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Cut / Paste and Dialing from a web page or text message?

G'Day,
I have three issues with the i-mate and that is the ability to:
1. dial a selected telephone number from received text (SMS) messages or email messages;
2. save the selected telephone number from received text (SMS) messages or email messages into contacts;
I transferred my Telstra message service from MessageBank to Memo so that I did not need to write the name and number before calling. Memo sends the message via text (SMS) message which enabled to return telephone calls directly from text (SMS) message. On the i-mate, I can not select the telephone number to return calls from text (SMS) messages.
3. cut and paste from web pages or text messages.
For example cut name, telephone, address, email address and company name from emails or text (SMS) messages and paste into contacts.
I know that the Treo 600 has this ability and I'm hoping that the i-mate can perform these functions also. If not, I might have to swap to the Treo 600!
It would be greatly appreciated for any assistance to solve these issues.
Thank you.
Marcus

I can cut and paste from other areas but not from web pages, emails or text (SMS) messages.
If I receive a text (SMS) message, email or web page with a telephone number in the message, I must write it down, open the phone and type in the telephone number. After the call I can then transfer to contacts.
How do you cut from web pages, emails or text (SMS) messages and paste to phone or contacts or calender?

ctrl-c, ctrl-v
I don't know but I always open the keyboard and as in desktop windows i use ctrl-c and ctrl-v or ctrl-x to copy und paste!!! of course you have to be able to highlight the test..... :wink:

Thank you rdkay. Your advice works and has already been useful.
I am currently deciding between the i-mate (XDAII) and the Treo 600.
This now makes it much more difficult to choose!

if you hold in the pen dont you get a menu ?

If I open the text (SMS) message and hold the pen on the telephone number in the message a pop-up menu displays "new - delete - move - reply - forward - mark as unread".
No "copy" as it does if selecting "From" and certainly no "call".
I have spoken to i-mate support and they are aware of this missing functionality.
The intergration between the phone and the sms does not seem to be as well developed as with normal telephones.

mwbidey said:
If I open the text (SMS) message and hold the pen on the telephone number in the message a pop-up menu displays "new - delete - move - reply - forward - mark as unread".
No "copy" as it does if selecting "From" and certainly no "call".
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... you have to tap reply or forward to be able to edit the text and then you will be able to use at least the copy/paste "technique".
PavelR.

Thanks PavelR.
Finding it very difficult to choose between i-mate and Treo 600.

To copy from a web page:
Highlight the text.
On the menu, select Tools->Copy.
To copy from a text message:
Highlight the text.
On the menu, select Edit->Copy.

Shortcut cmd line to View Contact?

I installed Right Menu and would like to use it as a speed dial of sorts, but have each entry view the contact's selector screen for Call home, Call mobile, Call work, Send Text Message, Send email, Send e-mail 2, etc.
I can launch any program for each entry. Is there a command line program that will "View Contact"? I know that MS Voice Command lets me say "View Contact John Doe" and then pick from those options -- i would like to do the same.

Samsung's SMS app won't accept recipent number

I've experienced several anomalies in the SMS:ing software (apart from the time stamp issue).
FIRST:
According to the i-8000 manual sending SMS should be as simple as these five steps.
1. Tap Start > Message.
2. Tap the little write a letter symbol
3. Tap Tap to add recipients to enter a contact
4. Tap the message field and enter your message text.
5. Tap Send to send the message.
Everything works fine except step 5, where I get an error message "Address is not permitted."
This is adding in recipients from my telephone book contact list.
SECOND
If I instead start the SMS by tapping the little letter symbol in the telephone book under the contact's profile, I get the same error message. I'm still able to call the person, so the number is not wrong.
So anyone who've got similar problems? Been able to solve this?
Thanks!!

[Q] Google Voice Issue - Unable to call from GV number

Has anyone been able to successfully make outgoing calls through Google voice on their Sony Ericsson Arc?
I've done some searches on Google and this forum and it appears others are experiencing the same issue but there isn't a workaround yet.
Thanks in advanced!

Yes, I have been able to make calls with the Voice Search function. It works very well, similar to Vlingo.
Simply say CALL 'contact name'. If the 'contact name' has multiple phone numbers(work, home, cell, etc) it brings up a pop up box and you select the one you want and it dials.
Or you can simply say CALL 'contact name' HOME and it will find the home number and dial it direct.

Now for my question in the Google Voice search. It has to do with sending an SMS message. I am using the stock SMS app. If you say TEXT "contact name" MESSAGE "how are you?" it will send a text message to your contact with the message "how are you?"
Your contact gets the message but a copy of what you sent is not in SMS for that contact. I tested this a couple of three ways. My contact gets my message just fine and I can get their response in SMS like a normal message but I can not see what I sent them. The only exception to this is if you are already in SMS and in the text box and using a keyboard (such as Swype) that has a microphone button, if you speak your message while in the text box it will save a copy of what you sent in the SMS.
Otherwise if you are outside of the SMS program and use the Voice Search to send a text message your contact gets the message but you do not get a copy of the text that was actually sent.
Anyone else try this yet?

Using voice control to start a call is not the same as using Google Voice to make a call - Google Voice is Google's VOIP service which can be integrated into Android handsets.

Speech to text in Text Messaging on s III

Is there a way to speech to text in text messaging?
There is no mic anywhere.
In settings I have "Voice input" checked

Never-mind found it - hold the setting icon

pelermon said:
Never-mind found it - hold the setting icon
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You can also use S-Voice to do so. Just double press the home key, and say "send text to 'person a', "message body"
(where Person A = a person in your contacts list, and Message Body is the body of the message you want to send)