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The nokia E-series E72 has the neatest feature. If you put it face down it silences all alarts. Nokia had a great ad campaign for real face time using this - "S

The nokia E-series E72 has the neatest feature. If you put it face down it silences all alarts. Nokia had a great ad campaign for real face time using this - "Somethings are more important than email". The iphone and android badly need these features.

jhamburger 16y ago
That seems a little silly to me but I do wish the toggle switch on the side of the iphone was a 3-step silent-vibrate-full instead of just full and vibrate.
booticon 16y ago
Funny enough, I just saw an app for Android that does this: http://lifehacker.com/#!5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-fully+automated-superphone http://lifehacker.com/#!5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-pho... (God I hate LH's new design)
lmz 16y ago
HTC has a feature like that for its "HTC Sense" phones. From http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html : "Ever fumbled with your phone because it went off at full-blast during a meeting? Well, don't worry! Now as soon as you lift your phone up to see who's calling, the ringer volume gets lower. Want it silenced completely? Just flip it over."
- StavrosK 16y ago
  It also lowers the volume if you pick it up, and if you flip it over during a call, it switches to the speaker. Very handy.
- bmelton 16y ago
  There used to be an Android app that did that. Though I can't remember the name of it, it was incredibly handy. I lost it at some point and, not remembering the app name, have failed to re-download it.
  - khafra 16y ago
    I think Locale is supposed to do that, but I don't have an android device.
bryanlarsen 16y ago
Cyanogenmod (alternate ROM for Android) has a feature where you can silence an incoming call by turning the phone over.
poutine 16y ago
Unintended consequences seem like trouble here. Like many people I keep my phone in my pants pocket, if it were face inwards when I did that and I sit down then it'd turn off the alerts. Apple would get roasted if they did such a thing.

jhamburger 16y ago

That seems a little silly to me but I do wish the toggle switch on the side of the iphone was a 3-step silent-vibrate-full instead of just full and vibrate.

booticon 16y ago

Funny enough, I just saw an app for Android that does this: http://lifehacker.com/#!5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-phone-into-a-fully+automated-superphone http://lifehacker.com/#!5599116/how-to-turn-your-android-pho... (God I hate LH's new design)

lmz 16y ago

HTC has a feature like that for its "HTC Sense" phones. From http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html http://www.htc.com/www/htcsense/index.html : "Ever fumbled with your phone because it went off at full-blast during a meeting? Well, don't worry! Now as soon as you lift your phone up to see who's calling, the ringer volume gets lower. Want it silenced completely? Just flip it over."

StavrosK 16y ago
It also lowers the volume if you pick it up, and if you flip it over during a call, it switches to the speaker. Very handy.
bmelton 16y ago
There used to be an Android app that did that. Though I can't remember the name of it, it was incredibly handy. I lost it at some point and, not remembering the app name, have failed to re-download it.
- khafra 16y ago
  I think Locale is supposed to do that, but I don't have an android device.

bryanlarsen 16y ago

Cyanogenmod (alternate ROM for Android) has a feature where you can silence an incoming call by turning the phone over.

poutine 16y ago

Unintended consequences seem like trouble here. Like many people I keep my phone in my pants pocket, if it were face inwards when I did that and I sit down then it'd turn off the alerts. Apple would get roasted if they did such a thing.