User guide

98 Chapter 8 : Contacts, Calendar and other personal information
Use a third-party sync solution: If you want to use a desktop app to store
your contacts, you may be able to use a third-party solution (sold
separately) to sync your contacts directly with your computer (see Sync
your desktop organiser and your smartphone or go to hpwebos.com/
sync-solutions to see if third-party solutions are available for your
smartphone). If there are no solutions available for your smartphone,
check with the developers of existing sync software for other webOS
devices to see if they are developing a solution for your smartphone.
Export contacts from desktop software or an old phone: When you
export contacts from desktop software or an old phone, you select which
account to assign those contacts to. Look for those contacts in the account
you select (see Transfer data from an old phone and Export data from a
desktop organiser on your computer).
Download vCard info to Contacts: A vCard is a file type made especially
for contact info. A vCard may contain one or many contact entries. A
vCard can be attached to an email or a multimedia message, and you
can download the info in a vCard to your Contacts app. See Receive
vCards.
Linked contacts
The Synergy feature automatically links contacts from different accounts if
it finds data in common between them. For example, if you have a
contact in Exchange and in Google for Emily Weeks, your smartphone
links the contacts so that all of Emily's info shows up on a single contact
screen. You need to open just one view to see all of Emily's info. The
actual data remains separate in the various accounts where you originally
created the data; it's just assembled in one view on your smartphone for
your convenience.
How can you tell if a contact is linked? Look in the top right-hand corner
of the contact screen. If you see a number beside the photo icon, that
means that you're looking at a linked contact, with combined info from
contacts you're storing in separate accounts.
1 Tap the photo icon to see the contacts that are linked.
2 Emily is a contact in your Google online account and in your HP webOS Account.
3 Scroll down to see Emily's combined contact info.
You can unlink linked contacts, and you can manually link contacts (see
Unlink a contact or Link a contact).
Use Contacts for the first time
1 Open Contacts .
2 Do one of the following:
• To set up an online account to sync: Tap Add An Account and go
to step 3.
• To open Contacts without creating an online account or to use
accounts you have set up already in another app: Tap Done. This
opens your HP webOS Account and any online accounts, then
you can start creating contacts in these accounts.
3 To set up an account that is listed, tap the account type and go to
step 4. To set up an account type that is not listed, tap Find more to
find an app, then follow the instructions onscreen.