Introduction

Who Should Read this Guide

This guide contains overview information for people who are just starting to learn about the Polycom® VVX® 500 Business Media Phone, or who have experience, but need a quick refresher. It is intended for beginning users, as well as intermediate and advanced users who want to learn about the phone’s features.

How to Use this Guide

This guide is organized into five chapters. The beginning chapters introduce the phone and explain how to use the phone’s basic features. Later chapters describe advanced features, and how to customize your phone to suit your needs. The guide also includes safety and legal information.

Chapter 1: Getting Started This chapter contains general information about your phone that you’ll find helpful before you start using it. It describes phone hardware and phone views, how to use the touchscreen, navigate menus, and enter data.

Chapter 2: Using Basic Features All the basic features that your phone offers—such as how to add contacts and favorites, or transfer or forward calls—are described in this chapter.

Chapter 3: Using Advanced Features Advanced features that may not be available on the phone, or that you may not use on a day-to-day basis, are described in this chapter. Advanced features include recording calls, monitoring buddies and contacts, and accessing a Browser.

Chapter 4: Customizing Your Phone You can customize your phone in many ways, including setting up a screen saver, or changing the backlight, background picture, or time and date format. Read this chapter to personalize your phone.

Chapter 5: Administrative Tasks This chapter describes tasks that your administrator may ask you to perform. These tasks include investigating phone issues, restarting the phone, updating the phone’s configuration, and testing the phone’s hardware.

Safety Notices This section provides important safety and compliance information relating to your phone.

End-User License Agreement The End-User License Agreement outlines the legal agreement between you and Polycom when you agree to install and use Polycom software.

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