To place a call using Contacts Match:

Prefix – Prepend the first five or six digits (for example, the area code and prefix) to any four or five

digits you enter. Press To place a call using Prefix: to dial the resulting number. (See “To activate the Prefix feature:” on page 41.)

To place a call using Contacts Match:

1.From standby mode, enter any three consecutive digits, or more, of a Contacts entry’s phone number. The numbers in your Contacts list that contain matches will display.

2.Press Dialing From the Contacts List to call the displayed number. (If there is more than one matched number in your Contacts, your phone displays the list of matches. Highlight a name and then press Speed Dialing to place a call.)

To place a call using Prefix:

1.Enter the last four or five digits of the number. The phone will complete the number with the designated prefix.

2.Highlight the number and press Manual background.

Dialing From the Contacts List

1.Press Manual background > Contacts.

Shortcut: From standby mode, press CONTACTS (right softkey) to list entries.

2.Highlight the entry you want to call and press

Manual background to dial the entry’s default phone number.

or –

To dial a number from a Contact entry with multiple saved entries, highlight the name and press Manual background , and then highlight a number and press Manual background.

Speed Dialing

You can store up to 98 numbers in your phone’s speed dial memory. Dial speed dial entries using one keypress for locations 2–9 or two keypresses for locations 10–99. (See “Assigning Speed Dial Numbers” on page 53.)

To use One-Touch Dialing for speed dial locations 2–9:

Press and hold the appropriate key for approximately two seconds. The display confirms

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Sprint Nextel UG_9a_070709 manual Dialing From the Contacts List, Speed Dialing, To place a call using Contacts Match