Sony Ericsson P990i - Manual (Page 20)

White Paper P990i
20 January 2006
Preliminary version - P1F
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Contacts are displayed in a list, which may be fil-
tered by folder such as business or personal. To
see a contacts details select the contact. Tap the
icons alongside the contacts details to launch a
video call, phone call, a new message or a URL in
the browser.
When a new contact entry is created the camera
can be launched from within the application allow-
ing you to take a picture of the contact. Alterna-
tively an image from the Picture Gallery. can be
selected.
Calls received from new numbers can automati-
cally cause the user to be prompted to save the
number.
Contact details can be added to a distribution list.
Distribution lists can be used to send groups of
contacts the same email, SMS, EMS or MMS.
Calendar
The Calendar application keeps track of appoint-
ments and events and enables reminder alarms to
be set. The calendar view has been enhanced to
display the selected day’s events on the screen.
Calendar entries are displayed in local time, but all
appointments and reminders are saved in UTC
(Coordinated Universal Time). If the user moves to
a different time zone the calendar updates the
appointments and reminders automatically. Meet-
ing requests can be sent from the Calendar appli-
cation via email. Meeting invitations can be
received by email and added in to Calendar.
The alarm signal can be personalized using sound
clips. Appointments can be shared using infrared,
Bluetooth™ connectivity, and also by Messages.
Local and remote synchronisation are both sup-
ported using SyncML; see “Synchronisation and
data transfer” on page 42 for more information. The
Chinese models support the lunar calendar.
Tasks
Tasks is a simple yet powerful application that can
be used to make reminder notes. Task items may
be beamed, exchanged using Messages, synchro- nized locally, and remotely using SyncML, see
“Synchronisation and data transfer” on page 42 for
more information.
Notes
Notes provides a quick means of making notes in
either text or sketch format. Notes can be launched
during a call. The note is automatically named with
the other party’s number, name (if known), time of
call and date.