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52 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.