[frankinthecity]

hey everyone!

this may sound stupid but i didnt find a super good way to do this:

when you are looking for a phone number on the internet on your phone, and you want to call that phone number, lets say to ask information,

i tried to select the phone number then copy, but paste doesnt work on the phone phone fonction...

any better way of doing this?

francois

[juwaack68]

Not sure if you can use it in Canada, but if you can, the application Poynt is what I use to look up businesses and numbers. Then you can just click the call the place.

[stevetaz]

Originally Posted by frankinthecity

hey everyone!

this may sound stupid but i didnt find a super good way to do this:

when you are looking for a phone number on the internet on your phone, and you want to call that phone number, lets say to ask information,

i tried to select the phone number then copy, but paste doesnt work on the phone phone fonction...

any better way of doing this?

francois

Can you give a specific example of what you use to search and copy?

I often use Google to search businesses as well as people and I find that the results do include links that I click and can dial directly from the search results.

I also just verified that I copied a phone number in a Google search result, opened the Phone app and pasted the number into that window using the BB Menu key. Editing may be needed if you need to add a Country Code or the "1" prefix, but I did not have an issue using the copy and paste function on my 9330.

[aiharkness]

You should be able to initiate the call by clicking on the number in the web page, and you will be prompted with the number and call and cancel buttons. I just checked and I am able to do it. No need to cut and paste. If not, first step would be to do a hard reset and try again.

[rambo47]

AFter making the call you should have the option via the Menu key to create a new contact with that number or to add it to an existing contact.

[frankinthecity]

i use google, telus yellow pages doesnt work (internal server error)

and its good i was able to see the phone number of the store, but no other way to call except copy and try to paste...there is no way i will write the number down on a piece of paper to dial it after on my phone!! lol

[stevetaz]

Maybe the problem is you are not clicking on and opening that link in Google. Once you open the link you should see a clickable phone number in the body and if not you should be able to highlight, copy and then paste.

If you are trying to do that from a result page on a BB I can understand that it won't work.

Is that what you are trying to do?

[frankinthecity]

Originally Posted by stevetaz

Maybe the problem is you are not clicking on and opening that link in Google. Once you open the link you should see a clickable phone number in the body and if not you should be able to highlight, copy and then paste.

If you are trying to do that from a result page on a BB I can understand that it won't work.

Is that what you are trying to do?

exactly!! if i click the link, i still cannot click the phone to make a call!! it just appear as a normal phone number like the google result page.

how should i do this then? so i can click the phone number to call?

[stevetaz]

So from that page you open from the link you don't get a phone number you can click to dial?

Can you place your cursor at the beginning of the phone number > press and hold the left or right CAP button > scroll across the number to hightlight > press BB Menu key > Select Copy > Press the Phone button > Cursor in top bar > BB Menu key > Paste

BTW....you should also be able to do this in the Google results page.

I hope my description is clear enough. I don't know why you don't get "clickable" links in the web pages.

[frankinthecity]

Originally Posted by stevetaz

So from that page you open from the link you don't get a phone number you can click to dial?

no, but then again, i am using plain google mobile, no fency app like 411, or yellowpages, etc

Originally Posted by stevetaz

Can you place your cursor at the beginning of the phone number > press and hold the left or right CAP button > scroll across the number to hightlight > press BB Menu key > Select Copy > Press the Phone button > Cursor in top bar > BB Menu key > Paste

that is what i am doing, i was just wandering if there was a better / easier way of doing this

[stevetaz]

Originally Posted by frankinthecity

no, but then again, i am using plain google mobile, no fency app like 411, or yellowpages, etc

So am I. I don't understand why you can't click phone numbers from withing web pages.

What is the setting for your Browser and Browser ID, BlackBerry Browser? With an open web page > BB menu key > Options > Browser Configuration

Are the other items checked in the list like Support Java Script, etc......?