Adding text next to a phone # in contacts

[mattmcg]

I just recently migrated from a Palm Treo to the Evo and have been enjoying Android quite a bit post migration.

I am experiencing a small issue though and am looking for a bit of advice. In Palm's old OS, it was possible to append pauses and small text notes along with a phone number. For example, a phone number entry could look like this:

925-555-1212x5655 (support)

With the above number, the "x" denoted a pause to where you could initiate the dialed digit string after the "x" on demand. This was used to quickly dial into conferencing servers.

The "(support)" was a simple note to tell me something about the number. I often had two or three work numbers where I needed to denote (support), (sales), (mgmt).

Does Android support any/all of this? I seem to be having issues with certain numbers that would tell me know but would like to hear your experiences.

 

[mattmcg]

Well after a bit of searching on the net, I discovered that inserting a "w" before an extension prompts you to click a button before dialing an extension. I've tested it and it works well. Nice!

Now to figure out the comments thing. Any ideas?

 

[NicksGarage]

You can add a custom label to the number. Just go into the contact and edit mode. Click on the label to the left of the number and select Custom from the list. You can then enter what you want.