Nokia 8390 - Manual (Page 138)

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Your phone and other devices
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• INFRARED BASICS
You can use IR to send and receive phone book entries (business cards)
and calendar notes.
1 Make sure the 2 devices are ready for the IR connection.
2 To receive information on your phone, press Menu 9 (Infrared) and
then press Select.
3 Have the user of the sending device select the desired IR function to
start data transfer.
If data transfer is not started within 2 minutes, the connection is
cancelled and will have to be restarted.
Note: You do not have to “turn off” the IR function in your phone.
After data transfer, the IR connection automatically drops after
about 2 minutes.
Check the status of an IR connection
The status of an IR connection is indicated by .
• When is displayed continuously, there is an IR connection
between your phone and the other device.
• When blinks, your phone is trying to establish a connection
with the other device or a connection has been lost.
• When is not displayed, no IR connection exists.
• SEND AND RECEIVE INFORMATION
You can transmit information in your phone by infrared (IR) using the
industry-standard v.card format. You can send and receive business cards
(v.card format) to another compatible phone, to a PC running the appropriate
software, or to other compatible IR-equipped handheld devices.