User manual

YOUR PHONE
MAKING CALLS FROM THE TODAY SCREEN
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You can make a call with your speed-dial
buttons by doing any of the following:
• Use the 5-way to highlight a
speed-dial button, and then press
Center .
• Tap a speed-dial button with the stylus.
• Press and hold the Quick Key that you
assigned to the speed-dial button.For
more info on Quick Keys see Creating a
speed-dial button.
To see more speed-dial buttons, highlight
the picture speed-dial area and press Right
or Left repeatedly, or highlight the text
speed-dial area and press Up , Down ,
Right , or Left .
Dialing by contact name
You can look up contacts quickly by
entering just a few letters of a contact’s
name directly from your Today screen.
BEFORE YOU BEGIN Before you can dial a
number by contact name, you must create
some contacts (see A
dding a contact) or
import them by synchronizing (see
Synchronizing information
).
1 Go to your Today screen.
2 Using the keyboard, begin entering one
of the following for the contact you
want to call:
• First name (for example, joh for John)
• Last name (smi for Smith)
TIP You can hide your speed-dial buttons on
your Today Screen and still use your Quick
Keys to call a speed-dial number. For details
see Selecting which items appear on your
Today screen.
DID YOU KNOW ? You can dial an alternate
number for a contact with a speed-dial button.
Highlight the speed-dial button, press and hold
Center on the 5-way, and then select a
number from the shortcut menu.
TIP You can customize the default speed-dial
buttons. See Editing a speed-dial button
.