How To Type Letters for a Dial by Name Directory on Blackberry

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I used to look for a screenshot of the keypad of a phone every time I had to navigate a phone system that required me to type letters as input or tried to type a phone number that contained letters.  (On Blackberry, the number keys don’t have letters on them, so I could never figure out how you were supposed to navigate these alphanumeric menus and dial by name directories).

Today, I was without my screenshot, so I called @iqram and asked him to screenshot the Skype keypad and send it to me.  He asked me why, and when I told him he taught me a cool trick for blackberry. To mimic the tone correct numeric tone for a letter on Blackberry, just hit Alt and then the letter. Eg, typing Alt then A will sound the tone for the 2 key.

Worst case scenario: here is the complete mapping of letters to number tones for mimicking a touchtone phone in case this trick does not work for you:

ABC: 2 DEF: 3 GHI: 4 JKL: 5 MNO: 6 PQRS: 7 TUV: 8 WXYZ: 9