I just discovered how useful this simple little tip is the other day. When I start a new message and I'm selecting who it's going to, instead of clicking in the "To" field and going down the list I can simply type a few letters of the name of the contact within the "To" field and push the center d-pad. If you typed enough letters to filter out only one contact, that contact will be automatically added.
Default Numbers & Fields
There is something you can do to make this process even easier...
For contacts with more than one phone number you can specify which one you want to be the default.
For instance under my girlfriend I have a cell number and work number. When I'm creating a text message of course I'm not going to text her work number. I specify her cell number as default, and now when I create a text to her I just type in part of her name in the "To" field and push the midddle button. Her name is found and put there automatically. If I don't set her cell as the default number the phone will ask me which number I want to send the text to, taking up extra steps and time.
To set numbers as the default for each contact follow these steps:
Go to your contact in the phonebook and bring up his/her information. Push Options and scroll down to Default. Here you can specify all the default fields including texts and emails.
This also makes it easier for calling a Contact from your phonebook. If you rarely call your buddies work number you can make is cell number the default. Now when your going through the Phonebook you can just highlight his name and hit the green Call button and it will patch you through instead of taking more time to select which number your going to call.
Hopefully these tips help you be more productive with your Nokia N82 like they did for me.
Friday, August 1, 2008
N82 Tips: Specify Message Contacts Faster And Set Your Default Contact Fields
Posted by Mike Macias at 1:53 PM
Related Topics: N82 Messaging, N82 Shortcuts, N82 Tips
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16 comments:
excelent post, it's worked for me. From Bs. As. lucho
what the hell? I don't get it....for instance if I want to text "john" i would type in "5646" in the "to" field and push the center d-pad? if so it didn't work for me..
no, it's not T9,
type
566644
"joh"
and it will find john. it may not seem faster, but if you know your buttons and keys, it is.
I didn't notice myself this myself - The reason, I think, is that the N82 must factory default to number entry in the To: field, meaning if you've never (as me) have set it to text entry (by pressing '#') the obvious assumption is, that you can only enter numbers in the To field.
When I (after reading this entry) realized it could be set to "abc" input, it now defaults to this when I create a new sms.
Nice :-)
Not working on N95 8GB,might be only for the latest ones...........
hohoho..a simple yet it's very usefull
thxz
woa... time saver. works on n82 black
Also, when you have selected one (or more), push 0(space) and it will fill in a ; and wait for more receipients.
This has been in almost all S60 phones for years. My first S60 was a Nokia7610 you could do this then.
How did most people miss this?
@Ravindra it works on the N95 8GB, try again
Not everyone has been using S60 for years. Many are still new, I've only been using it for a year. Thanks for verifying it works on the N95.
I couldn't find it until I realised that it is not under 'Edit', but under 'Open'.
By the way under 'Edit' there is an option called 'Editing options' allowing for Copy and Cut. What can that be used for? I can't find out how to copy one phone number to another 'detail'.
Another observation is that it is possible to add 'Details' dynamically, so for a contact, you can add "Dog's name". However this is written over if you use 'Communication Centre' in 'Nokia PC Suite' to edit contacts.
/Gorm
Copying is done by holding the #-key and scroll -thanks to an old post here in the blog.
/Gorm
quick question, why doesnt some contacts have the "DEFAULT" option? how can i get it to show on all of them?
If you just read the last two paragraphs you'll find how to do this.
I sync my Outlook contacts to my N82 using PC Suite, and I noticed that not all fields of my contacts are synchronised. For instance if someone has more than one email adress, just one shows up in my N82. How do I get all fields synchronised?
works even on the 6600!!! :P
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