I suspect that everyone knows about the basic fields of an entry in the Contacts app: first name, last name, phone number, address, etc. But did you know that you can add lots of other useful information to a Contact entry by adding advanced fields?
Alan at Art of the iPhone has a great series of posts he calls iPhone Basics. He recently posted a helpful entry called "How to Add Prefixes, Suffixes, Middle Names, Etc, to iPhone Contacts." The post is full of great tidbits. For example, he points out that in addition to adding a first and last name to an entry, you can add a field for a phonetic spelling of the first or last name to remind yourself how a name is pronounced. You can also add a field for a person's nickname, birthday, etc. The post includes pictures showing you step by step what to do. It is worth a look.
If you like that post, you might like some of the other posts in Art of the iPhone's iPhone Basics series. They include:
- How to change your iPhone wallpaper
- How to send a call to voicemail
- How to give a contact a unique ringtone
- How to delete the Safari browser history
- How to make an on-the-go playlist
...and many others. And if you want even more, Alan also has a series of posts that he calls iPhone Tips. Whether or not you consider yourself a basic user or an iPhone pro, you are sure to learn something new.
Just purchased I phone 3GS and I am very dissapointed with the basic contac field available. I am used to using Palm Pilot with Chapura software as I have a huge number of contact subfolders, I normally view these as a Leading field of "File As" and with this latest model of iphone I am only able to view contacts as Lastname, or first name. Very frustrating. I tried to return the phone, to no avail. this type of data management is from the dark ages.
I wish to be able to view in contacts "company Name, family name and choice of phone numbers to ring.
And I wish to be able to take my Word and xcel documents with me.
Whilst I am pleased with the touch screen, their data management has a lot to improve. So if you are interested think again.
Posted by: Greg | December 29, 2009 at 04:33 AM