User Guide
54 Chapter 4 : Phone
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).
When you search for contacts, your phone returns both matching contact
entries that are stored in the Contacts application and those that are stored
on your SIM card.
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.
Dial your national emergency number
To dial 911, do the following:
1 Press power to wake up the screen if needed.
2 Drag up to unlock the screen if needed.
3 Do one of the following:
• If Secure Unlock is not on (see Set options for unlocking the screen),
tap the center of the gesture area to display Card view if Card view is
not displayed. Enter the emergency number, and tap the number to
dial. You don't have to press Option to enter numbers.
• If Secure Unlock is on, tap Tap to dial emergency call, and then tap
Emergency call. Edit the displayed number if needed, and then tap
to dial.
NOTE If the phone is turned off (that is, if it’s in airplane mode), you
don’t have to turn it on. It automatically tries to connect to a network
to make the call.
DID YOU KNOW? If you press E, R, or any other key that displays both a letter
and a number, you see both matching names and numbers onscreen.
DID YOU KNOW? If your company uses Microsoft Exchange Server with a
Global Address List (GAL), entering the contact search information returns
matching results from the GAL as well.
TIP If you do not want contact matches to appear when you type a number on
the keyboard, you can turn off the Show Contact Matches preference (see Tu r n
contact match display on/off). When this preference is off, you can still dial by
contact name in the Phone application. After opening Phone, tap the contact list
icon to the right of “Enter name or number.” Type the contact name or initials, and
tap the number when it appears.