5. Using Search and Sync Contacts

iPhonebook has several features that you should explore:

Search Contacts
Sync Contacts
Add to Phone / Contact Details
Designating Download-To-Phone Contacts

From iPhonebook's Main Menu:

Search Contacts

Search Contacts enables you to look up any contact you have on your desktop.

* Select Search. The search options are displayed:

* Select Go! when you have finished entering your search criteria. Your search results will be displayed. In this case, we selected "S" as our last name search criteria.

* Select a name to display numbers available.

* Select a number and press "Send" to dial.

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Sync Contacts

Sync Contacts will download contacts and changes from your Web Account to your phone and upload contacts and changes from your mobile phone to your Web Account.

* Select Sync Contacts:

Depending on how many contacts are being downloading or how many edits were detected, this may take a few moments. When concluded, the display will indicate how many records were added, updated or deleted:

Note: The Sync contacts option for Remo in your phone does not initiate sync from your desktop PIM (Outlook, Palm, Lotus) to your web account. This either needs to be done manually, or you can set the sync software to periodically sync automatically. Click here for more details.

In addition, all contacts synced from your desktop the first time won't automatically download to the phone when you select "sync contacts" in the phone. You need to designate which ones (or all, if the phonebook in your phone has enough memory), to download to the phone. For that, see below.

Also Note: Some phones won't download/upload if the only change was to edit an existing contact. For some phones, the edits won't take place until the next time you either download/upload a new contact in addition to any edits, or delete an existing contact. Phonebooks vary.

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Add to Phone & Details

When using Search Contacts to access a contact's phone numbers, you have the option to add that contact to the mobile phone's address book. You may wish to do this if you find you are using Search Contact often on this contact.

Before doing this, be sure to find out what your phonebook's capacity limit is by going to the supported phones page.

To manually add a contact to the address book:

* Perform a successful search & select the desired name

* Select Add to Phone To view other information about this contact that you may have stored in our desktop PIM.

* Select Details...

Additional information is displayed when selecting Details.

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Designating Download-To-Phone Contacts

Because some phonebooks vary, we do not automatically flag all synced contacts from your desktop PIM (Outlook, Express, Lotus or Palm) as designated "download to phone" contacts. Here's what to do:

1. Make note of your phone's sync limit. See the supported phones page.

2. Using the web account to desigate download-to-phone contacts

See FAQ

3. Using Outlook to designate download-to-phone contacts

See FAQ

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