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My Current Setup

I make a lot of phone calls every day. The phone numbers are in an online CRM. My cell phone (iPhone 4s) sits in a cradle at my desk. I have a blue tooth earpiece connected to the iPhone. Right now, I re-type phone numbers from the web page into my iPhone and press dial. In addition to the extra typing I occasionally make typos while entering the number.

What I'm Looking For

I'd like to click on the phone number in the browser and have it dial the number on the iPhone (through the cradle USB). I'm open to bluetooth alternatives as well.

What I've Found

There are a few apps out there (like myPhoneDesktop) that integrate with the iPhone. Unfortunately they typically offer a proxy screen on your desktop where you dial the number and it calls on your cell phone. Nice, but I still end up typing numbers in all day. As a side note, most of these apps seem to require a connection to some online database to handle syncing. I don't really want an cloud account for syncing. I just want the 10 digit number to go over my USB.

I've found old posts around the Web of people asking for similar functionality but the general response was that the software did not exist.

There are solutions that will dial a phone using RS232 connection. I don't think any of these solutions fit my use case.

There were several related SU questions like A way to call someone from PC via a cellphone or How can I call from my PC?. However, I would prefer to use my iPhone and not an online service like Google Voice.

The closest thing I've found is PushDialer. Unfortunately they do not have a Windows version yet.

Has anyone come across a seemless solution? This seems like it should be a really simple intuitive use case but my searches are coming up empty.

Edit #1

The CRM I'm using renders phone numbers using a hyperlink with the tel protocol.

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