User's Manual

2-8 Basic Skills
icon that you can tap to open a bubble with options for quickly initiating a connection
to that contact.
Contacts that you can access with Quick Contact are displayed differently in different
applications, but usually with a picture frame that looks like this:
Tap a Quick Contact icon to open a bubble with icons for all the ways you can
communicate with the contact. Tap an icon to start communicating with the contact
in that application.
You can add a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen, which you can then
tap to open Quick Contact for Android for that contact. (For more information about
adding shortcuts to the Home screen, see “Adding an Item to the Home Screen”
earlier in this chapter.)
Entering Information
Using the Onscreen Keyboard
You enter text, numbers, and symbols using the
onscreen keyboard. Some applications open the
keyboard automatically. In others, you tap a
n input
field where you want to enter text to open the
keyboard.