Google ANDROID 2.3.4 - Manual (Page 121)

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Communicate with a contact
1 Open your contacts or favorites.
2 Touch the contact with whom you want to communicate.
You can also just touch the Green Phone icon in the list of favorites or in the Call
log to call the displayed number.
3 In the contact’s details screen, touch the way to start communicating with the
contact.
For phone numbers, you switch automatically to the Phone application as the
number is called. For other kinds of communication, you switch automatically to
the appropriate application, with the contact’s address entered.
Call a contact’s default number
1 Open your contacts or favorites.
2 Touch & hold the entry for the contact to call.
3 Touch Call in the menu that opens.
The actual menu item depends on the default number you set for your contact, so
it may be Call Mobile, Call Work, and so on.
You switch to the Phone application automatically as the number is called. For
more information about placing phone calls, see “Placing and receiving calls” on
page 79.
Send a text or multimedia message to a contact’s default number
1 Open your contacts or favorites.
2 Touch & hold the contact to call.
3 Touch Text contact in the menu that opens.
You switch automatically to the Messaging application, with the contact’s phone
number entered in a new message. For more information about sending text and
multimedia messages, see “Messaging” on page 229.
You can also use Quick Contact to start sending a text or multimedia message.See
“Connecting quickly with your contacts” on page 46.