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Old Jul 14, 2010 | 7:55 am
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Originally Posted by hermanni
One thing to note though: on most Nokia handsets you can't have two contacts with the same phone number. Or you can, but then the phone won't be able to show you a name when you get a call from that number. For example, if you have entries called 'Wife' and 'ICE' with the same number and your wife calls you up, the phone won't know which name to show. So it shows neither and shows the phone number instead.
On my old LG phone, I was able to get around that by entering the ICE number with a "1-" prefix:
1-555-555-5555 "ICE Wife"
555-555-5555 "Wife"
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