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Send contacts, Receive vcards, Calendar – Palm Pixi Plus User Manual

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Chapter 6 : Personal information

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Send Contacts

You can send all contacts to a hands-free car kit (with Bluetooth), or send a
contact using multimedia messaging (MMS) or email.

To send all contacts to a car kit, first turn on your Bluetooth device.

1

Open

Contacts

.

2

Open the

application menu

and tap Send All To Car Kit.

If a Bluetooth device is detected, all contacts are sent.

To send one contact:

1

Open

Contacts

, and tap a contact.

2

Open the

application menu

and tap Send Contact.

3

Tap one of the following:

Send To Car Kit (your Bluetooth device needs to be on and
detected).

Send Via MMS (messaging opens)

Send Via Email (email opens)

Receive vCards

To get an emailed vCard into Contacts:

1

From the open Email message, tap the attachment.

The vCard opens automatically within Contacts.

2

Tap Add to Contacts.

3

Tap one of the following:

Save As New:

Save the vCard as a new contact.

Add To Existing

: Add the vCard information to an existing contact.

Calendar

How do I get events into Calendar?

You have a few options for getting events to show up in Calendar:

Connect to an online calendar through the Palm

®

Synergy™ feature

:

If

you have a calendar in an online account that works with the Synergy
feature (for example, Google or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync), you can
set up Calendar on your phone to synchronize and display events in the
online calendar. Set up synchronization the first time you open Calendar
(see

Use Calendar for the first time

) or anytime after that (see

Customize

Calendar

). After you set up the connection to the online calendar, events

you enter online show up automatically in Calendar, and events you enter
on your phone sync to the online account.

The Synergy feature makes it easy to synchronize other data from an online
account. By setting up synchronization in one app, synchronization of the
other apps is automatically set up for you. For example, if you set up your
Gmail account in Email before you set up Calendar, when you first open

DID

YOU

KNOW

?

If you synchronize with your Google calendar, you can

add Google Weather to the calendar on your desktop and have it appear in

Calendar on your phone. On your desktop, log in to your Google Calendar

account and open Calendar Settings. Click the General tab, enter your

location, and click the temperature unit you want in Show weather based on

my locations. The next time your phone synchronizes with your Google

account, Google Weather appears in Calendar on your phone.