Re: iphone - wonderful but not...

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 08:45 +0100, André Pang wrote:
> On 02/09/2008, at 12:35 AM, Ken Foskey wrote:
> 
> > I also have not figured out how to extract numbers from SMS yet.    
> > The same issue applies to email.
> 
> If your phone is set up for the Australian region correctly--i.e. you  
> bought it through an official channel, or jailbroke it and installed  
> Australian region support--phone numbers (and email addresses) should  
> show up as hyperlinks in the SMS that you can simply tap, where you  
> can then add it to a contact, use it immediately, or whatever you  
> like.  If it doesn't work, that's pretty weird.  It definitely works  
> for Australian mobile phone numbers, though I can't remember off the  
> top of my head whether it works for 8-digit land line numbers without  
> an area code prefix.

I should explain better.

If I have a phone number for Marion and I want to forward the phone
number to Debbie the only way is to type Marion's phone number into the
SMS body manually.




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