T-Mobile T Mobile Color Sidekick Phone Instructions Manual

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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4To save all the pieces of information you’ve added to the contact screen, press Menu  then select Done 
[].
Tip: If you cannot select Done from the menu because it is dimmed, then you must return to the contact 
screen and add one of the required pieces of information listed above.
Create a New Contact by Duplicating an Existing Contact
1From the Browse Contacts screen, highlight the contact whose information you...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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4Press and hold the wheel to open the pop-up menu. Scroll to highlight one of the following, then press to 
initiate the highlighted action:
• - to switch to the Phone application and place a call to your contact
•Email  - to switch to Email and compose an email to that contact
•Send Phone Message  - to switch to the Phone Messages application and compose a 
text message to send to that contact
•Go to - to switch to...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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Address Book Settings
Use the Settings screen (shown below) to set up “categories” for organizing contacts, as well as “labels” for 
identifying types of contact information. “Ski Friends” is an example of a contact category, and “Cabin #” is an 
example of an information label. You can also import contacts from your SIM card. Read below for details.
Create, Edit, and Delete Categories
Each contact in your Address...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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2Scroll down and select Categories. The Categories screen appears.
3Press Menu   then select New Category [ + N]. The New Category dialog box appears:
4Type the name of your new category. Remember, categories describe a group of contacts; for example, you 
might have a number of medical doctors you want to group into a category named “MDs”. 
5Select Done  to save the category. If you change your mind and don’t want...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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By default, the Address Book includes the following labels:
•Home
•Work
•Mobile
•Fax
•Personal
You can edit the names of these labels, delete them, and create new ones, up to ten total.
To edit an existing label:
1From the Browse Contacts screen, press Menu   then select Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2Scroll down and select Labels. The Labels screen appears.
3Scroll to highlight the label you wish to edit,...

Keeping Contacts in the Address Book
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To discard a label:
1From the Browse Contacts screen, press Menu   then select Settings. The Settings screen appears.
2Scroll down and select Labels. The Labels screen appears.
3Scroll to highlight the label you wish to discard.
4Press Menu   then select Discard... [].
5A confirmation dialog appears, asking if you’re sure you want to discard the label. Select Discard if you want 
to; otherwise, select Cancel to keep...

Scheduling Events with Calendar
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12.  Scheduling Events with Calendar
We hope you enjoy using the Calendar application! For info on using the Calendar, read the topics in this 
chapter:
Calendar Splash Screen
To open the Calendar application, first press Jump, then scroll to highlight the Calendar icon in the left-hand 
“ring” of applications. You will see the Calendar “splash” screen on the right side of the screen when you’ve 
highlighted the Calendar...

Scheduling Events with Calendar
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Keyboard Shortcuts
While you’re in the Calendar application, you can use the following shortcuts for menu items:
Create an Event
When you want to add an event to your schedule you can either:
•
Add an Event from Scratch on page 128, or 
•
Copy an Existing Event on page 131
The two methods are described below in detail. Be patient! You have many options when setting up events, so 
these instructions are rather long and...

Scheduling Events with Calendar
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3Select an icon for your event by rotating the wheel to highlight the Icon selector:  . 
Press the wheel to open the icon pop-up menu. Rotate the wheel to highlight an icon, then press to select it. 
You can pick from the following icons:
4Pick the Date on which the event starts from the date selector  . Highlight the month 
selector with the wheel, then press to open the month selector pop-up. Rotate the wheel until the...

Scheduling Events with Calendar
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• If you selected All Day, you’ll need to pick how many days: 
6To make the event repeat on a regular interval, in the Repetition section, rotate the wheel to highlight the 
Add button, then press. The Repetition dialog box opens:
Select a repeat interval from these choices:
•Every Day
• Every Sunday
• 1st Day of Every Month
• 1st Sunday of Every Month
•Yearly on June 4th
•Other...
7Depending on your choice, you’ll have...