Phone Basics2A. Phone Basics 7Key Functions1. Status Bar Icons provide information about your phone’sstatus and options, such as signal strength, roaming, ringersetting, messaging, and battery charge.2. Display Screen displays all the information needed tooperate your phone, such as the call status, the Contactslist, the date and time, and the signal and battery strength.3. Navigation Key scrolls through the phone’s menu optionsand acts as a shortcut key from standby mode.4. Softkeys let you select left and right softkey actions or menuitems corresponding to the bottom left and bottom right lineson the Display Screen.5. TALK Key ( ) allows you to place or receive calls, answercall waiting, use 3-way calling, or activate voice dial.6. Keypad lets you enter numbers, letters, and characters, andnavigate within menus. Press and hold keys 1–9 for speeddialing.7. Microphone allows other callers to hear you clearly whenyou are speaking to them.8. BACK/Clear Key deletes characters from the display in textentry mode. When in a menu, pressing returns you tothe previous menu. This key also allows you to return to theprevious screen in a data session.13. Volume Button 14. Headset Jack15. Charger/Accessory Jack12. Indicator LEDPLS-M240.book Page 7 Wednesday, September 23, 2009 3:55 PM