Telephone extension numbers in Contacts

I agree and would like to see extensions handled better with the iPhone. I would actually like to have the ability to insert one of a number of special characters at the end of the standard phone number to assist with the dialing of the extension.

For example: One character could designate a specific amount of time before the phone dials the extension number (maybe different characters for designating different periods of time - there might be some standard time frames defined somewhere) and another character that might just wait until the user tells the phone to dial the extension.

Phone numbers with extension aren't formatted very well, either (the numbers just all run together with no formatting).

Why not just insert a pause, you can insert multiple pause commands. Each pause is good for two seconds. See page 33 of your user manual.

Even with the pause command (it's a comma if I'm not mistaken, please correct me if I'm wrong) it tends to not work so well.

I too liked the way a Blackberry handled extensions.

Have you submitted feedback here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html