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The Basics
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Connecting Quickly With Your Contacts
As you build up your list of contacts on your phone, you can use the Quick
Contact for Android feature to quickly email, text message, place a call, or
locate your contacts. Quick Contact for Android is a special set of icons that
you can use to quickly and easily connect with a contact.
Open your Contacts list and tap the contact's picture.
Tapping the contact's picture opens a Quick Contact dialog box displayed
directly below the contact's name. It displays icons for all of the ways
you can communicate with that contact. The available icons depend on
the information you have saved for that contact.
Type in the
name you want
to search.
Contact picture
Tap here to
open Quick
Contact for
Android for this
contact.
Tap a Quick Contact icon to communicate with the contact. Depending
on the icon you've tapped, a different application will open.
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Adding a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen allows you to open Quick Contact
for that contact without opening the Contacts application. You can also add a shortcut to
your Home screen for Direct dial or Direct message for a contact.
To create a contact shortcut, touch and hold the contact entry, then tap Add to Home
•
screen in the Context menu that appears.
To create a Direct dial shortcut, tap the contact entry, tap (or press) the Menu Key
•
tap Add to Home screen in the Options menu, then tap Direct dial.
To create a Direct message shortcut, tap the contact entry, tap (or press) the Menu Key
•
Contact list
, tap Add to Home screen in the Options menu, then tap Direct message.
Alphabetical
Listing
Slide your finger
vertically along the
letters to view the
entries under a
specific letter.
Quick Contact for
Android
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