It might sound lazy, but I am looking for a better/faster way (other than voice, which only works in quiet areas) to dial someone in my contacts.
I am coming from BlackBerry, where I used to tap out the first few letters in the first OR last name and it would quickly narrow to the desired contact. Then click 'send.'
NOW, I have so many options, none of them being ideal. Again, excluding voice prompts, I can:
- click contacts, search for a name
- select dialler (green phone icon), scroll through contacts by flicking my finger, and using that tiny/thin column of A-Z letters on the right
- select dialler, then keypad, then tap out letters using the virtual phone keypad
- use the Google search box/widget
just to name several.
Each of these can take several or many "keystrokes." Also, for some reason if I type several keystrokes of a first or last name, it only recognizes a name if that contact happens to be indexed according to that part of name. For example, if John Doe is indexed as Doe, John, then typing out J-O-H...does not bring up John Doe. But for some crazy reason the indexing for my contacts got screwed up so half of them are sorted by first name and the other half by last name (so changing the Options settings doesn't get them all indexed correctly).
Also because there are so many choices (using Contacts, using the dialler, using the search box on the homescreen, etc.) there isn't just one clear best way.
Is there an App or something for this?? Suggestions?
Thanks
I am coming from BlackBerry, where I used to tap out the first few letters in the first OR last name and it would quickly narrow to the desired contact. Then click 'send.'
NOW, I have so many options, none of them being ideal. Again, excluding voice prompts, I can:
- click contacts, search for a name
- select dialler (green phone icon), scroll through contacts by flicking my finger, and using that tiny/thin column of A-Z letters on the right
- select dialler, then keypad, then tap out letters using the virtual phone keypad
- use the Google search box/widget
just to name several.
Each of these can take several or many "keystrokes." Also, for some reason if I type several keystrokes of a first or last name, it only recognizes a name if that contact happens to be indexed according to that part of name. For example, if John Doe is indexed as Doe, John, then typing out J-O-H...does not bring up John Doe. But for some crazy reason the indexing for my contacts got screwed up so half of them are sorted by first name and the other half by last name (so changing the Options settings doesn't get them all indexed correctly).
Also because there are so many choices (using Contacts, using the dialler, using the search box on the homescreen, etc.) there isn't just one clear best way.
Is there an App or something for this?? Suggestions?
Thanks