KEY TERM Online account An online account is a web- or server-based location, such as Google, Yahoo! or Exchange, where you keep contacts and/ or calendar information. These accounts often have an email component as well. Such web- or server-based accounts are sometimes talked about as being “in the cloud”.

The HP Synergy feature works in the background to get data from an online account onto your smartphone. After you set up one of these accounts on your smartphone, you can access the data from that online account. For some kinds of accounts, you can also add and change data on your smartphone, which is then synchronised to the online account in the cloud.

Whether you decide to set up your online accounts in the Accounts app or from within an individual app, the process is the same. You can specify which apps should get data from the online account. For example, you can choose to set up your Google account so that your smartphone displays your Google contacts, Google Talk instant messages and Gmail messages, but not your Google calendar events.

•To set up an online account in the Accounts app: See Use the Accounts application to set up an online account for details.

•To set up within an individual app: The first time you open Email, Contacts, Calendar or Messaging, you are given the option to enter settings for one or more online accounts. See Set up email, Use Contacts for the first time, Use Calendar for the first time or Set up an instant messaging (IM) account.

You can add more accounts at any time using the Accounts app or the preferences in any of the applications mentioned above. See Set email preferences, Customise Contacts, Customise Calendar or Set up an instant messaging (IM) account.

You can also set up your smartphone to post photos to online accounts such as Facebook or Photobucket. See Set up an online pictures account on your smartphone.

See Online accounts available for webOS phones for the current list of default online accounts that synchronise your info and those that do a one-way transfer of info either from the web to your smartphone or from your smartphone to the web.

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NOTE If you are setting up your smartphone for the first time and downloading a large number of contacts or calendar events from an online account to your smartphone, you may not see all your data on your smartphone right away.

Some online account providers such as Google set limits on the amount of data that a user can import in a given time frame. Also, if you have many years' worth of data or thousands of entries in an online account, you may want to review the data and reduce the number of entries before setting up the account on your smartphone. Filling your smartphone memory with a large number of account entries can affect performance.

Use the Accounts application to set up an online account

1Open Accounts .

2Tap Add Account.

3Do one of the following:

•To add one of the listed accounts: Tap the account name.

•To search for other accounts: Tap Find More. This displays a list of available online accounts. Tap the account you want to download and install it.

4Enter your username and password and tap Sign in.

5Depending on the account, you may be presented with options for which apps should download data from that account. For each app, tap On or Off and then tap Create.