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Getting her number (thelemmy.club)

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Some phone apps still have them.

I went looking for its technical name, and apparently it is E.161 (?)

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Not T9?

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[–] diemartin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 weeks ago

I thought so, too, but T9 appears to be the predictive text system

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 point 4 weeks ago

Samsung's default dialer still does.

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