So if you haven’t noticed, most modern cell phones come with plenty of speed dial slots, mine (LG Voyager) has 100. I used to think it was excessive until I came up with this system for speed dialing. I’m pretty sure it hasn’t been thought of before but I feel like pretty much everything has already been though up by someone at some point. Anyways, here it is; feel free to use it if you think it could help out.

In the old days, speed dials were ranked by your favorite people, or perhaps those who called most. Good luck ranking your top 100 friends though. I don’t even have 100 friends so I don’t really have to worry about it. With my system, you use the initials of the person you want to call/text to reach them quickly. With 100 slots, that basically gives you all of the 2-digit combinations of speed dial, so we will use those to set the initials!

Say you have a friend named Billy Kramer, his initials (BK) would correspond to 25 on the cell phone keypad so he goes in speed dial slot 25. Now with your phone, rather than typing in Billy Kramer you just hit 25 and call and there you go. If you have a touch screen that is not the iPhone like I do, you know the pain involved in scrolling down the contacts list. With the Voyager, you can even use this to text people. If I want to text Billy, I just type 25 on the dial pad then Options -> New Text Message. Much faster than going to the Menu, then Messaging, then New Message, then typing in the name. Read the rest of this entry »