[Blink] where's the dialpad?

[Hoot, Joseph]

understood.  Well, the feature is not worth me switching back to another client.  And I still like Blink better than the others, so I think I'll take your suggestion about adding it as a contact.

Thanks for the quick responses.

Joe

On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Adrian Georgescu wrote:

> I remember the confusion in Xlite, when you type space it toggles  
> between letter to number mode and people simply did not know about  
> this 'super feature' and had no clue how to return to normal mode.  
> Everyone asking questions on the mailing lists for how to disable this.
> 
> I am not sure how often one needs to dial such numbers, most likely in  
> the US I guess. You can pick you mobile phone look at the dial pad and  
> save the Contact in Blink for future of use if you need to dial it  
> often.
> 
> Probably an icon added to the search bar could popup a dialpad and all  
> you type can be considered numbers then. But someone has to build this  
> and is not us, our roadmap is full.
> 
> Adrian
> 
> 
> On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:26 PM, Hoot, Joseph wrote:
> 
>> Yes, Please take it as a compliment, because it is definitely better  
>> than other sip clients that I've used.  And the fact that it is  
>> native to MAC really helps :)
>> 
>> Having no dialpad is just fine for me.  Do you know, however, if  
>> there is any work being done with regards to letter-to-number  
>> conversion?  Otherwise, although I like your intention, I'm stuck  
>> looking for a dialpad somewhere to look for to figure out what  
>> letters match up to the numbers.
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 2, 2010, at 8:16 AM, Adrian Georgescu wrote:
>> 
>>> 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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