Feature suggestion for phone function: calling cards
Andreas Kostyrka
andreas at kostyrka.org
Thu Dec 28 21:30:16 CET 2006
One last thing, it's something that is usually not implemented, as it
allows to lower phone costs; as the phone is being sold directly to
the users, it should relativly easy (politically) to implement.
Andreas
* Andreas Kostyrka <andreas at kostyrka.org> [061228 21:09]:
> Hi!
>
> Something that most phones do not get right: (Funny, the Sidekick as a
> totally closed platform did support it ok)
>
> Support calling cards:
> E.g. instead of the green "Dial" button, offer an optional menu
> (perhaps by pressing long on the "Dial" button), listing all
> configured calling cards.
>
> Calling cards concepts I know about:
>
> 1.) Dial a prefix before the number.
> +1234567 becomes +PREFIX001234567
> 2.) Dial a callin number, and after optionally sending a configured
> DTMF (for authentication) and after that the number to dial as DTMF.
> 3.) Dial a callin number. Hangup. Wait for callback, send the number
> to connect to via DTMF
> 4.) Generic plugins. Ideas: Send the number somehow per GPRS to my
> private homestation, dial fixed dialin number that gets forwarded to
> the right number. Support some bigshot corporate PBX. Support all
> kinds of crazy notations.
>
> Andreas
>
>
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