User Manual

YOUR PHONE
MAKING CALLS FROM THE HOME SCREEN
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CHAPTER
Dialling 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 synchronising (see Synchronisi
ng
information).
Make sure your phone is on and that
you’re inside a coverage area (see
Turning your phone on
).
1 Press Home .
2 Using the keyboard, begin entering one
of the following for the contact you
want to call:
• First name (JOH for John)
• Last name (SMI for Smith)
• First initial, a space, and then last
initial (J S for John Smith)
• A few letters of the first name, a
space, and then a few letters of the
last name (JOH SMI for John Smith)
For example, entering SM finds both
Smilla Anderson and John Smith.
Entering SM AN finds only Smilla
Anderson.
TIP If you lock your smartphone and select
Simple PIN as the password type, you can dial
an emergency number by entering the
number in the password field and pressing
Phone/Send. You do not need to press
Option before entering the number. However,
if you select Strong alphanumeric as the
password type, you must first press Option
twice before entering the number in the
password field. See Locking your
smartphone.