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Contents
Getting started ................... 5
Assembly ........................................ 5
Turning on the phone ..................... 5
Help in your phone ........................ 7
Charging the battery ....................... 7
Phone overview ............................. 8
Menu overview ............................. 10
Navigation .................................... 12
File manager ................................ 13
Phone language ........................... 15
Entering text ................................. 15
Calling ............................... 16
Making and receiving calls ........... 16
Contacts ....................................... 18
Call list .......................................... 21
Speed dial ..................................... 22
Voicemail ...................................... 22
Voice control ................................ 22
Diverting calls ............................... 24
More than one call ........................ 24
My numbers .................................. 26
Accept calls ................................. 26
Restricted dialling ......................... 26
Fixed dialling ................................ 27
Call time and cost ......................... 27
Messaging ........................ 28
Text messages .............................. 28
Picture messages ......................... 29
Message options .......................... 30
Templates ..................................... 30
Voice messages ............................ 31
Email ............................................ 31
My friends ..................................... 33
Area and cell information .............. 34
Imaging ............................ 35
Camera and video recorder ......... 35
Viewfinder and camera keys ........ 35
Using the camera .......................... 36
Getting more from the camera ..... 36
Camera icons and settings ........... 37
Camera shortcuts ......................... 38
Transferring pictures ..................... 38
Camera printing ............................ 39
Pictures ......................................... 39
PhotoDJ™ and VideoDJ™ ........... 40
Themes ......................................... 41
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Notes ............................................ 60
Timer, stopwatch and calculator .. 60
Code memo .................................. 61
Profiles .......................................... 62
Time and date ............................... 62
Locks ............................................ 62
Troubleshooting ............... 64
Common questions ...................... 64
Error messages ............................. 66
Important information ...... 68
Guidelines for Safe and Efficient
Use ............................................... 70
End User Licence Agreement ....... 74
Limited Warranty .......................... 74
FCC Statement ............................. 76
Declaration of Conformity ............. 77
Index ................................. 78
Entertainment .................. 41
Stereo portable handsfree ............ 41
Music and video players ............... 41
Transferring music from
a computer ................................... 42
TrackID™ ...................................... 44
Radio ........................................... 45
PlayNow™ .................................... 45
Ringtones and melodies ............... 46
MusicDJ™ .................................... 46
Sound recorder ............................. 47
Games .......................................... 47
Applications .................................. 48
Connectivity ...................... 49
Settings ........................................ 49
Phone name .................................. 49
Using the Internet ......................... 49
Web feeds ..................................... 50
Bluetooth™ wireless technology . 51
Using the USB cable .................... 52
Synchronizing .............................. 54
Update service ............................. 56
More features ................... 57
Alarms ........................................... 57
Calendar ....................................... 58
Tasks ............................................ 59
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Contents
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Sony Ericsson K850i
UMTS 2100 GSM 900/1800/1900
This User guide is published by Sony Ericsson
Mobile Communications AB or its local affiliated
company, without any warranty. Improvements
and changes to this User guide necessitated by
typographical errors, inaccuracies of current
information, or improvements to programs and/or
equipment, may be made by Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB at any time and without notice.
Such changes will, however, be incorporated into
new editions of this User guide.
All rights reserved.
©Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB,
2007
Publication number: 1200-7392.1
Please note:
Some of the services in this User guide are not
supported by all networks. This also applies to
the GSM International Emergency Number 112.
Please contact your network operator or service
provider if you are in doubt whether you can use
a particular service or not.
Please read the Guidelines for safe and efficient
use and the Limited warranty chapters before you
use your mobile phone.
Your mobile phone has the capability to download,
store and forward additional content, e.g. ringtones.
The use of such content may be restricted or
prohibited by rights of third parties, including but
not limited to restriction under applicable copyright
laws. You, and not Sony Ericsson, are entirely
responsible for additional content that you download
to or forward from your mobile phone. Prior to your
use of any additional content, please verify that your
intended use is properly licensed or is otherwise
authorized. Sony Ericsson does not guarantee
the accuracy, integrity or quality of any additional
content or any other third party content. Under no
circumstances will Sony Ericsson be liable in any
way for your improper use of additional content
or other third party content.
Bluetooth™ is a trademark or registered trademark
of Bluetooth SIG Inc.
The marble logo, BestPic, PlayNow, MusicDJ,
PhotoDJ, TrackID and VideoDJ are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Sony Ericsson Mobile
Communications AB.
Sony and Cyber-shot are trademarks of Sony
Corporation.
Memory Stick Micro™ and M2™ are trademarks
of Sony Corporation.
Ericsson is a trademark or registered trademark
of Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
Adobe® Photoshop® Album Starter Edition
is a trademark or registered trademark of Adobe
Systems Incorporated in the United States and/or
other countries.
Microsoft, Windows, PowerPoint, Outlook and
Vista are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Microsoft Corporation in the U.S. and other
countries.
MicroSD is a trademark or registered trademark
of SanDisk Corporation.
T9™ Text Input is a trademark or a registered
trademark of Tegic Communications. T9™ Text
Input is licensed under one or more of the following:
U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,818,437, 5,953,541, 5,187,480,
5,945,928, and 6,011,554; Canadian Pat. No.
1,331,057, United Kingdom Pat. No. 2238414B;
Hong Kong Standard Pat. No. HK0940329;
Republic of Singapore Pat. No. 51383; Euro.Pat.
No. 0 842 463(96927260.8) DE/DK, FI, FR, IT, NL,
PT, ES, SE, GB; and additional patents are pending
worldwide.
Java and all Java based trademarks and logos
are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun
Microsystems, Inc. in the U.S. and other countries.
End-user license agreement for Sun™ Java™
J2ME™.
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Instruction symbols
These symbols appear in the
User guide.
Note
Tip
Warning
A service or function is network-
or subscription-dependent.
Contact your network operator
for details.
Use a touch option or navigation
key to scroll and select.
See Navigation on page 12.
>
Restrictions: Software is confidential copyrighted
information of Sun and title to all copies is retained
by Sun and/or its licensors. Customer shall not
modify, decompile, disassemble, decrypt, extract,
or otherwise reverse engineer Software. Software
may not be leased, assigned, or sublicensed,
in whole or in part.
Export Regulations: Software, including technical
data, is subject to U.S. export control laws, including
the U.S. Export Administration Act and its associated
regulations, and may be subject to export or import
regulations in other countries. Customer agrees
to comply strictly with all such regulations and
acknowledges that it has the responsibility to obtain
licenses to export, re-export, or import Software.
Software may not be downloaded, or otherwise
exported or re-exported (i) into, or to a national
or resident of, Cuba, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya,
Sudan, Syria (as such listing may be revised from
time to time) or any country to which the U.S. has
embargoed goods; or (ii) to anyone on the U.S.
Treasury Department's list of Specially Designated
Nations or the U.S. Commerce Department's Table
of Denial Orders.
Restricted Rights: Use, duplication or disclosure
by the United States government is subject to the
restrictions as set forth in the Rights in Technical
Data and Computer Software Clauses in DFARS
252.227-7013(c) (1) (ii) and FAR 52.227-19(c) (2)
as applicable.
Other product and company names mentioned
herein may be the trademarks of their respective
owners.
Any rights not expressly granted herein are reserved.
All illustrations are for illustration only and may not
accurately depict the actual phone.
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Getting started
Assembly
Before you start using your phone,
you need to insert a SIM card and
the battery.
To insert the SIM card
1 Insert the battery with the label side
down and the connectors facing each
other.
2 Close and slide the battery cover into
place.
Turning on the phone
To turn on the phone
1 Remove the battery cover.
2 Slide the SIM card into its holder with
the golden contacts facing down.
To insert the battery
1 Press and hold down
2 Select a mode:
.
• Normal mode – full functionality.
• Flight mode – limited functionality.
3 Enter your SIM card PIN, if requested
and select OK.
4 Select a language.
5 Select Cont. > Yes to use the setup
wizard while settings are downloaded.
If you want to correct a mistake when
you enter your PIN, press
.
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Flight mode
In Flight mode the network and radio
transceivers are turned off to prevent
disturbance to sensitive equipment.
You can use the Bluetooth™ function
in Flight mode.
Startup screen
The startup screen appears when you
turn your phone on. See Using pictures
on page 39.
Standby
After you have turned your phone on
and entered your PIN, the name of the
network operator appears. This view
is called standby.
SIM card
The SIM (Subscriber Identity Module)
card, which you get from your network
operator, contains information about
your subscription. Always turn off your
phone and detach the charger before
you insert or remove the SIM card.
You can save contacts on the SIM card
before you remove it from your phone.
See To copy names and numbers to the
SIM card on page 19.
PIN
You may need a PIN (Personal
Identification Number) to activate the
services in your phone. Your PIN is
supplied by your network operator.
Each PIN digit appears as *, unless
it starts with emergency number digits,
for example, 112 or 911. You can see
and call an emergency number
without entering a PIN.
If you enter the wrong PIN three times
in a row, the SIM card is blocked.
See SIM card lock on page 62.
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