If you’ve used phone cards before, you know how annoying it is trying to reach the person on the other side. First, you have to dial a local number, then in most cases you have to type in a PIN, and then type in the phone number of the person you want to reach. During the whole process, if you mistype a digit, chances are you’ll have to repeat the whole thing from the beginning.

Well, soon you won’t have to fumble through all those numbers anymore.

Innodial, a calling card provider, just announced an iPhone application of the same name. The app allows you to dial a long-distance number directly from the iPhone or assign it to a local number for convenient dialing.

The app’s dialing interface resembles that of the iPhone itself. You can create a new phone book or use the contact list of the iPhone. It seems to work well, from reports we’ve read.

When you want to call a long-distance number, you just have to dial the number itself, including the country code. The app then calls a local number by itself, applies the PIN, and connects you to that long-distance number.

At Innodial’s Web site, you can assign a particular long-distance number to a local available phone number. Then, with Innodial, you can call the person in London by dialing that local number and pay the same rate as when you dial that international number directly. It takes all the number-punching out of the equation.

Web site is here: http://www.innodial.com/