[Blink] where's the dialpad?

Adrian Georgescu ag at ag-projects.com
Fri Apr 2 14:16:20 CEST 2010


We have no intention of adding a dial pad. The whole design was around  
the idea of how to get rid completely of the traditional phone dial  
pad. I take your email as compliment for achieving the proposed goal :-)

Adrian

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:03 PM, Hoot, Joseph wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I love Blink so far :)  You have done a great job at interface  
> design.  I have been using X-lite and Zoiper for a couple of years  
> now and have been pretty disappointed because of the lack of a  
> simple way to search for contacts in a spotlight-type way.  The only  
> problem that I have currently is that I can't seem to find a dialpad  
> (if it exists).  Also, I know that it is a SIP client, but it would  
> be nice to have a preference to transpose letters to numbers if  
> there were no @ in the address.
>
> For example, if I type somealias at somesipserver.com, Blink reacts as  
> I would expect and connect to that SIP address.  However, if I am  
> looking to call IBM for service and type in 1800ibmserv, I'd prefer  
> that Blink sees that there is no @ symbol and defaults to changing  
> the ibmserv to 4267379.  <-- skype seems to do that correctly, but  
> of course, skype is a proprietary thing, so I can't do sip with it :(
>
> If that isn't possible, then I would at least expect to have an  
> option to use a software dialpad so that I can see what letters  
> match up to which numbers.  For now, I have to look at another  
> client or do a quick google search for "dialpad."
>
> For the record, I don't usually call those type of numbers.  But it  
> is still something that I've done a couple of times over the last  
> few days and so I thought it was something that I should share with  
> the list.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
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