[geeks] Cell phones: block incoming calls

[Mike Meredith]

On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 09:53:01 +0100, Joost van de Griek wrote:
> SMS (text) messages are messages like anything else, aren't they? So
> why can't I simply transfer them from the phone to the computer for
> archiving?

That's probably just a failing of the basic software. If Python for the
Series 60 lets me iterate through the contents of all the text
messages, I'm sure it's possible to do what you want on a UIQ device
(but possibly nobody has written the code yet).

> like, "route incoming calls from contacts in the business category
> after 17:00 on workdays and at all times during the weekend to voice
> mail"? This should be astonishingly simple to implement, right?

"Better Profiles" on the Series 60 looks like it could do that and
more. "Advanced Call Manager" for UIQ might do some of what you want. 

> My experience is that "smart" phones made by phone manufacturers lack
> in the PDA department, while those made by PDA manufacturers are
> lacking on the phone side of things. All lack proper integration.

The funny thing is that the most obvious smartphones made by phone
manufacturers are based on Symbian which originates on PDAs and in fact
pre-dates the more obvious PDA manufacturers!

But yes, nothing I've seen really excels although PalmOS came close on
the early devices.


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