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Infrared Dialing If you have a phone with an IR port, you may be able to dial the phone using Pocket Informant. This feature only works on phones that support the standard calling commands. For example, the Nokia 3360 does not support this feature. Serial Port Dialing If you are connected to a phone via a serial port connection cable, this option may dial the phone if it supports the standard calling commands.
How to Dial a contact
Using a Stylus Tap and hold on any contact and choose the number you want to call from the Dial menu that appears, or Tap on the phone handset icon on the right of the contact and then select the number. Stylus-Free dialing To dial stylus free, open the summary dialog for the contact (scroll to the contact you want, and then press the action hardware button), scroll to the number required, and then press the action button again or the green Talk button if you have a Phone Edition device.
Customize Ringtones
Under Windows Mobile 5.0 and above Pocket Informant supports the built-in Ringtone eld which lets you pick the ringtone for a specic caller. This is a Windows Mobile feature and one that Pocket Informant simply works with. If you have a whole set of contacts you wish to set the ringtone for follow this: 1. Open Pocket Informant to the Contacts View. 2. Select several Contacts at once using the stylus 3. Tap/hold on one of the selected Contacts. 4. Choose Assign Ringtone.
Business Card/This is Me
Any single contact can be selected as Me This contact can then be beamed to another device as a business card via a shortcut. It may be a good idea to create a contact record specically for this purpose.
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Setting a contact to This is Me
To set a contact as This is Me, tap and hold on the selected contact, and choose This is Me from the context menu. If the context menu does not contain the This is Me option, you must rst enable the option under the Contacts View Interface Settings
How to beam the This is Me contact
Any time you wish to beam this contact to someone, just press and hold the button associated with PIContacts (usually the hardware button for Contacts) until it starts to beam. Pocket Informant does not have to be running when you begin the press and hold.
Contact Pictures
Pocket Informant allows you to assign pictures to all contacts. These pictures will then appear when previewing or opening a contact entry, or in the Picture List View.
How to Assign a Picture to a Contact
To assign a picture to a contact, tap on a contact and choose Edit Mode. In the contact editor dialog, tapping on the picture place holder, or on an existing picture, will take you to a dialog where you can select a picture to assign to this contact. Any size pictures can be used, but best performance will be achieved if they are kept to either 64 x 64 or 48 x 48 pixels. Please note the Limitation on using Pictures with Outlook 2003+
Assigning Many pictures at a time
If you have many pictures to assign (for example when rst setting up the feature), it may be quicker to save the pictures in the Application Data/WebIS/ContactPics folder on the PDA, giving them a le name that exactly matches the contacts le as name (e.g. Smith, [Link]). Under Windows Mobile 5, Pocket Informant saves the contact picture as an actual eld with the contact so that its fully integrated with the Windows Mobile 5 PIM system. As such, the Application Data/WebIS/ContactPics support is only meant for legacy use.
Company Logos
Company logos can also be assigned. To do this, name a copy of the logo to the company name (exactly as you have entered the name when creating the contact). Any contact from that company who does not have a contact picture will display the company logo instead.