Palm Treo 700VVX, User Manual

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4 Suspend conversations during hazardous driving conditions or
situations. Let the person you are speaking to know you are
driving; if necessary, suspend the call in heavy traffic or
hazardous weather conditions. Rain, sleet, snow, and ice can be
hazardous, but so is heavy traffic. As a driver, your first
responsibility is to pay attention to the road.
5 Do not take notes or look up phone numbers while driving. If you
are reading an address book or business card while driving a car,
or writing a to-do list, then you are not watching where you are
going. It’s common sense. Don’t get caught in a dangerous
situation because you are reading or writing and not paying
attention to the road or nearby vehicles.
6 Dial sensibly and assess the traffic; if possible, place calls when
you are not moving or before pulling into traffic. Try to plan your
calls before you begin your trip, or attempt to coincide your calls
with times you may be stopped at a stop sign, red light or
otherwise stationary. But if you need to dial while driving, follow
this simple tip: Dial only a few numbers, check the road and your
mirrors, then continue.
7 Do not engage in stressful or emotional conversations that may
be distracting. Stressful or emotional conversations and driving
do not mix-they are distracting and even dangerous when you are
behind the wheel. Make people you are talking with aware you
are driving and if necessary, suspend phone conversations which
have the potential to divert your attention from the road.
8 Use your smartphone to call for help. Your smartphone is one of
the greatest tools you can own to protect yourself and your
family in dangerous situations-with your smartphone at your side,
help is only three numbers away. Dial 911 in the case of fire,
traffic accident, road hazard, or medical emergencies.
Remember, 911 is a free call on your smartphone.
9 Use your smartphone to help others in emergencies. If you see
an auto accident, crime in progress, or other serious emergency
where lives are in danger, call 911, as you would want others to
do for you.
10 Call roadside assistance or a special wireless non-emergency
assistance number when necessary. Certain situations you
encounter while driving may require attention, but are not urgent
enough to merit a call to 911. But you can still use your
smartphone to lend a hand. If you see a broken-down vehicle
posing no serious hazard, a broken traffic signal, a minor traffic
accident where no one appears injured, or a vehicle you know to
be stolen, call roadside assistance or other special
non-emergency wireless number.
NOTICE FOR CONSUMERS WITH HEARING
DISABILITIES
Digital Wireless Phones to be Compatible with Hearing
Aids On July 10, 2003, the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) modified the exemption for wireless phones under the Hearing
Aid Compatibility Act of 1988. This means that wireless phone
manufacturers and service providers must make digital wireless
phones accessible to individuals who use hearing aids.
For more information, please go to the FCC’s Consumer Alert on
accessibility of digital wireless phones at
fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/hac wireless.html.
Wireless telephones are hand-held phones with built-in antennas,
often called cell, mobile, or PCS phones. These phones are popular
with callers because they can be carried easily from place to place.
Wireless telephones are two-way radios. When you talk into a
wireless telephone, it picks up your voice and converts the sound to
radio frequency energy (or radio waves). The radio waves travel
through the air until they reach a receiver at a nearby base station.
The base station then sends your call through the telephone network
until it reaches the person you are calling.
When you receive a call on your wireless telephone, the message
travels through the telephone network until it reaches a base station