Sony Xperia E5 Manual

Contacts
Use the Contacts application to store and manage all your numbers, email
addresses, and other contact data in one place. Just tap on a contact to see all
communications with that contact in one easy overview.
You can add new contacts in your phone and synchronise them with contacts saved
in your Google™ account, Microsoft ®
 Exchange ActiveSync ®
 account, or other
accounts that support synchronisation. The Contacts application automatically creates new entries and also helps you match data such...

Transferring contacts using an Apple® Mac® computerFor detailed instructions on how to use an Apple Mac computer to transfer contacts
from your old phone, go to  www.sonymobile.com.
Transferring contacts using synchronisation accounts Your phone works with popular online synchronisation accounts such as Google
Sync™, Microsoft ®
 Exchange ActiveSync ®
or Facebook™. If you have synced the
contacts in your old phone or your computer with an online account, you can transfer
your contacts to your new phone...

To receive contacts sent using a messaging service
1 When you receive a new text message, multimedia message, or email
message, open the message.
2 The received contact data appears as a vCard attachment. Tap, or touch and
hold the vCard file to open a menu so you can save the contact data.
Contacts screen overview1Tap this icon to create a contact2Contact search field3Tap a contact to view its details4Tap a contact thumbnail to access the quick contact menu5Shortcut tabs
Managing your contactsYou can...

To add a contact
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap .
2 Tap 
.
3 If you have synchronised your contacts with one or more accounts, select the
account to which you want to add this contact, or tap  Local contact if you only
want to use this contact in your phone.
4 Enter or select the desired information for the contact.
5 When you are finished, tap  Done.
If you add a plus sign and the country code before a contact phone number, you can use the
number when you make calls from other countries.
To...

To separate linked contacts
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap .
2 Touch and hold the linked contact you want to edit, then tap  Edit contact.
3 Tap  Unlink contact .
4 Tap  OK.
Favourites You can mark contacts as favourites so that you can get quick access to them from
the Contacts application.
To mark or unmark a contact as a favourite
1 From the Home screen, tap 
, then tap .
2 Tap the contact you want to add to or remove from your favourites.
3 Tap 
.
To view your favourite contacts
1 From your...

To send a contact
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap .
2 Tap the contact whose details you want to send.
3 Press 
, then tap  Send contact  > OK .
4 Select an available transfer method and follow the on-screen instructions.
To send several contacts at once
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap .
2 Press 
, then tap  Send contacts .
3 Mark the contacts you want to send, or select all if you want to send all
contacts.
4 Tap  Send , then tap  OK to confirm.
5 Select an available transfer method and...

Messaging
Using text and multimedia messaging
You can send and receive text messages from your phone using SMS (Short
Message Service). If your subscription includes MMS (Multimedia Messaging
Service), you can also send and receive messages that contain media files, for
example, pictures and videos. The number of characters you can send in a single text
message varies depending on the operator and the language you use. If you exceed
the character limit, then all your single messages are linked together...

To delete a message
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap  Messaging .
2 Tap the desired conversation.
3 Touch and hold the message you want to delete, then tap  Delete message >
Yes .
To delete conversations
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap  Messaging .
2 Press 
, then tap  Delete conversations .
3 Mark the checkboxes for the conversations you want to delete, then tap
Delete .
To save a sender's number to a contact
1 From your Home screen, tap 
, then tap  Messaging .
2 Tap a...

Email
Use the Email application in your phone to send and receive emails through your
regular email account or through your corporate account. Or you can do both. Your
phone can handle several email accounts at the same time. You can set up these
accounts to run through one combined inbox, or through separate inboxes. Note that
emails you receive to your Gmail™ account can be accessed in the phone from both
the Email and the Gmail™ applications.Your corporate Microsoft® Outlook® email messages have to be...

To receive email messages
1 From your Home screen, tap 
.
2 Find and tap 
. The inbox of your default email account appears.
3 If you want to check another email account that you have set up on your
phone, tap the bar containing 
, then select the account you want to check. If
you want to check all your email accounts at once, tap the bar containing 
,
then tap  Combined view .
4 To download new messages, tap 
.
If you have set up a corporate email account, you can set the check frequency to  Automatic...