By Dick Wolfsie There should be a law against having phone numbers that denote words instead of, well, numbers. Hello! It’s a phone number, not a phone word. I hosted a TV segment last week for ...

Consumers of T9-enabled phones don't have to peck and peck and peck. It's one peck per letter. The software does the rest. For example, to spell the word "weather," someone with a T9 phone would ...

Tiny start-up Eatoni Ergonomics may have solved the ultimate problem for cell phone users: How do you type a message on keys the size of pizza crumbs? Typing on a mobile could soon be easier | ZDNET X ...

We appreciate the sentiment behind the Phone Dial Web Browser, an old rotary phone dial pad that's been hooked up to a PC that you use to "dial up" websites via their IP addresses rather than ...

But on a wireless phone, if someone strikes the "2" key, the "a" first appears. To type a "c" means striking the same key three times to cycle through the letters. It adds up.

To get your phone into the queue right away, dial *#*#checkin#*#*, substituting the dial pad numbers for the letters. I used it on a Nexus S to pick up a bug-fixing upgrade, ...

WhatsApp is adding a new feature to its iOS app—a virtual dial pad for making calls.The feature was spotted by WABetaInfo in the latest beta version of the app. It works like a regular phone keypad.