Handspring Treo 180 Communicator User Guide

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Blazer
If you can’t hold the world in the palm of your hand, at least you can hold the World Wide Web 
when you use Blazer to browse the Internet on your communicator’s screen.
To use Blazer, you must subscribe to data services from your wireless service provider, and you 
must have an account established with an ISP (Internet Service Provider). Many wireless service 
providers also provide ISP services. If ISP information is available from your wireless service 
provider when you...

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5. Enter the URL you want to view.
6. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
While a page is loading, a Progress icon   appears in the lower right corner of the screen. 
You can tap links to other pages as soon as they appear. You don’t need to wait until a page 
fully loads. To stop loading a page, tap the Stop icon   in the lower left corner of the screen.
 
7. To scroll through a page, use the scroll buttons or jog rocker, or tap the onscreen arrows or 
scroll...

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Adding bookmarks
You can store up to 100 bookmarks and group them in categories by placing similar links on the 
same bookmark page. See page 125 for information on creating page categories.
To bookmark the current page:
1. From the Page view, go to the page you want to bookmark.
2. Press Menu .
3. Under Page, select Add Bookmark (/A).
 
 
4. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish. 
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Editing bookmarks
You can change the title, description, or URL associated with any of your bookmarks. 
To edit a bookmark:
1. From the Bookmark view, press Menu  .
2. Under Bookmark, select Edit Bookmark (/E).
3. Tap the page icons to navigate to the page containing the bookmark you want to change.
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Arranging your bookmarks
As your bookmark list grows, you may want to rearrange the entries or move entire pages. You 
can assign a title to each bookmark page and arrange the entries by category. For example, if you 
want to create a page with links to various sports scores, you might name the page Scores.
To assign page category titles:
1. From the Bookmark view, press Menu  .
2. Under Bookmark, select Edit Bookmark (/E).
3. Tap the page icon to which you want to assign a title.
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4. Hold Option   and press Return   to finish.
Blazer menus
Blazer menus are shown here for your reference, and Blazer features that are not explained 
elsewhere in this guide are described here.
See page 31 for information about choosing menu commands.
The Go and Options menus differ depending on whether you’re displaying the Page view or the 
Bookmark view.
Page menu
Refresh
Enables you to update the current web page with the most up-to-date 
information.
Stop...

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Bookmarks menu 
Go menus 
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Preferences 
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SMS Messaging
In addition to dialing and receiving voice calls, you can use your Treo to send and receive short 
text messages. These text messages, also called SMS (Short Message Service) messages, are 
similar to e-mail messages that you send and receive from your computer, but are limited to 160 
characters in length. The person receiving your message must also have a GSM mobile phone 
and a wireless service provider that supports text messages. Some wireless service providers also...

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Receiving SMS messages
When you receive SMS messages, the New SMS Messages alert appears.
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provider’s SMS service. 
In the New SMS Messages alert dialog box, you can save or respond to the first message by 
tapping any of the following buttons:
Tips:
nTo view additional incoming messages, press SMS Messaging  .
nYou can also dismiss the alert dialog box by...