Sunday, June 15, 2008

More phone features

So here are a few more phone wishlist items.

1) Call grabbing

It's really common for me to be in my cube and want to be able to move into a conference room. Unfortunately, moving into a different room is a many step process that often involves finding out that you have a wrong number. How about being able to put your mobile next to your landline and performing an action (e.g. pushing a button on the land line) that "grabs" the call. Once you find a CR, you need only give it to the new phone and contibue your conversation.

2) Room location sensors.

Rooms would have sensors that mobile devices could communicate with to tell their location. Setting could suggest ring volumes and vibrate options, or the user could set them himself. Initially I thought that RFID might be one way to do this, but it seems like integrating the scanner into the phone would be expensive an consume too much power.

3) variable vibrate alert intensity.

Based on some factors (e.g temperate and movement) vibrate alerts could increase in strength. I find that when walking in loose pants I can miss a call. A low temperature (indicating that a phone isn't very close to your body) and a shaking phone (indicating movment) would lead to a larger vibration.

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