Monday, February 11, 2008

Using Speed Dial

Nokia mobile phones have built-in speed-dial support. Speed dial allows you to assign a phone number to any of the numeric keys on the phone's keypad. When the phone is displaying the idle screen, you can simply press a key and then the green Call button to make a call to the key's assigned speed-dial number. On Nokia Series 40 phones, you can also press and hold a key on the keypad and the phone will automatically call its corresponding speed-dial number.

On some devices, speed dialing is also known as 1-touch dialing.

To assign a phone number to a speed-dial key on a Nokia phone, first you need to select a contact from the Contacts list. Then, open the contact, highlight a phone number, and use the Options >Speed dial menu to assign that phone number to a key on the keypad (on some Series 60 devices, use Options >Assign 1-touch no). The 1 key is always assigned to the voice mail number from your wireless operator (it is stored in the SIM card) and you cannot change it.

If you try to speed-dial a key that is not yet assigned a number, the phone will prompt you to enter a number for that key.

On some Nokia Series 60 phone models (e.g., my Nokia 6600), you can also bring up the key map for the speed-dial assignments via the Tools>Speed dial menu. If a key is assigned to a contact, the contact's thumbnail picture or name is displayed. For unassigned keys, the key number is displayed. You can use the Options menu to assign, remove, and change the phone number for each key.

The phone's built-in speed-dial application is easy to use but it holds only 10 phone numbers. If you need to speed-dial more than 10 numbers, you can use the speed-dialing feature in the SIM card directory.

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