dialing with a bluetooth keyboard

Hi, unfortunately dialing numbers on a call with a Bluetooth keyboard isn't supported, I agree like you it would be very useful.
The only way around it though is to program in the numbers as part of a contact.
sometimes pressing the star or hash keys when prompted for a number lets you bypass the automated system and puts you through to an operator.
Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Unfortunately, whilst it is possible to dial with a bt keyboard, simply by moving the right and left cursors to the numbers you want on the keypad, and doing the simeltaneous press of the up and down cursor to double tap, that sort of action is not going to be fast enough for accessing prompts on an automated system. There is a device for that sort of thing if you really have a problem using the touch screen to enter info from the number keypad, however the price is a bit too high in my opinion. It's called the Rivo. This device gives you access to they number keypad and then some. In fact, I think there is at least one article and/or podcast talking about it. Unfortunately, the price is something like $229, I think.
But, you'd have your direct access to the number keypad, as well as being able to move around on the phone and some other things. You can text with it, but then you're going back to the days of using the multiple taps of the numbers on the keypad for accessing letters.

There is no easy way to dial using the bt keyboard unless you have enough time to move around the screen with the right and left cursors and double tapping with the up and down cursor.
However, there is a device that will give you a direct interface for the keypad and other things called the "RIVO, "Remote Interface for VoiceOver," of which David Woodbridge submitted a podcast on.

Hi, I doubt the device to which you refer would be able to enter numbers while on a call?
surely if a normal Bluetooth keyboard can't actually enter a number when you press the number on it this device won't be able to either?
as I understand it the rivo is designed with VoiceOver in mind, but I would think the dialing with a Bluetooth keyboard using actual numbers rather than arrows is an issue that only apple could fix.

How do you navigate an automated system using the contacts method mentioned? I too have this same problem. I can't use the touch screen fast enough for an automated system.

well the way to automate entering of numbers into an automated system is to use the comma and semicolon, I can't remember which does what, but one of them allows you to insert a pause before a new string of numbers is dialled.The second symbol gives you a button which you can tap when your ready to dial the next sequence of numbers. Now I think on it I believe its comma that inserts a pause. I find it easiest to put several commas in a row to give me enough pauses before the phone automatically dials the next block of numbers.