Doro PhoneEasy 508 User manual

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Doro PhoneEasy®508

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The items supplied with your phone might vary depending on the soft-
ware and accessories available in your region or offered by your service
provider. You can obtain additional accessories from your local Doro deal-
er. The supplied accessories provide the best performance with your
phone.
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1. Earpiece
2. Left selection button
3. Call button
4. Speed dials
5. Voicemail
6. Keypad lock
7. Silent/Input method
8. Microphone
9. Torch shortcut
10. Message shortcut
11. End call/Power on/off
12. Arrow buttons
13. Right selection button
14. Charging socket
15. Headset socket
16. Loudspeaker
17. Assistance button
18. Battery cover
19. Lanyard hold (lanyard is not
included)

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Contents
Congratulations on your purchase ............................................................... 1
Get started..................................................................................................... 1
Insert the SIM card and battery ........................................................... 1
Charge the phone.................................................................................. 2
Get to know your phone ................................................................................ 2
Assistive functions................................................................................. 2
Turn the phone on and off .................................................................... 3
Start-up wizard ...................................................................................... 3
Navigate the phone
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Enter text ........................................................................................ 4
Phone settings....................................................................................... 5
Calls................................................................................................................ 7
Make a call............................................................................................. 7
Call from the phonebook ...................................................................... 7
Receive a call......................................................................................... 8
Volume control....................................................................................... 8
Call options ............................................................................................ 9
Speed dial ...................................................................................... 9
SOS calls ..............................................................................................10
Call log.................................................................................................. 10
Call settings .........................................................................................11
Phonebook...................................................................................................14
Add contact.......................................................................................... 14
Manage phonebook contacts.............................................................14
Phonebook settings ............................................................................15
ICE (In Case of Emergency) ...........................................................16
Assistance button .................................................................................. 17
Make an assistance call ..................................................................... 17
Activation .............................................................................................18
Number list ..........................................................................................18
Activate text messages (SMS) ............................................................19
Assistance settings .............................................................................19
Messages.....................................................................................................20
Create and send text message (SMS) ...............................................20
Inbox, Outbox and Sent.......................................................................20

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Message settings ................................................................................21
Connectivity .................................................................................................23
Network setup .....................................................................................23
Bluetooth®............................................................................................ 24
Sound & Display ..........................................................................................25
Audio setup
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Tone setup (ringtone) ..........................................................................25
Ringtone volume .............................................................................26
Silent ....................................................................................................26
Alert type..............................................................................................26
Extra tone.............................................................................................26
Wallpaper.............................................................................................26
Text size ........................................................................................ 27
Idle display ........................................................................................... 27
LCD backlight.......................................................................................27
Brightness ....................................................................................27
Additional functions .................................................................................... 27
Alarm .................................................................................................... 27
Calendar...............................................................................................28
Daily reminder .....................................................................................28
Calculator.............................................................................................29
FM radio...............................................................................................29
Torch..................................................................................................... 31
Reset settings...................................................................................... 31
Display status symbols ....................................................................... 31
Display main symbols .........................................................................32
Remote configuration..........................................................................33
Troubleshooting ...........................................................................................35
Safety instructions.......................................................................................37
Network services and costs................................................................38
Operating environment .......................................................................38
Medical units .......................................................................................38
Areas with explosion risk ....................................................................39
Li-ion battery........................................................................................39
Protect your hearing............................................................................39
Emergency calls...................................................................................39
Vehicles................................................................................................40

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Care and maintenance ...............................................................................40
Warranty.......................................................................................................40
Copyright and other notices........................................................................ 41
Content copyright ................................................................................42
Specifications ..............................................................................................42
Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) ..........................................................42
Declaration of Conformity ...................................................................42

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Congratulations on your purchase
Doro PhoneEasy®508 is a good-looking phone bringing you widely
spaced, convex keys, predictive text, direct memories and an SMS button
for easy dialling and texting. A crisp colour display and enhanced sound
simplify usage even more. Other practical features include a torch, re-
minders, wake-up alarm, vibrating ringer and one-touch assistance dial-
ling with SMS alerts. For more information about accessories or other
Doro products please visit www.doro.com.
Get started
Insert the SIM card and battery
IMPORTANT!
Turn off the phone and disconnect the charger before removing the
battery cover.
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1. Remove the battery cover and the battery if it is already installed.
2. Insert the SIM card by gently sliding it into the holder. Make sure
that the SIM card’s contacts are facing inwards and that the cut off
corner is pointing down. Take care not to scratch or bend the con-
tacts on the SIM card.
3. Insert the battery by sliding it into the battery compartment with the
contacts facing downwards to the right.
4. Replace the battery cover.
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Charge the phone
CAUTION
Only use batteries, charger and accessories that have been approved
for use with this particular model. Connecting other accessories may
be dangerous and may invalidate the phones type approval and
guarantee.
When the battery is running low, is displayed and a warning signal is
heard.
1. Connect the mains adapter to a wall socket and to the charging
socket y. The battery charge indicator is animated while charg-
ing. It takes approximately 3 hours to fully charge the battery. When
the charger is connected to the phone, is displayed briefly, and
when it is disconnected.
2. When charging is completed, is displayed on the screen.
If the phone is turned off when the charger is connected to the
phone only the battery charge indicator will be shown on the display.
Note! To save power the LCD backlight goes off after a while. Press any
button to illuminate the display. Full battery capacity will not be reached
until the battery has been charged 3–4 times. Batteries degrade over
time, which means that call time and standby time will normally
decrease with regular use.
Save energy
When you have fully charged the battery and disconnected the charger
from the device, unplug the charger from the wall outlet.
Get to know your phone
Assistive functions
Use below symbols to guide you through supporting sections in the
manual.
Seeing Handling
Hearing Safety
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Turn the phone on and off
1. Press and hold
on the phone to turn it on/off. Confirm with Yes
to power off.
2. If the SIM card is valid but protected with a PIN code (Personal Iden-
tification Number), PIN is displayed. Enter the PIN code and press
OK (upper left corner of keypad). Delete with Clear ( upper
right corner of keypad).
Note! If PIN and PUK codes were not provided with your SIM card, please
contact your service provider.
Tip: It is recommended to remove the protective plastic film from the
display to enhance the visibility.
Attempts: #shows the number of PIN attempts left. When no more at-
tempts remain, PIN blocked is displayed. The SIM card must then be un-
locked with the PUK code (Personal Unblocking Key).
1. Enter the PUK code and confirm with OK.
2. Enter a new PIN code and confirm with OK.
3. Re-enter new PIN code and confirm with OK.
Start-up wizard
When starting the phone for the first time, you can use the Start-up wiz-
ard to set some basic settings.
•Press Yes to change or No if you do not want to change.
The default language is determined by the SIM card. See Phone settings,
p.5 on how to change language, time and date.
Tip: You can run the start-up wizard later if you want. From standby
mode, press Menu
Settings General Start-up wizard.
Navigate the phone
Standby (idle mode)
When the phone is ready to use, and you have not keyed in any charac-
ters, the phone is in standby.
•Press
to return to standby mode.
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•Press left selection button
to access the phone Menu or right
selection button Name to access your saved contacts in the
phonebook.
Tip: You can always press to return to standby.
Scroll
•Use the arrow buttons
/ to scroll in menus.
Step-by-step instructions
The arrow (
) indicates next action in step-by-step instructions. To con-
firm an action, press OK. To select an item, scroll or highlight the item us-
ing / and then press OK.
Example:
•Press Menu Phonebook -New contact- Add.
To perform the example on your Doro PhoneEasy
®508 you should do the
following:
1. Press Menu, scroll to Phonebook and press OK.
2. Select -New contact- and press Add.
Enter text
Enter text manually
Select character
•Press a numerical key repeatedly until the desired character is
shown. Wait a few seconds before entering the next character.
Special characters/smileys
1. Press *for a list of special characters.
2. Select the desired character with
/ and press OK to confirm.
Move the cursor within text
•Use / to move the cursor within the text.
Upper case, lower case and numerals
•Press #to choose between upper case, lower case and numerals.
See Input mode, p.5.
Change writing language
1. Press and hold #for a list of available languages.
2. Select language with / and press OK to confirm.
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