[geeks] Cell phones: block incoming calls

[Joost van de Griek]

On Dec 6, 2007, at 17:46, Mike Meredith wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:53:01 +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote:
>
>> like, "route incoming calls from contacts in the business category
>> after 17:00 on workdays and at all times during the weekend to voice
>> mail"? This should be astonishingly simple to implement, right?
>
> "Better Profiles" on the Series 60 looks like it could do that and
> more. "Advanced Call Manager" for UIQ might do some of what you want.

Thanks. I'll check those out.

>> My experience is that "smart" phones made by phone manufacturers lack
>> in the PDA department, while those made by PDA manufacturers are
>> lacking on the phone side of things. All lack proper integration.
>
> The funny thing is that the most obvious smartphones made by phone
> manufacturers are based on Symbian which originates on PDAs and in  
> fact
> pre-dates the more obvious PDA manufacturers!

True enough. But the OS is only half the work done... It's the  
bundled applications that are lacking.

> But yes, nothing I've seen really excels although PalmOS came close on
> the early devices.


Newton!

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