The iPhone like most phones with a built in contacts list will translate the caller ID supplied phone number to a name and perhaps a ‘location’ (home, mobile etc.) using the contacts list. A cute feature of the iPhone is that if you have the same number multiple times with similar entries in the contacts list it combines the data in a sensible way.
For example I have an entry for Michele (Home) with our home phone number and for myself with the same Home tag. When someone from home calls me it says ‘Michele or Andrew Kimpton - Home’ onscreen rather than just picking the first match. It also recognizes the same surname on both entries and so removes that from the first name.
Cute.
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This post was written by awk on July 5, 2007
Things may get a bit confusing when the Waltons call. I heard they all had mobiles now but should any of them ring from home you’ll be glad to know that “John, Olivia, Zeb, Esther, John-Boy, Mary Ellen, Jim-Bob, Elizabeth, Jason Erin or Ben Walton - Home” are trying to make contact