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07/10/2003, 02:38 AM
#16
Chu Zoo
This is where the Treo is brilliant!!!!
If you are in any OTHER app BESIDES the phone app you would have to hold down the option key to type a number.
BUT, if you hit the phone button it defaults to the first quick dial screen. On the first quick dial screen there are 10 names that you program in advance. You can move the 5 way button to navigate to any name and then hit it and it calls that person.
Also in the quick dial app there are 5 screens that can each hold 10 contacts. So lets say you want to speed dial someone you know is on screen three, when you get to the Speed dial app you hit the UP button on the 5way navigation button and it takes you to the second page of speed dials, you hit UP again and you end up on the third speed dial page.
Then you hit the down button four times to get to the person you want and then you simply hit enter and it dials them. On the Treo 600 you can also use the speed dial buttons for favorites. So by hitting a special button which you assigned in advance it could launch your chess game lets say.
Let’s say you want to call Steve Jobs. You hit the phone button to enter into the Speed dial screen, and then you type SJ. Let’s assume you don't have anybody else in your phone book with his initials it would take you to his name with all his numbers. If you click on his name it will enter you into his contact file for editing or viewing notes or addresses or whatever you want. But if instead of selecting his name you select one of his phone numbers it will call that number.
But let’s say you also have a contact named Steve Johnson in your contact list, after you type SJ you would see both names on the screen and you could move to Steve Jobs and select his number you want to call, or you could keep typing. Once you have typed SJOB which is four letters it would isolate his name and numbers and Steve Johnson’s name and numbers would disappear off the screen.
But the Treo is so smart, that if you were to just start dialing a phone number that was not in your contact list it would recognize it and automatically switch you into the screen with the dial pad on the screen, but you keep dialing with the keys on the thumboard. When you have all the numbers in you hit the enter key and it dials. I think on the Treo 600 you can also hit the center button on the 5 way navigation button.
What is soo cool is the Treo can distinguish whether you are trying to look up a number in your contact list or whether you are trying to enter in a new number. I believe this feature is called predictive dialing.
The way it works is the Treo knows that if you are in the phone app to start looking up the contact, but if you hit a key other than the ones with numbers on them it goes to the contact list. Let’s say your phone number you want to call is 555-5555. The 5 is on the J key. Once you have typed in JJ it with stay in the contact list only if there is someone with the initials JJ, but once you hit the third J it realizes there is not anyone with who has a first name that begins with J and has a last name that begins JJ, so it switches you into the dial pad mode and displays the numbers on the screen as you dial.
I hope that helps. If it was confusing please let me know, and I will try harder to make it sensible.
Jake
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til fall..we hope