How many buttons are on a phone?

Answer 1

My keyboard has a 105 keys Which is all of them including * the 'Fs'

* All the numbers * Ctrl * alt * alt gr * print screen so ALL of them

Answer 2

Telephone Dialer or Keypad

Rotary dial and touch tone telephones have 10 number buttons - 1 through 10. These correspond to the alphabet; phone numbers in the earliest days contained letters and numbers, such as "Baldwin-5555" was in the "Baldwin" area (a telephone company designation, not a location), and that was abbreviated to "BA-5555".

Letter-Numbers

1 = has no letters

2= A-B-C

3=D-E-F

4=G-H-I

5=J-K-L

6=M-N-O

7=P-Q-R-S

8=T-U-V

9=W-X-Y-Z

0 - no letters; is to reach the Operator

In addition, telephones have an asterisk * sybmbol on one button or key, and a pound symbol # on another key. These are found on either side of the "0" button.

Other buttons

Newer phones may have additional buttons for "Store" (to set up numbers in memory), "Memory" (numbers stored in memory), "Redial" to redial the last number you called. "Flash" is a button that will switch you from line 1 to line 2 if you have a service called "Call Waiting".

The only other "button" is the call-release button, which hangs up the landline telephone when the button is depressed. By placing a land line handset back in its cradle, the pressure keeps that button depressed so you can receive more incoming calls. If not kept depressed, the phone is considered "off the hook". In the distant past, phones literally hung on a hook, so that term has stuck in describing when a telephone is or is not in use. ("on the hook" is not in use; "off the hook" is busy, in use, or simply off the hook so no one can call).

Newer cordless phones and cell phones have no "hook" or button that must stay depressed (pushed in or down) to allow incoming calls to ring. Instead, there may be an "END" button or "OFF" button. One ends the call; off turns off the mobile phone.

Historical

Interestingly, the arrangement for "buttons" of 1 through 0 has not changed much since the beginning of telephones. In the beginning, a "dial" was not needed; a person simply picked up the receiver and waited for the Operator to answer, then told the Operator who you were calling, such as, "Give me Doc Jones, quick!" Operators were all local townspeople, often women. So a person making a call might pick up the receiver and when the Operator answered might have said, "Sally, how's your mother doing? (more chit chat) Well, can you get Milly on the line?" (Everyone was known so a first name could connect you to the person you wanted.)

The "dial" became necessary as more people got telephones. But most families had none, and almost everyone shared a "party line". If old Joe Farmer's wife was chatting with someone, no one else could use the line---but everyone on the same line could listen to each other's calls. Party lines were a source of eavesdropping and town gossip.

"The dial" allowed each person to have "a (personal) number". So at first, phone numbers were only ONE or TWO digits long (example: 24). As towns grew, they added words for areas (example: Baldwin) that helped direct the call. By the 1960s, those "words" changed to 3-digit "exchanges" so all phone numbers became 7-digits long. Then, in the 1980s-1990s, the area code became mandatory, making US phone numbers 10-digits long.

Without the 1 to 0 dialer, or what are now called "buttons" by many people, telephone companies could not have expanded to address the growing need for telephone numbers.

Answer 3

105

it depends on the keyboard you have. Some have more, some have less.

Answer 4

20 on normal phones(not including volume and on/off)

but iphone has none on the front

it depends on your phone

Answer 5

the compter keyboard has 106 buttons

Answer 6

depends on what hardware you're using

Answer 7

105 buttons

Answer 8

im not sure