Call What, a little iPhone app that translates phone numbers with letters in them.

April 15, 2010 8:14 AM

Call What, a little iPhone app that translates phone numbers with letters in them.
It's for people (like me) that don't like having to translate letters into numbers when dialing phone numbers.

Sure, remembering 1-800-BUNCH-OF-LETTERS is easy, but looking through the groups of little letters underneath the numbers on the phone keypad is not. (Well, relatively speaking.) This will just let you type the letters, then call.

posted by ignignokt (6 comments total)

Heh.
posted by cortex at 11:37 AM on April 15, 2010

Screw you oppressive letters to numbers conversion that doesn't really hold these days with smartphones!
posted by Gucky at 6:34 PM on April 17, 2010

cute!
posted by The Whelk at 10:46 AM on April 18, 2010

Can it do it the other way round, too? TUrner 5-5500, like that?
posted by fixedgear at 2:58 PM on May 5, 2010

You mean numbers to letters? It can't. The problem there is that each number can map to 3-4 different letters. e.g. 3 could be D, E, or F.
posted by ignignokt at 3:08 PM on May 5, 2010

Sure but you can use a dictionary to look for meaningful words based on regular expressions you build from the number sequences. Same as predictive text for SMS used to work on phones that only had numerical keypads.

Not something you'd put in an iPhone app, but it might be useful for looking for words in available numbers that you could choose from.
posted by polyglot at 8:58 PM on May 29, 2010