[maemo-users] can't type numbers in contact phone/cell slots

[From: Andrew Flegg]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 19:12, Jeffrey Mark Siskind <qobi at purdue.edu> wrote:
> On the N900, if I click Contacts|All Contacts|New contact click on the entry
> bar for Cell then type blue arrow and a number key nothing happens. I can't
> figure out how to enter a number into any contact phone/cell slot. Is this a
> bug or have I just not figured out how this is supposed to be done?

The developer can mark a field as being numerical; and this is used
for the phone number entry fields through the system.

This means you can type + and 0-9 without having to hold down the blue
shift arrow (indeed, holding down the blue shift arrow will make it
NOT work, as you have found - this makes it go from convenient
shortcut into unobvious and obstructive).

Hope that helps,

Andrew

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