Contact icons on home screen

[alamosimp]

I will be finally dumping Android at the end of the month. My choice for replacement will be the Lumia 928. On my Android using widgets I can have each of my important family contacts on the home screen texting or calling by just using the widgets. Is there anything similar for the Windows 8/8.1 phones.

 

[a5cent]

Hello alamosimp, and welcome to WPC!

Yes, WP allows you to pin almost anything to the start screen: apps, favourite web sites, songs, map locations, and contacts. When you pin a contact to the start screen, you'll get all of that person's feed updates right from that tile, and it acts as a speed dial: it takes only two taps to call that person.

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Hope that helps!

 

[alamosimp]

Yes that helps. Thank you. Looking forward to getting the one final piece of putting everything under one umbrella.