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In case if we want to initiate phone call within our application we can use given platformRequest(tel) method. Article explains how to design such application by allowing users to type the pone number into textbox or allow them to access contacts.

Article has given a ideas like when user want to call without living the running application they can do it using given just two lines of code without any longer coding and make this thing available to users in form of menu.

--Kalki 20:35, 18 September 2009 (UTC)