Listing numbers as "iPhone"?

[kevintech]

Is there any real benefit to listing a number under the iPhone field for a contact?If you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm talking about instead of listing it as home, mobile or fax, there's a field for iPhone.

All I've discovered is that it lists it as iPhone when receiving calls, voicemails and that's it.

Is there more of a function than just a label? I've searched and found nothing, please direct me to the right thread if there is one.

 

[huskerchad]

I don't know of one. Maybe facetime defaults to that number if it finds one?

 

[Saberon]

It's just a label.

 

[milani]

Yes, because if you use voice dialing you will have to specify either "mobile" or "iPhone" depending on how you've listed the number.

 

[ulbador]

I think it does cause problems if you sync with Google. I believe your contacts will end up on Google without phone numbers on them.

 

[ucfgrad93]

I guess it helps you remember who has an iPhone so you can use FaceTime.

 

[himesh]

Its for if you have more than one contact for voice dialling. It will prompt you which number you want to dial.

 

[centavar]

I think it does cause problems if you sync with Google. I believe your contacts will end up on Google without phone numbers on them.

Not true,it syncs as it should.

 

[aldo82]

Not true,it syncs as it should.

Google doesn't have an 'iphone' contact type so when you set google up using exchange you no longer get this choice. I had lots of problems exporting my Address Book contacts (from the mac) to google so I could start using Exchange. Lots of contacts numbers were dropped, not sure if these were the 'iphone' ones though