I'm very very bored today so I've decided to update all the details in my contacts list as much as I possibly can. This meant I had to trawl through all of the contact details available to me on my N97. Some of them I'm confused about. Could someone help me fill out this extensive list of what each of them are for? It might help others who are doing the same, who don't know what all of the details mean...
Note: For completeness, I'm including all of the details, even the obvious ones, and listing them in the order they appear on the N97. However, those with (?) at the end are assumed. I'd appreciate if anyone can confirm what exactly is meant to go in these. I will update the details in this post when I learn anything new.
- First name - First name
- Middle name - Middle name
- Last name - Last name
- Title - To signify either veneration, an official position or a professional or academic qualification. For example: Mr, Mrs, Miss, Ms, Dr, Prof, Sgt
- Suffix - Provides additional information about the contact, such as position, educational degree, accreditation, office or honour. For example: Jr, Sr, BSc, MSc, Esq, Ph.D
- Nickname - A descriptive name given in place of, or in addition to, the official name of the contact.
- Mobile - General mobile number
- Mobile (home) - Home mobile number
- Mobile (business) - Work mobile number
- Telephone - General (landline) telephone number
- Telephone (home) - Home (landline) telephone number
- Telephone (business) - Work (landline) telephone number
- E-mail - General email address
- E-mail (home) - Home email address
- E-mail (business) - Work email address
- Call alert text - Piece of text that will appear on the screen (underneath the contact's name and number) when the contact calls you. The text also repeats itself in the background on the screen when you're on a call with the contact.
- Gizmo - Gizmo VOIP username (More info...)
- Facebook - The contact's Facebook account URL, their username, or the name that they're known as (More info...)
- MSN - MSN Live ID address, also known as a "Microsoft Passport" (More info...)
- Yahoo - Yahoo Messenger email address (More info...)
- Ovi by Nokia - Ovi username (More info...)
- Google - The contact's Google username or email, either for Gmail or GoogleTalk (More info...)
- Skype - Skype username or number. It's not yet known whether Skype for the N97 will use this detail (More info...)
- Car phone - Carphone telephone number
- Video call - General video call number
- Video call (home) - Home video call number
- Video call (bus.) - Work video call number
- Fax - General facsimile number
- Fax (home) - Home facsimile number
- Fax (business) - Work facsimile number
- Pager - The contact's pager number. Sadly, you can't select this number and send a message to it, like you can with a mobile number.
- DTMF - Stands for "Dual Tone Multi Frequency". Used for in-system tone signalling to a call centre (More info...)
- Share video - Unknown (?)
- SIP - Unknown (?)
- Company - The name of the company the contact works for
- Department - The name of the department where the contact works. For example: Customer/Technical Support, Human Resources, etc.
- Job title - The contact's job title
- Assistant's name - The name of the contact's assistant, possibly for when the contact's assistant might answer the phone instead (?)
- Assistant's number - The telephone number for the contact's assistant (?)
- Address - General postal address of the contact. Selecting this, however, doesn't add "Address" to your contact, but instead adds the following (Each can be removed individually, if not required):
[INDENT]P.O. Box - The P.O. Box number
Extension - Unknown, possibly an abbreviation of the Country (?)
Street - Street name, and usually house/flat number
Postal/ZIP code - Post Code
City - Town or City in which the contact lives
State/Province - Also known as "County" to us in the UK. For example: Cleveland, Derbyshire, etc.
Country/Region - Country, or region of the country (if the country is very large, like America)[/INDENT] - Spouse - The name of whomever the contact is married to (Husband/Wife)
- Children - The name(s) of the contact's children
- Web address - General website address
- Web address (home) - Home website address
- Web addr. (business) - Work's website address
- Address (home) - Home postal address of the contact. Like Address, selecting this adds the following details:
[INDENT]P.O. Box (home) - The P.O. Box number
Extension (home) - Unknown, possibly an abbreviation of the Country (?)
Street (home) - Street name, and usually house/flat number
Postal/ZIP (home) - Post Code
City (home) - Town or City in which the contact lives
State/Prov. (home) - Also known as "County" to us in the UK. For example: Cleveland, Derbyshire, etc.
Ctry/Region (home) - Country, or region of the country (if the country is very large, like America)[/INDENT] - Address (business) - Work postal address of the contact. Like Address, selecting this adds the following details:
[INDENT]P.O. Box (business) - The P.O. Box number
Extension (bus.) - Unknown, possibly an abbreviation of the Country (?)
Street (business) - Street name, and usually house/flat number
Postal/ZIP (business) - Post Code
City (business) - Town or City in which the contact lives
State/Prov. (business) - Also known as "County" to us in the UK. For example: Cleveland, Derbyshire, etc.
Ctry/Region (bus.) - Country, or region of the country (if the country is very large, like America)[/INDENT] - Birthday - The contact's birthday. Sadly, this isn't shown in the calendar.
- Anniversary - The contact's anniversary (Usually a wedding anniversary). Sadly, this isn't shown in the calendar.
- Note - Anything else not covered by the above.
- Image name - Select this to assign a picture to the contact. Default value is "Add image" but will then show the picture's filename when one has been assigned. If the original image assigned is moved or deleted, the thumbnail remains on the contact.
- Ringing tone - Select this to assign a ring tone to the contact. Default value is "Default tone", which means it will use the default tone assigned in the current profile, but will show the name of the ring tone when one is assigned
- Synchronisation - Specifies the status of the contact when it is being synchronised with anything else (Like Ovi and Outlook). Options available are "Private" (Default), "Public", and "None" (?)