It seems to me these phones ought to be able to determine that since I am clearly roaming perhaps it makes sense to automatically stick a 1 in front of all my "local" numbers before dialing?

This just makes sense to me. I keep thinking I must be missing the point here somehow so if anyone can tell me how to get this to work that would be great.

OR

If it simply isn't something the PPC can be setup to do, does anyone have an app or something that I could use to manually force a 1 to be inserted in front of a phone number when it makes sense to do so?

Right now I need to look up numbers then remember them long enough to dial them with the 1 and the area code. Its a pain.

Thanks.

All of your numbers should be pre-programed with 1 (area code) Number. The phone will then dial local or long distance automatically. This is common among PPC and even Palm PDA phones from what I recall. I got into a habit of doing this on all my mobile phones since the auto append feature is inconsistent between phones.