Keeping Track of Numbers with the Address Book

There are two ways to build up your Address Book on the Pearl. The first way is to add incoming numbers and outgoing numbers to the book (along with email addresses that come in and out of the Pearl), but it can take some time to build up all your contacts. You can also synchronize the Pearl with Microsoft Outlook or other software and import existing information from those programs. This option gives you the power and depth of your home or work computer's address book immediately.

You can access the Address Book from the main screen; simply use the trackball to highlight the Address Book icon (Figure 5.4) and then click it. When you are in the Address Book, you can scroll around and select the contact you are interested in.

Figure 5.4. The Address Book is accessible from the main screen

If you select an address and then press the Menu key, you get a menu that lets you send a message to the current address, email the address, call the address, add a picture to it, send it as an attachment, or edit it to your liking (Figure 5.5). There's a great deal of power in the Address Book, because you can add new addresses, people, or groups simply by selecting a newly received email or phone-number record and pressing the Menu key. The Pearl makes it easy to add contacts to your database with a bare minimum of typing and fiddling around.

Figure 5.5. The Menu key gives you plenty of options