For example, allowing applications that duplicate the functionality of built-in apps (i.e., the phone dialer or SMS app) could cause consumer confusion.

The program also comes with a basic word processor, a notepad, a paint program, a calendar, a calculator, a communications program, a Rolodex-type card file with phone dialer and other accessories.

Function keys offer easy access to frequently used programs like the phone dialer and menu selection shortcuts.

VoIP and video chat integration for any VoIP or video chat app (integrates into the phone dialer, people hub)

Communications tool adds caller ID, phone dialer, integration with mail software.

Like many brokers, Hannah Dinkel, an owner of Frederick L. Dinkel Real Estate on Shelter Island, sees her role as a hand holder and phone dialer.

There are also an automatic phone dialer that can snare numbers from the screen and a built-in calculator and alarm clock to remind the user of appointments.

One of the first examples of this kind of software was Borland's Sidekick, which included a calendar, address book and phone dialer.

Both sides used automatic phone dialers in Milwaukee.

The manual was paperback-sized, 122 pages long, and the whole program, including an automatic phone dialer, fit on one 3.5-inch disk.