Personal Information. ZTE 1231, Q78-VDF1231, Q78-VDF1231PLUS

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4 Personal Information

4.1

Contacts

Select Start > Contacts. Open Contacts application program.

Open Contacts from Home Screen

You can add new contacts along with their information. Setting up communication information for the contact will allow you to connect with the person quickly or browse the contact's information.

Contacts will be saved in the phone memory or in the SIM card. If you store the information in the

SIM card, you can fill the name and a number. If you store the information in the phone memory, you can also fill out each information field including category, e-mail, address, pictures, ringtones, etc.

You can add new contacts to Outlook and their information to the phone. Besides, you can synchronize contacts between your device and specified remote server. For more details, see

Section 9.4.

Create a Contact on Your Phone

1.

On the Home screen, select Start > Contacts > New > Outlook Contact.

2.

Enter information for the new contact.

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To easily identify the caller, you can assign a custom ringtone and a picture to each

Outlook contact.

To assign a custom ringtone, scroll down to Custom ring tone, and select the desired ringtone.

To assign a picture to a contact, scroll down to Picture and Select a picture to select the picture you want. To remove the picture, select Menu > Remove Picture.

3.

Press Done.

If someone who is not in your list of contacts calls you, you can quickly save the number to contacts by pressing Save.

Note: In contact’s detailed information, “m” stands for mobile number, “h” stands for home number and

“w” stands for work number.

Create a Contact on SIM Card

1.

On the Home screen, select Start > Contacts > New > SIM Contact.

2.

Enter the Name and Number for the new contact.

3.

Press Done.

View and Edit Contact Information

1.

On the Home screen, select Start > Contacts.

2.

Select the contact whose information you want to view or edit, and select Menu > Edit.

3.

When you finish, press Done.

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View the Contact List with Different Sort Column

If you have entered information under Company for your Outlook contacts on your phone, you can switch between Company mode and Name mode by selecting Menu > View By >

Company/Name. In Company view mode, you can quickly locate the contacts who work for a specific company.

You can filter the contact list by categories. In the contact list, select Menu > Filter and then select a category. And then select the category if you have set the contacts’ categories. You can set at the Categories field on the contact’s editing screen. The corresponding list will be shown.

To show all contacts again, select All Contacts.

Call a Contact from the Contact List

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On the Home screen, select Start > Contacts.

2.

Move to the contact to call and press the Dial key. The contact’s default phone number is dialed.

To call a phone number other than the default, select the contact, scroll to the number you want to dial, and press the Dial key.

Find a Contact

Search Contact by Name: On the Contacts’ list screen input the word to search for a contact.

Search Contact by Phone Number: On the Home screen input the contact’s phone number.

Contacts that have phone numbers starting with the numbers you input will be highlighted.

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Send Contact Information

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Select Menu > Send Contact > Beam. Select contact information to send. Select the device. Then press Beam.

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Note: Make sure that both transmitter and receiver have activated the Bluetooth function.

Select Menu > Send Contact > Messages. Select the contact information that you want to send.

Then press Done.

The contact information you have selected will be sent to the recipient of the message.

Select Menu > Send as vCard. Enter the recipient in To of the MMS message, and then press Send.

If the recipient accepts the MMS message, the contact information you sent are automatically saved in that person’s Contacts.

Send MMS to Contacts

Select Menu > Send MMS (Mobile) to send an MMS to the selected contact.

If the contact information contains the e-mail address, you can send an MMS to the e-mail address by selecting Send MMS (E-mail).