This user guide is for BeamMobile 2.2. It has the following sections:
For questions not listed, please e-mail me. This guide is updated from time to time.
This user guide in pdf: English. Requires Acrobat Reader.
PDF and Deutsch translation by courtesy of Carsten Stocklass.
BeamMobile allows you to beam contacts from your Address Book and events from your Date Book. These records are listed under the Address Book browser and the Date Book browser respectively. For records which are not in the Address or the Date Book, you may enter them in the Name Editor or the Event Editor and send them on the fly.
Using event kinds:
- The event kinds listed on BeamMobile are recommended ones. Support of these events varies among phone manufacturers and models. You may want to find out which are the ones accepted by a particular phone by experiments. Here are the supported ones on Ericsson, Nokia and Siemens phones:
| Event kind | | Ericsson | | Nokia | | Siemens |
|---|
| Appointment | | Appointment * | | - | | - |
| Birthday | | Anniversary * | | Birthday | | Birthday |
| Holiday | | Holiday * | | - | | - |
| Meeting | | Meeting | | Meeting | | Meeting |
| Memo/Reminder | | Reminder | | Reminder | | Memo |
| Phone Call | | Phone Call | | Call + | | Phone Call |
| Travel | | Travel * | | - | | - |
| Vacation | | Vacation * | | - | | - |
- The Ericsson R320s does not support event kinds marked with asterisks above. Ericsson phones allows up to 36 characters in the event description and 20 characters for the location.
- The Nokia 3650/7650 does not support phone call events.
- Some older Nokia phones accept only the first 20 characters when sending with the event kind of Meeting or Birthday. Additional characters can be entered on the phone by editing the event.
- Additional outdoor activity event kinds on the Nokia 5210 are not supported by BeamMobile.
- Siemens phones accept only the first 16 characters of a description. The ME45/S45 extend the limit to 20.
- Note: limits on text length are subject to manufacturers specifications.
Preparing birthday reminders for Nokia phones:
- To set an age for a birthday, write the event in this format:
<4-digit year-of-birth> <space> <your message>
- If the year-of-birth is omitted, it is assumed the year of today.
- Make sure your select Birthday as the event kind before sending.
Preparing phone call reminders:
- Just enter a phone number as the event and select Phone Call as the event kind before sending.
- BeamMobile assumes phone call events in this Nokia-defined format:
<phone-number> <space> <name-of-the-callee>
- If the phone number, that is, the first word of the event, contains alphabets, BeamMobile will convert them to numbers, the rest will be left untouched.
- Virtually all Nokia phones ignore callee names upon receiving.
Sending ringtones via SMS (for Palm OS 4.0 or above)
- First, you must have the SMS Library installed. Check with the user manual of your handheld about installing it.
Second, check the Phone panel under Prefs that the desired phone driver is chosen. Download one if it is not listed.
- Activate the infrared port or Bluetooth of your phone
- In BeamMobile, choose a record and select Send Record from the menu; select SMS and proceed if you are asked to choose a send method.
- Choose or enter a phone number when you're asked and tap the Send button.
Sending ringtones via Bluetooth (for Palm OS 4.0 or above)
- First, you must be using a Bluetooth adaptor and have the appropriate drivers installed. Please refer to the user manual of your Bluetooth adapter for details.
- Activate Bluetooth of your phone
- In BeamMobile, choose a record and select Send Record from the menu; select Bluetooth and proceed if you are asked to choose a send method.
- Follow the instructions on the screen to select the receiving device.
Address book browser:
- General — sending options for all phones
- To format name, choose a style from the name format list
this option is available to all non-Symbian-based Nokia models, Siemens S25 and S35 series as well as devices recognizing the vCard 2.1 formatted name property.
- To remove text like
ext. 123
from numbers, select Neglect PABX extension.
- To convert domestic numbers to their international forms, select Use country prefix and enter the country prefix.
For example, 012345678 becomes +3312345678.
- Basic phonebook — sending options for phones the allow only number per name
- To add a number indicator after a name, pick a style from the Suffix list.
- To limit a size of a name, including the chosen suffix, select Limit name to and enter the maximum characters allowed.
- Advanced phonebook — sending options for phones with PDA-liked phonebooks
- To suppress certain Numbers and e-mail or Additional info from beaming/sending, uncheck them accordingly.
Datebook browser:
- You can send events as vCal or vNote. vNote is support on some advanced phones such as the Sony Ericsson T68i. If you're not sure, choose vCal.
- You may suppress alarms or notes from beaming/sending
- To use Notes as the location for an event, select notes as well as as location: useful with [Sony] Ericsson phones or the Symbian-based phones.
Important: phones may not accept everything you beam/send to them.