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<pre>>On 29 Feb 2008, at 17:34, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote:
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>><i> siaPeter Trapp ha scritto:
</i>>>><i> Hi everybody,
</i>>>><i> I thought about the possibility of a voice mail installed on the
</i>>>><i> neo. The idea is to let the application decide if you are
</i>>>><i> reachable for the caller or not. The decision will be done on
</i>>>><i> profiles (time, who is calling, what to do (let it ring or answer
</i>>>><i> directly) ). Eg: Saturday 10:00pm and your boss is calling (and
</i>>>><i> you have a signal)
</i>>>><i> Neo is aware that it is "weekend" and who is calling. It just
</i>>>><i> turns on the voice mail... Dear Boss, actually it is weekend and I
</i>>>><i> just don't want to get some work right now. Sorry, my neo will not
</i>>>><i> even inform me that you've called. So don't try again later. It
</i>>><i>> would not help until Monday 9am! Have a nice weekend
</i>>><i>> --- without the possibility to leave a message ;)
</i>>
>I would like this feature also, and really I assumed it would become
>a commonplace usage on OpenMoko.
>
>><i> Cool, but your caller will pay for this.. So maybe it won't be so
</i>>><i> happy :P
</i>>
>Stuff the caller. I carry a mobile phone so I can make outgoing calls
>when I'm away from home, not so I can be interrupted in the middle of
>a conversation. If someone is calling me they assume that they're
>going to incur the cost of a call, anyway, so I don't see that the
>cost of a call to voicemail is a large imposition (it is probably
>better than me answering my phone to say "stuff you", at least).
>
>Stroller.
In the USA, the originator of the call is irrelevant. It charges against
your plan minutes regardless of whether you are making or receiving a
cellular call. So if software on your phone is picking up the line and
your phone itself is acting as the answering machine, it will use up
<i>your</i> minutes as well as costing the caller minutes. Actually, if they're
using a landline and you are a local call for them, it won't cost the
caller anything, while it uses your minutes regardless.
The exception is that often if the caller and the recipient are both on
the same network, neither is charged. I know that's true of T-Mobile.
Another issue is that this function will only work if your phone is both
turned on and in service. Of course, maybe this functionality is only
needed in that situation anyway (e.g. you are in service and want
to receive calls from certain people and not certain others.)
That said, I still think it's an extremely useful function for the phone
to have by virtue of its power and flexibility. If it could do things like
give different outgoing messages based on who's calling, or forward the
incoming message (maybe even send to email?), or automatically send a text
message and that kind of thing, it would be really cool. The suggestions
of real-time screening (like you can do with a home answering machine) and
sending calls from specific numbers (or all <i>but</i> specific numbers) directly
to the provider's system voicemail are great too.
Mark
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