Working with Contacts
Introduction
Pocket can create and manage contacts in a variety of ways, creating contacts makes using the phone and messaging capabilities easier. At this time Pocket only stores names and telephone numbers, not addresses or other information.
Creating Contacts by Voice
To create new contacts using your voice you will need to:
- Say New contact, Add contact or Create contact.
- You will be prompted to say the name and then the number of the new contact.
- When you are more accustomed with this feature you could say something like New contact James bond 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 all at once.
Creating Contacts from calls made or received
You can create contacts using your call log by:
- First, access your call log by saying recent calls
- Next, choose which call you would like to save a contact for, by choosing the number it was listed as in the call log.
- Next say Add contact. You will then be asked to choose a name for the new contact.
Creating Contacts using the Customer Portal
In Your Pocket has an online portal where you can access and edit your contact list using a computer. To use this portal you will need to log in to an account specific to you, in order to get your login details you will need to:
- Say Whats my Portal Login to get your login details
- Then go the the website portal.InYourPocket.net spelt and use the login details which Pocket gave you.
Some people find this process a bit complicated, but dont worry Pocket will walk you through how to set up your login when you ask for your details.
Finding Contacts
Pocket can keep a list of contacts for you. In order to access these contacts you will need to:
- Say List Contacts or say List contacts for James. Pocket will respectively read either all contacts, or contacts with the name James.
- Next choose the contact you want from the numbered list. Pocket will then list a series of options regarding the contact such as calling or editing the contact.
- Choose what you want to do and follow the instructions Pocket gives you after that
Changing Contact Details
You can edit your existing contacts by following these steps:
- Firstly access your contacts list by saying List Contacts
- Next select a Contact and say change name or change number.
- Pocket will give you instructions on how to change these features. If you can not get it right, say keyboard to bring up the onscreen keyboard and try using this.
Alternatively you can also edit your contacts using the portal website.
Making assistance contacts
Using Pocket you can create assistance contacts. Assistance contacts will be contacted, and told you are in need of assistance in the event of an emergency, when you make an assistance call by saying Make assistance call.
To create an assistance contact, you will have to create a contact as normal, but name the contact assistance followed by the name of the person. For example, you could create a contact named Assistance Nick. Alternatively, if you want to make an existing contact into an assistance contact, you will need to rename the contact, so that the name is preceeded by the word assistance.