Why Can't Cell Phones Block Incoming Calls?

Factual Questions
1

Say you have caller ID. Why can’t the phone be programmed to recognize certain numbers and refuse them? Is the technology prohibitively expensive? Some other reason?

2

Depends on the phone. Symbian based phones (many Nokia models) are able to with applications such as Blacklist

I love my Nokia E62 :slight_smile:

3

Cool! I have a very basic Nokia. 6200? 6100? Any hope there?

What would be the cheapest phone that Blacklist would work on?

Thanks for the answer.
ETA : Rather than cheapest, what sort of phone am I looking for? What level of sophistication, so to speak? Speak to me as if I were a child, who has a poor grasp of modern technology. :slight_smile:

4

Looking up your phone, I didn’t find a specific application for it, but it appears that since you can customize caller groups, you could make a specific “Enemies of Contrapuntal” caller group to add blacklisted numbers to, and then set incoming calls to that group to “silent ring” or “straight to voicemail” or something. Might be a good workaround.

5

Thanks again, for your response, and the time spent in research. I love this place!

Although “Enemies of Contrapuntal” would be a, shall we say, not very exclusive club.

6

If you like Nokia, look for the mid-range models that support “S60” applications. These will run many programs such as Blacklist.

7

Grazie.