Portable Radiotelephone for Automatically Dialing a Central Voice-Activated Dialing System

A method of connecting to a remote voice-activated dialing system, the method comprising:

• powering up a cellular telephone device;
• reading a telephone number from a memory of the cellular telephone device automatically upon the powering up;
• dialing the telephone number;
• connecting to the remote voice-activated dialing system;
• and
• initiating an outgoing call.

A system for making a telephone call, the system comprising:

• a network;
• a voice-activated dialing system on the network;
• a cellular telephone device, the device including a housing having a mouthpiece portion and an earpiece portion and not containing a keypad, a memory contained within the housing, and a transceiver contained within the housing,
• wherein the transceiver automatically communicates with the voice-activated dialing system via a telephone number stored on the memory when the device is powered up.