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Help [VIRGIN MOBILE] Can you click on a phone number and dial it?

Palmetto Fellow

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Sep 24, 2010
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I seem to vaguely recall Apple patenting the idea of clicking on a phone number and then having the phone call it. Nevermind that Unified Communications by Microsoft does this...but I guess that's not on a mobile device...so whatever.

Is the S3 plague by this? Can you click on a phone number and have the phone call it? Does the number have to be a special link within the search? (I've noticed google having special "call" buttons all over their searches now...probably in response to this).

My HTC EVO V can call phone numbers off websites that are just plain text...but I figure that's maybe because I am rooted and running Negamann's BluROM. Is that the case? If so, are rooted S3s capable of calling phone numbers by clicking on them? What about non-rooted ones?
 

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