S60 Open to new features

By now most of us are pretty familiar with the concept of group lists or mailing lists with email, and it only makes sense that this should also work on your phone.

In S60 phones, this is pretty easy. If you select any of your contacts, you'll see the option "Add to group" pop up in the menu. Or, from the contacts list, just hit the navigator key to the right to access your groups. This makes sending out mass SMS messages a lot easier if there's a bunch of people you frequently send messages to at the same time - whether that's for work, your baseball team, or "I love you" messages to all of your red-hot lovers (that'll probably get you in to trouble soon enough, though). Another nice feature is that you can use your contact groups to start up a Push to Talk call, if that's something you have from your operator.

Also, you can assign ringing tones to your groups, so you know whether an incoming call is from your center fielder or from a hot date. If you're dating your hot center fielder, I'm not sure which ring tone you'll get, but I invite you to try it out. :)

Some people have so many contacts that they sometimes get this Laura mixed up from that Laura or, even worse, forget who people are entirely. One solution that some people use with S60 phones is to organize their contacts into groups, so you get a bit of extra help in sorting which person is which. Just create a group for business projects, or your baseball team. Or, of course, your red-hot lovers. Might want to use a code word for that one.