[QUOTE=Paul in Saudi]
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.
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[QUOTE=According to Pliny]
How important that must make you feel. But perhaps mine is not only cheaper but older.
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My analog flip phone from 1998 could do it. Doesn’t make me feel important. Just makes me think you’re wrong and are maybe too proud or too embarassed to admit it.
[QUOTE=Mindfield]
Is this a common thing with US providers? Because none of the providers that I know of in Canada allow shunting a call to voicemail after you’ve already picked up the call.
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As Gorillaman pointed out, I was referring to sending a call to voice mail rather than answering it, which was the OP’s first feature request.
{Aside to those who know who I mean: My, there certainly are a lot of techies who find time to quibble but not contribute. Get into the party guys. Your current phones aren’t that perfect - there must be something new you can imagine wanting. Think of an improvement and tell us. }
I think I could use a button to transfer an incoming sales call to a help line in India. Then it’s a war of wills, one trying to control the conversation and the other trying to transfer it to a different department.
1. Block SMS messages from exes - I’m already not answering your calls… stop texting me. Forever.
2. Bounce SMS messages from social dregs and other undesirables - Could I spot you a twenty? Message not received.