One thing I like about contacts is that in the phone number field, all the numbers are automatically in symbol mode, so you don't need to press the symbol key to get the numbers or + etc.

It would be great if this was a default thing such that if an input in an app is specified to be a number, that happens automagically. There have been a few occasions where the 3 row keypad is annoying because I have to hold the sym key and type a long number.

Maybe there is a sym-lock too - I'll look for that as well

Ben

If you press the Sym key twice then it locks, pressing it again will release the lock.

if text box is used to input plain numbers (and + for example) there is no reason that one could type there anything else except numbers and special marks needed. I guess this can be configured within every program because I've seen quite a lot apps that work straight with numbers without pressing blue arrow up.

and Rob1n, I suppose you meant that pressing blue arrow pointing to NE two times toggles the lock?

Yeah, these are GTK Input Modes set by the code developer for a specific text input field.