Problems Dialing Text Style Phone Numbers On Your Blackberry?

It is very common today for companies to create a 1-800 sales or support phone number that includes their name or a catchy phrase. For instance the major satelite provider here in Canada (Bell ExpressVu) has 1-800-SKY-DISH as their sales/support line.

Recently I wanted to dial a number like this from my Blackberry and low and behold there are no phone letters on the Blackberry keyboard. This isn’t something that you have to do everyday but it is something that will frusstrate you when you need it. If you have enough patience and you remember that A starts on the number 2 then you might be able to figure out the corresponding numbers. Put that into a real world situation and most of us are going to be cheesed off that we need to bother with this and just won’t bother.

After some searching I have found the solution! It is so simple that it is almost embarrasing how easy it is. When you dial your number and want to enter letters simply hold down the ALT key. The phone number must start with a digit so 1-800-LETTERS would work but CALL-897 would not.

Great feature, too bad it was a hard one to locate! Happy Crackberry people!