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Thursday, September 24, 2009
Did you notice something different when adding a new contact or a phone number to an existing one lately on your iPhone or in Address Book on your Mac? Well, if you upgraded to Snow Leopard on your Macintosh you may have not caught the new entry for Phone Number Type in Address Book 5.0. Right under Work and Home and just above Mobile is “iPhone”. You’ll find the same entry type available on your iPhone running OS 3.0 or higher as well.
So what is Apple trying to do with this new entry? Marketing? Hidden feature? Nothing? Well, most likely it’s just really a marketing ploy since phone calls from iPhone to iPhone using this type does nothing more than Mobile to Mobile. Oh, if you use the iPhones Voice Control to call someone with this entry as their selection but say “Mobile” instead of iPhone, thankfully the Voice Control understand what you “really” mean and still finds the correct number. Voice Control does politely tell you, however, that it is an iPhone that you’re calling when confirming your selection.
Who knows the true reason of Apple’s inclusion of this new entry other than being a “vanity” selection. Maybe one day there will be a use for it or maybe it will effect how one sends SMS and MMS to one another. Either way, I’m going with the vanity aspect for now and loving it. 
