Lumia 820 Windows 8 Dialpad cannot dial with alphabets

[Prasanna Mayekar]

Hi,

Recently bought Lumia 820. In the Phone Dialer, the buttons have number as well as alphabets, I am not able to dial alphabets.
How does one go about using the 3 letter alphabets assigned to each button.?
thanks
Prasanna

 

[akar33]

You cant.

 

[Prasanna Mayekar]

HI,
I have old Windows CE 6.0 Mobile from ASUS which has this functionality,
Since the keypad does have this letters there must be a way of doing or just having them there is useless.

Regards
Prasanna

 

[Narse77]

What exactly are you trying to do?? The alphas are only for reference here in the US
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 using Board Express

 

[pezman726]

yeah...Here they are only for making cool sounding phone numbers i.e. dialing 1-900-MIX-A-LOT would be the same as dialing 1-900-649-2568. Also, if you had an old phone, you'd use that for your texting...but with this being a smartphone and all, it kind of already has a built in keyboard.

 

[BHFH]

What I would like to see in the built in dialpad is that it auto search the phone book as you type in the number, so if you want to dial "tom" you just hit 866. Third party dialers does this but its just not the same.

 

[Narse77]

Why?? You have a full keyboard.
Sent from my Nokia Lumia 920 using Board Express

 

[Prasanna Mayekar]

This is exactly what I mean and if the functionality does not exist then the dial pad should not contain any alphabets.

 

[jbudimir]

Just install rapdialer and enjoy