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Guidelines for Safe and Efficient Use

Please read this information before using your mobile phone.

Note Important: to avoid hearing impairment, answer call or lower volume before placing this product to your ear.

Recommendations

•Always treat your product with care and keep it in a clean and dust-free place.

•Do not expose your product to liquid or moisture or humidity.

•Do not expose your product to extreme high or low temperatures.

•Do not expose your product to open flames or lit tobacco

products.

•Do not drop, throw or try to bend your product.

•Do not paint your product.

•Do not use your product near medical equipment without requesting permission.

•Do not use your product when in, or around aircraft, or areas posted "turn off two-way radio".

•Do not use your product in an area where a potentially explosive atmosphere exists.

•Do not place your product or install wireless equipment in the

area above your car's air bag.

•Do not attempt to disassemble your product. Only Sony Ericsson authorised personnel should perform service.

Antenna

Only use an antenna that has been specifically designed by Sony Ericsson for your mobile phone. Use of unauthorised or modified

antennas could damage your mobile phone and may violate regulations, causing loss of performance and SAR levels above the recommended limits (see below).

Efficient use

Hold your mobile phone as you would any other phone. Do not cover the top of the phone when in use, as this affects call quality and may cause the phone to operate at a higher power level than needed, thus shortening talk and standby times.

Radio Frequency (RF) Exposure and SAR

Your mobile phone is a low-power radio transmitter and receiver. When it is turned on, it emits low levels of radio frequency energy (also known as radio waves or radio frequency fields).

Governments around the world have adopted comprehensive international safety guidelines, developed by scientific organizations, e.g. ICNIRP (International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection) and IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.), through periodic and thorough evaluation of scientific studies. These guidelines establish permitted levels of radio wave exposure for the general population. The levels include a safety margin designed to assure the safety of all persons, regardless of age and health, and to account for any variations in measurements.

Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) is the unit of measurement for the amount of radio frequency energy absorbed by the body when using a mobile phone. The SAR value is determined at the highest certified power level in laboratory conditions, but the actual SAR level of the mobile phone while operating can be well below this value. This is because the mobile phone is designed to use the minimum power required to reach the network.

Variations in SAR below the radio frequency exposure guidelines do not mean that there are variations in safety. While there may be differences in SAR levels among mobile phones, all Sony Ericsson mobile phone models are designed to meet radio frequency exposure guidelines.

Before a phone model is available for sale to the public, it must be tested and certified to the FCC that it does not exceed the limit established by the government-adopted requirement for safe exposure. The tests are performed in positions and locations (that is, at the ear and worn on the body) as required by the FCC for each model. For body worn operation, this phone has been tested and

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