Diamond/WM6 Contact Problem

[ombadboy]

Okay.. so ive been buffling around this issue for hrs now and havent figured out a solution.. yet.. maybe with ure help ill be able to solve my problem..

so here goes..

After hours trying, ive figured out that you cant have 2 mobiles phones assigned to 1 contact, thats ok, lets say we assign it to work. (it bothers me a bit, but i doubt there is any solution to this)

So lets say we assigned mob 1 to mobile field and mob 2 to work field. When i get in the contact screen, i can only send a txt message to the mobile. not any other field. I've also tried assigning the 2nd phone to "car","other",etc etc, but none seems to work.

any help appreciated..

[ombadboy]

bump? plz needdvice

[rhedgehog]

I think Microsoft call this particular aspect of Windows mobile an 'Undocumented Feature'!!

No way around it that I know of. Seems a bit silly nowadays as many people have more than one mobile (Work mobile and personal mobile for example) but the contacts fields have hardly been updated in windows mobile since PPC 2000!

Maybe pocket informant or a similar third party app will help??

[ombadboy]

ive tried using iContant and another 3rd party, but it seems the "core" contact fields cannot be edited.. i.e add extra fields etc..

[mike.waters]

EDIT: 6.1 DEFAULTS TO THE MOBILE NUMBER FOR TEXT SENDING. YOU OVERCOME THIS BY CREATING A SECOND CONTACT WITH THE SAME DETAILS, BUT WITH DIFFERENT ID (E.G. JOE-UK MOBILE).

Microsoft might suck sometiimes, but it is still my overall favourite for functionality...

[ombadboy]

so basically the only workaround is having a duplicate contact with the 2nd mobile phone..?