Centro SmartPhoneUser Guide

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Palm
®
OS by ACCESS
The operating system of your smartphone.
Palm
®
OS is known for its simplicity of use
and for the large number of compatible
third-party applications that can be added
to your smartphone.
Palm
®
Installation Tool
Palm Desktop software comes with an
installation tool that enables you to transfer
Palm OS apps (PRC and PDB) to your
smartphone that you downloaded from the
web to your computer.
Partnership
Two Bluetooth devices—for example, your
smartphone and a hands-free device—that
can connect because each device finds the
same passkey on the other device. Once
you form a partnership with a device, you
don’t need to enter a passkey to connect
with that device again. Partnership is also
known as paired relationship, pairing,
trusted device, and trusted pair on some
devices.
PIM (personal information manager)
A genre of software that includes
applications such as Palm
®
Desktop
software, Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes,
and ACT!. PIMs generally store contacts,
schedules, tasks, and memos.
Quick key
A letter that you can press and hold to
activate a favorite app. For example, create
a speed-dial button for your mother’s
number and enter the letter M for “Mom”
as the Quick Key. Then when you want to
call her, press and hold M. Your
smartphone dials the number.
Slide
A collection of text, pictures, videos, and
sounds that are grouped together within a
multimedia message created in the
Messaging application. During playback, all
the items within a particular slide appear
on the same screen. If a multimedia
message contains multiple slides, each
slide can be viewed within the MMS
(multimedia messaging) application.
SMS
The service that exchanges short text
messages almost instantly. Text messages
are typically sent to a mobile phone
number, rather than to an email address
(although this too is possible). These
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