Mobile phone status application?
Aug 3rd, 2008 by handolio
Ah nuts. My mobile, which has been hanging on gamely since going on the fritz last October, looks to be finally shuffling off this mortal coil. It’s still working, but the screen isn’t, so I’ve no idea who’s calling me, or who’s texting me and about what.
I was pondering this, and what a pain in the arse it is not being able to tell everybody not to text me at this particular juncture, and realised that there might be a point to Twitter after all - it’s just on the wrong platform.
People already use mobiles to update Twitter and their Facebook status, but why only use the phone as a middleman? What price a mobile phone contacts list that displays individual status?
Consider:
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- Chris is in meetings until 4pm. Please call after then.
- Dave has his phone turned off.
- Handolio is on a plane. If he calls you back it’s the Valium talking.
- Tom is abroad. Retrieving a voice message will involve him in an international call. Please at least make it interesting.
I suppose it would have to work through data rather than the phone or text network - and people would need to sign up to it - but if selecting a contact brought up that person’s status you’d be able to see at a glance what they were up to, and whether they wanted calls, texts or neither.
Hey ho. Until someone invents it, or until my phone manages one last death throe, Handolio can’t see text messages due to an inability to manage soft drinks. They shall remain unread.
Frustratingly, perhaps ruinously unread.
Of course, I’ve just realised that I’d still need to be able to see the screen to set my status to Handolio can’t see text messages due to an inability to manage soft drinks.
Fortunately I’ve also just realised that the Nokia PC Suite lets you access your phone’s inbox. A lot of fannying about later I know that the two unread messages I had weren’t a SlidingDoorsian turning point in my life that I missed thanks to a quirk of fate.
Which is good, because if the best of the two fates on offer involves being fucking cretinously middle class and falling in love with John Hannah I might as well go and walk into the sea now.
UPDATE
Oh the irony. Phone screen has just started working perfectly again. Did I mention I’d lost my mojo?
hey cmon CPEV y’r slacking off…
He is; he’s on holiday, the scamp.
oh that’s ok then. not that you’re not holding the fort perfectly well without him. x