How to Add Contacts to Your iPhone

Series Summary

Pining for the next big thing? The iPhone 3G is that next big thing. This tiny piece of electronic equipment does it all. It's a cell phone. It's a web browser. It uses Wi-Fi, Edge and 3G networks for Internet browsing. It's an iPod. It comes with eight and 16 gigs of memory. The features go on and on! In this free video series on the iPhone, a digital technology specialist demonstrates the basic functions of the iPhone. Learn about the clock settings, including the alarm clock, world clock, timer and stop watch, and find out how to set each one. Get tips on text messaging efficiently, navigating through the applications and transferring music and ring tones to the phone. Organize contacts, memos and calendars with this single, tiny all-in-one device.

Video Transcript

"And one of the cool things about the iPhone is that you can put in a contact and it stays with you virtually forever. Hi, I'm Rokosz your digital lifestyle expert. And I'm going to show you how to add new contacts to your iPhone. Well, all you do to add a new contact is just hit the contacts button and icon right there. The plus button at the top to get us to a new screen. And this is the new contact screen. Now the most of the time you're just sort of putting in the first and last name, we actually touched that right over there to get us to a more in depth and custom screen for doing that. And we typed in the first name, we're going to do John and return down to get to the last name, Mister Doe. And notice that it is automatically capitalizing the first letter, he's not a company, he's a personal contact. I hit the save button here, it brings me back to more information on the splash page. We're going to add a new phone number and John's is five five five, one two one two, and it's not his mobile, but that's going to be his work number. And you can change it to some custom fields, we're going to go ahead and save that. Now we can also put John's e-mail address, his URL, his home address, work address so that the maps function can go ahead and track him that way. Or we can add a photo. When you hit that button you can take a photo if John's right in front of you, choose from existing photo, it'll bring your photo album or iPhoto library inside of there, choose a category, choose a photograph, you can move it around, set it, and we're going to move it right in there between these bars and these bars is where it's going to set it. Just going to hit set photo right there, it's going to save it. And now when John rings, that photo is going to come up. All we have to do is hit save, and all right, there is the splash page, all the information we need about John. And back to all contacts, and that's just a way right there, that you can save and put all different types of people right in your phone. Create a file that will move in - basically anywhere you need it to move. I'm Rokosz, your digital lifestyle expert saying, string you later."