continue. If not, you will need to update your version of Java by clicking Installing Java and following the instructions that appear.

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Tap the language you want your Palm Pre to use.

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Getting Help with Your Palm Pre If, after running through the update and reset procedures described in this chapter, you still have problems with your Palm Pre, you can turn to many places to get further aid. • The official Palm website. Visit the Palm website at http://www.palm.com/us/products/phones/pre/. • Your wireless carrier’s website. Your local wireless carrier has support for your Palm Pre. • Palm Pre Community websites. The Palm Pre Community is strong and active on the Internet. You can find help with your Palm Pre issues by asking questions in the forums. Following are some of the more popular sites: Pre Central http://www.precentral.net/ Palm Pre.org http://www.palmpre.org/ Everythingpre http://www.everythingpre.com/

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In this chapter, you’ll learn about a few changes that have happened since we started writing this book, and how to keep using your old Palm OS applications on your new Palm Pre: B Palm Pre Plus B Palm Pixi and Palm Pixi Plus B The Classic application

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The Palm Pre Plus The Palm Pre Plus was released in February 2010 and runs on the Verizon Wireless network, but will likely be released in GSM form so that other carriers inside and outside the US can support it. The Palm Pre Plus is the same in every way as the original Palm Pre, with the following exceptions: • The Palm Pre Plus has 16GB of memory as opposed to the Palm Pre’s 8GB. • The Palm Pre Plus does not have a Center Button. The functionality of the Center Button has been replaced with the swipe up in the gesture area. • The Palm Pre Plus can do video recording. • The Palm Pre Plus ships with the Touchstone battery cover. The Touchstone is a wireless charging system consisting of a Touchstone base and a special battery cover for the Palm Pre and Palm Pre Plus. The inclusion of the Touchstone cover makes purchasing the Touchstone charging system a little cheaper.

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The Palm Pixi and Pixi Plus Palm released the Palm Pixi in late 2009 as their second Smartphone running webOS. The Palm Pixi is a thinner phone than the Palm Pre and it does not have a slide out keyboard. Its keyboard is part of the main body of the phone. The Palm Pixi Plus was released in February 2010 along with the Palm Pre Plus on the Verizon Wireless network. Since the Palm Pixi runs webOS, you can use this book to learn everything there is to know about your Palm Pixi. Here is a quick look at the Palm Pixi and Pixi Plus. On the front you can see:

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The Palm OS Emulator Before Palm released their new lineup of Smartphones running webOS, Palm Smartphones and PDAs used to run Palm OS. Applications written for Palm OS cannot run on webOS because the operating systems are incompatible. If you want to upgrade your old Palm PDA or Smartphone to a Palm Pre or Pixi, but need to continue to use some old Palm OS applications, the solution might be to use a Palm OS emulator. There is one called Classic by a company called Motion Apps. You can download Classic trial from the App Catalog for free. It will run normally for seven days before requiring you to purchase it for US $30.

Using Classic When you run Classic, it loads up and makes your Palm Pre look like an older Palm OS PDA or Smartphone. Navigation is handled using the old-style 5-way navigation pad, but in this case it is represented graphically on the screen. All of the familiar Palm OS buttons are there to make you feel quite at home.

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Installing Your Palm Applications If you need to install your old Palm OS applications, Classic supports HotSync which allows you to install those applications and synchronize data to and from them using the old Conduits. If you have a Mac running OSX, you cannot use HotSync but you can copy over your old applications.

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>>>step-by-step Using HotSync HotSync for Classic cannot use the USB cable to synchronize with your PC, but it can synchronize over Wi-Fi. Here is how to set up and use HotSync. 1.

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Manual Application Installation If you have a Mac running OSX or you don’t feel like setting up HotSync, you can install your Palm OS applications manually by dragging them to a specific folder on the Palm Pre. Here is how you do that. 1.

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Attach your Palm Pre to your desktop computer using the supplied USB cable. Tap USB Drive on the Pre when prompted. On your desktop computer, browse to the Palm Pre’s drive, ClassicApps, Install. Drag your old Palm OS applications to this folder. When you start Classic the next time, it will automatically install those applications.

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Index A

Photobucket accounts changing password for, 195 configuring, 194 Accessibility, 64 removing, 195 accessing browser history, 130 Synergy accounts, 87-89 accessories (Bluetooth), pairing Palm activating Pre, 4 Pre with, 133 Add An Account button, 42, 88, 154, accounts 194, 202 adding to Messaging application, Add An Account screen, 140-143 154-155 App Catalog accounts, setting up, Add Bookmark button, 126 202-203 Add Call button, 77 doubleTwist accounts, 171-172 Add Device button, 133 email accounts Add IM Account button, 163 adding automatically, 140 adding manually, 141-142 Add Ringtone button, 58 corporate accounts, 89-90, Add Task button, 104 143-144 Add Task List button, 104 editing, 145-146 Add To Contacts button, 79, 95 Exchange accounts, 52 Facebook accounts Add To Existing button, 95 changing password for, 195 Add To Launcher button, 72, 127 configuring, 194 Address Book, importing Palm removing, 195 Desktop data into, 49 Gmail accounts, 42-43 Google accounts, 52 addresses, mapping, 114-115 IM accounts, adding to MessagAdvanced Gestures, 65 ing application, 154-155 Airplane Mode online accounts, adding data enabling Wi-Fi or Bluetooth with, 41 in, 213 Palm Profile accounts, 52 turning on/off, 212 phone accounts, 83 All Calls button, 73

242

All Flagged view (email)

All Flagged view (email), 139 All Inboxes button, 147 Amazon MP3 icon, 176 Amazon MP3 Store adding purchases to iTunes, 178 purchasing music from, 176-177 answering calls, 74-75 Application menu commands, 17 applications. See also specific applications deleting, 207 finding, 204 installing manual application installation, 239 with Palm OS emulation, 235 Messaging adding accounts to, 154-155 explained, 153 organizing in Launcher, 208 Palm App Catalog deleting applications, 207 explained, 202 finding applications, 204 purchasing applications, 205 setting up App Catalog accounts, 202-203 updating applications, 206 purchasing, 205 reading reviews of, 205 rearranging in Quick Launcher, 209 updating, 206 appointments adding to calendar, 112-113 reminders, 117 viewing, 114

Assign button, 191 Assign To Contact button, 94 assigning photos to contacts, 191 speed dial keys, 70-71 Attach Photo button, 99, 161 attaching files to email, 150 audio. See music automatically adding email accounts, 140 Automatically Import Music button, 178

B

C calendar adding, 39-41 adding Google Weather to, 116-117 configuring, 110-111 events adding, 112-113 mapping addresses in, 114-115 reminders, 117 viewing, 114 explained, 107 viewing, 108-109 Call button, 67, 77

Call Log, 73-74 back cover, 8 caller info, saving, 79-80 backing up data, 45-47 calls, 66 batteries, 9 answering, 74-75 battery life, extending, 222 dialing contacts with Call Log, 73-74 Bluetooth with Contacts app, 70 enabling in Airplane with Launcher Mode, 213 Favorites, 72 hands-free headsets, from Launcher or card 81-82 view, 69 pairing Palm Pre with from messages and web Bluetooth pages, 74 accessories, 133 with phone, 69 pairing Palm Pre with with speed dial keys, Bluetooth hands-free 70-71 systems, 134-135 dialing with dial pad, 67 bookmarking web pages, 126 dialing with keyboard, 68 browsing web pages entering numbers during multiple web pages, 128 calls, 77 single web pages, hands-free headsets, 124-126 81-82 buddies (Messaging), missed calls, returning, 74 156-158 redialing last number called, 73 buttons. See specific buttons saving caller info, 79-80 buying three-way conference applications, 205 calls, 77-78 music from Amazon MP3 using apps while on store, 176-177 calls, 81

customization

camera. See also photos explained, 187 flash, 188 taking photos with, 188 Camera button, 188 camera lens, 8 card view, dialing contacts from, 69 Center button, 7 Change Login Settings button, 146 Change Password button, 195 Change Wallpaper button, 65, 215 changing contacts, 98-99 country/region setting, 214-215 Facebook/Photobucket passwords, 195 language setting, 213-214 wallpaper, 215 Class (Palm OS emulator) explained, 234-235 HotSync, 236-238 installing Palm applications, 235 manual application installation, 239 cleaning screen, 221 Clear Cache button, 132 Clear Cookies button, 132 Clear History button, 132 clearing browser cache, 132 browser history, 132 cookies, 132 completed tasks deleting, 107 marking tasks as complete, 106 composing email, 148-149 conference calls, 77-78

configuring Airplane Mode, 212-213 calendar, 110-111 country/region, 214-215 email, 139 Facebook/Photobucket accounts, 194 language setting, 213-214 Messaging application, 163 password protection, 217 phone settings, 56 Phone Preferences, 61 Phone Preferences options, 61-64 Screen & Lock preferences card, 65-66 Sounds and Ringtones preferences card, 57-60 screen and lock settings, 215-216 sounds/ringtones, 218-219 web browser, 131-132 connecting to Internet Bluetooth pairing Palm Pre with Bluetooth accessories, 133 pairing Palm Pre with Bluetooth hands-free systems, 134-135 web browser accessing browsing history, 130 bookmarking web pages, 126 browsing web page, 124-128 configuring, 131-132 sharing web links, 129 Wi-Fi networks, 122-123 Connections menu commands, 17 contacts adding, 39-41 from email, 95-96 manually, 93-94

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assigning photos to, 191 changing, 98-99 corporate contacts, finding, 148 deleting, 97 dialing with Call Log, 73-74 with Contacts app, 70 with Launcher Favorites, 72 from Launcher or card view, 69 from messages and web pages, 74 with phone, 69 with speed dial keys, 70-71 launching Contacts application, 92 searching, 25-27, 91 Synergy feature adding corporate email on Palm Pre, 89-90 adding Synergy accounts, 87-89 explained, 86-87 Contacts application. See contacts conversations (Messaging), 156-158 cookies clearing, 132 enabling/disabling, 131 copying files to Pre, 32-36 corporate contacts, finding, 148 corporate email accounts, adding, 89-90, 143-144 country, changing, 214-215 custom ringtones, 58 customization Airplane Mode, 212-213 country/region, 214-215 explained, 211 language, 213-214

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password protection, 217 screen and lock settings, 215-216 sounds/ringtones, 218-219

D data transfer. See transferring data to Pre Date & Time icon, 102 dates, setting, 102-103 Day view (calendar), 108

JavaScript, 132 pop-up windows, 131 Dismiss button, 117 documents, copying to Pre, 32-36 Done button, 228 doubleTwist, 169 accounts, creating, 171-172 installing on Mac OS X, 171 on Windows, 170 synchronizing music, 172-173 synchronizing video, 174-175 Download button, 223 Download For button, 205 downloading webOS updates, 223

Delete All Profiles contact, 97 Delete Application button, 207 Delete button, 68 Delete Contact button, 97 Delete Other Profiles contact, 97 deleting applications, 207 contacts, 97 earpiece, 6 ringtones, 60 editing email accounts, tasks, 107 145-146 dial pad, 67 email dialing adding contacts from, contacts 95-96 with Call Log, 73-74 attaching files to, 150 with Contacts app, 70 composing, 148-149 with Launcher configuring, 139 Favorites, 72 email accounts from Launcher or card adding view, 69 automatically, 140 from messages and web adding manually, pages, 74 141-142 with phone, 69 corporate accounts, with speed dial keys, 89-90, 143-144 70-71 editing, 145-146 with dial pad, 67 Gmail accounts, 42-43 with keyboard, 68 Email screen, 138 Dialing Shortcuts button, 62 emailing memos, 119 mail main screen, 147 directions, mapping, 115 marking as unread, 151 disabling moving to folders, 151 Airplane Mode, 212 cookies, 131

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reading, 150-151 sending photos via, 192 Email application. See email Email Memo button, 119 enabling Airplane Mode, 212 cookies, 131 JavaScript, 132 pop-up windows, 131 Show Contact Matches, 68 End Call button, 75, 78 entering numbers during calls, 77 events adding to calendar, 112-113 reminders, 117 viewing, 114 EverythingPre website, 229 Exchange accounts, 52, 143-144 Export command (File menu), 48 Export dialog, 48 exporting Palm Desktop for Mac data, 48-49 photos to desktop computer manually, 199 with iPhoto, 197 with Windows autoPlay wizard, 199 extending battery life, 222

F Facebook changing password for, 195 configuring accounts, 194 removing accounts, 195 uploading photos to, 193 Favorites (Launcher), 72

LEDs, gesture LEDs

File menu commands Export, 48 Import, 49 files, attaching to email, 150 finding applications, 204 contacts, 91 corporate contacts, 148 music, 179-180 First Day of Week button, 110 first-time setup, 227-228 flash, 8 Flash button, 188 folders 100PALM, 198 moving email to, 151

G Gesture area, 7, 12 gestures Advanced Gestures, 65 defined, 10 explained, 10-21 gesture LEDs, 7 Get Mail button, 146 Gmail accounts, 42-43 Google accounts, 52 Google Maps, 114-115 Google Weather, 116-117

H hands-free headsets, 81-82 hands-free systems, 134-135 headset jack, 8 headsets, 81-82 help, 229 History button, 130 HotSync, 236-238

I iCal, importing Palm Desktop data into, 49 icons Launcher, 21 Add to Contacts, 79 Date & Time, 102 Paper Clip, 150 Screen Lock, 10 status icons, 9 Wi-Fi icon, 122 IM (Instant Messaging), 154-157 Import command (File menu), 49 Import dialog, 49 Import Export Wizard, 46-47 Import iTunes Playlists button, 173 importing Palm Desktop data, 49 photos to desktop computer manually, 199 with iPhoto, 197 with Windows autoPlay wizard, 199 Innocell 1350 Extended Life Battery, 9 Install Now button, 223 installing applications manual application installation, 239 with Palm OS emulation, 235 doubleTwist on Mac OS X, 171 on Windows, 170 webOS updates, 223 Instant Messaging (IM), 154-157

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Internet, connecting to Bluetooth pairing Palm Pre with Bluetooth accessories, 133 pairing Palm Pre with Bluetooth hands-free systems, 134-135 web browser accessing browsing history, 130 bookmarking web pages, 126 browsing web pages, 124-128 configuring, 131-132 sharing web links, 129 Wi-Fi networks, 122-123 iPhoto, importing photos with, 197 iTunes adding Amazon MP3 music to, 178 overview, 33, 166 synchronizing music, 167 synchronizing photos, 196 synchronizing video, 168-169, 183

J–K–L JavaScript, enabling/disabling, 132 Key Pad button, 77 keyboard, 6, 21-25, 68 language, changing, 213-214 Language button, 214 Launcher, 21 adding web pages to, 127 dialing contacts from, 69 Favorites, 72 launching Contacts application, 92 LEDs, gesture LEDs, 7

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lists, Task Lists

lists, Task Lists, 103-105 lock settings, changing, 215-216 locking Pre, 10-11

buddies, 156-158 configuring, 163 conversations, 156-158 dialing from messages, 74 explained, 153 MMS (Multimedia Message Service) messages receiving, 162 sending, 160-161 Mac OS X SMS (Short Message SerdoubleTwist vice) messages installation, 171 receiving, 162 importing photos sending, 159-160 manually, 199 sending messages, 78-79 with iPhoto, 197 with Windows autoPlay microphone, 6 wizard, 199 Missed Calls button, 73 Mail Preferences screen, 145 missed calls, returning, 74 maintenance Missing Sync, 37, 165-166 battery, 222 MMS (Multimedia Message cleaning screen, 221 Service) messages webOS updates receiving, 162 downloading and sending, 160-161, 193 installing, 223 first-time setup, 227-228 MobileMe, 37 troubleshooting, Month view (Calendar), 108 224-226 More From This Author manually adding email button, 185 accounts, 141-142 Move to Folder button, 151 manually installing applicamovies tions, 239 copying to Pre, 32-36 Mark as Unread button, 151 playing, 184-185 Mark/Space Missing Sync for synchronizing, 165-166 Palm Pre, 37 with doubleTwist, 174-175 marking with iTunes, email as unread, 151 168-169, 183 tasks as complete, 106 YouTube videos Media Sync button, 167, 196 playing, 184-185 memos searching YouTube for creating, 118-119 related material, 182 emailing, 119 moving email to folders, 151 explained, 117 Multimedia Message Service. Merge button, 78 See MMS Messaging application multiple web pages, adding accounts to, browsing, 128 154-155

M

music adding to iTunes, 178 copying to Pre, 32-36 finding, 179-180 playing, 180 purchasing, 176-177 searching YouTube for related material, 182 synchronizing, 165-166 with doubleTwist, 172-173 with iTunes, 33, 167 Music Player finding music, 179-180 limitations of, 182 playing music, 180 playing podcasts, 181 searching YouTube for related material, 182

N Network Settings, 64 networks (Wi-Fi), connecting to, 122-123 New Card button, 128 New Photo button, 98 notes. See memos numbers, entering during calls, 77

O 100PALM folder, 198 online accounts, adding data with, 41 organizing applications in Launcher, 208 applications in Quick Launcher, 209 Outlook data, backing up, 46-47

rearranging applications in Launcher

P Page button, 130 pairing Palm Pre with Bluetooth accessories, 133 Palm Pre with Bluetooth hands-free systems, 134-135 Palm App Catalog deleting applications, 207 explained, 202 finding applications, 204 purchasing applications, 205 setting up App Catalog accounts, 202-203 updating applications, 206 Palm Data Transfer Assistant, 44-45, 50-51 Palm Desktop for Mac data, exporting, 48-49 Palm Music Assistant, 178 Palm OS emulator (Classic) explained, 234-235 HotSync, 236-238 installing Palm applications, 235 manual application installation, 239 Palm Pixi, 233-234 Palm Pixi Plus, 233-234 Palm Pre Community websites, 229 Palm Pre Plus, 232 PalmPre.org website, 229 Palm Profile accounts, 52 Palm website, 229 Paper Clip icon, 150 passwords Facebook/Photobucket passwords, changing, 195 password protection, 217

phone account, managing, 83 phone calls, 66 dialing contacts with Call Log, 73-74 with Contacts app, 70 with Launcher Favorites, 72 from Launcher or card view, 69 from messages and web pages, 74 with phone, 69 with speed dial keys, 70-71 dialing with dial pad, 67 dialing with keyboard, 68 Phone Preferences, 61-64 phone settings, 56 Phone Preferences, 61-64 Screen & Lock preferences card, 65-66 Sounds and Ringtones preferences card, 57-60 Photobucket changing password for, 195 configuring accounts, 194 removing accounts, 195 uploading photos to, 193 photos assigning to contacts, 191 changing Facebook or Photobucket passwords, 195 configuring photos applications, 194 copying to Pre, 32-36 exporting to desktop computer with iPhoto, 197 manually, 199 with Windows autoPlay wizard, 199 removing Facebook or Photobucket accounts, 195 sending via email, 192

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sending via MMS (Multimedia Message Service), 193 setting as wallpaper, 192 sharing, 190 synchronizing with iTunes, 196 taking, 188 uploading to Facebook or Photobucket, 193 viewing, 189-190 Pixi, 233-234 Pixi Plus, 233-234 Play button, 58 playing music, 180 podcasts, 181 video, 184-185 Pocket Mirror, 37 podcasts, listening to, 181 pop-up windows, enabling/disabling, 131 Power button, 6 Pre Central website, 229 Pre Plus, 232 Preferred Roaming List, 64 preparing data for transfer to Pre, 45-47 Purchase button, 205 purchasing applications, 205 music from Amazon MP3 store, 176-177 Purge Completed button, 107

Q-R Quick Launcher, organizing applications in, 13, 208-209 reading application reviews, 205 email, 150-151 rearranging applications in Launcher, 208-209

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receiving

receiving MMS (Multimedia Message Service) messages, 162 SMS (Short Message Service) messages, 162 redialing last number called, 73 region, changing, 214-215 Related Videos button, 185 reminders (event), 117 Remove Account button, 146, 163 removing Facebook/Photobucket accounts, 195 Reset Voicemail Count feature, 64 returning missed calls, 74 Reviews button, 205 reviews of applications, reading, 205 Ringer On/Off switch, 6 ringtones changing, 218-219 custom ringtones, 58 deleting, 60 setting, 57-60

S Save As New button, 95 saving caller info, 79-80 screen, cleaning, 221 Screen & Lock button, 215 Screen & Lock preferences card, 65-66 Screen Lock icon, 10 screen settings, changing, 215-216 searching contacts, 91 Palm App Catalog, 204

Universal Search feature, 25-27 YouTube for related material, 182 Secure Unlock, 11, 66, 217 Send button, 119, 192 sending messages, 78-79 MMS (Multimedia Message Service) messages, 160-161 SMS (Short Message Service) messages, 159-160 photos via email, 192 via MMS (Multimedia Message Service), 193 Set As High Priority button, 149 Set Flag button, 151 Set Wallpaper button, 192, 216 Share button, 129, 185, 205 Share Via Email button, 192 Share Via MMS button, 193 sharing photos, 190 web links, 129 Short Message Service (SMS) messages. See SMS messages Show Contact Matches feature, 61, 68 Show Email button, 146 Shuffle All button, 179-180 Sign In To My Profile button, 227 Simple PIN button, 217 SMS (Short Message Service) messages receiving, 162 sending, 159-160 Snooze button, 117

sounds changing, 218-219 setting, 57-60 Sounds & Ringtones preferences card, 57-60 speaker, 8 speed dial, 70-71 status icons, 9 storing imported data, 52 Submit button, 203 Sync button, 167-169 Sync Photos feature, 196 synchronization explained, 37 HotSync, 236-238 music, 165-166 with doubleTwist, 172-173 with iTunes, 33, 167 photos with iTunes, 196 video, 165-166 with doubleTwist, 174-175 with iTunes, 168-169, 183 Synergy, 38-39 adding corporate email on Palm Pre, 89-90 adding Synergy accounts, 87-89 explained, 86-87 System Alert button, 163 system sounds, setting, 57-60 System Sounds button, 59

T Task Lists, 103-105 tasks adding, 39-41 creating, 103-105 deleting, 107 explained, 103 marking as complete, 106 Task Lists, 103-105

YouTube

Test Java button, 224 Text Message button, 185 three-way conference calls, 77-78 throwing, 14 thumb drives, using Pre as, 33-36 time, setting, 102-103 Time Format button, 102 touchscreen, 7 Touchstone, 232 transferring data to Pre backing up and preparing data for transfer, 45-46 Outlook data, 46-47 Palm Desktop for Mac data, 48-49 calendars, 39-41 contacts, 39-41 Gmail accounts, 42-43 online accounts, 41 Palm Data Transfer Assistant, 44-45, 50-51 storing imported data, 52 tasks, 39-41 Trash Can button, 190 troubleshooting webOS updates, 224-226 TTY/TDD (text telephone) feature, 64 Turn Off After button, 65 turning on/off Airplace Mode, 212 Secure Unlock feature, 11

U Universal Search feature, 25-27 unlocking Pre, 10-11 updates application updates, 206 webOS updates downloading and installing, 223

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first-time setup, 227-228 bookmarking web troubleshooting, pages, 126 224-226 browsing web pages multiple web pages, 128 Updates button, 223 single web pages, Upload button, 193 124-126 uploading photos to configuring, 131-132 Facebook or sharing web links, 129 Photobucket, 193 web pages USB Drive button, 33 adding to Launcher, 127 bookmarking, 126 USB Drive mode, 33-36 browsing Use This Dialing Prefix multiple web pages, 128 button, 62 single web pages, 124-126 dialing from, 74 Palm Pre resources, 229 Vibrate button, 60 sharing as web links, 129 video webOS updates copying to Pre, 32-36 downloading and playing, 184-185 installing, 223 synchronizing, 165-166 first-time setup, 227-228 with doubleTwist, troubleshooting, 224-226 174-175 websites. See web pages with iTunes, Week view (calendar), 108 168-169, 183 When I Dial button, 62 YouTube videos playing, 184-185 Wi-Fi icon, 122 searching YouTube for Wi-Fi networks related material, 182 connecting to, 122-123 Videos button, 184-185 enabling Wi-Fi in Airplace Mode, 213 viewing calendar, 108-109 Windows, doubleTwist photos, 189-190 installation, 170 views (calendar), 108 wizards, Import Export Wizard, 46-47 Voice Network button, 63 writing email, 148-149 volume buttons, 6

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Volume slider, 59

W wallpaper changing, 215 setting photos as, 192 Weather (Google), 116-117 web browser accessing browsing history, 130

X–Y–Z Your Messaging account screen, 154 YouTube playing videos, 184-185 searching for related material, 182

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