Contacts and social networking friends
Learn how to save and update your friends' contact information. Learn also how to make the most of your favourite social networking services.
Contacts
Learn how to save and update your friends' contact information, send business cards, and create contact groups.
About Contacts
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You can save and organise your friends' phone numbers, addresses, and other contact information.
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Save phone numbers and mail addresses
You can save your friends' phone numbers, mail addresses, and other information to your contacts list.
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Add a contact to the contacts list
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Select a field, and fill in the details.
Create a contact card for yourself, so you can easily send your contact information to others.
Edit contact information
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Select a contact.
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Select a field, and edit the details.
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To view more fields, select
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Save a number from a received call or message
Have you received a call or a message from a person whose phone number is not yet saved in the contacts list? You can easily save the number in a contact list entry.
Save a number from a received call
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Select a phone number and
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To create a new contacts list entry, select Add new. To add the number to an existing entry, select Merge.
Save a number from a received message
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Select and hold a conversation, and select Open contact card.
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Select Save.
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Select Edit, and fill in the contact details. To add the number to an existing entry, select Merge.
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Find contacts quickly
Want to find someone's contact info quickly without too much scrolling? Set your most important contacts as favourites. That way they're shown at the top of the contacts list. You can also fast scroll or search to browse your contacts list.
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Select the contact and 
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Select the contact and 
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Slide your finger up and down on the right side of the contacts list to jump to a letter of the alphabet.
Start writing in the Search field. Matching contacts are shown.
If you are signed in to Mail for Exchange or Skype, you can also search the contacts stored on those services.
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Add a photo for a contact
Want to see quickly who is calling you? Add a photo from Gallery, or take a new photo.
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Select and hold the contact, and from the pop-up menu, select Edit.
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Select Add image.
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To use an existing photo, select Select from Gallery and a photo.
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To take a new photo, select Capture new image.
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To crop the photo, drag the slider at the bottom right corner of the frame. Drag the frame to reposition.
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Select Done.
If you have linked contacts from social networking services to your contacts list, the photo used in the service is used automatically.
Change the photo for a contact
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Select the contact and the current photo.
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Select a new photo from Gallery, or take a new photo.
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See Take a photo .
Set a ringtone for a contact
Want to be able to hear that a particular person is calling you? You can set a ringtone specifically for that person.
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Select a contact.
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Select
> Edit > > Ringtone: , and the ringtone to use for the contact.
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Copy contacts from the SIM card to your phone
If you have contacts stored on your SIM card, you can copy them to your phone. You can add more details to contacts that are stored on your phone, such as alternative phone numbers, addresses, or a picture.
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Select the contacts you want to copy, or select Mark all to copy all the contacts.
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Select Import.
After copying your SIM contacts to your phone, or after importing contacts, any duplicate contacts are automatically merged into one.
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Create a contact group
When you have created contact groups, you can send a message to several people at the same time. For example, you can assign the members of your family to one group.
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Enter a name for the group.
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Select the contacts you want to add to the group, and select Done.
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Select Save.
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Send a message to a group of people
Would you like to send a message to all your family members quickly? If you have assigned them to a group, you can send a message to all of them at the same time.
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Select the group.
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Select Message or Mail.
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See Create a contact group .