After the disk telephone disappeared almost completely, the new phone was more modern and good looking and it had keys instead of the disk with digits. These keys had numbers on them, between 0 and 0, but they had also printed the letters of the alphabet, three or even four letters on each key. These keys are used mainly in mobile phones because you write text messages with them and also the names of the people you introduce in the phone and address book. Any way, now people thought it would be a good idea to have personalized phone numbers and used letters instead of digits to make up a certain word, for example instead of the phone number 0800-3569377 you can write 0800-FLOWERS, as when you type it on your mobile phone keypad you will have the same number.
And because you don’t want to waste too much time looking for the perfect phone number for you or if you know what number you want, you don’t know if that is available or not, there is now a software application that you can use to find that out for you – Vanity Calculator 1.0. This application was designed mostly for mobile phone distributors or shop assistants , those who are in direct contact with the customers who want personalized phone numbers, the so-called “vanity numbers“.They can choose these vanity numbers to represent something for them, to either describe them as a person, for example0800-MARISSA or to be easily remembered when they use it for their business, being an advertisement in itself like 0800-CLOTHES.
The application can be used both ways, that is both for finding a certain number to correspond for a vanity word and also to find a vanity word that makes sense for a certain mobile phone number. It is very useful and small in size, having only 212 KB in size. It was developed by a software specialist called Roderich Bender and can be downloaded and used as freeware.
