Use your tablet to manage, record and store information about all your contact details .
One of the great uses of a tablet is keeping in contact with friends and family.
You can do this in so many different ways: calling or texting them, following them on Twitter or Facebook, emailing or exchanging picture messages, and more.
For these activities to work well you need to have contact details firmly lodged in your tablet, and then you need to keep this information up to date. There's no point texting someone's old mobile phone number, or writing an email only to find you don't have the address on your tablet. And what about when you'd like to share a photo with a friend, only to find out you have not entered their contact details into your tablet? It doesn't bear thinking about.
The good news is that tablets are very competent when it comes to recording and storing contact details, and they can gather information from a huge range of sources. Depending on what tablet you have there may be different ways of getting contacts into it from different sources. But a good tablet can import Facebook and Twitter contacts, as well as doing a more standard task of synchronising with your computer.You might also be able to import contacts from MySpace and from an Exchange-based work account too.
Your Android tablet will also be able to pull down any contacts you may have stored in Gmail and capture contacts that are on your SIM card.Add the ability to input contacts manually and you can see that a tablet can easily become a hub of information about the people you know.
Getting all your contact details gathered together from multiple sources might take a little bit of effort. For example, with many tablets you can 'link' contact details gleaned from your Facebook and Twitter accounts so that information from the two is merged.This is great, as the two accounts contain different information about people that you know. But the job of making a 'link' between separate records about the same contact can take time to complete.
Our Samsung GalaxyTab has some great features for managing contacts, and one of these is that it automatically links Facebook and Twitter records if names are the same.You still have to make manual links where people use different names for different accounts though, and if you are anything like us, that happens quite a lot of the time.
The more contacts you have, the longer this process takes, and you may need to be prepared to set aside a fair bit of time to do it thoroughly. But you only have to do this task once, and once completed you've got a comprehensive resource at your fingertips.
"Tablets are very competent when it comes to recording and storing those contact details"
ENTER USERNAME
If you want to include a Twitter account in 'Contacts' you have to add the account. Enter your username or email address here.
SHOW PASSWORD
Check this box if you want the actual letters of your password to show as you enter them. It'll help with accuracy, but you might not want the letters to show in public places.
ENTER PASSWORD
Your tablet will need your Twitter password too, and you enter that into this box. It's saved so you only need to enter it once.
LOG IN
With your account details entered tap here to log into your account.Your tablet will then be able to grab contact details from your Twitter account.
THE KEYBOARD
Use the keyboard to tap out your username and password. Note the special key next to the space bar for entering'.com', which makes typing an email address faster.
1 LOCATE SIM CONTACTS
Open the 'Contacts' application.Tap the 'Menu' button, then choose 'Import/Export' and 'Import from SIM card'. Now wait until your SIM contacts are listed.
2 COPY SIM CONTACTS
Tap the 'Menu' button and you'll see that you can copy or move contacts, or delete them from your SIM.Tap 'Copy to Phone', then choose 'Select All' or specific contacts.
3 COMPLETE IMPORT
Tap 'Done' and wait while the contacts are imported.Tap the 'Back' button and you'll go to the phone contacts list where your SIM contacts will now be listed.
4 ADD CONTACT MANUALLY
To add a new contact tap the'+' button at the bottom right of the screen, then tap in the box marked 'First Name' and start to enter data using the on-screen keyboard.
5 EXPANDING FIELDS
Sections with a green'+' or a red expand.Tap'+' for a 'Home' phone option in addition to 'Mobile'.Tap again for 'Work', again for 'Other' and again for more numbers.
6 EXPLORE FOR MORE
Some expanding fields have lots of options. Under IM there are separate fields for many services. Use the green '+' and a red '-' to explore and add the information you need.
7 CHOOSE A RINGTONE
You can assign separate ringtones to important contacts. Scroll down and tap 'Ringtone', then choose 'Ringtones'.Tap a ringtone to hear it. When you find one you want tap 'OK'.
8 FINISH AND SAVE
Scroll down further to add a nickname, web address(es) birthday and anniversary.Then tap 'Done', Your new contact appears in the listing.
You can put a shortcut to a contact on a home screen.That's really useful for someone you make contact with a great deal, as it saves you the bother of finding them in the contacts application.
Your Android tablet ought to be able to draw in contacts from a range of different places.
One of the great uses of a tablet is keeping in contact with friends and family.
You can do this in so many different ways: calling or texting them, following them on Twitter or Facebook, emailing or exchanging picture messages, and more.
For these activities to work well you need to have contact details firmly lodged in your tablet, and then you need to keep this information up to date. There's no point texting someone's old mobile phone number, or writing an email only to find you don't have the address on your tablet. And what about when you'd like to share a photo with a friend, only to find out you have not entered their contact details into your tablet? It doesn't bear thinking about.
The good news is that tablets are very competent when it comes to recording and storing contact details, and they can gather information from a huge range of sources. Depending on what tablet you have there may be different ways of getting contacts into it from different sources. But a good tablet can import Facebook and Twitter contacts, as well as doing a more standard task of synchronising with your computer.You might also be able to import contacts from MySpace and from an Exchange-based work account too.
Your Android tablet will also be able to pull down any contacts you may have stored in Gmail and capture contacts that are on your SIM card.Add the ability to input contacts manually and you can see that a tablet can easily become a hub of information about the people you know.
Getting all your contact details gathered together from multiple sources might take a little bit of effort. For example, with many tablets you can 'link' contact details gleaned from your Facebook and Twitter accounts so that information from the two is merged.This is great, as the two accounts contain different information about people that you know. But the job of making a 'link' between separate records about the same contact can take time to complete.
Our Samsung GalaxyTab has some great features for managing contacts, and one of these is that it automatically links Facebook and Twitter records if names are the same.You still have to make manual links where people use different names for different accounts though, and if you are anything like us, that happens quite a lot of the time.
The more contacts you have, the longer this process takes, and you may need to be prepared to set aside a fair bit of time to do it thoroughly. But you only have to do this task once, and once completed you've got a comprehensive resource at your fingertips.
"Tablets are very competent when it comes to recording and storing those contact details"
ENTER USERNAME
If you want to include a Twitter account in 'Contacts' you have to add the account. Enter your username or email address here.
SHOW PASSWORD
Check this box if you want the actual letters of your password to show as you enter them. It'll help with accuracy, but you might not want the letters to show in public places.
ENTER PASSWORD
Your tablet will need your Twitter password too, and you enter that into this box. It's saved so you only need to enter it once.
LOG IN
With your account details entered tap here to log into your account.Your tablet will then be able to grab contact details from your Twitter account.
THE KEYBOARD
Use the keyboard to tap out your username and password. Note the special key next to the space bar for entering'.com', which makes typing an email address faster.
Open the 'Contacts' application.Tap the 'Menu' button, then choose 'Import/Export' and 'Import from SIM card'. Now wait until your SIM contacts are listed.
Tap the 'Menu' button and you'll see that you can copy or move contacts, or delete them from your SIM.Tap 'Copy to Phone', then choose 'Select All' or specific contacts.
Tap 'Done' and wait while the contacts are imported.Tap the 'Back' button and you'll go to the phone contacts list where your SIM contacts will now be listed.
To add a new contact tap the'+' button at the bottom right of the screen, then tap in the box marked 'First Name' and start to enter data using the on-screen keyboard.
TIPS &TRICKS
The Samsung GalaxyTab has its own design for the contacts application, and you can designate contacts as favourites and get to them via a dedicated tab.
The Samsung GalaxyTab has its own design for the contacts application, and you can designate contacts as favourites and get to them via a dedicated tab.
Sections with a green'+' or a red expand.Tap'+' for a 'Home' phone option in addition to 'Mobile'.Tap again for 'Work', again for 'Other' and again for more numbers.
Some expanding fields have lots of options. Under IM there are separate fields for many services. Use the green '+' and a red '-' to explore and add the information you need.
You can assign separate ringtones to important contacts. Scroll down and tap 'Ringtone', then choose 'Ringtones'.Tap a ringtone to hear it. When you find one you want tap 'OK'.
8 FINISH AND SAVE
Scroll down further to add a nickname, web address(es) birthday and anniversary.Then tap 'Done', Your new contact appears in the listing.
You can put a shortcut to a contact on a home screen.That's really useful for someone you make contact with a great deal, as it saves you the bother of finding them in the contacts application.
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