The Qwerty Docking Station provides your handheld Icon with better speakers, longer battery life, built in USB and Ethernet connectivity, and a full-sized Qwerty keyboard. It essentially turns your handheld Icon in to a full-sized notetaker, or portable computer, making it comfortable and convenient to create documents of any length, write emails, do research, and much more.
The Qwerty Docking station comes packaged with the following items:
Docking station,
Carrying Case,
AC power supply,
USB cable,
and Braille and print Getting Started guides.
If you have received a docking station, and an item is missing from the package,
please contact LevelStar at (800) 315-2305.
Place the docking station in front of you so that the rounded edge is nearest you and the stereo speakers are at the top edge of the front face. Near the top of the right edge is a rectangular swinging door on which the word LevelStar is embossed.
To insert your Icon in to the docking station, turn it 90 degrees clockwise from normal operating position so that the panel containing the Mini SD card slot and the audio jacks is facing to the right. Gently press the Icon against the swinging door to push it open, and continue to slide the unit in to the docking station until it clicks in to place. When the handheld is inserted properly, the connections panel is nearly flush with the right side of the docking station, and the unit announces "docked". If the handheld is not powered on, when it is inserted in to the docking station, it automatically powers up and announces that it is docked.
Move around to the top edge. Toward the center is a long narrow recess with a lever inside it. Pushing the lever to the right releases the handheld from the dock. When Icon is ejected, it announces "undocked". Once again, if the unit is powered off, when the handheld is ejected, it automatically powers on and announces its undocked status.
To the left of the release lever, there are 4 ports. From right to left these are the USB host port, the Ethernet port, the USB client port, and the AC power port.
The USB host port is positioned vertically and allows you to connect other USB keyboards
or drives to the Icon. Please note: the USB client port is a standard port such as
can be found on USB printers or scanners as opposed to the Mini USB client port,
or USB Sub B port, located on the interface connector, and so, requires a different
cable. This cable is included in your docking station package. The USB client port
allows you to connect your Icon to a computer and use Disk Drive Mode and/or Icon
Sync, or to access the internet using your computer's internet connection through
USB.
The Ethernet port allows you to connect directly to your DSL or cable modem, or an office network, using an Ethernet cable. Note that, when your Icon is docked, an additional profile appears in the Network Manager for connecting via Ethernet. To connect to the internet using the Ethernet port, when your unit is docked and your Ethernet cable is connected, go to the Network Manager, navigate to the Ethernet profile, and press Enter to connect.
The left edge contains a shallow rectangular recess in which there are 3 buttons. The top round button is reset; press and hold for 5 seconds to reset the docking station. The middle bar controls the volume; press the top of the bar to raise the volume, and press the bottom of the bar to lower it. The bottom round button turns the unit on and off; when the handheld is inserted, pressing this button quickly turns both the handheld and the docking station on and off.
As with the handheld, speech and media volume and speech rate can be controlled using other keys in conjunction with the volume control. To adjust the speech volume independent of media and sounds, hold down Shift while raising or lowering the volume. To adjust only the media volume, hold down Control while raising or lowering the volume. Finally, to change the rate of speech, hold down the Alt key while pressing Volume Up or Volume Down to increase or decrease the rate of speech.
Notice the rounded bottom edge. Lift the docking station and place your fingers on the underside of the unit. About 2 inches from the edge is a lip. Gently pull down on this lip to release the wrist rest. Continue to fold the wrist rest out until it protrudes from the front of the docking station parallel to the rest of the unit. When you are finished using the wrist rest, fold it back toward the underside of the unit, and gently press to snap it in to place.
The majority of the front face is taken up with the Qwerty keyboard. The top of the front face contains the stereo speakers, the internal microphone, and 4 oval function keys. From left to right the function keys are Menu, Applications, Status, and Help. These keys perform the exact same functions as do their equivalents on the handheld.
Notice the top row of the Qwerty keyboard. These keys are convex as opposed to the concave style of the majority of the other keys. The left most key in this row is escape, and the right most key is reserved for future use.
Between them, there are
15 function keys. F 1, 2, and 3 are used for global control of the Music Player:
F1 is global Rewind, F2 is global pause/play, and F3 is global Fast Forward. This
means that, once you've started audio playback in the Music Player, you can control
audio playback from anywhere in the system, no matter what application you're currently
using, with these three keys.
F4-F15 are used to quickly launch applications from anywhere on the unit. Note: F7-F10
will be user definable and are not yet assigned. F4, F5, and F6 launch the Music
Player, Bookshelf, and Word Processor respectively. Moving to the other end of the
row, place your finger on the second key from the right edge, or rather, F15. Moving
from right to left, or from F15 to F11, these 5 keys launch the following applications:
Email, Web Browser, Planner, Address Book, and Calculator. Notice a raised notch
on the casing above every 4
th function key for ease of orientation.
Many Icon keystrokes have keyboard equivalents so that they can be used while the unit is docked. Use Enter for OK and Escape for Cancel. For Select press Alt + Space.
To toggle selection of an item in a multi-selection list, such as a file or folder
in File Explorer or a contact in the Address Book, use Control + Space. To turn on
wireless, press Control + Alt + W. To bring the Network Manager forward, press Control
+ Alt + N. To toggle spoken punctuation levels, press Control + Alt + P. Use Control
+ Alt + R for Quick Record. To navigate quickly to Applications or program menu items,
press the first letter of that menu item.
Notice the second key from the left on the bottom row, between the left Control and Alt keys. This key is called Function, and in conjunction with other keys provides the equivalents of most of the keys found on the six pack of a full sized keyboard.
Use Function + Up and Down Arrows to produce Page Up and Page Down respectively.
Use Function + Left Arrow for Home, and Function + Right Arrow for End. Finally,
use Function + Backspace to produce delete.
Use the following QWERTY commands for reading, editing, and navigating text environments.
The docking station uses a Lithium Ion battery with a rating of 4000 milliamp hours. You can expect to get anywhere from 8 to 15 hours of operation from a full battery charge, depending on your activities and the level of charge in the handheld. When the Icon is inserted in to the docking station, the dock battery charges the handheld's battery. If the handheld battery is low, the act of charging it will have a great impact on the life of the docking station's battery. In addition, as with the handheld, using wifi and Bluetooth drain the battery much more quickly than do activities where they are not required.
When the docking station's battery dies, Icon simply undocks, and the handheld's battery takes over. Due to the fact that the docking station charges the handheld's battery, when the docking station's battery dies, the handheld's battery will likely have a full charge. you may plug the docking station in to AC power with the Icon inserted, and charge both the dock and handheld batteries simultaneously. When you query the battery level while the Icon is docked using the battery status line of the Status Menu, both the handheld's battery level and the docking station's battery level are announced.
Created on ... June 06, 2008