Popularity Dialer frees you from awkward situations
January 3, 2009 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Mobile Monitor
This service served as the inspiration for the Fake A Call app for the iPod touch / iPhone. Popularity Dialer allows you to premeditate a call to your phone at a given time to alleviate you from any awkward situation such as dinner with your mother in law. The calling service was promoted by David Pogue in December last year as one of the more interesting mobile phone services to date.
However, the site has been under watch by the FCC for rampant fake calling since you can always enter your friend’s number and have them get pranked. The damage isn’t really that – it’s more like cost. US carriers do charge for incoming calls so there are many ways for this service to rack up abuse. Since then, Popularity Dialer has issued a “Do Not Call Me” list that blocks your number from their servers.
