I want a small, thin, solid-feeling phone with a black and white screen, excellent call quality, and excellent battery life. I’d pay $500 for that.
You’d think someone would figure this out. I’d pay top dollar for that - $500 or something.
Hopefully Apple will get it right with their phone - but my confidence is starting to waver.
Did I mention I’d pay $500 for that?
Hey, cut her some slack. Not all systems are alike and not all people are nerdy enough to know all the latest options.
#1 Can’t be done with the cheaper flip open phones. Mine answers the call on the flip, with no other options, and that’s when you see the caller ID. I know some people have the number visible on the closed lid, but not mine.
Also, on pretty much all phones, it’s a lot different to screen calls than just send them to voicemail. If you turn off your phone, or are in an elevator with no reception, the caller hears one ring and then your voice message. If you are push the ignore button on your phone, the caller hears ten or twelve rings, and if he’s very determined he will then get voicemail, knowing you probably screened him.
#2 I seriously doubt your phone can do this. It’s not part of standard telecommunications headers. I suspect you’ve never tried it. It would make a nice feature, though.
#3 Would be cool. I’d like one that recorded into a format you could pass around, like MP3, so you could email it to others or post online. Or pass to your district attorney for threatening harassment prosecution.
#4 Sounds like a good feature if you are a private eye or something, I guess. Might be fun on April Fool’s or Halloween, etc.
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I’d like the caller ID to show the phone extension number so you can call people back directly and not go through their company with it’s long winded automated phone tree.
I’d like to be able to type house address numbers into my “address book”. Right now I have to condense them and enter them into the short alpha “email” field. I presume PA’s do that now, but it’s still what I want.
Really? I had one way back when (b&w screen etc.) where the option to disable this was buried deep in the menus, and took me weeks to discover. I’d be amazed if it really can’t be changed.
My run-of-the-mill Sony Ericsson has this, with fields for Street/City/State/Zip/Country, synchronising with those in Outlook.
My flip phone is as cheap as chips and I can select whether to answer upon opening or not.
How important that must make you feel. But perhaps mine is not only cheaper but older.
How old? Mine was a Motorola V50, from eight years ago.
ummm…how about a cell phone that does nothing except work like a telephone from 1970?
I want a phone with no menus, no options, no nothing. Just big buttons that you can dial easily, and an off/on switch.
They actually have one pretty close to this, called the Jitterbug. It even has a dial tone.
For #3, my old Nextel had the voice recorder feature, which allowed me to go through the menus while on the phone with someone, activate it, and it would record my conversation and would store it as a voice recorded audio file on the phone. Maybe if you have this feature, you can try to enable it while you’re in conversation on your phone.
What we need is a home charger that plugs into your landline phones. Come home, put phone in charger. Phone rings, all landline in the house ring. Pick up landline, talk to the other person.
Agreed. Every single flip phone I’ve seen (and I had a really REALLY basic Verizon LG that had no external display and no way of even paying ridiculous prices to download ringtones on their stupid network) has had the option of answering the call when you open the lid or having to press a button to accept the call.
I think this guy hasn’t been supremely bored enough (with no book or anything to distract him) to play with every single goddamn menu item and changing the settings to see what happens. 
Ahh, the delight of spending an afternoon trying to figure out how to change the language setting back from Turkish…
What part of “read the book that came with the phone” are you having trouble with ?
I don’t have a landline phone, but I like the idea of plugging into that power source. I hate the charger.
What they need is an AC option so you can pop out a couple of prongs and plug the phone into any socket without bringing a separate charger.
Phones also should come with a Cone Of Silence for those folks who insist on answering in public places
Read the manual? Pffft, hand in your Guy Card now!
Exactly. And I have set my alarm to go off to get me out of things or just to get a break from something.
I can set my alarm or reminder option to any of the pre-programmed ringers that came with the phone, but not any of the ring tones I’ve downloaded. A couple of them are just ‘ring-ring’ sounding, and the people I was around didn’t know any different.
I always thought it would be cool if businesses had “Blue Tooth” broadcasting.
So say if your sitting at a stoplight and notice a new Italian bistro and want to give them a call but don’t know the number; you can just do a blue tooth search and any business, with in say a mile or two, who chooses to do “Blue tooth” broadcasting will come up on your phone.
This would also be good for people driving in an unfamiliar area and want to know where the closest gas station is or whatever…
I also wish when you called 411 they had an option you could choose to save the number directly to your phone book with name and all. (As opposed to just text MSG you)
Only problem is, Bluetooth has a range of about 30 feet, give or take. There would also be serious privacy issues in a technology that allowed you to see who’s in the immediate vicinity and be able to call them.
I thought I’d look up what LSL meant - it’s a reference to coding for Second Life computer game. Not just geeky, but nested geeky. LSLGuy isn’t scheduled for a Guy Card at all 
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