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Dial by contact name in the phone application, Redial the last number dialed, Dial your national emergency number – Palm Pixi Plus User Manual

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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

).

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.

2

Tap the center of the gesture area to display Card view.

3

Enter the emergency number, and tap the number to dial. If the phone
is turned off, a notification appears prompting you to turn it on. You
don't have to press Option to enter numbers.

Dial from another application

If a phone number appears in another application as an underlined link, you
can begin dialing the number directly from that application. For example,
you can dial phone numbers that appear in web pages, in messages (email,
text, or multimedia), or in notes to calendar events.

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

Show contact matches

). 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.