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APPLICATIONS
The Gm882 provides a series of software applications that are often u seful.
Date and time: setting the clock (Time Setup), setting the current date (Date
Setup), change the Date format (month/day/year – day/month/year – year/
month/day); enable and disable the Internet time, and set its parameters:
Daylight Summer Time and the World Timezone.
Calendar: the weekly agenda is viewed on the display. Use the joystick to
change the year, the progressive number of the week and the day of the
selected date. Then select the type of engagement you want to store (meeting
with friends, a birthday, a phone call, an anniversary) and decide what time you
want the phone to alert you.
Memo pad: a space for writing (Add) and storing short texts, using the
traditional writing mode or with T9. The entry Read allows you to view the list
of all the notes you have stored. Select one and by pressing
you can read
the whole text. The menu entry Delete allows you to erase only one or all of the
stored notes.
To do: with the entry Add you insert memorandums for the near future; view
them all with List; you can select one of the tasks and mark it with a cross by
pressing
.when it has been done. To erase an entry from the list, select
Delete.
Here too the editor can use T9 to insert the text more quickly.
Calculator: it works in the same way as all the normal commercial calculators;
select the operators and the functions that you need with the joystick and press
it to confirm each choice.
Insert the figures by pressing the keys from
to
Press
to view the result and
to erase the last figure inserted.
To insert the decimal point, press
or select it with the joystick of the virtual
keypad and press it to confirm.
Currency converter: the upper part of the display shows the currency and the
amount that has to be converted, the lower part shows the result. The ce ntral
part shows the exchange rate.
To select other currencies - and to set a different exchange rate, press the
joystick and insert the name of the currencies and the exchange rate.
Press the joystick to confirm and to go back to the converter.
To convert a currency value, insert it and press
.
By moving the joystick up and down, you can choose to convert the first
currency that is indicated to the second or vice versa.
Unit converter: the upper part of the display shows the measure unit to be
converted and the lower part shows the resulting one.
Insert the amount to convert and press
to view the result of the conversion.
Press the joystick to change the measure unit; choose the size you wan t to
convert and the relative measure units from the list shown.