[IxDA Discuss] Phone numbers should be numbers

[Arias, Jovino]

I guess I am odd-man out here. I actually *like* alpha phone numbers. I
find them playful and fun in the instances when your favorite homosexual
friend's number spells "man munch", or when you are frustrated by the
brown delivery service and you can't be bothered to remember a
particular number and suddenly "pick UPS" pops into your head, or when
your computer crashes and you sob "SOS APPLE" into your keypad.

While telephone mnemonics did not begin that way, the accidental
evolution has taken a barely functional system from a strictly
utilitarian one to a friendly one. And while the underlying technology
behind the telephone is rather archaic, just fancy the idea that all of
the telephony systems around the world somehow manage to be able to
"talk" to each other.

So, when you can't manage to input a mnemonic-based phone number on your
fancy 100 pin-head -sized button cell phone, don't blame the system;
blame the manufacturer.


This is just my opinion.

jovino
falcon studios