The Contacts (a.k.a. Address Book or Phone Book) program is one of the earliest and most successful applications on Nokia phones. Managing contact phone numbers right on the phone is clearly a convenience most people appreciate. In early mobile phones, the on-device storage space was extremely limited. So, the "contacts" were limited to pairs of names and phone numbers. As mobile phone technology evolved, modern Nokia Series 40 and Series 60 smartphones offered a much more advanced address book. The following list is just a sample of notable features in these advanced address books:
You can store multiple phone numbers, email addresses, instant messaging IDs, and physical street addresses for each person.
Each contact entry can hold a picture (e.g., a head shot or an icon) of the person.
For each incoming call, the phone matches the caller ID with contacts in its Contacts list, and displays the caller's name and picture if a match is found.
Each contact entry in your phone's Contacts list is also known as an electronic business card, which now holds more information than a real paper business card. However, despite the evolution of the phone's Contacts list, the mobile keypad has changed little over the years. It is still slow and error prone in terms of text entryindeed, it is a major pain to enter all that text-based information into a contact on the phone.
Your desktop or notebook computer comes to the rescue here. You can create contacts on a PC using a full-size keyboard and then send them to your phone. Or, if you already have a contact on your phone, you can easily send it over to other people's devices and save them from having to type it in by hand. In this hack, you will learn all about business card exchange with Nokia phones. I do not discuss contacts synchronization in this hack. Synchronization is covered in several separate hacks later in this chapter.
You can store multiple phone numbers, email addresses, instant messaging IDs, and physical street addresses for each person.
Each contact entry can hold a picture (e.g., a head shot or an icon) of the person.
For each incoming call, the phone matches the caller ID with contacts in its Contacts list, and displays the caller's name and picture if a match is found.
Each contact entry in your phone's Contacts list is also known as an electronic business card, which now holds more information than a real paper business card. However, despite the evolution of the phone's Contacts list, the mobile keypad has changed little over the years. It is still slow and error prone in terms of text entryindeed, it is a major pain to enter all that text-based information into a contact on the phone.
Your desktop or notebook computer comes to the rescue here. You can create contacts on a PC using a full-size keyboard and then send them to your phone. Or, if you already have a contact on your phone, you can easily send it over to other people's devices and save them from having to type it in by hand. In this hack, you will learn all about business card exchange with Nokia phones. I do not discuss contacts synchronization in this hack. Synchronization is covered in several separate hacks later in this chapter.
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