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The Contacts package offers services for managing contacts related data. The package includes the Phonebook and Logs applications, and a large number of various APIs.

• Phonebook
• Call Logs
• Application Services API for managing contact data
• UI Controls for creating, editing and viewing contacts
• vCard 2.1 compliance
• Contact-related utility services for UI
• Predictive contact search features based on T9
• Presence Cache and buddy list with a simple contact presence API
• Phonebook extensibility to add extra service tabs (XSPs)

Documentation

Contacts package breaks completely between Symbian^3 and Symbian^4. Therefore the architecture documentation is separated between the releases.

Symbian^3

• Contacts architecture documentation for Symbian^3.
• Key APIs in Symbian^2 and Symbian^3

Symbian^4

• Contacts architecture documentation for Symbian^4.
• API documentation see: QT Contacts

News

Next generation contacts and logs component and API development to replace the existing Symbian & S60 middleware components with Qt & Qtopia based assets: QT Contacts

Also check out Symbian UI Brainstorm blog for ideas, for example usability category

Package Backlog

Please refer to Contacts Package Backlog.

Contacts

Package owner: Markku Kaurila

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