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Managing contacts

Organize your contacts and easily stay in touch with them via SMS messages (on selected models), emails, or social networks. Group your contacts as Favorites to quickly get in touch with them, or group them as VIPs to get notified about any upcoming events or unread messages.

You can also sync your contacts with your email or social network accounts, link contacts’ info for easy access in one place, or filter the contacts you want to keep in touch with.

Launching the Contacts app

From your Home screen, do any of the following to launch the Contacts app:

• Tap Asus > Contacts.

• Tap > Contacts.

Contacts Settings

Select how you would want to display your contacts from the Contacts settings. Such display options include displaying only those contacts with phones, displaying contacts with source account icons, sorting list by first/last name, or viewing contact names as first/last names first. You can also choose which of these tabs to display on your Contacts screen: Favorites, Groups, or VIP.

To set up your Contacts settings, tap > Settings from the Contacts app.

Setting up your profile

Make your ASUS Tablet truly your own and set up your profile info.

1. Launch the Contacts app then tap Set up my profile or ME.

NOTE: ME appears when you’ve set up your Google account on your ASUS Tablet.

2. Fill in your info such as mobile or home number. To add other info, tap Add another field.

3. When you’ve completed your info, tap Done. To view your profile info, swipe down from the top of your screen to launch the Quick settings panel, then tap the button with your name on it.

NOTE: The screenshots in this chapter are for reference only.

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Tap to view your profile info

Adding contacts

Add contacts to your device, corporate, Google, or other email accounts and fill in more important contact information such as contact numbers, email addresses, special events for VIPs, and more.

1. Launch the Contacts app then tap .

NOTE:

• You can also save the contact to your SIM card (on selected models) or your email account.

• If you don't have an email account, tap Add account then create one.

3. Fill in the necessary information such as mobile or home number, email address, or group where you want to put the contact in.

4. After filling in the information and you want to add more contact numbers or email addresses, tap Add New.

5. If you want to add other contact information, tap Add another field.

6. When you’ve completed the info, tap Done.

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Customizing your contact’s profile

Edit your contact’s info, add a photo, or take a photo as a cover for your contact’s profile.

1. Launch the Contacts app then select the contact whose info or profile you want to edit or customize.

2. Make the changes from the contact’s profile page.

Tap to edit your contact’s info

Tap to add your contact’s profile cover from Gallery or by capturing a photo

You can display a Facebook profile cover as the theme cover for a Facebook contact

Tap to add your contact’s photo from

Gallery or by capturing a photo

Setting up your VIPs

Group your contacts as VIPs to get notified about upcoming anniversaries, birthdays, and other important events. You’ll also get alerts about any unread messages or emails from your VIPs. You’ll get all these notices as your What’ s Next alerts and reminders.

NOTE: For more details, see What’s Next .

Set up your VIP from the Contacts app home screen

To set up your VIP from the Contacts app home screen:

1. Launch the Contacts app, tap and hold the contact you want to set up as a VIP, then select Add

to VIP group.

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Set up your VIP from the Groups screen

To set up your VIP from the Groups screen:

1. Launch the Contacts app.

2. Tap > VIP.

3. In the VIP screen, tap .

4. Select the contact or contacts you want to group as VIPs, then tap Add. The contact or contacts are added to your VIP list.

Set up your VIP from the VIP screen

To set up your VIP from the VIP screen:

1. Launch the Contacts app.

2. Tap .

3. In the VIP screen, tap .

4. Select the contact or contacts you want to group as VIPs, then tap Add. The contact or contacts are added to your VIP list.

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Adding an event to a VIP contact

You can add an event to a VIP contact such as anniversary, birthday, and other important events.

1. Launch the Contacts app, tap the contact you want to add an event detail to, then tap .

2. In the contact’s info screen, tap Add another field > Events.

3. Select the date for the event, then tap Set.

4. Ensure that you select VIP under the Group field. When finished, tap Done.

5. The contact’s special event will appear in your calendar of events. If you want to get an event alert, set the reminder time in the Calendar app.

NOTE:

• Set the reminder time for events in Calendar

to get What’s Next event alerts or reminders.

• Aside from getting upcoming events reminders, you'll also get new email and SMS message from

What's Next. For more details, see What’s Next .

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Marking your favorite contacts

Set your frequently-accessed contacts as your favorites to be able to locate them quickly from the

Contacts app.

1. Launch the Contacts app by doing any of the following: a. From the Home screen, tap ASUS > Contacts app.

b. From the All Apps screen, tap Contacts app.

2. From the Contacts app screen, tap then tap .

3. Tick the boxes of the contacts that you wish to add to Favorites.

4. When done, tap Add. All contacts that you added appear on Favorites screen.

NOTE: You can also set a favorite contact as a VIP. For more details, refer to the section

Setting up your

VIPs .

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Importing contacts

Import your contacts and their respective data from one contact source to your ASUS Tablet, or email account, or a micro SIM card.

a. Import from SIM card (on selected models) b. Import from storage

3. Select from the following accounts to save the contact: a. Email account/s b. Device c. SIM card (on selected models)

4. Tick to select the contacts that you wish to import and when done, tap Import.

Exporting contacts

Export your contacts to any of the storage accounts in your ASUS Tablet.

a. Export to SIM card (on selected models) b. Export to storage

3. Tap to select the contacts from the following accounts: a. All contacts b. Email account/s c. Device d. SIM card (on selected models)

4. Tick the contacts that you want to export.

5. When done, tap Export.

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Social networking with your contacts

Integrating the social network accounts of your contacts makes it easier for you to view their profiles, news, and social feeds. Stay updated with the activities of your contacts in real time.

IMPORTANT! Before you can integrate social network accounts of your contacts, you need to log in to your social network account and sync its settings.

Syncing your social network account

Sync your social network account to add the social network accounts of your contacts to your ASUS

Tablet.

1. Do any of the following to launch the Settings app:

• Launch Quick settings then tap .

• Tap > Settings.

2. From the Settings screen, tap your social network account under Accounts section.

4. Launch the Contacts app to view your contacts list.

5. To view only your contacts with social network accounts, tap Contacts to display then untick the other contact sources, leaving the social network name checked.

6. When done, tap or anywhere on the screen.

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