Section 2A: Your Phone: The Basics 13Phone BasicsKey Functions1. Speaker allows you to hear the other caller and thedifferent ring tones or sounds offered by your phone.2. Display Screen displays all the information needed tooperate your phone, such as the call status, thecontacts, the date and time, and the signal and batterystrength.3. Navigation Key scrolls through the phone’s menuoptions and acts as a shortcut key from standby mode. Press Up to access Missed Alerts. Press Down to access My Content. Press Left to launch Send Message. Press Right to launch Web.(Keys can be reassigned to create customizedshortcuts.)4. Left Softkey allows you to select softkey actions or menuitems corresponding to the bottom left line on thedisplay screen.5. TALK Key allows you to place or receive calls, answer CallWaiting, use Three-Way Calling, or activate Voice Dial.6. Voicemail Key allows you to quickly access yourvoicemail. Press and hold this key for two seconds toautomatically dial your voicemail’s phone number.7. Numeric Keypad allows you to enter numbers, letters,and characters.8. Shift/Asterisk Key enters the asterisk [*] character forcalling features. In the text entry mode, press this key tochange the capitalization mode.9. Microphone allows other callers to hear you clearlywhen you are speaking to them.
