Other PDAs: News: Tip: Verizon XV6800/Sprint Mogul - Converting Phone Numbers Into Contacts

The process of converting a phone number from the Verizon Wireless XV6800's call history into a Contact is multi-step and not fully intuitive.

(This smartphone, a Windows Mobile 6 professional slider with a QWERTY keyboard, is sold in the U.S by Sprint as well, but under the name Mogul - see our review - and is also known as the HTC Titan and PPC-6800 or, in Canada, as the HTC P4000 from Telus - see our review.)

Take the following steps to turn a phone number into a contact:

From the call history screen (which you can access from phone mode by pressing "Call History" on the right-hand side), click on a phone number (incoming or outgoing, it doesn't matter) and you'll bring up a screen showing all the times you've called or been called from that number.

Next, press Menu and select Open Call.

Now, the Menu button brings up a Save as Contact option; select it.

From the Select a Contact screen that follows, either select "New Contact" or, if you're adding an additional number to an existing contact, select that person.

Enter the name and, if you like, an identifier for the number (such as mobile, work or home). Then click Save on the lower-left side.

To call a contact, just click Contact on the phone screen and select the person you want to call-the next screen gives you the option to select which phone number to dial if your contact has more than one (and also options for text- or media-messaging).

While a simple "add to contacts" feature on the call history would seem an obvious option this smartphone should have, at least you're not left manually keying in every phone number.

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