iPhone above all other mobile phones in the Snow Leopard Address Book
The Address Book application in Mac OS X Snow Leopard has a new telephone number label for contacts: “iPhone.” (Credit to Jeff Carlson for bringing it to my attention.)
What I find just as interesting as its existence is its order in the list. The “iPhone” label comes before “mobile,” the label I used for all cellular numbers. Is that a subtle dig to put the iPhone above other mobile phones?
It is also the only label that rates a capital letter.
I have no idea how or if this label will survive through Entourage Sync Services and Exchange synchronization. Hm.
Update: I wouldn’t advise using this label right now if you use Sync Services or otherwise sync data elsewhere. I’ve already lost cell numbers in Entourage with Sync Services enabled when I flipped an existing “mobile” number to “iPhone” and back.
Update: I have tested it twice with dummy contacts and could not reproduce the problem that resulted in the number being removed from both Entourage and Address Book. (I believe this is odd because it happened to two of my existing contacts when I flipped them to “iPhone” and back to “mobile.”) However, the “iPhone” number does definitely get removed from Entourage through Sync Services, which means you would lose the number on anything connected to an Exchange account (if Entourage is synchronizing with Exchange). … Such as an iPhone with Exchange ActiveSync.