Nokia N8 Manual

You can personalise the profiles in the following ways:
•Change the ringing and message alert tones.
•Adjust the volume of ringing and key tones.
•Mute key tones and warning tones.
•Activate vibrating alerts.
•Set the device to say the name of the contact who is calling.
Personalise your tones
You can personalise your device tones for each profile.
Select Menu > Settings > Profiles.
1 Select the desired profile.
2 Select Personalise and the desired option.
Tip: Download ringing tones from Ovi Store. To...

Select Menu > Settings > Profiles.
1 Select the desired profile and Timed.
2 Set the time that you want the timed profile to expire at.
Change your theme
 With themes, you can change the colours and look of your display.
Select Menu > Settings > Themes.
Select General and a theme.
Some themes include background animation effects. To save battery power, select
General > Options > Theme effects > Off.
Tip: Download themes from Ovi Store. To learn more about Ovi Store, go to
www.ovi.com.
Home screenAbout...

 indicates which home screen you are in.
Personalise the home screen
Want to see your favourite landscape or pictures of your family in the home screen
background? You can change this wallpaper, and rearrange items in the home screen,
to personalise it to your liking.
Tip: If you have more than one home screen, you can switch between them also while
editing, and personalise all your home screens at the same time.
Change the wallpaper
1 Tap and hold the home screen.
2 Select Options > Change wallpaper >...

3 Select Done.
Add a widget to the home screen
Interested in todays weather or whats currently in the news? You can add mini-
applications (widgets) to your home screen, and see your most relevant information at
a glance.
1 Tap and hold the home screen.
2 Select 
 and the desired widget from the list.
3 Select Done.
A widget can enhance the related application, and may also change the way the
application works. For example, if you add a notification widget, received messages are
notified in the widget....

Remove a contact from the home screen
In the widget, select 
 and the contact to remove. The contact is deleted from the
widget, but remains in your contacts list.
Organise your applications
Want to open your most used applications more quickly? In the main menu, you can
organise your applications and hide less used applications in folders.
Press the menu key, and select Options > Edit.
Create a new folder
Select Options > New folder.
Move an application to a folder
Select and hold the application, and...

Tip: Use a WLAN connection to download larger files, such as games, applications, or
videos.
Tip: To avoid entering your payment card details over and over when buying items from
Ovi Store, save your details to your Nokia account. You can add more than one payment
card, and choose which one to use when buying.
For more information on an item, contact the publisher of the item.
Telephone
Call a phone number
1 To make the call, select 
.
2 To end the call, select 
.
Search for a contact
You can search for...

Send a message to the contact
Select and hold the contact, and in the contact card, select Message.
Make a video call to the contact
Select and hold the contact, and in the contact card, select Video call.
Deactivate contact search
Select Options > Contact search > Off.
Call a contact
Select Menu > Contacts.
1 To search for a contact, enter the first letters or characters of the first or second
name in the search field.
2 Select the contact.
3 In the contact card, select Voice call.
4 If the contact has...

Video calls can only be made between two parties. Video calls cannot be made while
another voice, video, or data call is active.
1 Select Menu > Contacts, and search for a contact.
2 Select the contact, and in the contact card, select Video call.
The camera on the front of your device is used by default for video calls. Starting a
video call may take a while. If the call is not successful (for example, video calls are
not supported by the network, or the receiving device is not compatible), you are
asked...

Add a new participant to a conference call
Make a call to another participant, and add the new call to the conference call.
Have a private conversation with a conference call participant
Select 
.
Go to the participant, and select 
. The conference call is put on hold on your device.
The other participants continue the conference call.
To return to the conference call, select 
.
Drop a participant from a conference call
Select 
, go to the participant, and select .
End an active conference call
Select...

Note: Using voice tags may be difficult in a noisy environment or during an
emergency, so you should not rely solely upon voice dialling in all circumstances.
When you use voice dialling, the loudspeaker is in use. Hold the device at a short distance
away when you say the voice command.
1 In the home screen, select and hold Call. If a compatible headset with the headset
key is attached, press and hold the headset key.
2 A short tone sounds, and Speak now is displayed. Say clearly the name that is saved...