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

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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

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, then press the "Call" button:

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As you can see in 

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 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

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activated and/or connected. The main value of this feature is to improve user experience suggesting the possible outcome of a call.

Contacts lists

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 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

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  '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 "

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   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

	Online	The contact is reachable. You can make a secure call to the user.
	Offline	The 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.
	Error	There 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

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 connected) by simply entering the number on

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 main menu and pressing the dial button. 

Receiving a secure call with 

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Call status

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History

Every event performed or received on your

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. 

• If 

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   is configured with PIN disabled each Secure Message has a time validity, after which it expires. Expiration means that the Secure Message content is no longer readable and it's gone for good. Instead of message content you'd rather read "Message received" or "Message sent".
• if 

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   is configured with PIN enabled each Secure Message is persistent.

Sending Secure Messages from "Secure Messages" tab

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

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

You have to select a contact from the list shown in 

Secure Messages status icons and known limitations

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

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

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