Nokia N8 Manual

							You can personalise the profiles in the following ways:
•Change the ringing and message alert tones.
•Adjust the volume of ringing and key tones.
•Mute key tones and warning tones.
•Activate vibrating alerts.
•Set the device to say the name of the contact who is calling.
Personalise your tones
You can personalise your device tones for each profile.
Select Menu > Settings > Profiles.
1 Select the desired profile.
2 Select Personalise and the desired option.
Tip: Download ringing tones from Ovi Store. To learn more about Ovi Store, go to
www.ovi.com.
Silence your device
When the silent profile is activated, all ringing and alert tones are muted. Activate this
profile when you are at the cinema or in a meeting.
In the home screen, select the profile and Silent.
Change your profile for meetings or outdoor use
When the meeting profile is activated, your device discreetly beeps once instead of
ringing. When the outdoor profile is activated, the ringing tone is louder, so you wont
miss a call in a noisy environment.
In the home screen, select the profile and Meeting or Outdoor.
Create a new profile
How can you make your device meet your needs at work or college or home? You can
create new profiles for different situations, and give them appropriate names.
1 Select Menu > Settings > Profiles and Options > Create new.
2 Define your profile settings, and select Profile name.
3 Enter a name for the profile.
Set a timed profile
You can activate a profile until a set time, after which the previously used profile is
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							Select Menu > Settings > Profiles.
1 Select the desired profile and Timed.
2 Set the time that you want the timed profile to expire at.
Change your theme
 With themes, you can change the colours and look of your display.
Select Menu > Settings > Themes.
Select General and a theme.
Some themes include background animation effects. To save battery power, select
General > Options > Theme effects > Off.
Tip: Download themes from Ovi Store. To learn more about Ovi Store, go to
www.ovi.com.
Home screenAbout the home screen
In the home screen, you can quickly access your most frequently used applications and
create shortcuts for different features. You can view your favourite contacts, and quickly
call, start conversations, or send messages to them. You can also control applications,
such as Music.
You can have more than one home screen page, for example, separate home screens
for work and private life.
The home screen elements are interactive. For example, if you select the clock, the Clock
application opens.
Switch between home screens
You can have more than one home screen. For example, create separate home screens
for work and private life, and personalise them to have different content.
To switch to another home screen, swipe left or right. 32 Personalisation 
						

							 indicates which home screen you are in.
Personalise the home screen
Want to see your favourite landscape or pictures of your family in the home screen
background? You can change this wallpaper, and rearrange items in the home screen,
to personalise it to your liking.
Tip: If you have more than one home screen, you can switch between them also while
editing, and personalise all your home screens at the same time.
Change the wallpaper
1 Tap and hold the home screen.
2 Select Options > Change wallpaper > Image.
3 Select the desired picture.
4 Select Done.
Tip: Download more background images from Nokias Ovi Store. To learn more about
Ovi Store, go to www.ovi.com.
Rearrange items in the home screen
1 Tap and hold the home screen.
2 Drag and drop items to a new location.
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							3 Select Done.
Add a widget to the home screen
Interested in todays weather or whats currently in the news? You can add mini-
applications (widgets) to your home screen, and see your most relevant information at
a glance.
1 Tap and hold the home screen.
2 Select 
 and the desired widget from the list.
3 Select Done.
A widget can enhance the related application, and may also change the way the
application works. For example, if you add a notification widget, received messages are
notified in the widget.
Tip: To download more widgets, select OVI.
Using the service or downloading content may cause transfer of large amounts of data,
which may result in data traffic costs.
Some home screen widgets may connect to the internet automatically. To prevent this,
select Options > Widgets to offline mode.
Remove a widget from the home screen
1 Tap and hold the home screen.
2 Select the widget, and from the pop-up menu, select Remove.
3 Select Done.
Add your important contacts to the home screen
Add your most important contacts to the home screen, so you can quickly call or send
messages to them.
The contacts need to be stored in your device memory.
1 In the Favourite contacts widget, select 
.
2 To mark the contacts to add to the home screen, select the desired contacts. You
can add up to 20 contacts to the widget.
Call or send a message to a contact
In the widget, select the contact. 34 Personalisation 
						

							Remove a contact from the home screen
In the widget, select 
 and the contact to remove. The contact is deleted from the
widget, but remains in your contacts list.
Organise your applications
Want to open your most used applications more quickly? In the main menu, you can
organise your applications and hide less used applications in folders.
Press the menu key, and select Options > Edit.
Create a new folder
Select Options > New folder.
Move an application to a folder
Select and hold the application, and from the pop-up menu, select Move to folder and
the new folder.
Tip: You can also drag and drop applications and folders.
Download a game, application, or other item
Download free games, apps, or videos, or buy more content to your device! From Ovi
Store, you can find content designed specifically for your device.
Select Menu > Store, and sign in to your Nokia account.
1 Select the item.
2 If the item has a price, select Buy. If the item is free, select Download.
3 You can pay with a credit or debit card, or, if available, on your phone bill.
To save your card information to your Nokia account, select Save this card to my
Nokia account.
If your card information is already saved, to use a different payment method, select
Change billing details.
4 To get a receipt of your purchase, select or enter a mail address.
5 Select Confirm.
6 When the download is complete, you can open or view the item, or continue
browsing for more content. The content type determines where the item is stored
in your mobile device. To change the default location, select Account >
Installation preferences and the desired memory.Personalisation 35 
						

							Tip: Use a WLAN connection to download larger files, such as games, applications, or
videos.
Tip: To avoid entering your payment card details over and over when buying items from
Ovi Store, save your details to your Nokia account. You can add more than one payment
card, and choose which one to use when buying.
For more information on an item, contact the publisher of the item.
Telephone
Call a phone number
1 To make the call, select 
.
2 To end the call, select 
.
Search for a contact
You can search for a contact you have saved in the contacts list.
On the home screen, select Call, and start entering the contacts first or second name.
You can also search by company name. When entering the characters, select each
number key once for each letter. For example, to search for Nokia, enter 6, 6, 5, 4, and
2.
Call the found contact
Select and hold the contact, and in the contact card, select Voice call. 36 Telephone 
						

							Send a message to the contact
Select and hold the contact, and in the contact card, select Message.
Make a video call to the contact
Select and hold the contact, and in the contact card, select Video call.
Deactivate contact search
Select Options > Contact search > Off.
Call a contact
Select Menu > Contacts.
1 To search for a contact, enter the first letters or characters of the first or second
name in the search field.
2 Select the contact.
3 In the contact card, select Voice call.
4 If the contact has more than one phone number, select the desired number.
Make a video call
Do you have friends or family that you dont see in person very often? For a face-to-face
chat, why not make a video call to them?
Video calls are a network service, and to make a video call, you need to be in a 3G
network.
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							Video calls can only be made between two parties. Video calls cannot be made while
another voice, video, or data call is active.
1 Select Menu > Contacts, and search for a contact.
2 Select the contact, and in the contact card, select Video call.
The camera on the front of your device is used by default for video calls. Starting a
video call may take a while. If the call is not successful (for example, video calls are
not supported by the network, or the receiving device is not compatible), you are
asked if you want to make a normal call or send a message instead.
The video call is active when you see two videos, and hear the sound through the
loudspeaker. The call recipient may deny video sending, and you only hear the voice
of the caller, and may see an image or a grey screen.
3 To end the video call, select 
.
Send an image rather than live video
Select Menu > Settings and Calling > Call > Image in video call.
If you do not send live video, the call is still charged as a video call.
Make a conference call
Your device supports conference calls between a maximum of six participants, including
yourself. Video conference calls are not supported.
1 Make a call to the first participant.
2 To make a call to another participant, select Options > New call. The first call is
put on hold.
3 When the new call is answered, to add the first participant to the conference call,
select 
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							Add a new participant to a conference call
Make a call to another participant, and add the new call to the conference call.
Have a private conversation with a conference call participant
Select 
.
Go to the participant, and select 
. The conference call is put on hold on your device.
The other participants continue the conference call.
To return to the conference call, select 
.
Drop a participant from a conference call
Select 
, go to the participant, and select .
End an active conference call
Select 
.
Use speed dial
You can quickly call your friends and family when you assign your most-used phone
numbers to the number keys of your device.
Select Menu > Settings and Calling > Speed dialling.
Assign a phone number to a number key
1 Select the number key to which you want to assign the phone number.
1 is reserved for the voice mailbox.
2 Select the phone number from your contacts list.
Remove or change a phone number assigned to a number key
Select and hold the assigned key, and from the pop-up menu, select Remove or
Change.
Make a call
In the home screen, select Call to open the dialler, and select and hold the assigned
number key.
Use your voice to call a contact
With the Voice commands application you can use your voice to make calls or control
your device.
Voice commands are not dependent on the speaker’s voice. Commands are
automatically created by your device.Telephone 39 
						

							Note: Using voice tags may be difficult in a noisy environment or during an
emergency, so you should not rely solely upon voice dialling in all circumstances.
When you use voice dialling, the loudspeaker is in use. Hold the device at a short distance
away when you say the voice command.
1 In the home screen, select and hold Call. If a compatible headset with the headset
key is attached, press and hold the headset key.
2 A short tone sounds, and Speak now is displayed. Say clearly the name that is saved
for the contact.
3 The device plays a synthesised voice command for the recognised contact in the
selected device language, and displays the name and number. To cancel the voice
dialling, select Quit.
Listen to a voice command for a contact
1 Select a contact and Options > Voice tag details.
2 Select a contact detail.
If several numbers are saved for a name, you can say also the name and the number
type, such as mobile or telephone.
Make calls over the internetAbout internet calls
With the internet call network service, you can make and receive calls over the internet.
Internet call services may support calls between computers, between mobile phones,
and between a VoIP device and a traditional telephone.
Some internet call service providers allow free internet calls. For availability and
connectivity costs, contact your internet call service provider.
To make or receive an internet call, you must be in the service area of a WLAN or have
a packet data (GPRS) connection in a 3G network, and be signed in to an internet call
service.
Install an internet call service
You can search for internet call services from Ovi Store. For details, go to
www.ovi.com.
1 Download an installation widget for the internet call service.
2 To start the installation, select the installation widget.
3 Follow the instructions. 40 Telephone