Help Dialing from within an email

[politzer]

I guess the terms is dialing strings. I'm finding that what worked really well in BB, i.e. dialing a phone number from within an email, doesn't with ICS. Am I missing something here? I can highlight the string, but it doesn't give me the option to dial it, only to copy and paste.

 

[AJ McKay]

It works fine in the gmail app, regardless of how the number is typed.

I.e. xxxxxxxxxx, or xxx-xxx-xxxx, or xxx.xxx.xxxx

Don't know about any other email apps.

 

[SecondShot]

I have noticed that it struggles with my Touchdown email app. haven't tried native email.

 

[batwings1]

In the native email app, I just tap the number and it brings it up in the dialer app. I push the phone button from there and it calls the number.

 

[WMuellner]

This works with "simple" phone number, unfortunately I very often have to use additional codes which have to be sent AFTER dialling the phone number, like specific conference call codes, which are delimited by the '#' character and must wait for a short time (using the 'pause' codes like the ',' character.

Such combined strings look like this: <phone number>,,<special authentication code>#
These type of strings cannot be used directly from mail or calendar entries, because they are split at the point of ',' or '#' charcters...

Is there any solution for that? I know Blackberrys can do that...
WM