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Article #576Re: Consumer Reports: iPhone 4 - Not recommended
From: John Higdon
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:46
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:46
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In article <4c3deed4$0$22123$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net>,
SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote:
> "Entering" implies pressing digits on keyboard or keypad then completing
> the process by pressing another key ("Call" or "Enter"), so it would not
> apply to rotary phones.
Data is entered all the time without pressing a terminating key or some
other action.
The NANP was designed to NOT require a terminating delimiter, even
though legacy-ignorant telecom people are more and more designing
systems that require a "#" entry to bypass the entry timeout (the
supreme crutch of a lazy designer). Those of us with telecom memories
that exceed five years take some pride in the design of systems that can
still recognize end-of-dialing (that's a telecom term that's not going
to change on a whim) from the digits *entered*.
Nonetheless, we're talking about wireless phones in this thread, and
after the digits have been *entered*, another key must be press to send
the call on its way on such phones. Even by your standard (above), the
term "entering" would be appropriate. Pressing that final key is not
optional; nothing will ever time out.
--
John Higdon
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