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I'm confused, you do realise these phones had a built-in contacts storage, right?

LeifCarrotson 8y ago
Yeah, the Razr was my first phone...but it was super convenient to just use the number pad to dial. I had contacts programmed in for just about all the people I called, but between favorites and dialing I didn't use them all that often.
- skellera 8y ago
  I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact. Example I always thought was funny was Mom is 666. But with that, it was faster to dial a contact name like that than their number.
  - zyberzero 8y ago
    My phone still let me do that, plain vanilla Samsung S8. I'd be surprised if that didn't work in the most phones on the market today.
    - umollis 8y ago
      I think all Androids let you do that, but iPhones don't.
  - dirkgently 8y ago
    > I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact. Not sure if I understand this. If you mean start dialing by name or number, I can do this on my Android.
    - egypturnash 8y ago
      Each number key has three letters associated with it. So you hit the numbers that correspond to the letters in the name; presumably the phone would display a list of all the contacts that matched - with the example of typing 666 to get “Mom”, first you’d see every contact whose first letter was M, N, or O, then every contact whose second letter was also on the 6 key, and so on until you were down to one and hit the dial button.
      - erk__ 8y ago
        Yeah, that still works at least on android.
      - dirkgently 8y ago
        T9? Yes, that's exactly how Android dialer works.
darren_ 8y ago
I barely remember the OS on my old V3 but at a guess I'd imagine actually accessing contacts was sufficiently laborious that just memorising numbers was more convenient?
Just_Smith 8y ago
The primary mode of input was via a d-pad that was fairly small to allow room for the number pad, which is largely defunct after the initial creation of a contact. I think what they were getting at was that dedicating space to a number pad isn't the most functional design by today's standards.
- Just_Smith 8y ago
  I see they responded - should've refreshed first.
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Yeah, the Razr was my first phone...but it was super convenient to just use the number pad to dial. I had contacts programmed in for just about all the people I called, but between favorites and dialing I didn't use them all that often.

skellera 8y ago
I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact. Example I always thought was funny was Mom is 666. But with that, it was faster to dial a contact name like that than their number.
- zyberzero 8y ago
  My phone still let me do that, plain vanilla Samsung S8. I'd be surprised if that didn't work in the most phones on the market today.
  - umollis 8y ago
    I think all Androids let you do that, but iPhones don't.
- dirkgently 8y ago
  > I miss phones that let you dial the letters of the contact name to pull up that contact. Not sure if I understand this. If you mean start dialing by name or number, I can do this on my Android.
  - egypturnash 8y ago
    Each number key has three letters associated with it. So you hit the numbers that correspond to the letters in the name; presumably the phone would display a list of all the contacts that matched - with the example of typing 666 to get “Mom”, first you’d see every contact whose first letter was M, N, or O, then every contact whose second letter was also on the 6 key, and so on until you were down to one and hit the dial button.
    - erk__ 8y ago
      Yeah, that still works at least on android.
    - dirkgently 8y ago
      T9? Yes, that's exactly how Android dialer works.

darren_ 8y ago

I barely remember the OS on my old V3 but at a guess I'd imagine actually accessing contacts was sufficiently laborious that just memorising numbers was more convenient?

Just_Smith 8y ago

The primary mode of input was via a d-pad that was fairly small to allow room for the number pad, which is largely defunct after the initial creation of a contact. I think what they were getting at was that dedicating space to a number pad isn't the most functional design by today's standards.

Just_Smith 8y ago
I see they responded - should've refreshed first.

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