Operation Manual

Chapter 8 : Contacts, Calendar, and other personal information 117
Link a contact
When your smartphone recognizes matching information in two or more
contacts—for example, the same name and phone number—it
automatically gathers the info from the two records into a single view that
displays all the contact information. You can also manually link contacts.
The info for your linked contacts appears combined only on your
smartphone; the actual info is kept separate and distinct in the accounts it
came from.
IMPORTANT To maintain the integrity of your contact data, it’s important that
you link only one person’s contact info in different accounts. For example, if you
have contact info for Emily Weeks in Google, Facebook, Microsoft Exchange, and
your Palm profile account, go ahead and link all four contacts into a linked contact.
But don’t link Emily’s contact info with her sister Allison’s.
1 Open Contacts .
2 Search for a contact (see Find a contact), and tap the contact name.
3 In the open entry, tap the contact name in the header, and tap Link
more profiles.
4 Search for the contact (see Find a contact) and tap it to link the two
contacts.
5 (Optional) After you create the link, you can ensure that the linked
contact appears in your Contacts list under the name you’re most likely
to recognize (and not, say, under a person’s IM screen name, which
can be unrelated to their real name). To do this, tap the contact name
you want to appear, and tap Set As Primary Profile.
Unlink a contact
1 Open Contacts .
2 Search for a contact (see Find a contact), and tap the contact name.
3 Tap the contact name in the header, and tap the contact you want to
unlink.
4 Ta p Unlink This Profile.
Add a contact entry to the Launcher
Add your favorite contacts to the Launcher, so you can open them directly
from that location.
1 Open Contacts .
2 Search for a contact (see Find a contact), and tap the contact name.
3 Open the application menu and tap Add To Launcher.
4 (Optional) Edit the first and last name as you want them to appear in
the Launcher.
5 Ta p Add To Launcher. To see the contact in the Launcher, scroll down
on page 1 of the Launcher.
If the contact has a picture (see Add a photo to a contact), the picture
appears as a Launcher icon. If the contact doesn’t have a picture, the contact
name appears in the Launcher with a placeholder icon. Tap the real or
placeholder icon to open the contact.