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The electrolyte may be toxic if
swallowed.
• Exercise care in handling batteries
in order not to create a short
circuit with conductive materials.
• Charge the battery provided
with or identified for use with this
product only in accordance with
the instructions and limitations
specified in this manual.
Precautions for users
of implanted cardiac
pacemakers
Cardiac pacemakers (applies only to
digital cordless devices):
Wireless Technology Research, LLC
(WTR), an independent research
entity, led a multidisciplinary
evaluation of the interference
between portable wireless devices
and implanted cardiac pacemakers.
Supported by the U.S. Food
and Drug Administration, WTR
recommends to physicians that:
Pacemaker patients
• Should keep wireless devices
at least six inches from the
pacemaker.
• Should NOT place wireless
devices directly over the
pacemaker, such as in a breast
pocket, when it is turned ON.
• Should use the wireless
telephone at the ear opposite the
pacemaker.
About cordless
telephones
• Privacy
: The same features that
make a cordless telephone
convenient create some
limitations. Telephone calls
are transmitted between the
telephone base and the cordless
handset by radio waves, so there
is a possibility that the cordless
telephone conversations could
be intercepted by radio receiving
equipment within range of the
cordless handset. For this reason,
you should not think of cordless
telephone conversations as being
as private as those on corded
telephones.
• Electrical power
: The telephone
base of this cordless telephone
must be connected to a working
electrical outlet. The electrical
outlet should not be controlled
by a wall switch. Calls cannot be
made from the cordless handset if
the telephone base is unplugged,
switched off or if the electrical
power is interrupted.
• Potential TV interference
: Some
cordless telephones operate