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Nokia introduces “The Time Phone”

The TimePhone

In an effort to compete with the booming popularity of Apple’s iphone Nokia has announced production of their newest model # 01A. The working name for the product is simply “The Time Phone” .  The Timephone is unique among cellular technology in that it does not play mp3s, you can not watch videos on it, and you can not access the internet. It has but one function.

Nokia Model 01A allows the user to dial his own number and place a call to himself (or herself) exactly one week in the past. One simply dials their own number and the party who possessed the phone 168 hours prior answers the ringtone. It is predicted that millions of errors in judgement will be prevented daily by users living in the past having knowledge of future events. The Nokia Timephone is currently only available in Henry Ford Black with a Western Electric 302 ringtone.

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Number Screening on Nokia Mobile Phones

I’ve been a Sony Ericsson fan since I bought a SE K700i in the second half of 2004, but times have since changed and I can no longer afford one of those fancy all-in-one mobile phones. For now, I’m stuck with a Nokia 1110, and this post concerns some of the low-end Nokia handsets I’ve seen/used. Yeah, go on, laugh it off, funny man. I know where you live, and I’m coming over for dinner.

Seriously, though, for the past week or so, I’ve been on the wrong end (suprisingly) of unwanted, annoying phone calls and SMS messages from a certain number. I contacted one of the people at the Hutch front office about the possibility of blocking all calls and messages from that number, but I lost interest after the words ‘police’ and ‘FIR’ were mentioned.

This morning, while I was idly pressing random buttons on the phone, I came across the ‘No. Screening’ submenu (under the Contacts menu), and I asked myself, “Could this be what I’ve been looking for?”

I added my own number to the screened number list and sent myself a text message. What happened next brought tears of joy to my eyes. I’d have wiped them dry, but I was sitting on my porcelain throne with a cigarette in one hand and the phone in the other, and burning my eyebrows off was not on my TODO list for today.

This is what number screening does: When a text message is received from a screened number, it is automagically routed into the ‘Screened messages’ folder without triggering ANY of your usual message alerts. When you get an incoming call from a screened number, it will not trigger any sort of alerts, but the number and a dustbin icon will show up on your screen. You can either answer or reject the call, or just leave it as it is and treat the caller to some delectable Himesh Reshammiya caller tune goodness.

Sadly, there isn’t a whole lot of information about this on the interwebs, and being the kind, generous non-Grinch I am, I figured I ought to share this information with all my kinsfolk who share my annoying-called and constipation grief with me. There you have it: What number screening really means.

PS: I’m not sure if ALL low-end Nokia phones have this feature. If you’re a Nokia user, let me know via the comment box below if your phone has the number screening option and maybe I’ll put up a list later.

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