major flaw: the iPhone's caller ID system

[elbert]

Here's a major flaw with the iPhone: unlike most modern day mobile phones, which takes intto account the last 6 or 7 digits of an incoming call's caller ID, therefore ignoring the prefix, the iPhone takes the entire string of numbers to match with the address book entry.

I suspect that this is not a problem in the U.S. (that's why Google can't find any reference to this issue). It's probably because their caller ID is consistent and accurate.

Here in the Philippines, incoming calls from Globe sometimes show up as starting with a "0" or a "+[country code]" (i.e. +63). This means that on an iPhone, incoming calls may not be identified with a specific address book entry and will show up as a string of numbers, as if from an unsaved number.

The only solution (for now) is a tedious one. iPhone users will have to store two versions of a persons number in the address book: one that starts with the "0" and the other with the "+63"

Bummer.

I am hopeful that Apple will issue a patch for this, but probably not until the iiPhone starts officially selling outside of the U.