As you build up your list of contacts on your phone, you can use the Quick Contact for Android feature to quickly chat, email, text message, place a call, or locate your contacts. Quick Contact for Android is a special set of icons that you can use to quickly and easily connect with a contact.
From the Home screen, tap Contacts , scroll to a contact and tap the contact's picture.
Tapping the contact’s picture opens a Quick Contact dialog box. It displays icons for all of the ways you can communicate with that contact. The available icons depend on the information you have saved for that contact.
Type in the name you want to search.
Contact picture
Tap here to open Quick Contact for Android for this contact.
Alphabetical Listing
Slide your finger vertically along the letters to view the entries under a specific letter.
New Contact
Tap here to add a new contact.
Tap a Quick Contact icon to communicate with the contact. Depending on the icon you’ve tapped, a different application will open.
Adding a shortcut for a contact to your Home screen allows you to open Quick Contact for that contact without opening the Contacts application.