Palm Pre 2 User Guide (World Ready) - DevDB

Contacts
How do I add names and other info into Contacts?
You have a few options for getting info into Contacts.
Connect to an online address book: If you have an address book in an
online account that works with the Palm ® Synergy feature (for example,
Google or Microsoft Exchange), you can set up Contacts on your phone to
synchronize and display contacts that you store in the online address book.
Set up synchronization the first time you open Contacts (see Use Contacts
for the first time), or anytime after that (see Customize Contacts and Use
the Accounts application to set up an online account). After you set up the
connection to the online address book, contacts you enter online show up
automatically in Contacts, and contacts you enter on your phone sync to the
online account, provided the account allows writing from the phone to the
online account.
The Synergy feature makes it easy to synchronize exactly the data you want
from an online account:
• If you want to sync all your data from an account, set up the account
directly in Email, Contacts, or Calendar: By setting up synchronization in
one app, synchronization of the other apps is automatically set up for you.
For example, if you set up your Google contacts account in Contacts
before you set up Gmail, when you first open Email, you find that your
Gmail messages are already downloaded. And when you first open
Calendar, you find that your Google calendar events are already in your
phone’s Calendar app.
• If you want to specify which apps get data from an online account: Set up
the account using the Accounts application (see Use the Accounts
application to set up an online account).
NOTE In the Launcher, tap Accounts to see the current list of online accounts
you can set up on your phone and from which you can access contact info. See
Online accounts available for Palm ® webOS TM phones* to see how major online
accounts synchronize data between the web-based account and your phone.
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Enter a contact directly in Contacts: See Create a contact for instructions.
You can assign the contact to one of your online address books—if you do, it
synchronizes with the online address book. Or you can create the contact in
your Palm profile account, which means it shows up on your phone only.
Palm profile contacts are included in the daily backup of your Palm profile
information, so you can restore them if they are accidentally erased.
Use a third-party sync solution: If you want to use a desktop app to store
your contacts, you can use a third-party solution (sold separately) to sync
your contacts directly with your computer (see Sync your desktop organizer
and your phone or to go palm.com/sync-solutions).
Export contacts from desktop software or an old phone: When you
export contacts from desktop software or an old phone, you select which
account to assign those contacts to. Look for those contacts in the account
you select (see Transfer data from an old phone and Export data from a
desktop organizer on your computer).
Download vCard info to Contacts: A vCard is a file type made especially
for contact info. A vCard may contain one or many contact entries. A vCard
can be attached to an email or a multimedia message, and you can
download the info in a vCard to your Contacts app. See Receive vCards.
Linked contacts
The Synergy feature automatically links contacts from different accounts if it
finds data in common between them. For example, if you have a contact in
Exchange and in Google for Emily Weeks, your phone links the contacts so
that all of Emily’s info shows up on a single contact screen. You need to open
just one view to see all of Emily’s info. The actual data remains separate in
the various accounts where you originally created the data; it’s just
assembled in one view on your phone for your convenience.
How can you tell if a contact is linked? Look in the upper-right corner of the
contact screen. If you see a number beside the photo icon, that means that