Contacts; Managing Contacts - Sony Ericsson Xperia X8 Extended User Manual

Contacts

In the Contacts application, you can enter information for your personal contacts, for
example, phone numbers and email addresses. When you view a contact, you get quick
access to all communication with that contact. If you have a synchronization service
account, you can synchronize your phone contacts with the account contacts. See
Synchronizing on page 51.
To view your contacts
• From the Home screen, tap
If you have not set up your phone for synchronization with a web service, or imported SIM
contacts, you can choose to do so the first time you open Contacts.

Managing contacts

To import contacts from the SIM card
From the Home screen, tap
1
2 Press , then tap Import/export > Import from SIM card.
3 Tap OK.
If you have already imported the contacts from the SIM card you are using, there is no need to
do it again.
To export contacts to the SIM card
From the Home screen, tap
1
2 Press , then tap Import/export > Export to SIM card.
3 Tap OK.
When you copy contacts to your SIM card, the amount and the type of information you can
transfer for each contact is limited. This is due to limited memory on SIM cards.
To select which contacts to display
From the Home screen, tap
1
2 Press , then tap Group to display.
3 Select the contacts to display.
My contacts includes your personal contacts. If you have synchronized your contacts with
another service, All contacts will include all the people and services you have contacted.
To add a contact
1 From the Home screen, tap
2 Tap .
3 Tap Name, enter the name and tap Next.
4 Enter the phone number and tap Done.
5 To add an additional information field, such as an email adress or another phone
number, tap Add more and select the desired address type.
6 To add a contact picture, tap
To select a contact ringtone, scroll down, tap Add more > Ringtone, select a
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ringtone and tap Done.
8 When you are finished, scroll up and tap Save.
The phone number type is selected automatically when you enter the number. You can tap the
number type field to change it, for example, from Mobile to Home.
If you add a plus sign and the country code before a contact phone number, you can use the
number for making calls from other countries.
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to open the Contacts application.
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and select a picture or take a photo.
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