<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Most contracts these days have a ridiculous number of minutes, free nights and weekends or free same-carrier calls. So if I call my mom who is on T-mobile, I don't pay anything. My wife and I have 1,000 shared minutes and basically use only our cell phones for talking. We generally only use 200-300 minutes per month. <br><br>I think this voice mail idea would be great! I would love some simple routing or logic to in-coming calls. <br>. . .Shawn<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Ortwin Regel <ortwin@gmail.com><br>To: List for OpenMoko community discussion <community@lists.openmoko.org><br>Sent: Saturday, March 1,
2008 9:24:17 PM<br>Subject: Re: Idea of a voice mail application<br><br>
And
people
just
accept
paying
for
incoming
connections?!
I
still
can't<br>get
over
how
US
phone
contracts
work...
O.o<br><br>On
3/2/08,
Mark
Haury
<<a ymailto="mailto:wolfmane@gmail.com" href="mailto:wolfmane@gmail.com">wolfmane@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>>
>On
29
Feb
2008,
at
17:34,
Marco
Trevisan
(Treviņo)
wrote:<br>>
><br>>
>>
siaPeter
Trapp
ha
scritto:<br>>
>>>
Hi
everybody,<br>>
>>>
I
thought
about
the
possibility
of
a
voice
mail
installed
on
the<br>>
>>>
neo.
The
idea
is
to
let
the
application
decide
if
you
are<br>>
>>>
reachable
for
the
caller
or
not.
The
decision
will
be
done
on<br>>
>>>
profiles
(time,
who
is
calling,
what
to
do
(let
it
ring
or
answer<br>>
>>>
directly)
).
Eg:
Saturday
10:00pm
and
your
boss
is
calling
(and<br>>
>>>
you
have
a
signal)<br>>
>>>
Neo
is
aware
that
it
is
"weekend"
and
who
is
calling.
It
just<br>>
>>>
turns
on
the
voice
mail...
Dear
Boss,
actually
it
is
weekend
and
I<br>>
>>>
just
don't
want
to
get
some
work
right
now.
Sorry,
my
neo
will
not<br>>
>>>
even
inform
me
that
you've
called.
So
don't
try
again
later.
It<br>>
>>>
would
not
help
until
Monday
9am!
Have
a
nice
weekend<br>>
>>>
---
without
the
possibility
to
leave
a
message
;)<br>>
><br>>
>I
would
like
this
feature
also,
and
really
I
assumed
it
would
become<br>>
>a
commonplace
usage
on
OpenMoko.<br>>
><br>>
>>
Cool,
but
your
caller
will
pay
for
this..
So
maybe
it
won't
be
so<br>>
>>
happy
:P<br>>
><br>>
>Stuff
the
caller.
I
carry
a
mobile
phone
so
I
can
make
outgoing
calls<br>>
>when
I'm
away
from
home,
not
so
I
can
be
interrupted
in
the
middle
of<br>>
>a
conversation.
If
someone
is
calling
me
they
assume
that
they're<br>>
>going
to
incur
the
cost
of
a
call,
anyway,
so
I
don't
see
that
the<br>>
>cost
of
a
call
to
voicemail
is
a
large
imposition
(it
is
probably<br>>
>better
than
me
answering
my
phone
to
say
"stuff
you",
at
least).<br>>
><br>>
>Stroller.<br>><br>>
In
the
USA,
the
originator
of
the
call
is
irrelevant.
It
charges
against<br>>
your
plan
minutes
regardless
of
whether
you
are
making
or
receiving
a<br>>
cellular
call.
So
if
software
on
your
phone
is
picking
up
the
line
and<br>>
your
phone
itself
is
acting
as
the
answering
machine,
it
will
use
up<br>>
your
minutes
as
well
as
costing
the
caller
minutes.
Actually,
if
they're<br>>
using
a
landline
and
you
are
a
local
call
for
them,
it
won't
cost
the<br>>
caller
anything,
while
it
uses
your
minutes
regardless.<br>><br>>
The
exception
is
that
often
if
the
caller
and
the
recipient
are
both
on<br>>
the
same
network,
neither
is
charged.
I
know
that's
true
of
T-Mobile.<br>><br>>
Another
issue
is
that
this
function
will
only
work
if
your
phone
is
both<br>>
turned
on
and
in
service.
Of
course,
maybe
this
functionality
is
only<br>>
needed
in
that
situation
anyway
(e.g.
you
are
in
service
and
want<br>>
to
receive
calls
from
certain
people
and
not
certain
others.)<br>><br>>
That
said,
I
still
think
it's
an
extremely
useful
function
for
the
phone<br>>
to
have
by
virtue
of
its
power
and
flexibility.
If
it
could
do
things
like<br>>
give
different
outgoing
messages
based
on
who's
calling,
or
forward
the<br>>
incoming
message
(maybe
even
send
to
email?),
or
automatically
send
a
text<br>>
message
and
that
kind
of
thing,
it
would
be
really
cool.
The
suggestions<br>>
of
real-time
screening
(like
you
can
do
with
a
home
answering
machine)
and<br>>
sending
calls
from
specific
numbers
(or
all
but
specific
numbers)
directly<br>>
to
the
provider's
system
voicemail
are
great
too.<br>><br>>
Mark<br>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>OpenMoko
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