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Get more from your phone
- add GPS technology. Know where
you are, where you're going and how
to get there.
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HCB-150
High performance car handsfree with
text to speech for convenient calls on
the road
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Contents
Getting started ................... 5
Welcome .................................. 5
Instruction symbols .................. 5
Additional help ......................... 5
Package ................................... 6
Overview .................................. 7
Before using your phone .......... 9
First time start-up .................. 11
Getting to know the
phone ................................ 13
Turning the phone on and off 13
The screen ............................. 13
Navigation .............................. 14
Finding the applications ......... 14
Using the applications ........... 15
Task manager ........................ 15
Connecting accessories ......... 16
Updating software ................. 16
Main menu overview* ............. 17
Status bar ............................... 18
Importing contact entries ....... 19
Sound ..................................... 19
Memory card .......................... 19
Notes ...................................... 20
Torch ...................................... 21
Text entry ............................... 21
Calling .............................. 25
Networks ................................ 25
Making a call .......................... 25
Receiving a call ...................... 26
Handling two or more calls .... 26
Video calls .............................. 27
Call log ................................... 28
Handsfree .............................. 28
More features ......................... 28
Using contacts ....................... 29
Creating contacts .................. 29
Editing contacts ..................... 30
Managing contacts ................ 30
Messaging ........................ 32
Before you use Messaging .... 32
Shortcut to Messaging ........... 32
Messages ............................... 32
Folders ................................... 32
SMS ....................................... 33
MMS ...................................... 33
Email ...................................... 35
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Synchronization ..................... 52
Bluetooth connection ............. 53
Connections manager ............ 53
Wap push ............................... 53
Certificate manager and
Java certificates ..................... 53
More features ................... 55
Managing files and
applications ............................ 55
Master reset ........................... 56
Power save ............................ 56
Screen saver .......................... 57
Important information ...... 58
FCC Statement ...................... 66
Declaration of Conformity
for G700 ................................. 67
Index ................................. 68
More about Messaging .......... 36
Internet .............................. 39
Internet browser ..................... 39
RSS feeds .............................. 40
Blog ........................................ 40
Media ................................ 41
Transferring media files .......... 41
Updating media libraries ........ 41
Photos and pictures ............... 41
Music and audio tracks .......... 43
Video ...................................... 44
Camera ............................. 45
Taking pictures and video
clips ........................................ 45
Changing the camera settings 46
Viewer .................................... 47
Entertainment ................... 48
PlayNow™ ............................. 48
FM radio ................................. 48
TrackID™ ............................... 50
Connectivity ...................... 51
PC Suite ................................. 51
USB connection ..................... 51
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Sony Ericsson G700
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 or its local affiliated company
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,
2008
Publication number: 1206-7592.1
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.
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, for example,
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.
The Liquid Identity logo, PlayNow, TrackID and
MusicDJ are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB.
Sony, Memory Stick Micro and M2 are trademarks
or registered trademarks of Sony Corporation.
Ericsson is a trademark or registered trademark of
Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
TrackID™ is powered by Gracenote Mobile
MusicID™. Gracenote and Gracenote Mobile
MusicID are trademarks or registered trademarks
of Gracenote, Inc.
Bluetooth is a trademark or a registered trademark
of Bluetooth SIG Inc. and any use of such mark by
Sony Ericsson is under license.
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Java and all Java based trademarks and logos are
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J2ME™.
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not be leased, assigned, or sublicensed, in whole
or in part.
2 Export Regulations: This product, including any
software or technical data contained in or
accompanying the product, may be subject to U.S.
export control laws, including the U.S. Export
Administration Act and its associated regulations
and the U.S. sanctions programs administered by
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Assets Control, and may be additionally subject to
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acknowledges that it is their responsibility to obtain
any required licenses to export, re-export, or import
this product. Without limitation this product,
including any software contained therein, may not
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Content owners use Windows Media digital rights
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intellectual property, including copyrights. This
device uses WMDRM software to access WMDRM-
protected content. If the WMDRM software fails to
protect the content, content owners may ask
Microsoft to revoke the software's ability to use
WMDRM to play or copy protected content.
Revocation does not affect unprotected content.
When you download licenses for protected
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upgrade.
This product is licensed under the MPEG-4 visual
and AVC patent portfolio licenses for the personal
and non-commercial use of a consumer for (i)
encoding video in compliance with the MPEG-4
visual standard ("MPEG-4 video") or the AVC
standard ("AVC video") and/or (ii) decoding MPEG-
4 or AVC video that was encoded by a consumer
engaged in a personal and non-commercial activity
and/or was obtained from a video provider licensed
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No license is granted or shall be implied for any
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• Web guide – an up-to-date user
guide with step-by-step
instructions and additional
information on features
available in your phone. You
can access the Web guide at
www.sonyericsson.com/
support.
To access the Web guide from
your phone
1 From Standby select Main menu >
Internet.
2 Select More > View > Bookmarks >
Web Guide.
Care instructions
• Use a moist cloth when you
clean the screen.
• Only use the stylus provided, or
your fingertips, when selecting
items on the screen.
For detailed care instructions, see
Recommendations for care and
safe use of our products on page
60.
Getting started
Welcome
Welcome as a G700 user.
This User guide will help you get
started using your new phone. To
get most out of your phone,
please read this chapter first.
Instruction symbols
The following symbols appear in
the User guide:
Note
Tip
A service or function is
network- or subscription-
dependent. Contact your
network operator for details.
Additional help
The complete user documentation
for your phone consists of:
• User guide – an overview of
your phone.
• Help in the phone – in most
applications Help is available in
the More menu.
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Package
1
2
3
4
Phone G700
Stylus
1
2 Charger CST-70
3
4 USB cable DCU-65
5
Battery BST-33
7
6
5
6 User guide
7 CD with PC suite and Media
manager software
If your package does not include all
the listed items please contact your
retailer.
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