Quick Start Guide for BlackBerry OS

This guide provides you easy step-by-step instructions to help you get started with .

Secure calls with 

Calling with  is a very easy task. You can both use your contact list or directly dial a number using the dialpad.

 

To make a secure call, you and the called party must have software running on the mobile device, be connected to the Internet and to the same .

Calling by contact list

Select Contacts item from the main view, select on the contact you want to call and select the contact number associated with , then press the "Call" button:

As you can see in  each contact can show a coloured ball at its left, or nothing at all. These are status marker and they represent the Presence Status for each contact.

Presence

The Presence avoid users to call contacts who are not reachable, eg: because they do not have activated and/or connected. The main value of this feature is to improve user experience suggesting the possible outcome of a call.

Contacts lists

 gives you access to three different kind of lists:
  • ALL: it lists all the contacts which are in the mobile address book, ordering them in the very same way.
  • KNOWN: it shows only known contacts (registered or not) according to 's knowledge. This means it is a list of the contacts that are recognised by the server and thus can have a status.
  • FAVOURITES: it reads the contacts marked by you as " favorites". It's a selection of contacts you choose to have apart, in order to make speed calls.
Each list may show a Contact status beside each contact. The contact status legenda is shown below:

Contact status

OnlineThe contact is reachable. You can make a secure call to the user.
OfflineThe contact is not reachable, because is not under network coverage or is offline. You can try to make a secure call but the call will likely fail
Warning

The contact is not reachable using a full secure call, but you can call him using one Sip Trunk configured on your server. 

ErrorThere is a comunication error between your phone and the server. The contact status is unknown, anyway you can try to make a secure call

Calling by keyboard

You can make a secure call to any arbitrary number (presuming that the call peer has  connected) by simply entering the number on  main menu and pressing the dial button. 


Receiving a secure call with 

 Once  is installed and all the settings are correctly configured on your device, you are able to receive a secure call.  displays a screen when an incoming secure call is arrives to your phone. Press the Accept (green) button to allow the connection. After the system have exchanged and verified the security keys the you can start the conversation.

To receive a secure call has to be running and be connected to the Internet.

Call status

To establish a call  completes three phases shown by three icons:

Call status icons

Red light

Starting the connection

Connection not yet established. This step may take several seconds

Green light

Secure call established

Connection established and secure. You can now speak securely

Checking your security

A call is always encrypted. The call is automatically secured during the call setup. As soon as the call is established you can immediately start to talk securely with your call peer.

The security of the call is based on a digital certificate verification on the SIP/TLS server. If a certificate error appears check whether the date of your phone is correct. If the date is correct it is possible that the certificate is wrong, misconfigured or expired or that your phone is undergoing a security attack. In these cases always contact your system administrator.

History

Every event performed or received on your  is listed into the "History" view, which can be displayed by selecting "Recent" item in the Main view.

Events are displayed grouped on the account they are related to. So you'll have one line for each account who left a communication event into your "History". 

You can access event's details by selecting the line you're interested into and pressing the central key (). 

Secure Messages

You can communicate with your peers by text messages using the Secure Messages System which provides Secure Messages. A Secure Message is a text message that travels into the same encrypted architecture of the Secure Call. 

The maximum length of a single message is 160 character

 If you disable PIN or use duress code all messages and calls history will be deleted from  .

Secure Message System need specific abilitation. If the service is not available on your device please contact your support team to check it's enabled on your account.

Sending Secure Messages from "Secure Messages" tab

Sending Secure Messages from "Messages" view is very easy and straight forward.

Sending Secure Messages from "Contacts" tab

Secure Messages are also available from "Contacts list" tab. 

You have to select a contact from the list shown in , tap on the contact and show its details , click on blackberry button and choose Send message, composer will popup  and now you are ready to write your secure message.

Secure Messages status icons and known limitations

Each Secure Message is displayed with an icon showing its status. Most important icons are:

IconMeaning

Sending Message

Message Delivered
Error sending Message

There are few known limitations in the current Secure Message System:

Actually it's not possible to use Secure Messages in order to chat with multiple people (ie it's not possible to create chat rooms).