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Seems to me that a Nokia Series 60 Smartphone that I had did record calls, but it made an annoying beeping sound that both parties could hear every minute or so
by JamisonM 15y ago
Seems to me that a Nokia Series 60 Smartphone that I had did record calls, but it made an annoying beeping sound that both parties could hear every minute or so. The explanation in the manual was that due to the laws in some countries they made the audible beep so the other party would know they are being recorded. It was an interesting way to "solve" this problem that seemed invented by paranoid lawyers but it did make the recording function more or less useless.
- Monotoko 15y agoI remember a few years back, I was on the phone to a friend of mine a lot and I kept hearing a beep. I asked her what it was, she said she couldn't hear it. Now I remember she had a Nokia 5800, so someone I don't speak to any more has all logs of our conversations, and I didn't even know until now. That makes me feel very violated in all honesty.
- Terretta 15y agoIf you didn't say anything wrong, you have nothing to fear, citizen.
- wcoenen 15y agoI had that same beep on my N95. I worked around it with a script that would start a second overlapping recording, then stop the first recording just before each beep. Then at the end of the call, the script assembled all the (~1 second) audio fragments together, cutting out the overlap. I blogged about it here: http://mindinthewater.blogspot.com/2008/02/recording-phone-calls-on-s60-phone-part.html http://mindinthewater.blogspot.com/2008/02/recording-phone-c... I'm quite annoyed I can't record calls at all on my nexus S these days.
- kalleboo 15y agoSony Ericsson's old dumbphones (before they went Android-only) also allowed recording of calls and it'd also play the same beep. I wonder why both the current (US-based) top smartphones OSes dropped this feature?