On my Cingular Motorola V180, I've been trying
to send text messages to Google's very handy
SMS (described at http://sms.google.com ).

Messages to Google SMS must be sent to Google's
five-digit shortcode, which is 46645 (that is,
GOOGL on a telephone keypad).  Unfortunately,
the V180 insists on autohyphenating when I
enter the fourth character, and the shortcode
always comes out as 466-45, which causes my
text message to fail to reach Google.  The un-
welcome hyphens intrude even when I respond to a
text message that came from a legitimate
five-digit shortcode.  The V180's manual was
of no help for this problem.

Is there a way to deactivate auto-hyphenation?

Is there perhaps a workaround that I could use?

Should I consider updating the V180's firmware?

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