HTC Hero manual Displaying Your Phone Number, Making and Answering Calls, Making Calls

Pinch

The device screen supports multi-touch. For some applications, like Albums or the browser, you can “pinch” the screen using two fingers (for example, thumb and index fingers) to zoom in or zoom out when viewing a picture or a Web page.

Using the Trackball

Roll or press the trackball to select or highlight items on the screen. The trackball also flashes when you receive an incoming call or a notification.

Displaying Your Phone Number

Press > and tap Settings > About phone > Status. (Your phone number and other information about your device and account will be displayed.)

Making and Answering Calls

Making Calls

There are several convenient methods to make a call from your device.

Calling using the Dialer

In Dialer, you can either dial a number directly, or you can use the Smart Dial feature to search and call a contact in People or a number from Call History.

When you enter the first letter of the name or number of a contact, Smart Dial searches for contact phone numbers and the first character of a contact name as well as from the character that appears after a space, dash, or underscore in a contact name. As you enter more letters or numbers, the list shows only the corresponding matches.

1.Press .

– or –

Press and tap .

2.Begin entering the first few digits or characters by tapping the keys on the Phone keypad. As you enter

digits or letters, the Smart Dial panel displays matches found. If you enter a wrong digit, tap		to erase
that digit. To erase the entire number, press and hold	.

3.Tap to close the phone keypad and to see if there are more matching numbers or contacts. To browse through the filtered list, flick through the list or slide your finger up or down the list slowly.

4.Tap the phone number or contact from the list.

– or –

To call a different phone number associated with the contact, tap the contact card icon at the right side of the contact name. On the contact details screen, tap the number you want to call.

Calling a phone number in a text message

While viewing a text message, you can place a call to a number that is in the body of the message.

1.Tap the message with the phone number.

2.On the Select link screen, tap the number you want to call.

3.The Phone screen then opens, with the phone number automatically filled in and ready to be dialed. To place the call, tap Call.

For more information about text messages, see “Text Messaging (SMS)” on page 76.

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