And people just accept paying for incoming connections?! I still can't get over how US phone contracts work... O.o
On 3/2/08, Mark Haury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 29 Feb 2008, at 17:34, Marco Trevisan (Treviño) wrote: > > > >> siaPeter Trapp ha scritto: > >>> Hi everybody, > >>> I thought about the possibility of a voice mail installed on the > >>> neo. The idea is to let the application decide if you are > >>> reachable for the caller or not. The decision will be done on > >>> profiles (time, who is calling, what to do (let it ring or answer > >>> directly) ). Eg: Saturday 10:00pm and your boss is calling (and > >>> you have a signal) > >>> Neo is aware that it is "weekend" and who is calling. It just > >>> turns on the voice mail... Dear Boss, actually it is weekend and I > >>> just don't want to get some work right now. Sorry, my neo will not > >>> even inform me that you've called. So don't try again later. It > >>> would not help until Monday 9am! Have a nice weekend > >>> --- without the possibility to leave a message ;) > > > >I would like this feature also, and really I assumed it would become > >a commonplace usage on OpenMoko. > > > >> Cool, but your caller will pay for this.. So maybe it won't be so > >> happy :P > > > >Stuff the caller. I carry a mobile phone so I can make outgoing calls > >when I'm away from home, not so I can be interrupted in the middle of > >a conversation. If someone is calling me they assume that they're > >going to incur the cost of a call, anyway, so I don't see that the > >cost of a call to voicemail is a large imposition (it is probably > >better than me answering my phone to say "stuff you", at least). > > > >Stroller. > > In the USA, the originator of the call is irrelevant. It charges against > your plan minutes regardless of whether you are making or receiving a > cellular call. So if software on your phone is picking up the line and > your phone itself is acting as the answering machine, it will use up > your minutes as well as costing the caller minutes. Actually, if they're > using a landline and you are a local call for them, it won't cost the > caller anything, while it uses your minutes regardless. > > The exception is that often if the caller and the recipient are both on > the same network, neither is charged. I know that's true of T-Mobile. > > Another issue is that this function will only work if your phone is both > turned on and in service. Of course, maybe this functionality is only > needed in that situation anyway (e.g. you are in service and want > to receive calls from certain people and not certain others.) > > That said, I still think it's an extremely useful function for the phone > to have by virtue of its power and flexibility. If it could do things like > give different outgoing messages based on who's calling, or forward the > incoming message (maybe even send to email?), or automatically send a text > message and that kind of thing, it would be really cool. The suggestions > of real-time screening (like you can do with a home answering machine) and > sending calls from specific numbers (or all but specific numbers) directly > to the provider's system voicemail are great too. > > Mark > _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
