User's Manual

16 Chapter 2 : Phone
Make calls
For information on turning the phone off and back on, see Turn the phone
on/off.
Dial using the onscreen dial pad
The onscreen dial pad is useful when you need to dial numbers that are
expressed as letters and when you need large, brightly lit numbers that you
can tap.
1 Open Phone .
2 Tap the dial pad numbers to enter the number.
3 Tap to d i a l.
Dial by contact name using universal search
1 Open Card view (see Display all open applications (Card view)) or the
Launcher (see Open an application in the Launcher).
2 Begin typing the contact first or last name, or initials.
3 Tap one of the contact’s phone numbers to dial it. If only the contact
name appears, tap the name to display the phone numbers for that
contact, and tap the number.
Dial using the keyboard
1 In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, use the keyboard to enter the
number. You do not need to press Option to enter numbers, *, or #.
2 When you finish entering the number, tap it to dial.
Dial using a speed dial
See Assign a speed dial to a contact for instructions on creating a speed dial.
• In the Launcher, Card view, or Phone, press and hold the speed-dial key
you assigned to the number.
Dial by contact name in the Phone application
See How do I add names and other info into Contacts? for instructions on
adding contacts to your phone. You can also look up and dial contacts using
universal search (see Dial by contact name using universal search).
1 Open Phone .
2 Using the keyboard, enter a name or initials until the contact you want
appears.
3 Tap the number.
Redial the last number dialed
1 Open Phone .
2 Tap . When the contact name or number appears at the top of the
screen, tap again to dial.
TIP If you turn off the preference to show contact matches in the dial pad (see
Show contact matches), this changes how you dial using the keyboard in the
Phone application. In Phone, after you enter the number with the keyboard,
tap the onscreen dial icon to dial.