6Chapter1:Welcome
Yo u r Pa l m
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Pixiâ„¢ Plus phone
In one compact and indispensable device, you now have all of the following:
• An advanced wireless phone running the Palm
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webOSâ„¢ platform
• A full suite of organizer applications: Contacts, Calendar, Memos, and
Ta s k s
• High-speed data transfer with EvDO and 1x support
• Wi-Fi capability
• A 2-megapixel digital camera
• GPS functionality
• Integrated text, multimedia, and instant messaging (IM)
• Tools to view and manage Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF files
• App Catalog, where you can download applications designed for your
phone; select from an ever-expanding list of applications.
Yo u r Pa lm
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Pixi™ Plus phone puts Palm’s new multitasking, gesture-based
operating system, the Palm
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webOSâ„¢ platform, inside a small, beautiful
device. Here are a few highlights of your new phone.
Gestures: On your Pixi Plus phone, you make calls, move around, and
manage your applications and info by making simple gestures either on the
touchscreen or in the gesture area directly beneath the screen. For more
information, see Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch, and go to
palm.com/support to see animations that demonstrate these gestures. Carry
the Gesture Guide (included in the box with your Pixi Plus phone) around
with you and you’ll soon know all the gestures by heart.
Multitasking: You can have many applications open at once and easily
move among them. Go to the Launcher to open apps. See the lineup of your
open apps in Card view. Tap an app to bring it into the foreground and work
with it. For more information, see Open applications.
The Palm
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Synergyâ„¢ feature: The Palm
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Synergyâ„¢ feature on your Pixi
Plus phone displays information from several sources in a single view, so you
can access your info quickly, without having to remember where you stored
it.
For example, suppose you have a Google account for personal email,
contacts, and calendar events, and an Exchange account for your corporate
email, contacts, and events. The Email, Contacts, and Calendar applications
on your Pixi Plus phone all provide a kind of view in which you can see
information from both of those accounts in one place—but even though the
information is brought into one view, the sources of that information are
kept separate. For more information, read about linked contacts, layered
calendars, and the single inbox for your email in Contacts, Calendar, and
Email.
NOTE See the online accounts table at the back of the user’s guide for the
current list of online accounts that you can set up on your phone and for
information about the behavior of these accounts.
Thanks also to the Synergy feature, in the Messaging application, all your
conversations with the same person are grouped together in one chat-style
view. If you start an IM chat with Ed, for example, you can continue the
same conversation when Ed signs out of IM by sending him a text
message—and you can see it all in the same view. For more information, see
Messaging.
Universal search: Need to call Ed? Just type ed. If he’s listed in your
Contacts, you can get his numbers from the search results. Tap a number
and you’ve made the call. Search works just as fast when you need to search
the web. For more information, see Search to find info and make calls.
Sync: Your Pixi Plus phone gives you synchronization without a cable. You
can sync with online services that Palm has partnered with so that you can
store and sync your info in online accounts. You can access your data even
when you are not able to make a connection to the Web because a copy of
your data is stored on the device.
Yo u r P a l m p ro f i l e : When you set up your phone, you create a Palm profile.
Your profile gives you access to services like automatic updates and
automatic, frequent backups of any of your info that is stored only on your
phone and isn’t synchronized with an online account. See What is a Palm
profile?.
