15. A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor circuit including a plurality of routines and a memory having a plurality of components; an input circuit cooperating with the processor circuit; and a display circuit cooperating with the processor circuit, wherein at least one of the routines is adapted to input from the input circuit at least one search criteria and at least two of the plurality of components, to conduct a search of the memory based upon the at least one search criteria and the selected at least two of the plurality of components to be searched, to determine at least one search result from the search, and to display and provide, for the at least one search result, at least one user interaction available from a different application, and perform one of the at least one user interaction directly from the search results displayed, without opening the different application, the at least one user interaction being selected from a group including directly editing the item, directly forwarding a message, replying to a message, directly e-mailing an e-mail address and directly calling a phone number.
15. A handheld electronic device comprising: a processor circuit including a plurality of routines and a memory having a plurality of components; an input circuit cooperating with the processor circuit; and a display circuit cooperating with the processor circuit, wherein at least one of the routines is adapted to input from the input circuit at least one search criteria and at least two of the plurality of components, to conduct a search of the memory based upon the at least one search criteria and the selected at least two of the plurality of components to be searched, to determine at least one search result from the search, and to display and provide, for the at least one search result, at least one user interaction available from a different application, and perform one of the at least one user interaction directly from the search results displayed, without opening the different application, the at least one user interaction being selected from a group including directly editing the item, directly forwarding a message, replying to a message, directly e-mailing an e-mail address and directly calling a phone number. 16. The handheld electronic device of claim 15 wherein the at least one search criteria includes a text search criteria and a name search criteria; wherein the at least one of the routines is further adapted to conduct the search of the memory based upon the text search criteria and the name search criteria, and to match the at least one search result to both of the text search criteria and the name search criteria.