Palm P121VZW User Guide - Page 60

Enable international dialing The international dialing preference makes it easy to make calls to another country, for example, to call home when you are traveling abroad. When you make a call, your phone automatically adds the dialing prefix for the country you are calling.Suppose you select the U.S. or Canada as the country for your international dialing preference. Your phone adds "+1" if you dial a 10-digit U.S. or Canadian number. It adds "+1" and your phone's area code if you dial a 7-digit US or Canadian number. 1 Open Phone . 2 Open the application menu and tap Preferences. 3 In International Dialing, tap Off to switch international dialing from Off to On. 4 Tap the country whose dialing prefix you want to use. If multiple prefixes are displayed, tap the correct prefix. NOTE Your Pixi Plus phone supports only International CDMA Roaming. Refer to verizonwireless.com for a complete list of the over 40 countries in which your Pixi Plus phone is Global Ready. " Use dialing tones Dialing tones, also known as DTMF tones, are the tones that play when you press a key to dial. A short tone plays briefly and then stops, no matter how long you press the key. A long tone plays until you release the key. 1 Open Phone . 2 Open the application menu and tap Preferences. 3 In DTMF tones, tap Short or Long, and then tap the option you want. 60 Chapter 4 : Phone Use dialing shortcuts Dialing shortcuts add a prefix at the beginning of a number, so you can dial an extension instead of the whole number. 1 Open Phone . 2 Open the application menu and tap Preferences. 3 Under Dialing Shortcuts, tap Add new number. 4 Set the following: When I Dial: Tap this field and select the number of digits you need to enter to have your phone add a dialing shortcut. Use This Dialing Prefix: Enter the prefix to be added at the beginning of the dialed number. The combination of prefix and digits you enter must add up to a complete phone number. 5 Tap Done. Example: A complete phone number in your company's phone system has 11 numbers, for example, 1-555-408-1122. When dialing from a phone that's part of the system, you need to dial only the last five digits (81122). When you create a dialing shortcut on your phone, you select "5 digit numbers" for When I Dial and enter "155540" in Use This Dialing Prefix. So when you dial your co-worker's five-digit extension (51122), your phone automatically dials the whole number: 1-555-408-1122. Set roaming and data usage preferences Use roaming and data usage preferences to set options for using your phone in your home network and while roaming. For example, you can set options to prevent placing a call or making a data connection while roaming, so that you avoid extra charges. 1 Open Phone .