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Agreed. There's a lot more to improve about phones' actual telephony. >> Family/VIP, who can reach me 24/7/365. Also: a message like "Hi family, I'm asleep/bu

Agreed. There's a lot more to improve about phones' actual telephony. >> Family/VIP, who can reach me 24/7/365. Also: a message like "Hi family, I'm asleep/busy, but if you really need me, press 1 to ring me anyway" would be wonderful. They wouldn't worry about calling at a bad time, and you wouldn't get awakened for something trivial. In general, "what would a good human assistant do?" is a good question for computer systems. A secretary wouldn't wake you unless it was important.

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runT1ME 14y ago
Take a look at Anveo, someone else said they had a lot of luck with them. A friend and I actually wrote this exact service, you'd get a number and forward it to whatever, and depending on the who was calling and when (with some rules you would set up), they would either ring through, be prompted that you are busy/sleeping/meeting, or go straight to the cellphone voicemail. The problem is cost. ALL calls would have to go through this system, (which have a per-minute cost if they aren't over VoIP), so our minimum monthly price for this servce would probably be $15+. Do you think you would pay that much? Most people loved the demo we showed them, but were hesitant to pay more than a few bucks a month. But, if you think differently I'd love to hear more.
- TeMPOraL 14y ago
  > Do you think you would pay that much? I'd rather not, because this should really be an app, not a service. I'd pay for that app though.
comex 14y ago
iOS 6's Do Not Disturb feature has an option that lets the caller through if they call twice, which can achieve a similar effect, though not only for a specific group.
- _djo_ 14y ago
  Do Not Disturb will be default let calls from your Favourites through first-time, only calls from other numbers will be silenced the first time.
- dredmorbius 14y ago
  Still wouldn't have helped for the recruiter who redialed me 6 times while I was attempting to read a 400-page PDF manual (incoming calls dump you out of the Adobe PDF reader and you've got to re-find your place in the document), while attempting to recover a melted down server in the colo (hadn't anticipated this, laptop was at the office). Solution: tell the recruiting firm never, ever, ever to contact me again. Second solution: take off and nuke Adobe from orbit. Third solution: ePub for docs, people. It's multi-form-factor fungible, and the readers are vastly, vastly more functional than anything built for PDF.
  - comex 14y ago
    Fourth solution: use iBooks, it doesn't lose your page. :p
    - dredmorbius 14y ago
      Android?
      - comex 14y ago
        Oh... I assumed you were using iOS because you replied to my comment about iOS 6.

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runT1ME 14y ago

Take a look at Anveo, someone else said they had a lot of luck with them. A friend and I actually wrote this exact service, you'd get a number and forward it to whatever, and depending on the who was calling and when (with some rules you would set up), they would either ring through, be prompted that you are busy/sleeping/meeting, or go straight to the cellphone voicemail. The problem is cost. ALL calls would have to go through this system, (which have a per-minute cost if they aren't over VoIP), so our minimum monthly price for this servce would probably be $15+. Do you think you would pay that much? Most people loved the demo we showed them, but were hesitant to pay more than a few bucks a month. But, if you think differently I'd love to hear more.

TeMPOraL 14y ago
> Do you think you would pay that much? I'd rather not, because this should really be an app, not a service. I'd pay for that app though.

comex 14y ago

iOS 6's Do Not Disturb feature has an option that lets the caller through if they call twice, which can achieve a similar effect, though not only for a specific group.

_djo_ 14y ago
Do Not Disturb will be default let calls from your Favourites through first-time, only calls from other numbers will be silenced the first time.
dredmorbius 14y ago
Still wouldn't have helped for the recruiter who redialed me 6 times while I was attempting to read a 400-page PDF manual (incoming calls dump you out of the Adobe PDF reader and you've got to re-find your place in the document), while attempting to recover a melted down server in the colo (hadn't anticipated this, laptop was at the office). Solution: tell the recruiting firm never, ever, ever to contact me again. Second solution: take off and nuke Adobe from orbit. Third solution: ePub for docs, people. It's multi-form-factor fungible, and the readers are vastly, vastly more functional than anything built for PDF.
- comex 14y ago
  Fourth solution: use iBooks, it doesn't lose your page. :p
  - dredmorbius 14y ago
    Android?
    - comex 14y ago
      Oh... I assumed you were using iOS because you replied to my comment about iOS 6.