iPhone call reject feature
January 11th, 2009I was mulling call rejection functionality today, and made this little video mockup to illustrate my thought.
Click on the image to play the video …
(Or if you’re on an iPhone: Link to iPhone version).
iPhone – Call reject function from Tom Coombs on Vimeo.
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Add your own1. George Wiscombe | January 11th, 2009 at 3:31 am
Nice idea – the first thing I thought when I saw it was “That would be cool if it worked with things”
But (and this is my main gripe with the iPhone at the moment) it is so restricted that integration, sadly, beyond apple software would be a bit of a nightmare.
Still, cool idea :)
2. Giles Colborne | January 11th, 2009 at 12:10 pm
Nice. Don’t think it would need to work with Things @George_Wiscombe – not everyone uses that software. But if it did send an E-mail reminder, then it’d be just fine.
3. George Wiscombe | January 11th, 2009 at 11:00 pm
@Giles – agreed, an e-mail would be fine.
I was more voicing my train of thought about how ideas like this could be made so much better with third party app integration.
Perhaps a better example would be the lack of iTunes support for FF Bookmarks sync.
4. Nico Macdonald | January 11th, 2009 at 11:39 pm
I believe current PalmOS devices have an option to reject a call using text, though without the template message and auto-send.
5. Paul Martin | January 12th, 2009 at 11:04 pm
The Nokia E61 has this functionality but only allows 1 pre-set message. I like that this would have at least a couple. A formal response to work colleagues and a more human/loving response to friends and family.
Work colleagues: ‘I’m sorry I can’t take your call right now, I’m currently in a meeting. Will call you after it’s finished’.
Friend/family: ‘I’m in ANOTHER meeting, they do go on! Speak later after I’ve recovered ;)’
6. Tom Coombs | January 12th, 2009 at 11:13 pm
Thanks for all the comments.
Yes, precedents definitely exist. I was trying to get at the idea that a tiny interaction could be powerful, especially if configurable and integrated with other software. I used the examples of “Send SMS” and “Add to Tasks”, but you could imagine “Call forward”, “Email my PA”, and so on.
One day …
7. Echo | August 5th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Really like your idea and ready to pay for that software when it is available. :)
$10USD.
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