Social Networking

With your phone, you can enjoy social networking and manage your micro-blog in on-line communities. You can update your current status, upload photos, and view your friends’ status updates in real-time. You can add your Facebook, Twitter accounts to your phone. If you don’t have an account, you can visit their sites to set one up.

NOTE - Additional costs may be incurred when connecting and using online services. Check your data charges with your network provider.

Adding an account to your phone
  1. From the Home screen, tap the Menu Key > System settings > Account & sync.
  2. Tap ADD ACCOUNT.
  3. Tap any social networking service you want to use.
  4. Enter your email address and password that you set up for your social networking account, then tap Log in.


Adding a social networking widget on the home screen
If you add a social networking widget on your Home screen, the widget will show your status when your phone receives updates from the network. You can also access the social community directly by tapping the widget.

  1. Touch and hold an empty spot on the Home screen.
  2. Tap the Widgets tab and scroll to the right until you see Social+.
  3. Tap Social+ to add it to the Home screen panel.


Viewing and updating your status

  1. Go to the Home screen panel where the Social+ widget is. You can see the current status of social applications you set.
  2. You can select each social application you’d like to view. Tap the arrow (for example, on the upper left corner of the widget) and tap the social application you’d like to display.
  3. Tap “What’s on your mind?” field to update your status with comments or upload pictures. - Check all the social applications you’d like to update. It will simultaneously update all.
  4. After entering comments with attachment (if any), tap Post.

TIP - You can use information about friends only in your social network(s) or sync all data to Contacts.

Syncing accounts on your phone
You can sync information from your social networking accounts with your Contacts and other functions on your phone, if applicable.

  1. From the Home screen, tap the Menu Key > System settings > Accounts & sync. Choose the account you want to synchronize.
  2. Check sync options such as Sync Contacts. “” indicates that synchronization has been enabled.


Removing accounts on your phone
  1. From the Home screen, tap the Menu Key > System settings > Accounts & sync.
  2. Tap the account(s) you want to delete, then tap the Menu Key > Remove account > OK..


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