Palm Treo 700w - Manual (Page 257)

Using Your Treo 700w Smartphone 249
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smartphone or a speaker phone accessory, take advantage of
these devices if available to you.
3. Position your smartphone within easy reach. Make sure you
place your smartphone within easy reach and where you can
grab it without removing your eyes from the road. If you get
an incoming call at an inconvenient time, let your voice mail
answer it for you.
4. Suspend conversations during hazardous driving conditions
or situations. Let the person you are speaking to know you are
driving; if necessary, suspend the call in heavy traffic or
hazardous weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow and ice can
be hazardous, but so is heavy traffic. As a driver, your first
responsibility is to pay attention to the road.
5. Do not take notes or look up phone numbers while driving.
If you are reading an address book or business card while
driving a car, or writing a “to do” list, then you are not
watching where you are going. It’s common sense. Don’t get
caught in a dangerous situation because you are reading or
writing and not paying attention to the road or nearby
vehicles.
6. Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible, place calls
when you are not moving or before pulling into traffic. Try to
plan your calls before you begin your trip, or attempt to
coincide your calls with times you may be stopped at a stop
sign, red light or otherwise stationary. But if you need to dial
while driving, follow this simple tip-dial only a few numbers,
check the road and your mirrors, then continue.
7. Do not engage in stressful or emotional conversations that
may be distracting. Stressful or emotional conversations and
driving do not mix-they are distracting and even dangerous
when you are behind the wheel. Make people you are talking
with aware you are driving and if necessary, suspend phone
conversations which have the potential to divert your attention
from the road.
8. Use your smartphone to call for help. Your smartphone is one
of the greatest tools you can own to protect yourself and your
family in dangerous situations-with your smartphone at your
side, help is only three numbers away. Dial 9-1-1 in the case of
fire, traffic accident, road hazard, or medical emergencies.
Remember, 9-1-1is a free call on your smartphone!
9. Use your smartphone to help others in emergencies. Your
smartphone provides you a perfect opportunity to be a “good
Samaritan” in your community. If you see an auto accident,
crime in progress, or other serious emergency where lives are
in danger, call 9-1-1, as you would want others to do for you.
10.Call roadside assistance or a special wireless non-emergency
assistance number when necessary. Certain situations you
encounter while driving may require attention, but are not
urgent enough to merit a call to 9-1-1. But you can still use
your smartphone to lend a hand. If you see a broken-down
vehicle posing no serious hazard, a broken traffic signal, a
minor traffic accident where no one appears injured, or a
vehicle you know to be stolen, call roadside assistance or
other special non-emergency wireless number.