Carl Tyler's Blog

1 - welcome to the world of PDA-phones. The majority of blackberries suffer the same ill conceived user interface.

You might try just hitting the letters and see if the phone is smart enough to "do the right thing".

2 - Come on Carl - just use your brain a second. Your phone has a screen and connects to the web. Just go to www.nokia.com get a closeup of a phone and there are your letters. Even easier think about it. You have 10 numbers but you cant use 1 and 0. leaves 8. thus 3 per number, 2 spare - 4 bottom left and right, easy

well only if you are used to a real phone, but not too difficult.

Good to see the weight still coming off. Keep it up !

Cheers, Rupes

3 - Years ago I realized this and forced myself to learn: 23456789 = ADGJMPTW, the first letter on each number. Not incredibly pnemonic, I know, but it comes in handy once you memorize it.

4 - Another one (for us Brits) is if you can still remember the STD codes for the major cities (and even smaller towns). They were designed to use the mnemonic principle - best shown by examples:

021 - Birmingham
031 - Edinburgh
041 - Glasgow
051 - Liverpool
061 - Manchester

Also works for smaller places e.g.

0482 - HUll
0483 - GUildford
0625 - MAcclesfield

The newer codes cock this up a bit but once you know this you can usually have a pretty good guess at the dialling code - or put it in reverse to get the 'phone letters' from STD codes you know !

5 - @1 Would be nice, but this is a MS OS remember

@2 I should have to use my brain to make a phone call

@4 I didnt' know that about the area codes, that's pretty interesting.

I have found a hack, it basically involves unlocking the phone and modifying the graphic that is used as the header for the dial screen. Still amazes me that no one during testing at Microsoft/Samsun used the phone as a phone and discovered this.