Anyway to put dashes in the phone numbers?
 

When I was sent a contact card from my friends iPhone I was surprised to see the number have dashes i.e. 555-222-3333 and it saved that way and everything! When I tried manually doing it in contacts, it wouldn't let me. So is there a way around this now?

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You said the number was saved, can you still call the number with no issues even though it has the dashes?

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yup! Text and call with no issues. It's weird. Cause he sent it to me as a .xlv and I saved it and used it and it has dashes. It's more like this (555) 999-3333 but still that's better than 5283941204

Re: Anyway to put dashes in the phone numbers?
 

Not the ideal solutions but you can:

• Dump your contacts to PC/Ovi Suite, edit there and sync back.
• Sync with a recent Symbian phone, edit there and sync back.

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I can do the Ovi Suite thing. Does it for sure work I only have 70 contacts. Once I do those, doing one or two more contacts that I add shouldn't be a big deal

BUT it still doesn't solve when random numbers call you that aren't saved in your phone book. It hardly matters if it's a save contact (sometimes) cause u see their name rather than their number.

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It works for sure because i have done both.

But I've never seen a phone that formats the incoming number before displaying it :confused: Have you?

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Yeah...american phones haha like the ones at T-Mobile, iPhones, AT&T, Verizon phones. Nokia's main market really isn't the U.S., but it shouldn't be hard for a developer to integrate this in the settings.

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Interesting. If you received an international call does it format it "properly"?

<country code>-<area code>-<local number>

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Yeah, the possibility to put a dash (or even a space) would be great, since it hugely improves readability, especially when I'm dialing a number on another phone but looking it up from the N900.

a bit off-topic, but a partial workaround to improve readability is to install the "contact info zoom" plugin, which displays contacts information in a bigger font...

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Please allow non-digits in phone numbers = RESOLVED INVALID