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I just had the greatest idea for a smart-phone app:
If you dial a phone number, and before you hang up, that very same phone
number calls you back and you get the call waiting signal, just cancel the
voicemail you're leaving and answer the incoming phone. How often has that
happened to you?
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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On Fri, 03 Dec 2010 20:24:56 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> I just had the greatest idea for a smart-phone app:
>
> If you dial a phone number, and before you hang up, that very same phone
> number calls you back and you get the call waiting signal, just cancel
> the voicemail you're leaving and answer the incoming phone. How often
> has that happened to you?
I don't think there's an app for that, and probably couldn't be for the
same reason there really can't be a phone app to do conditional call
forwarding: It's handled by the carrier, not the phone.
With VM, though, it's more involved, because the app would need to
identify the remote voice mail system and properly delete/cancel the
message that was being left.
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> probably couldn't be
I think you could do everything but properly delete the voice mail. But it
was really more of an amusing thought than an actual RFP. ;-)
> With VM, though, it's more involved, because the app would need to
> identify the remote voice mail system and properly delete/cancel the
> message that was being left.
Sure. Or, if it was a popular app, maybe it would only work if you called
(say) another iPhone or something. A distinguishing feature: a RIM phone
calling a RIM phone knows how the voicemail works, etc. There's probably
only a handful of popular VMs you'd need to deal with, assuming the carriers
went along with it and didn't start making it difficult. With number
portability, there's no good way to know, but maybe there would be some
back-channel chatter between phones when you call an iPhone from another
iPhone that tells the caller what kind of voicemail the receiver uses, so it
works after the first time you get through to the live person or something.
--
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
Serving Suggestion:
"Don't serve this any more. It's awful."
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