9Introduction
Introduction
Congratulations and thank you for buying the Ericsson
Mobile Companion 218.
The Ericsson MC 218 is an advanced, yet easy to use, product with a wide
range of features, designed to make everyday life easier.
Together with an Ericsson phone, your MC 218 gives you the freedom to
communicate wherever you are and whenever you want. You can send and
receive e-mail, fax, SMS messages and electronic postcards, browse the
Internet and much, much more.
EPOC™ is the name of the advanced operating system designed to be fully at
home in your MC 218. EPOC is a derivative of the word ‘epoch’ and heralds a
new era in mobile communications.
Welcome to a wireless world!
Quick Guide
The Quick Guide is a leaflet that provides step-by-step instructions on how to
get started.
User’s Guide
The purpose of the User’s Guide is to get you up to speed quickly in using
your MC 218. The information has deliberately been kept short, as it
supplements the more detailed information in this User’s Manual.
In this manual the term phone is equivalent to mobile or cellular phone.
Fn + Help
To display online help from the Desktop or respective programs:
• Hold down the Fn key and press Help (,) to the right of the spacebar. You
can also select the Help command on the Tools menu.
User’s Manual and Software
This User’s Manual gives a comprehensive description of the functions in
your MC 218. It comes in portable document format (pdf) on the CD, which
also contains Ericsson EPOC Connect and Mobile Internet (WAP). See the
checklist in the following chapter for more details of what to find on the CD.
DOCUMENTATION
ONLINE HELP
CD CONTENTS