Dial phone numbers quickly.

In today's world of electronic gadgets, we no longer have to remember phone numbers. Instead, we use electronic address books to locate contacts. The tight integration between the address book and the phone is actually one of the major selling points for mobile phones. But compared with dialing from memory, navigating the menu-based address book (a.k.a. the Contacts list on Nokia phones) is often a slow process.

Both Series 40 and Series 60 phones offer a quick shortcut from the phone's idle screen to the Contacts application. The Contacts application is typically mapped to the left soft key on a factory-fresh phone. If you customize the left soft key to another application, you can still go directly to the Contacts application by clicking the center key on the navigation pad (i.e., the joystick) on Series 60 devices, or the down key on Series 40 devices.