I dial letters! You can too!

As a follow-up to my previous wondering of how people call/text phone numbers that are spelled out on a typical alphanumeric keypad (i.e., awesome=2934663) on new phones that have a QWERTY keypad, I learned a new trick a couple weeks ago that totally answered my question! Well, for my phone, at least. I might be the last person to know this, but on Blackberries, when you are typing out a number that has a word in it like 1-800-COLLECT (I don't think you would ever be dialing this from your cellphone. I also don't think this service is around anymore but I don't care enough to find out. BTW, Carrot Top just popped into my head.), you type in the number part like normal and then you can hold down either the ALT key or the capitalizing key and type the letters you need (C-O-L-L-E-C-T). When you hit call, your supersmart phone will convert those letters into the numbers they are supposed to be. This totally blew my mind. And I hope someone else out there just learned something new because I don't really want to be the last person to know this bit of info.

By the way, got my Curve on Halloween! AND I LOVE IT :] And I think Ugly Betty and I have the same color Curve. Teehee.