Comments on: Using letters to dial numbers on your BlackBerry

By: Carrie

Carrie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:26:30 +0000

Thanks for this. The idiots at Sprint customer service didn’t have a clue. You saved me a lot of time with this.

By: Robert

Robert — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:55:38 +0000

Sean,
I just played around with my Pearl for about 5 minutes and finally figured out the second character. Hold down the ALT key and then press the desired letter twice then let up on both keys. You may have to play around a few times to get the hang of it but the trick is to keep the ALT key held down. It will display the first letter at first but the second letter will show up after you let up on both keys.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 12:05:16 +0000

Ok, so this works beautifully on my curve, however, I’m trying to figure out how to dial the # and * keys. When I type alt and the key that has those listed, it won’t allow me to access my work voicemail once my message starts playing. Am I doing something wrong??

By: Chelsey

Chelsey — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 22:41:13 +0000

o my gosh! love it!! thanks so much! I was always calling people and having them look at their phones to tell me the numbers. this is awesome.

By: Nomad

Nomad — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:00:38 +0000

I use my BB 8130 keypad to “dial” letters as follows. Access the phone app, start entering the number with a “1″ (not required but it gets things started) then hold down the ALT key and press the desired alpha key. The corresponding telephone numbers do not appear until you place the call (green call button)

By: James

James — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:03:58 +0000

Doesn’t work for me. I’ve got a BB 8130 and for fun I tried to type “1888 tw cable” to see if this would work. I even used Chris’ advice, I pressed the alt key then pressed the QW key twice (very fast) for a W. Nope. It acts like I pressed it twice, then it starts making weird words and stuff. God I F**KING hate this phone.

By: lo

lo — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:21:38 +0000

so freaking useful. i was getting ticked off about that. they say call 1888 tw cable. and its like… what.. the #s arent the same as on a traditional phone. but THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:26:52 +0000

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 22:02:30 +0000

Press the key twice (very quick) and the 2nd letter comes up.

By: sthornton

sthornton — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 20:30:58 +0000

@sean good question… My first guess would be ALT+SHIFT+letter. I’ll play around with my better half’s Pearl later today.