The People hub is the Windows Phone
8 contact list. You access it by tapping the People tile on your Start
screen or by using your phone’s Apps list. Unlike a normal contact
list, however, the People hub displays contacts from multiple sources.
For example, it can simultaneously display contacts from Outlook,
Gmail, Facebook, and more.
The People hub contains four screens.:
All: The All screen lists all your contacts from all your accounts.
Recent: The Recent screen
displays contacts with whom you have recently been in contact. The
Recent page remains hidden until the first time you interact with one
of your contacts.
What’s New: The What’s New screen displays the most recent posts from your connected social networks.
Together: The Together screen provides access to the new Rooms and Groups features.
Windows Phone 8 displays the profile
information for all your contacts in a single place, regardless of
whether the contacts are from a Microsoft account, Hotmail, Twitter, or
somewhere else. The profile information for a person contains basic
contact information, but it also can contain additional information,
such as birthdays and children’s names.
Whenever you connect your phone to a social
networking site, your “friends” on that site are automatically
synchronized to the phone’s People hub. The same holds true for any
email accounts that you set up on the phone. When you connect Windows
Phone 8 to a mailbox, the contacts associated with that mailbox are
added to your phone’s People hub.
Viewing a Profile
If you want to view the profile information
for one of your contacts, you can do so by opening the People hub and
following these steps:
1. Scroll through the list of contacts and tap the person whose profile you want to view.
2. Any information about the contact you selected appears on the Profile screen.
