If you ever have privileged contacts, people who you keep calling with your Oppo A8, you may be sick of looking for these contacts on your mobile phone when you need to have them on the phone. You will be happy to discover that there are some very basic solutions to make your life easier. We will precisely teach you in this tutorial how to use speed dial on your Oppo A8? It's a very easy technique that will save you time.
To begin with, we will see what speed dialing is and how it works, then, secondly, how to use speed dialing on your smartphone.
What is speed dialing on an Oppo A8?
You may have never heard of speed dialing on an Oppo A8, it is a small feature that not many people use, which comes in handy when you are used to communicating with a few privileged contacts. Although many people use messaging or communications apps like Whatsapp or Facebook Messenger instead, this feature is not totally useless. Some people who are not necessarily up to date with new technologies are very likely to prefer these basic functions rather than using more complex applications.
To keep things simple and to clearly teach you the logic of this option, you will just have to associate a number from 1 to 999 on your touchscreen keyboard to a number , therefore, when you open the “Phone” application of your Oppo A8, you may just have to enter the key corresponding to the contact you want to call. This way, you no longer need to enter your full name or number before you can make the call.
If you ever need to sort through your contacts, we invite you to browse our guideline to learn how to delete several contacts on your Oppo A8.
How to use speed dial on an Oppo A8?
Finally, we will now quickly teach you how you will be able to use the abbreviated dialing on your Oppo A8 and associate a speed dial number with favorite contacts. For that, no worries, no matter if the Android version is sufficient, this is the good news because for certain functions, the old versions of Android are not equipped with the option.
Now apply the few guidelines below, to learn how to set up your favorite contacts for speed dialing on your Oppo A8:
- Unlock your mobile phone
- Open the "Phone" application by clicking on the logo in the shape of a mobile phone
- This will open the numeric keypad on which you can dial numbers or search for saved contacts.
- Then click on the three small vertical dots at the top right of the screen to reach the advanced settings
- Finally, access the option by pressing "Speed dial"
- You will now be able to add an abbreviated number choosing the number to which you want to assign it then entering the name or number of the contact to which you want to match it
- Once you have saved, all you have to do is return to the "Telephone" application and type your abbreviated number to be able to make a call to this person.
If you are looking for a lot of tutorials to become the king of the Oppo A8, we invite you to consult the other tutorials in the category: Oppo A8.
