Palm 500V User Guide - Page 34

3 MOVING AROUND ON YOUR PALM® TREO™ 500V SMARTPHONE CHAPTER Use the keyboard to enter text and other symbols in many applications on your smartphone, as well as to dial phone numbers (see Using your Home screen). NOTE Depending on your region, your keyboard layout may be different from the one shown above. Understanding the keyboard backlight Your smartphone includes a keyboard backlight for low light conditions. The keyboard backlight activates automatically when the screen turns on. The backlight turns off automatically when the screen turns off or when you are on a call or playing music in the background for longer than the time specified in Backlight Settings. You can set different time intervals depending on whether the smartphone is operating on battery power or is connected to an external power source. The backlight also turns off when an application's power-saving features turn it off. TIP You can change the backlight shut-off interval. Press Home, press Start (left softkey), navigate to the My Settings content list, and then press All Settings (right softkey). Select More, and then select Power Management. Use the two Backlight time out on... lists to specify how long the backlight stays on. Using text-entry fields In applications such as Contacts, Calendar, and Tasks, text-entry fields are designated by a rectangle around the field. On most screens, the rectangle does not appear until you navigate to the field using the 5-way. To enter text in a field, highlight the field and use the keyboard to enter text. Some text-entry fields-for example, the Street field in Contacts or the Notes field in Contacts, Calendar, or Tasks-display a right-pointing arrow. In these fields, press Centre or Right to open a text-entry screen that allows you to enter more than one line of text. 34 U S I N G T H E K E Y B O A R D