Something Phones Don't Have, But Should Someday
I think my cell phone stinks. Its good points:
1) I got it for free as a birthday gift from my brother;
2) I don't have to pay the bills for it, as the number is part of brother's account at the moment.
3) It has a lot of features that sometimes work but I don't know for sure do because I haven't tried a lot of them out.
Meanwhile, I sporadically get calls from people trying to reach the previous owner of the phone number, which annoys me and also annoys them when I tell them that I'm not who they were trying to call. I never actually learn anything from these exchanges.
The feature I'd like to see, as a follow-on to the Caller ID that these phones already have, is a "Look-Up" function. If you get a call from somebody you don't know, you can tell the phone to do a look-up of the number that called and get the directory information: Name and Address. Then you can decide whether they were in fact trying to call you or just had the wrong party, and perhaps add the caller to your Contacts if it is the former situation. It would cost the phone companies very little, and would share information that is virtually public anyway.
1) I got it for free as a birthday gift from my brother;
2) I don't have to pay the bills for it, as the number is part of brother's account at the moment.
3) It has a lot of features that sometimes work but I don't know for sure do because I haven't tried a lot of them out.
Meanwhile, I sporadically get calls from people trying to reach the previous owner of the phone number, which annoys me and also annoys them when I tell them that I'm not who they were trying to call. I never actually learn anything from these exchanges.
The feature I'd like to see, as a follow-on to the Caller ID that these phones already have, is a "Look-Up" function. If you get a call from somebody you don't know, you can tell the phone to do a look-up of the number that called and get the directory information: Name and Address. Then you can decide whether they were in fact trying to call you or just had the wrong party, and perhaps add the caller to your Contacts if it is the former situation. It would cost the phone companies very little, and would share information that is virtually public anyway.