Section 2A: Your Phone - The Basics 20Making and Answering CallsMaking CallsPlacing a call from your wireless phone is as easy as making a callfrom any land-line phone. Just enter the number and press andyou’re on your way to clear calls.To make a call using your keypad:1. Make sure your phone is on.2. Enter a phone number. (If you make a mistake while dialing,press to erase one digit at a time. Press and hold toerase the entire number.)3. Press . (To make a call when you are roaming andCall Guard is enabled, press and then . See “CallGuard” on page 59.)4. Press or close the phone when you are finished.You can also place calls from your SPH-a680 by Speed Dialingnumbers from your Phone Book (page 27) and using your CallHistory listings (page 80).Tip: To redial your last outgoing call, press TALK twice.When making calls while roaming off the network provided to you,always dial using 11 digits (1 + area code + phone number).Tip: To speed dial a phone number from standby mode, press and hold thespeed dial number. If the speed dial number is two digits, enter the firstdigit, then press and hold the second digit. (For information on setting upspeed dial numbers, see “Assigning Speed Dial Numbers” on page 86.)(This feature will not work when you are roaming off the networkprovided to you; when roaming you must dial using eleven digits [1 + thearea code + the seven-digit phone number.])