Cell phone users can set phones to vibrate so that incoming calls won't disrupt a meeting. This is fine if you are an observer. However, if you are a meeting participant when the phone rings and you want to take the call, you must speak to the caller upon answering. How many times does someone walk out the door with their hand cupped over the phone trying to tell the caller to wait while they step outside?
Meeting Mode solves that problem. In meeting mode, the phone still vibrates, but when it is answered the caller hears a pre-recorded message that says something to the effect of "Please give me 10 seconds to step outside so I can talk to you." The message could be inserted at the factory, or it could be set up to allow the phone's owner to record his or her own message.
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these features have been available in Japan's NTTDocomo network for quite some time (when ring, option to take call or text message back quick pre-arranged messages like "call you back in 5 minutes" that caller would hear). Our american telcos have just been too cheap to incorporate the technology since it doesn't genearate revenues.
r5n5 may have missed your point. Often you don't want to call back, you want to take the call, but you can't at that exact moment without causing disruption. A text message only works on phones equipped with text, and for people who know how to use that feature (people under 40).
I believe your idea is that you ewant to take the call, but you want people to hang on for a minute while you get out of the room.
The only modification to your idea I would make is that the person receiving the call press a button (perhaps the "green" answer button to indicate that she has acknowleged the call. Otherwise, she might not feel the vibration for some reason and the caller would be politely told that the receiver was going to answer, but no one would actually pick up.
Finally, pressing twice on the green button would take the call immediately, essentially over-riding the "hang on a minute" mode.
Darnit! I'm new here, and came here for the sole purpose of seeing if someone else had had this idea. I'm sure that "I thought of that" is the equivalent of spam here, but I feel so deflated that I have to post. Great minds, LFAKevin. For what it's worth, this is useful for movies, restrooms, and noisy public spaces. Grr...on to my next idea! It involves 15-20 RF bugs with solar meters scattered around a garden feeding back to a central memory card, which can be uploaded to software to plot sunlight intensity over the course of time. Just shoot me now if I'm behind on this one, too!
I agree that a "snooze" button for the cell-phone would be great. You often just want to finish a thought or sentence before answering.Check out my idea:
I say that the wristwatch should only have the caller ID and minimum hard buttons (the ignore/snooze-answer buttons, arrows to navigate through a phone book...)The snooze-answer button is another igenius idea that came to me. It makes your phone ring an extra number of times, so that your answering system doesn't pick up. That way you can give yourself an extra 30 seconds to prepare to answer (to dry your wet hands, or to go to another room, etc.)
Obviously bluetooth will communicate through all your cell communication components. You can replace/upgrade them as needed.
The actual phone with the battery should be your belt or maybe some holster-type set-up. Then, very importantly, the belt should also have a snap-in head-set. It fits flush into the buckly or where ever seems convenient.
When you get a call, you feel the vibration/hear the ringer. You look at your watch to see who's calling (I usually screen most calls). If you want to ignore, you press the button on your wristwatch. You also could hit the snooze button, and turn down the volume of the car stereo. If you choose to answer, then you pull out of your belt the headset, and press the answer button which is on all bluetooth headsets.What do you think about that idea?