A mode I have been missing in every phone I ever had is the ability to have a recorder answer the call where I say "I'm busy right now but I'm still able to take rely important calls. Press one to leave a message or press two to call me right now."
Can't be that hard to implement I guess. 2013/6/26 Matthew Paul Thomas <[email protected]> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Randall Ross wrote on 26/06/13 03:23: > > ... > > > > With the Ubuntu Phone coming soon(ish), perhaps we have the > > opportunity to do something to address this blight. From my > > unscientific market scan, no competitor seems interested in giving > > phone "users" control of when they can be interrupted and by whom > > and at what cost (to attention). > > > > ... > > The iOS "Do Not Disturb" mode does this. It silences alerts. It > optionally silences calls from everyone, or from everyone except > numbers in your Favorites. And it lets you make an exception for > anyone who calls twice within three minutes, on the grounds that > that's probably an emergency. <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5463> > > The Motorola Smartactions that Cyrille mentioned is apparently > similar. > < > http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/SMARTACTIONS%E2%84%A2/112638,en_US,pd.html > > > > The most sophisticated implementation I know of is the Silencify app > on Android. As well as the above features, it integrates with your > calendar to let you silence your phone during meetings. And it lets > you automatically silence the phone at locations you specify, such as > a movie theater or a dental surgery. > <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mith.sleepez> > > I've designed Sound settings that assume the existence of a Silent > Mode. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#phone-settings> However, nobody > is currently designing or implementing the actual Silent Mode -- how > you would enter or leave it, how you'd be notified, and the APIs for > playing an alarm sound even when in Silent Mode. > > - -- > mpt > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAlHK0egACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrddgCgnkj3OuhFgV7C74qz+UXuEV+h > RCsAn2xChWoAXRuzsI9mIch2W0BbCfEL > =XYPr > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- Rasmus Eneman
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