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Joining Contact Information
Most people now maintain multiple email accounts,
social networking logins, and other similar account
information. For example, a Facebook account login
name might differ from a corporate email account
login because they are maintained separately and for
different groups of people.
This device can synchronize with multiple accounts
(such as Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Microsoft
Exchange ActiveSync or Google). When you
synchronize your phone with those accounts, each
account creates a separate contact entry in the
Contacts list.
If one of your contacts (Amy Smith) has a regular
email account that you maintain in Gmail, but also has
a Facebook account under her maiden and married
name, as well as a Video! chat account, when you
merge those accounts into your Contacts list you can
join all of her entries and view the information in one
record.
Joining contact information makes sending messages
easy. You can select any account email address or
information all from one screen, versus searching
multiple, individual screens to locate the desired
account information.
Next time you synchronize your phone with your
accounts, any updates contacts make to email
account names, email addresses, etc. automatically
update in your contacts list.
For more information about synchronizing accounts,
see
“Get Friends”
on page 72.
1.
From the Home screen, tap
.
2.
Tap a contact name (the name you want to link
to another entry).
Note:
Typically this is the same contact with a different name or
account information.
3.
Press
and then tap
Join contact
.
4.
Tap the second contact entry (the entry in
which to link). The second contact is now
linked with the first and the account
information is merged into one screen.
Note:
The information is still maintained in both entries, but
displays in one record for easier viewing when you link
the contacts.
Important!:
It is the second contact image that is displayed for
both by the first contact’s name that is used.
For example: If Amy (original entry) is joined with
Julie (second entry). Julie appears to disappear and
only Amy remains. Tap the Amy entry (showing the
Julie image) to view both.
5.
Tap the main linked contact to view the contact
information you linked. The contacts and
information displays with an icon next to the
contact name to indicate what type of account
information is contained in the entry.
