While webOS provides the ability to share the entirety of a single contact with others, what happens if you only want to share a phone number, email address or mailing address. For certain accounts (such as your Palm Profile or Google accounts), you can go into a Contract’s entry, click "Edit", highlight the data you need and copy it, but this is clearly not the most efficient way you can do this, right? In fact, for "read only" accounts like Facebook, you are not even able to select or highlight some data in a contact record. Instead, keep reading after the break to learn how you can more quickly get access to share this information

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Adding a new contact or adding to an existing contact is obviously an important function for a smartphone, and webOS gives you a lot of options to do just that.  The following is a long–and probably not complete–list on how you can add a new contact or add to an existing contact.  Continue reading after the break for all the details…

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Setting a speed-dial in webOS allows you to use a single keyboard key to dial a specific pre-defined phone number (as previously discussed in this tip). Taking this one step further, you can easily set the corner letters on the keyboard (Q and P) for your two most important numbers so you can always access these numbers, even if you are in a position where you can not look down at your phone. Another option for you to quickly find a specific key is to use the F key because it has a slightly raised bump on it to indicate that it’s also the #5 key.

Does anyone else have any good systems for using speeddials?

Thanks to our own Jonathan Ezor for suggesting this tip

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We’ll be the first to admit that the webOS contacts management system doesn’t provide you with a lot of options for labeling your different fields. For example, the only options for a phone number are Mobile, Home, Work, Fax, and Other. Not exactly the most descriptive if a contact has multiple “work” numbers, plus a personal mobile phone, Google Voice, and maybe a home line as well.

Thankfully, PreCentral reader Kal El on Twitter noticed something pretty slick: the recently-updated desktop/web Google Contacts manager lets you apply custom field labels to pretty much any item, and when you do that with phone numbers and email addresses, they sync just fine to the Synergized contacts on your phone (curiously, Google Voice syncs over as GrandCentral). Even better, the custom labels show up in Universal Search, so you’re that much closer to knowing which number is the right number.

Note: We should point out that this applies only to regular Gmail/Google accounts. Sadly the sweet new Contacts interface has not yet been rolled out to Google Apps accounts.

Source: Kal El on Twitter

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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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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

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