Dell Lightning User manual

Dell™ Lightning
User's Manual
COMMENT

Notes, Cautions, and Warnings
NOTE: A NOTE indicates important information that helps you make
better use of your device.
CAUTION: A CAUTION indicates potential damage to hardware or loss
of data if instructions are not followed.
WARNING: A WARNING indicates a potential for property damage,
personal injury, or death.
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September 2010 A00
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Statement
This device complies with Par t 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following
two conditions:
1) this device may not cause harmful interference and
2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause
undesired operation of the device.
FCC RF Radiation Exposure Statement:
For body worn operation, this phone has been tested and meets FCC RF exposure
guidelines when used with an accessory that contains no metal and that positions the
handset a minimum of 1.5 cm from the body. Use of other accessories may not ensure
compliance with FCC RF exposure guidelines.

Contents 3
Contents
1 Package Contents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2 Setting Up Your Dell™ Lightning . . . 8
Getting Your Phone Ready for Use . . . . . . . . 8
Turning On Your Phone. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Turning Off Your Phone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Turning On the Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
First-Time Setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3 Getting to Know Your Dell™
Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Physical QWERTY Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Touch Screen Gestures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Screen Orientation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Start Screen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Application List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
System Tray. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Wallpaper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Navigating Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
On-screen Controls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

4Contents
On-Screen Keyboard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
4 Communicating With People Using Your
Dell™ Lightning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Setting Up E-mail and Social Networking
Accounts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Using E-mail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Calling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Managing Contacts Using the People
Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Messaging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
5 Internet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Using bing Search . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Browsing the Internet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Using Maps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Marketplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Games and Xbox LIVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
6 Customizing Your Dell™ Lightning 68
7Applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77

Contents 5
Playing Music and Video Using Zune . . . . . . . 78
Listening to FM Radio Using Zune . . . . . . . . 80
Calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Alarms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Calculator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Voice Recognition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Office . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
8 Troubleshooting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

6Contents

Package Contents 7
Package Contents
Check the contents of your package to verify that you have the
following:
NOTE: The contents of your package may vary based on your region.
U.S.A
Dell Lightning phone
Battery
Quick Start Guide
Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Information
Warranty and Support Information
USB cable
Mini PSU
Headset with microphone
Europe
Dell Lightning phone
Battery
Quick Start Guide
Safety, Environmental, and Regulatory Information
Warranty and Support Information
USB cable
Charger
UK plug
EURO plug
Headset with microphone

8Setting Up Your Dell™ Lightning
Setting Up Your Dell™
Lightning
This section provides information on setting up your Dell Lightning
phone for the first time.
Getting Your Phone Ready for Use
1 Remove the back cover
aSlide the back cover up towards
the top of the phone.
bLift the back cover off the phone.
NOTE: Do not turn on the phone when the back cover is removed.

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2 Insert the SIM card
3 Insert the battery
CAUTION: You should never remove the pre-installed microSD card
from your phone in any situation. Removing the microSD card could
cause data loss.
Align the angled corner of the SIM card with the angled corner in the card
holder and insert the card. If the card does not fit in the card holder easily,
check to ensure that you have aligned the corner on the card with the
corner on the card holder.
Align the metal contacts on the battery with the contacts on the battery
holder and insert the battery.

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4 Close the back cover
aAlign the tabs on the back cover
with the slots on the phone.
bPlace the cover onto the back of
the phone, and then slide the
cover towards the bottom of the
phone to secure the cover in
place.

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5 Charge the phone
NOTE: Charge the battery in an environmental temperature between
0°C and 45°C.
Turning On Your Phone
NOTE: Use this phone in an environmental temperature between -10°C
and 55°C.
1Press the power and sleep/wake button to turn on your phone.
2The Windows Phone 7.0 operating system screen appears when
the phone goes through a cold boot process.
3If your SIM card is locked by a Personal Identification Number
(PIN), type the PIN by touching corresponding number keys on
the on-screen keypad. Touch the enter button to confirm your
input.
The battery is not fully charged when first unpacked.
aPlug the supplied USB cable's connector into the connector on the
phone.
bPlug the cable's USB connector into the supplied USB wall charger
adapter.
cPlug the USB wall charger adapter into a power outlet and charge the
phone till the battery is fully charged.
NOTE: The phone is fully
charged within four hours when
connected to a power outlet.
NOTE: To charge your phone
using a computer, connect the
supplied USB cable's connector
to the phone, and the cable's
USB connector to a USB port on
the computer.

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Turning Off Your Phone
Press and hold the power and sleep/wake button.
Turning On the Screen
If the device is on, but the screen is off, press the power and
sleep/wake button to turn on the screen.
First-Time Setup
After the first-time cold boot, touch the get started button to let the
phone take you through an initial setup process:
1The phone detects whether an Internet connection is available.
NOTE: Connecting to the Internet requires an active Wi-Fi or mobile
data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G, or HSPA). See Connectivity settings
for more information on how to set up a data connection.
2The phone asks whether to retrieve time zone, date, and time
information directly from the Internet server, or to set up time
zone, date, and time manually.
3Download the Microsoft Software Agreement.
4To connect your phone to Windows Live and use services
including Windows Live Messenger®, Hotmail®, Zune®, and Xbox
LIVE®, touch the sign in button to sign in with your existing
Windows Live ID, or touch the create one button to register a new
Windows Live ID.
NOTE: Signing in to Windows Live also synchronizes all your Windows
Live e-mails and contacts on your phone.
5The phone is ready for use when the Start Screen appears.

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Getting to Know Your Dell™
Lightning
This section provides information about the features available on your
Dell Lightning phone.
Feature Function(s)
1Earpiece Use to listen to phone conversations.
2Back button Touch to:
• Return to the previous screen or web
page.
• Cancel an operation.
• Close an on-screen keyboard or a
menu.
3Start button • Touch to return to the Start screen
from anywhere on the phone,
including from a running application.
• Touch and hold for speech commands.
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4Bing search button Touch to open the search box to find
items from the Internet, contacts from
the contact list, or applications from
Marketplace.
5Proximity sensors Detects and turns off the screen when
you bring the phone close to your ear to
make or receive calls, in order to prevent
unintentional touch on the screen.
Feature Function(s)

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Feature Function(s)
1Power and sleep/wake button • Press to turn on the phone.
• Press and hold to turn off the phone.
• Press to turn off the display.
• Press to wake up the phone from the
sleep mode.
2Camera Captures photos and videos.
3Speakers Audio output for video, music, and FM radio.
4USB connector • Connects to a USB cable to transfer files
to a computer.
• Connects to a charger to charge the
phone.
5Back cover Secures the battery in place.
6Camera flash For using flash while capturing photos and
videos.
7Headphone connector Connects to headphones.
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Feature Function(s)
1Volume control buttons During a phone call or while playing
media such as music, FM radio, and
video:
• Press to increase or decrease
volume by one level.
• Press and hold continuously to
increase or decrease volume.
2Camera button • Press to start the camera.
• Press to capture a photo or video.
• A half press of the button enables
auto-focus.
• When recording a video, press to
stop.
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Physical QWERTY Keyboard
You can use the physical QWERTY keyboard to type text into a text
field in your phone.
To access the keyboard
Slide open the keyboard as illustrated.
NOTE: When the slider QWERTY keyboard is active, the on-screen
keyboard closes automatically.

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Keyboard controls
1Press to type alphabets in the text field.
2• Press to switch between the uppercase and lowercase typing
modes. The icon in the system tray indicates that the lowercase
typing mode is active; indicates that the uppercase typing mode
is active.
• Press and hold to enable the Caps Lock mode, as the icon
indicates in the system tray. Press again to disable the Caps Lock
mode.
3•Pressthefn key and then type the alphabet to type a number or a
symbol, as the icon in the system tray indicates. The input mode
will automatically switch to the alphabet mode after you type a
number or a symbol.
• To enable continuous number and symbol input, press and hold the
fn key, as the icon in the system tray indicates. Press the same key
to disable this mode.
4Press to add accents to vowels. Multiple presses cycle through available
accents. Press and hold the key to view the accent picker, and touch the
accent to type in the text field.
NOTE: The accent key only works when the cursor immediately follows
a vowel.
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5• Press to type a space.
• Double-press to insert a period.
NOTE: To enable the feature of inserting a period, touch the Start
button →Menu button →Settings.Under system, select
keyboard→Insert a period after double-tapping the SPACEBAR.
6Press to view the emoticon picker. Touch the desired emoticon to enter
in a text field.
7• Press the sym key to open the on-screen symbol picker where you
can touch the numbers, symbols, and punctuation marks that you
want to type.
• When the symbol picker appears, touch or for more available
symbols.
• Press the sym key to close the on-screen symbol picker.
8• Press to enter a line feed.
• Press to confirm your text input.
9• Press to delete a typed character, symbol, or a space.
• Press and hold to quickly delete typed text.

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Touch Screen Gestures
Your phone has a multi-touch screen for you to navigate and control
the phone using the following touch gestures.
Touch Gestures Allows you to:
Touch
Touch gently on the screen with your
fingertip.
• Select screen items including
buttons, icons, images, entries, and
options.
• Start applications.
• Input text using the on-screen
keyboard or numeric keypad.
• Stop any type of screen content
from moving, for example the
Application list or a web page.
Touch and hold
Touch and hold your finger on the
screen.
• Make an item movable on the Start
screen.
• Display the context menu or
options page for an item.