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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by dylan604 on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @10:39AM (#33436551)
This one drives me crazy in all iOS phone number entry type situations. once you've dialed in the the 10 numbers, it makes it into whatever that little bubble is called that makes it no longer editable. you have to delete the whole bubble of 10 digits, and start typing the whole number again instead of being able to edit the probably single digit that needs correcting.

However, I'm old enough to remember the pain of recognizing a mis-dialed number from rotary phones. Old enough to remember only needing to dial 5 digits. Then the pain of having to dial the full prefix going to 7 digits, growing to full horror going to full 10 digit. luckily by 10 digit, touch tone was in place.

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Re:The first minute of every phone call is torture now by andrewaylett on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:50PM (#33443393)
My parents technically don't have a four digit local number any more, but it's the same† national number as it was back then. BT moved two digits from the exchange code to the local part when they digitised the exchange.

†: All UK national numbers gained an extra '1' after the leading '0'; I'm asserting that change doesn't count.

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