Contents

Contents

Handset at a glance . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Safety precautions . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

Gigaset SL740 –More than just a telephone . . . . . 5Preparing to use thetelephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

Installing the base station

and charger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Range and signal strength . . . . . . . . . . 5 Connecting the base station . . . . . . . . 5 Preparing to use the handset . . . . . . . . 6 Activating/deactivating the handset . . 7 Activating/deactivating keypad protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Setting the date and time . . . . . . . . . . 8

Operating the telephone . . . . . . . 8

Control key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Display keys . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Return to idle status . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Notes on the operating instructions . . 9

Making calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Making an external call . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Ending calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Accepting a call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Calling Line Identification . . . . . . . . . 10 Handsfree . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Muting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Using the directory and lists . . 12

Directory and speed dial list . . . . . . . . 12 Email directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Display available memory . . . . . . . . . 15 Last number redial list . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Opening lists with the

message key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

Making cost-effective calls . . . . 19

Linking a call-by-call number with a phone number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Automatic network provider preselection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 Viewing the duration of a call

and call charges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20

SMS (text messages) . . . . . . . . . 21

Writing/sending text messages

. . . . . 21

Receiving an SMS . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . 23

Notification by SMS . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . 25

SMS mailboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . 25

Using data in the attachment . .

. . . . . 26

SMS info services . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . 27

Text messages to PABXs . . . . . .

. . . . . 28

SMS error handling . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . 28

MMS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30

Writing/sending MMS messages . . . . . 30 Lists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Receiving and viewing MMS

messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Activating/setting up an

MMS centre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

File Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36

Editing entries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Pictures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 Texts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Using the integrated camera . . . 39

Taking photographs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Changing settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

Operating more thanone handset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Registering handsets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 De-registering handsets . . . . . . . . . . . 40 Looking for a handset ("Paging") . . . . 40 Changing the base station . . . . . . . . . 41 Making an internal call . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Internal listening in on an

external call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Changing the name of a handset . . . 42 Changing a handset's internal

number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 Using a handset as a room monitor . . 43 Setting the Walk and Talk mode . . . . . 44

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