What is Phonetic Name and Phoenetic Surname?

These are fields that you can add to a contact while you edit a contact on iphone.

Anyone know what it does, and how it works?

thanks in advance

Sony Vaio, Windows XP Pro

Posted on Jan 12, 2008 1:18 AM

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Jan 12, 2008 2:37 AM in response to ekpliktical

thank you for that, at first i thought it used for something like a voice command (you call the name you entered in phoenetic and it calls the assigned contact)

For future readers, i also found out that if you enter Name, Surname, and Phoenetic Name, then the sorting criteria is the name!

example:

Surname: Doe
Name: John
Phoenetic Name: Jon
Sorting method: +Surname, Name+

Result: Contact appears under "J" when it should appear under "D"

Changing phoenetic name to something else, makes it the primary sorting criteria ex. Phoenetic Name: Chon, then +John Doe+ appears as +Doe, John+ under "C"!!!

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