Front view

1Earpiece: When you hold your smartphone up to your ear when on a call, the screen darkens. See Why the screen goes dark.

2Volume

3Gesture area: Make the back gesture and begin other gestures here. See Use gestures: tap, swipe, drag, flick, pinch.

4Keyboard: See Use the keyboard.

5Camera lens: For live video calling only. See Online accounts available for webOS phones.

6Touchscreen: Tap and make other gestures directly on the screen. See Touchscreen.

7Charger/micro USB connector: Connect the small end of the USB cable to charge your smartphone battery (see Charge the battery) or copy files (see Copy files between your smartphone and your computer).

8Microphone

NOTE The volume you set for each individual audio component is saved automatically, whether the audio component is the earpiece of your smartphone, a wired headset, a wireless headset that uses Bluetooth® wireless technology, music heard through the speaker, music heard through a headset and so on. When you return to using an audio component, the audio plays at the volume you left it the last time you used that component.

Keyboard

1Option: Press to enter numbers, punctuation and symbols that appear above the letters on the keys (see Enter alternative keyboard characters) or to move the cursor (see Text selection gestures).

2Shift: See Enter upper-case letters and Text selection gestures.

3Space

4Backspace

5Enter: Press to enter a line return (for example, in a memo or in an email message you are composing) or to accept information you entered in a field. See Enter information in a field.

6Sym: Press to enter symbols and accented characters that don't appear on the keys. See Enter characters from the symbols table.

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