9 Things My Dumb-phone DOES that my Smart-Phone DON'T... and vice versa

[thaJack]

You can create shortcuts for navigation and place them on the desktop or in a folder. There are your favorites. Have a nice day.

 

[thaJack]

By the way.. YOU CAN ignore a call as easily as you answer one.

Swipe the green dot to the right to answer the call, or the red dot left to ignore.

 

[gotfondue]

ThaJack he knows this, he is trying to argue that he feels bad for the person on the other end knowing you are ignoring the call.

 

[thaJack]

Install Handcent SMS. This is the beauty of android, you can customize everything.

Yep. You wouldn't likely be able to do that on the iPhone because the app "replaces or duplicates the phone's built in functionality."

By the way.. I never owned an LG Dare... how many apps were available for it anyway?

 

[GeekWife]

Thats not the point I was making. If you do this, you "hang up" on the other line. "Ignore" means the phone keeps ringing until voicemail picks up, you just don't hear it.

It has never hung up on the call for me... are you talking about call waiting ignore? When it's just an incoming call, swiping the red phone that even says "ignore" on it just sends the call to my vm. I haven't gotten a call on call waiting yet though.

No, not call waiting. Let me try to explain it again.

Scenario A

Jane has a droid.
Jane has an overprotective boyfriend named Peter
Peter calls Jane's Droid.
Jane doesn't want to talk to Peter, but doesn't want it to seem like she's ignoring him consciously. (which is what happens when you slide the unlock in the opposite direction. Like pressing the "END" key. Call goes directly to voicemail and Peter would know because the phone only rang twice).
Jane also needs the phone to stop ringing immediately because she's at the Library and everyone is looking at her now.
Jane can hit the volume rocker in either direction, killing two birds with one stone. The Phone keeps ringing on Peter's end, until it naturally goes to voicemail.

Scenario B

Jane is at the Opera with her handsome new boyfriend Mark, when Peter calls her phone trying to get back with her.
Jane obviously can't pick up because Mark and everyone else at the Opera will think she's rude. She hangs up on Peter but she feels bad. She wants to let him know that she'll talk to him later and give him closure, but that she's occupied at the moment.

THIS is what I mean. An immediate text reply prompt following the "END" function. The Dare had it built in.

Honestly, in both of those scenarios, Jane *should* have had her ringer turned off or at least to vibrate. If I were her, I'd rather come off as rude to my tool ex-boyfriend Peter than to a library full of people or an entire opera house. Just saying

And I had the Dare right before my Droid, and I found the quick text feature more of a PITA than just typing out my own text message. The presaved messages were useless, and if I'm going to save my own, I don't know why I wouldn't just type it myself. It wasn't really that many fewer keystrokes.

 

[MarkB]

I had an app for this on, of all things, my old Windows Mobile phone. Maybe there's an Android app that would suit your purpose? Or perhaps there's a forum with an "app request" area to give developers ideas. Heck, worth a post describing what you'd like in the App section on this forum.

How about using Google Voice to set up a custom outgoing message based on the incoming caller ID? So she can keep this codependent thing going with Peter by serving him up some outgoing message luv whenever he calls in but she's ignoring him.

Now I'm trying to remember if I've ever been out with a girl named Jane. But if we had gone out to the Opera I would have been a bit miffed that she didn't have her ringer and even vibrate off before we were seated. Actually I don't like Opera though. I'd probably prefer listening to ringtones.

 

[R2D2Dbunked]

Dude it's just a phone, a really cool one at that...

 

[bluedust]

I had an app for this on, of all things, my old Windows Mobile phone. Maybe there's an Android app that would suit your purpose? Or perhaps there's a forum with an "app request" area to give developers ideas. Heck, worth a post describing what you'd like in the App section on this forum.

How about using Google Voice to set up a custom outgoing message based on the incoming caller ID? So she can keep this codependent thing going with Peter by serving him up some outgoing message luv whenever he calls in but she's ignoring him.

Now I'm trying to remember if I've ever been out with a girl named Jane. But if we had gone out to the Opera I would have been a bit miffed that she didn't have her ringer and even vibrate off before we were seated. Actually I don't like Opera though. I'd probably prefer listening to ringtones.

rofl, well played.

 

[takeshi]

ThaJack he knows this, he is trying to argue that he feels bad for the person on the other end knowing you are ignoring the call.

I feel bad for him. My callers talk to me when I want them to. Still, would be nice to have the option.

Honestly, in both of those scenarios, Jane *should* have had her ringer turned off or at least to vibrate. If I were her, I'd rather come off as rude to my tool ex-boyfriend Peter than to a library full of people or an entire opera house. Just saying

Ha! Thanks for the tool comment. I'd rather have my SO ignore me than let the ringer annoy others in inappropriate situations. I don't know why some people think they're entitled to talk to the person they're calling with no regard for whatever situation that person might be in.

If I'm driving, in a meeting or in any number of other situations you might end up going to voicemail and waiting. However, again, I won't say that those that think they have to bow down to each and every caller shouldn't be able to do so as they desire. More choices are always better.

 

[victorythagr8]

Nice write-up.

How about voice dialing from a BT speaker/headset? Dumb phones on Verizon (The Dare, Blackberry, and Motorolas) do this, why can't the Droid?

On the Droid, you have to place the call using voice dial with the Droid's microphone, then after the call connects, transfer the call to BT. Or use a direct dial shortcut, then transfer the call to BT after the call is connected.

Blackberries are considered smart phones. They actually have the biggest smart phone marketshare in the states.

 

[Dragoro]

Sounds more like a rant than anything informational.

Group texting with commas, or Handcent APP. Simple.

I know there's no hard or soft keys for Phone but how hard is it to press the Phone icon? I mean jeez come on people. Although I do agree that I'd like to see an 'Ignore' option for incoming calls.

Favorites can be added easily as layers to Google Maps. Simple work around. Appears just didn't take the time to investigate.

I can stream video from some sites on my DROID... so I don't know what he's talking about.

The camera... not the greatest but my pictures look great... the preview image is fuzzy when taking the picture but actually looking at the image in the gallery or on my PC it's very clear. Guess it's hit or miss with this.

E-mail issues are supposed to be addressed in the Dec 11th patch. Been out less than 30 days!

The sound when the phone turns on is a gripe? Get real... it's a boot sound. Big deal. WOW

Don't get me wrong this device has it's issues but they aren't portrayed in this article. E-mail... ok....but there's more to it... exchange issues, attachment issues... etc. GPS wasn't addressed... there have been issues with it working. Also some issues with contacts duplicating and merging.

Seems to have been written in haste without doing any research.

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