Save Combo box text to database

I am having 2 tables as follows

Table - Fields - Sample Values
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Pesron - name, phone_type, number - William, Mobile, 1234
Phone_Type - type - 1) Mobile 2) Homephone

Phone type is a combo box in the form. But i want to save the phone type value in person table not its id.
For example, I want to save the Phone type value 'Mobile' to be saved in Person table rather than its id '1'.

I know this can be achieved using coding. Is there any way to achieve this without coding ?

If not possible, I am looking forward to this feature in future versions of MVD.