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Export all your contacts

December 1st 2010 | Posted by Adam Marks

Ensuring that you always have backups of your contact list is extremely important, in case you ever lose your phone or something goes wrong with a Profile restore after a webOS Doctor or device swap. Keeping your contacts in a cloud-based solution like Google or Yahoo is one solution to ensure you maintain a backup somewhere, but even then it would be a good idea to have a local backup. Unlike Palm OS, webOS does not have any local sync solution to pull your contacts from your phone, and you can only send the details of one contact at a time with the built-in functionality (without patching your phone, that is). Luckily, there is some hidden functionality in webOS that the carriers utilize to transfer your contacts off your phone and on to another (even a non-webOS phone). Keep reading after the break to learn how to take advantage of this functionality.

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Sending Contact Details

October 15th 2010 | Posted by Adam Marks

While webOS does not have any cool third party apps to quickly share contact information, Palm did make it very easy to send someone else the details of any contact in your address book. There are 2 main ways to share this information, but first you need to load up a contact record, which can be accomplished by using Universal Search, opening up the Contacts App, clicking on a missed call notification or a variety of other methods. Once you have a contact record open, you will want to swipe-down from the top-left corner of the screen to bring up the Contracts Application drop-down menu. Keep reading after the break to learn what to do next

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Identify a contact by a phone number

August 12th 2010 | Posted by Adam Marks

One of the features from PalmOS that I often miss is the ability to tap on a phone number that is imbedded within an email or SMS (e.g. in a voicemail notification) to get a prompt identifying whose number that is prior to actually calling it. In webOS, if you tap on a phone number it automatically launches the phone app and dials that number. While this will indeed identify the number, it will also of course result in you calling that person. One option to determine the contact who owns that number is to type in or copy-and-paste the number into Universal Search, but that can be a pain. Keep reading after the break to learn of a much easier method you can use

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Press-and-hold Phone Numbers or Email Address

August 11th 2010 | Posted by Adam Marks

While webOS allows you to tap on an email address to launch a new email, or to tap on a phone number to call it, you can also press-and-hold on those for additional options. If you press-and-hold on a phone number, you get a menu option to "Call", "Text" or "Add to Contacts", and if you press-and-hold on an email address, you get a menu option to "Send Email" or "Add to Contacts". Note that if the phone number or email is already in your contact list, the "Add to Contacts" option will not appear