Blacklisting On Your S60
I haven’t yet reached that stage in my life where I need to block people from reaching me, but I guess that many mobile users and business people have. When a phone rings and you silence the call, even if you escape from the call at that particular moment, you are left with the obligation to call back. Everyone knows what a “missed call” is, so everyone expects you to call back.
The use of blacklist applications should spare you the trouble of those unwanted calls, and make your mobile life a tidbit more comfortable. Amir from Mobile Space has posted a detailed comparison between Epocware Handy Blacklist and SmartphoneWare Best Blacklist. With true similarities between both applications, but different price points and different specific offerings, it all comes down to your personal and particular needs.
Amir has done a great job of exposing these, so jump over to Mobile Space, have a good read in order to see which one fits you best.
In my book neither wins now - I’ve stuck to v1 of Handy Blacklist purely because v2 onwards lost the ability to blacklist SMS text messages. I use this a great deal travelling around Europe as I get fed up of be notified that I’m in a new country and welcome to our network. As if I didn’t already know!!!!
I am currently using handy blacklist, and right before I got my N95 (maybe 2 months prior) I started receiving lots of spam calls… and these calls were terrible. Reading they way these spam calls worked:
1st automated calls would dial your number frequently (some times more than once a day). if you happen to pick up the phone then you hear the sound of some one hanging up on you. what just happened was the computer just logged an ideal time for a telemarketer to call you with some bull service. (many times it was “congratulations for owning a _____ credit card. You are entitled to a ___[insert vacation/prize here]___ I just need to verify the last 4 digits of you card (and they actually will tell you the last 4 digits)”
So the second I got my n95, got the trial version of hand black list, started black listing these numbers (after google searching them) and watch as the amount of blocked calls decreases maybe because the computers think my phone number is disconnected or something ^_^
Apr 17th, 2008 at 8:39 am
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