Alcatel 990A, 990S manual Gmail/Email

4.2Gmail/Email

The first time you set up your cellphone, you can select to use an existing Gmail or to create a new Email account.

4.2.1Gmail ................................................................

As Google's web-based email service, Gmail is configured when you first set up your cellphone. Gmail on your cellphone can be automatically synchronized with your Gmail account on the web. Unlike other kinds of email account, each message and its replies in Gmail are grouped in your inbox as a single conversation; all emails are organized by labels but not by folders.

To access Gmail

From Home screen, touch the Application tab to enter the applications list, then touch Gmail.

Gmail displays messages and conversations from one single Gmail account at a time, if you own more than one account, you can switch to another by pressing Menu key from Inbox screen, touching Accounts, then touching the account your want to view.

To create and send emails

•Press Menu key from Inbox screen, and touch Compose.

•Enter recipient(s)’s email address in To field, and if necessary, press Menu key and touch Add Cc/Bcc to include a copy or a blind copy to the message.

•Enter the subject and content of the message.

•Press Menu key, touch Attach to send an attachment to the receiver.

•Finally, touch Send.

•If you do not want to send the mail out right away, you can touch Save as draft to save copy. To view the draft, press Menu key and touch go to labels, then select Drafts.

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If you do not want to send or save the mail, you can touch Discard.

To add a signature to emails, press Menu key from inbox screen, and touch Settings, then select Signature.

To receive and read your emails

When a new email arrives, you will be notified by a ringtone or vibration, and an icon will appear on Status bar.

Touch and drag down the Status bar to display the Notification panel, touch the new email to view it. Or you can also access the Gmail Inbox label and touch the new mail to read it.

If you want to go back to the Inbox label while reading a new message, you can press Back key or press Menu key and touch Back to inbox.

The Google Talk online status is shown next to the name of the sender of each email.Touch this indicator to open Quick Contact.

You can search for an email by sender, by subject, by label, etc.

•from inbox screen, press Menu key and then touch Search

•enter the keyword you want to search for in the searching box and touch search icon.

To reply or forward emails

When viewing an email, you will see three icons offering further options at the bottom of the conversation.

• Reply/	Touch to enter text-inputting mode, enter the
Reply all	message you want to reply, then touch Send to
	send this message to one single recipient or all
	people in a mail loop.
• Forward	Touch to forward the message to another person.
	You are required to enter the new recipient’s
	email address and then touch Send.
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