Phone List a subset of Contact List (Outlook) ok?

[Guest eieioeieio]

i've never had a Windows Mobile 5.0 or a Smartphone, so pardon my newbie-ness.

i'm looking to move from my S700 Sony Ericsson to the i-mate SP5 or the Qtek 8310.

let's say i have an Outlook Contact List on my PC of 2000 names/contacts. it is very nice to have all of that on my SP5/8310, should i need any of them, they will be on my fingertips. i'm so used to having a nice, "lean" list of Phone List people/numbers on my current Sony Ericsson S700 since it is an abridged, "short list" of, say 500 names/people (call this "Phone List") that are basically the only people that i tend to call from a day to day basis. it seems very cumbersome to scroll through so many names in Outlook to find a name, or even type in a number of letters.

is there a way to have the entire Outlook Contact list activesync'ed onto the SP5, yet, have an abridged "Phone List" for day to day convenience of calling people quickly?

i cannot be the only person who's thinking about this. it seems to be that it would be very cumbersome to look through 2000 names in my entire Outlook Contact List to make phone calls!!

hope someone can help to enlighten me. it seems to me that this Win Mobile 5.0 / Smartphone thing MUST be better but i can't seem to figure it out.

Thank you very much in advance.

[Guest 17-APG]

i've never had a Windows Mobile 5.0 or a Smartphone, so pardon my newbie-ness.

i'm looking to move from my S700 Sony Ericsson to the i-mate SP5 or the Qtek 8310.

let's say i have an Outlook Contact List on my PC of 2000 names/contacts.  it is very nice to have all of that on my SP5/8310, should i need any of them, they will be on my fingertips.    i'm so used to having a nice, "lean" list of Phone List people/numbers on my current Sony Ericsson S700 since it is an abridged, "short list" of, say 500 names/people (call this "Phone List") that are basically the only people that i tend to call from a day to day basis.    it seems very cumbersome to scroll through so many names in Outlook to find a name, or even type in a number of letters.

is there a way to have the entire Outlook Contact list activesync'ed onto the SP5, yet, have an abridged "Phone List" for day to day convenience of calling people quickly?

i cannot be the only person who's thinking about this.    it seems to be that it would be very cumbersome to look through 2000 names in my entire Outlook Contact List to make phone calls!!

hope someone can help to enlighten me.  it seems to me that this Win Mobile 5.0 / Smartphone thing MUST be better but i can't seem to figure it out.

Thank you very much in advance.

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Hi,

I have an i-mate SP3i with win 2003 SE and i have all of my 1000 contacts on the phone from my PC. It is great I have to say. The only thing you can do as far as I know is th euse the "filter" mode within contacts on the phone. Yu could use the "categories" in Outlook to set your most used numbers and then point the filter at that category. Note, you will need to reset the filter each time you switch on the device because it will default back to showing "all contacts". But an even easier way is to simply hit the soft key for contacts and key in the first few letters of the name you want and the phone will show up all of the names. BTW, I have just bought a new SP% (waiting delivery ). They are great . Good luck.

[Guest Disco Stu]

Cross-posting only confuses people trying to help you, mate - continue discussion here :

http://www.modaco.com/Phone_List_shorter_t..._l-t230270.html