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Both the desktop and mobile version(s) of Gmail now insert an anchor link around phone numbers. In the desktop version, the link opens Google's new voice/chat console which is displayed along the right column of the Gmail interface. In mobile versions, the link opens up the mobile phone console with your phone number pre-populated making it very easy to dial numbers directly from your email. Each of the following formats will get converted to links:

So how do you get around it?

1.) Use an HTML entity in your phone number that Gmail does not recognize:

In the example above I used the following entity just before each dash: "­" In the example above I used: "­" Unfortunatly, this HTML entity renders a dash "-" in Lotus Notes 6.5 and 7 (only) so the phone number appears like this: 212--389--3934

2.) Wrap an anchor tag around the phone number with an inline style that matches the rest of your text:

3.) If it's possible, use the text version of the phone number:

If you can find any additional ways to bypass the text links in Gmail, don't hesitate to share them below! So change name@test.com to: name@test­­.com  Change www.mydomain.com to: www.mydomain­­.com  Change http://www.mydomain.com to: http:­­//www.mydomain­­.com