About the Touch Screen, About Video | Polycom 1500 instruction

Polycom® VVX™ 1500 Phone

Quick User Guide

About Your Phone

Using Your Phone

Basic Phone Features

Customizing Your Phone

Applies to phones running SIP 3.1.2 or later.

For detailed information, see the User

Guide for the Polycom VVX 1500 Phone at:

www.polycom.com/voicedocumentation

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ABOUT YOUR PHONE

About the Touch Screen

Your phone has a touch-sensitive screen. To access features, obtain information, or edit fields, tap the menu items, arrow keys, soft keys (the keys along the bottom of the touch screen), and fields that display on the touch screen.

About Calls and Line Keys

Your phone can handle one active call and multiple calls on hold. The active call displays in the center of the touch screen. Calls on hold display in a row along the bottom of the touch screen.

Your phone can have up to six lines. A line is assigned to a Line Key. Line Keys display in a column along the far-right of the touch screen. Any unassigned

Line Key can be a Speed Dial Key.

A Line Key is either green (dial tone, incoming call, or active call) or blue (no active call). Calls that display on the touch screen are associated with the Line Key that is green.

Line Keys can also have a status indicator (a vertical bar on the far-right of the

Line Key): . The status indicator can be:

•Solid green—Dial-tone is available, dialing is in progress, or a call is active.

•Flashing green—Incoming call.

•Flashing red—All calls or conferences are on hold.

About Video

Your phone displays video in two windows: a small picture-in-picture (PIP) window at the top-right of the touch screen, and a larger window centered in the middle of the touch screen. By default, the near site (i.e., you) displays in the PIP, and the far site displays in the larger window.

During an active call, you can tap the PIP to swap the windows the video displays in. When the near site displays in the larger window, “Local Camera” displays next to it.

You can also display video on the entire screen (full screen mode) by tapping the larger window. In full screen mode, you can swap the windows the video displays in by tapping the PIP. To resume normal viewing mode, tap the full screen video.

Understanding Icons

Active call without Polycom®

HD Voice™

Active audio call with Polycom

HD Voice

Active video call with Polycom

HD Voice

Call (audio-only)

Call (video)

Call on hold

Conference call

Do Not Disturb

Handset

Headset

Line Key (private and registered)

Line Key (shared and registered)

Messages

Missed calls

Mute

Speakerphone

Speed Dial Key

USB flash drive attached

Video stopped

Video stopped and muted

USING YOUR PHONE

Navigating the Touch Screen

•To enter the Main Menu, tap

•To return to the idle screen, tap

•To go back to the previous menu, tap the Back soft key.

•To select a menu item, tap the menu item.

•To select an option in a list, tap the option, and then tap the Select soft key.

•To scroll menu items and lists on more

than one screen, tap or .

•To “Page Down” or “Page Up,” tap

or .

•To select a soft key, tap the soft key.

•To view more soft keys, tap the More soft key.

•To select a field, tap the field.

•To select a field’s entry box, tap the field name, and then tap the field’s highlighted box.

Polycom VVX 1500 Phone Quick User Guide. 1725-16844-001 Rev. A March 2009 Edition

1500 specifications

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