Open Radar

 
Summary:  iOS is pretty good at autodetecting phone number strings and hyperlinking them to allow instantaneous dialing.  But the calendar app has a bug that prevents dialing phone numbers that include the "#" symbol.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a calendar event with the following details:

    Title: Weekly Conference Call to Discuss Sales
    Time: Friday July 6 2007 13:00-13:30
    Location: Banff conference room 
    Notes:  concall: 622-555-1212,,453452# url: http://www.foo.com 

2. save the event
3. view the Event Details for this calendar item
4. note that the ENTIRE concall phone number ("622-555-1212,,453452#") is a hyperlink
5. tap the hyperlinked concall number
6. you will be prompted with a "Cancel / Call" dialog box - tap the "Call" button
7. nothing happens (i.e., no phone call)

Expected Results:
the phone should dial the "622-555-1212,,453452#" number

Actual Results:
the phone does not dial the number.

Regression:
this has never worked.  (NOTE this problem does not occur with my coworker's BlackBerry...)

Notes:

As an enterprise user, I have a calendar that is FULL of this phone number format, since the "#" is frequently used to interact with conference calls or voicemail systems.  The only way to dial them is to carefully copy the number, switch to the iPhone app, paste in the new number, delete the # and then dial.


note that this problem with the pound sign seems to be specific to the calendar app.

i.e., if you launch notes.app and add "622-555-1212,,232323#" the resulting hyperlink WILL dial properly.


Update: 23-May-2011 I was notified that this is a duplicate of apple bug #9367037