Abstract: A wireless telephone comprising a receiver to receive a DTMF (dual tone multi-frequency) audio tone transmitted to the wireless telephone during a conversation mode of the wireless telephone, and a DTMF decoder coupled to the receiver to decode the DTMF audio tone and to responsively generate a decoded signal representing dialed information corresponding to the DTMF audio tone during the conversation mode of the wireless telephone. A wireline telephone may also include a DTMF decoder and a memory to decode and store received DTMF digits. A telephone embodying the present invention thus captures for its user the telephone numbers or other numerical information transmitted by the opposite party in the DTMF form during a conversation, without requiring the user to disrupt the conversation, e.g., by looking for a paper and pen. Thus, the user may not need to personally remember or write down the telephone number or other numerical information received while the user is on phone.