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Press-and-hold Phone Numbers or Email Address 19

by Adam Marks Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:24 pm EDT

While webOS allows you to tap on an email address to launch a new email, or to tap on a phone number to call it, you can also press-and-hold on those for additional options. If you press-and-hold on a phone number, you get a menu option to "Call", "Text" or "Add to Contacts", and if you press-and-hold on an email address, you get a menu option to "Send Email" or "Add to Contacts". Note that if the phone number or email is already in your contact list, the "Add to Contacts" option will not appear

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Posted by Hawkeyefan on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 12:52 pm EDT

hmm - did not know this - good tip

Posted by autodidact on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 5:28 pm EDT

Tap & hold need to be more frequently/widely implemented throughout the OS, otherwise it becomes such a rare thing that even seasoned users forget that it is an option

Posted by Hawkeyefan on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 9:27 pm EDT

Agreed - waited in the rain June 6th first one at Best Buy - had no idea this worked.

Posted by ekesqueaky on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:02 pm EDT

Can't believe I didn't know this one. Nice!

Posted by superdouche on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:09 pm EDT

Awsome

Posted by orawas on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:12 pm EDT

I had no idea... That's pretty nice!

Posted by blz2 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:34 pm EDT

Nice

Posted by dki378 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:49 pm EDT

Holding the orange/silver button and tapping on the number/email does the same thing. I recently stumbled upon this feature because I was trying to send a text to a number that someone provided me via email. It took me a few WebOS-intuitive guesses to figure it out. I didn't know the tap and hold alternative method so great tip!

Posted by jfultz14976 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:55 pm EDT

Wow somthing advanced can actually be done without opening the slider...what a concept!

Posted by jfultz14976 on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 1:56 pm EDT

Wow somthing advanced can actually be done without opening the slider...what a concept!

Posted by emjayess on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 2:27 pm EDT

Another one I didn't know--Thanks and keep 'em comin'!

Posted by retroblu on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 2:37 pm EDT

didnt know this one...nice..would usually tap on number to launch the dialer then save to contacts...sweet...

Posted by patricksmangan on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 2:38 pm EDT

I didn't know that either...was afraid to touch and call accidentally. I don't know if there's an end to the tips, but you guys should make an app out of them. There's some things that palm doesn't tell you outright

btw, palm should have done this with links too, that's where I've actually tried this

Posted by pre_daddy on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 2:45 pm EDT

Wow. Day 1 Pre user that learned something new today.

Posted by RUSH on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 5:03 pm EDT

Tips: I love them. ;-)

Posted by imanexus on Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:24 pm EDT

Fantastic!

Posted by fstopstigmata on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:06 am EDT

This feature hasn't been there all along, it was just added in 1.4.

Posted by patricksmangan on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:31 am EDT

oh, and now I'll be in the forums, requesting a patch to add " copy" to that list



http://bit.ly/9YAvmL

Posted by yoshiaka13 on Thu, 12 Aug 2010 10:21 am EDT

wow I didn't even trip across this one feature.. So this is new to me. Thanks... Now I can do some work even faster seeing as I get numbers and emails either text to me or emailed to me from someone else.