HTC RHOD500 user manual My Favorites, Setting up My Contact Card, Working with favorite contacts

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3.3  My Favorites

On the My Favorites tab, you can add favorite contacts and quickly make calls or send text and e-mail messages to these contacts.

From the My Favorites tab, you can also set up your own contact card, create new contacts, and easily view exchanged text, multimedia and e-mail messages with a contact. If contacts have their own Facebook account, you can view their Facebook updates and events right from the My Favorites tab.

Note You need an active data or wireless network connection to the Internet to link to Facebook. See Chapter 8 for details on how to connect to the Internet.

Setting up My Contact Card

My Contact Card automatically opens the first time that you access the My Favorites tab. You can enter and save your contact information on My Contact Card so you can easily share and send it to your contacts. If you have a Facebook account, you can also sync your Facebook profile with My Contact Card so you can receive instant notifications everytime you or your friends change profiles or post events.

1.On the Home screen, slide your finger to the My Favorites tab.

2.When the My Contact Card screen appears, tap Next.

Note Tap Skip if you prefer to set up My Contact Card later. You can open My Contact Card from the Settings tab of the TouchFLO 3D Home screen, or from the All tab of the My Favorites screen. See “To view and search contacts on your device” and “Settings” for details.

3.On the subsequent screen, choose how to add your photo to your contact card. You can use the Camera to take your photo, select a stored photo from your device or storage card, or if you have a Facebook account, login to your account and sync with your Facebook profile.

Note When the Link Profile window opens, select or clear the Facebook information that you want to link, and then tap Done.

4.On the Detail Information screen, enter your information in the fields provided. You can scroll down the screen to view more fields.

5.When finished entering information, tap Next, and then tap Done on the subsequent screen to return to the My Favorites tab.

Working with favorite contacts

You need to have contacts already stored on your device before you can add them as favorite contacts on the My Favorites tab. If there are no existing contacts, create them first on your device.

To create a new contact

1.On the My Favorites tab, touch All Contacts.

2.The My Favorites screen then opens

and displays the All tab ( ). Touch New to create a new contact.

3.Enter the contact information in the fields provided and then tap Done or OK.

Tips • To link with the contact’s Facebook account, scroll down the New Contact Card screen and then tap Link in the Facebook section. For more information about Facebook, see “Facebook updates and events” in this chapter.

•Tap More at the bottom of the New Contact Card screen to enter additional contact information from Windows Mobile’s Contacts program. See “Contacts” in Chapter 12 for details.

Add the contact’s photo. You can link to the contact’s Facebook photo, select an existing photo in Album, or open Camera and take a photo of the contact.

Touch a field to start entering information.

Add another phone number.