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Senthil Kumar is a Software Engineer who has around 3 years of experience in IT industry. He is currently working as a Software Engineer in Bangalore and works mainly on the Windows or Client Development technologies and has good working experience in C#/.NET, Delphi, Winforms and SQL Server. He is also a Microsoft Technology Certified Professional in ASP.NET. He Blogs at http://www.ginktage.com and http://www.windowsphonerocks.com. He enjoys learning as much as he can about all things related to technologies to get a well-rounded exposure of technologies that surround him. Senthil completed his Master of Computer Applications from Christ College (Autonomous), Bangalore in the year 2009 and is a MCA Rank Holder. He has passion for Microsoft technologies especially Windows Phone development. You can connect with him on Twitter at (http://twitter.com/isenthil) , on Facebook at (http://www.facebook.com/kumarbsenthil) and his blog (www.ginktage.com). Senthil is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 120 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile

Windows Phone and PhoneGap: Make a Phone Call (part 1)

07.11.2012
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In this blog post , i will show you a simple trick to make a phone call to a number using PhoneGap .

If you are developing App using silverlight framework in Windows Phone SDK , we can make use of the PhoneCallTask to make a call in Windows Phone .

In PhoneGap , all that you have to do is just place the phone number to be called in the hyper link prefixed with with the keyword “tel:” .

<a href="tel:+00-000"> Make a Phone Call </a>

When the user tries to click on the hyperlink , a form will be shown where the user can edit the phone number(if required) and click on the call button to make a call .

Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #11 - Make a Phone Call - Part 1

Windows Phone and PhoneGap - Article #11 - Make a Phone Call - Part 1

Simple isn’t it ?

 

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Kookee Gacho replied on Wed, 2012/07/11 - 8:30am

A minor update released in 2012 known as "Tango", along with other bugfixes, would also lower the hardware requirements to allow for devices with 800 MHz CPUs and 256 MB of RAM to run Windows Phone. -Arthur van der Vant

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