Entering numbers whilst in text mode

[Guest]

It's a real pain entering numbers in either text entry mode (T9 or multitap) as you have to switch to numeric entry, enter the number and then switch back again. Microsoft, if you're going to make one change in the first service pack, please, please, pleae allow numbers to be added by holding down on the appropriate key!

Also the ability to change a word using T9 after you have pressed space would be a God send.

[Guest sch]

If you're in multi-tap you can get it by pressing the key an appropriate number of times - i.e. to get 8 press the key 4 times, you should get t, u, v then 8.

T9 is more complicated since it's trying to get match a dictionary and you won't find many words with digits in the middle. If it's a single number, press the key and then 0 to cycle through the options, then # to accept it.

[Guest ashley.flynn]

wouldnt it be cool if you could add a new tag to the html to tell the phone what characters are necessary? e.g

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A standard browser would just ignore the content="numeric" property anyway

[Guest Hax]

If you're in multi-tap you can get it by pressing the key an appropriate number of times - i.e. to get 8 press the key 4 times, you should get t, u, v then 8.

T9 is more complicated since it's trying to get match a dictionary and you won't find many words with digits in the middle. If it's a single number, press the key and then 0 to cycle through the options, then # to accept it.

Only problem with this approach is you can't enter the number zero as a signle press is used to cycle through characters and a hold down just gives you the plus sign and then moves on to wait for the next character without giving you the option to change it - most infuriating :roll:

Adam