topic Re: No speed dial in XPERIA archive

No speed dial

JTHZA — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:39:47 GMT

The new Z1 Compact does not have speed dial!!! Why? Was at MWC in BARCELONA and the Sony staff were as surprised as I was.

Re: No speed dial

Alexander1 — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 13:17:11 GMT

Hi and welcome to the community! Since you're new please be sure that you have checked out our Discussion guidelines.

There is no speed dial as default in Xperia Z1 compact. What you can do instead is to add contacts as favorite, so you can find them quickly through the favorites tab under contacts. You can also create direct dial shortcuts on the homscreen. Press and hold your finger on an empty space on the homescreen > apps > shortcuts > direct dial > select a contact/number.

Perhaps you can find a 3rd party dialer on Google Play that have the speed dial option you are looking for.

Re: No speed dial

paul4os — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 15:37:31 GMT

speed dial is an out of date concept that belongs on the era prior to adaptable touch screens. it simply isn't intuitive to remember an arbitrary number rather than selecting the actual name of the person you want.

smart dialling is supported and is still useful though for quick lookups.

Re: No speed dial

JTHZA — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 21:14:25 GMT

Frankly I disagree with this strategy as do our subscribers. Speed Dial was one of the first features on mobile phones, way before SMS.

Many subscribers have maintained the same speed dial numbers over the years and wish to continue this.

The failure of your explanation is that with Favourites you choose a contact not a number as you do in speed dial. This necessitates the user to further choose which particular number for the contact you want to dial. An added step and waste of time.

Remember, your competitors have not taken this decision and in fact neither have you on the Z1 and the customers assume the Z1 Compact to be the same as the Z1 but only smaller.

Think again please.

Re: No speed dial

Alexander1 — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 15:29:21 GMT

As far as I know there is no speed dial option by default in Xperia Z1 either.

I understand that with favorites, you get extra steps to perform a call, that's why I recommended the 'direct dial' feature.

"You can also create direct dial shortcuts on the homescreen. Press and hold your finger on an empty space on the homescreen > apps > shortcuts > direct dial > select a contact/number. "

With direct dial you get a shortcut on the homescreen where you call a specific number with one tap on the screen. If you want to add more than one direct dial shortcuts, you can create a folder where you have all your direct dial shortcuts.

Re: No speed dial

dquilon — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:12:50 GMT

I have to agree with Alexander here, JTHZA.

Some people still like Speed dial but there are alternative for our modern phones that are vastly superior and easily adaptable...

I ditched speed dial with my last BlackBerry phone just before I move on to Android... and years later, with an Xperia I still prefer Direct Dial Shortcuts (and some Full Contact Shortcuts) over speed dial.

The change to this is really simple and the adaptation is fast.

Re: No speed dial

umernall — Tue, 25 Mar 2014 13:19:16 GMT

I really miss my S3 where I could specify say the landline as the default and then just slide my finger right over the contact entry to dial the number and slide my finger left to send an SMS to the mobile number.

So simple, elegant and efficient...

Re: No speed dial

sweetynico — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 23:57:57 GMT

The french SFR version has the speed dial ! why not other xperia

Re: No speed dial

ratacit — Sat, 28 Jun 2014 00:49:40 GMT

On my Z1C bought in Hong Kong if tap and keep tapped any key from 2 to ) I can add contacts to a speed dial. Then tap and keep tapped and it dials the contact...

Re: No speed dial

AndersA — Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:13:39 GMT

Thanks! But how do I add contact-picture om the direct-call-shortcut??