-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Randall Ross wrote on 26/06/13 03:23: > ... > > With the Ubuntu Phone coming soon(ish), perhaps we have the > opportunity to do something to address this blight. From my > unscientific market scan, no competitor seems interested in giving > phone "users" control of when they can be interrupted and by whom > and at what cost (to attention). > > ...
The iOS "Do Not Disturb" mode does this. It silences alerts. It optionally silences calls from everyone, or from everyone except numbers in your Favorites. And it lets you make an exception for anyone who calls twice within three minutes, on the grounds that that's probably an emergency. <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5463> The Motorola Smartactions that Cyrille mentioned is apparently similar. <http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/SMARTACTIONS%E2%84%A2/112638,en_US,pd.html> The most sophisticated implementation I know of is the Silencify app on Android. As well as the above features, it integrates with your calendar to let you silence your phone during meetings. And it lets you automatically silence the phone at locations you specify, such as a movie theater or a dental surgery. <https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mith.sleepez> I've designed Sound settings that assume the existence of a Silent Mode. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#phone-settings> However, nobody is currently designing or implementing the actual Silent Mode -- how you would enter or leave it, how you'd be notified, and the APIs for playing an alarm sound even when in Silent Mode. - -- mpt -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with undefined - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlHK0egACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecrddgCgnkj3OuhFgV7C74qz+UXuEV+h RCsAn2xChWoAXRuzsI9mIch2W0BbCfEL =XYPr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone Post to : ubuntu-phone@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
