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There’s this watch you can use that looks pretty close to Dick Tracy’s, but I’m not really looking for a watch I can talk to at this point. It’s just a couple of features I’d like to integrate into my watch from my phone that I’m interested in instead. Bluetooth seems to be the logical connection link, but I’m not picky.

What I’m interested in is a watch that connects to my cellphone via Bluetooth that will silently notify me of a phone call without my phone vibrating or ringing. Either a tiny kinetic probe on the underside that would gently poke me when I receive a call, or maybe even a slight electric shock.

Maybe I’m just sick and tired of hearing cellphone go off around me, even my own, but these days I completely silence my phone most of the day now. I just set it in front of me so I can tell when it goes off when it lights up.

Now that I think about it, it would also be nice to have a little CallerID display on the face of the watch too. Maybe the face of the watch could display the face of the caller in my address book.

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Cellphone to Watch Bluetooth Link

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• Area Code Identification on Mobile Calls
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An Update on Some Past Issues

Since I’ve been playing with Xobni more one question I’ve come across is why doesn’t Xobni use Outlook’s own contact photo information?

That was somewhat of a rhetorical question because I didn’t really need an answer and it wasn’t worth completely pursuing for an answer.

What it did do though was make me wonder where Outlook keeps it’s contact photo information? I’m curious because I love that my phone displays the contact photo on CallerID when that person calls me. It makes it really easy to see who’s calling you with a quick glance at your phone if you’re in a meeting or something.

For working with the photos themselves I put them in “My Pictures” but I don’t necessarily want to keep all of those sitting in there. Can I delete them? Should I bury them somewhere in the file system and just remember where they are?

I couldn’t find any information about the location of this stored information on the Internet. Anybody know? Oddly enough the other information I couldn’t find in the help section is the default minimum maximum size of the image for processing.

It’s a series of questions now though, because then I started wondering what it would take (or why it didn’t already) for the .vcf card attachments to include a photo of the contact person. What would be even cooler is if there was an option for you to include people’s avatars from things like twitter.

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Outlook Contact Photos

Just because my phone rings doesn’t mean I’m going to answer it.

This could normally be because of two things:

1. I don’t have time to talk to you right now
2. I don’t recognize your number

In either of those events the expected outcome is for you to leave me a message letting me know what you needed and I’ll call you back if I need to follow-up with you.

If I don’t recognize your number I really expect you to leave a message. However, what would help out is if my phone would at least give me a bit of a heads up on the originating location of the phone number by area code. There’s only about 700 currently in use, the database would be infinitesimal.

I wouldn’t think it would be too hard to include a tiny little database of all the area codes in the US and the largest city represented by each area code. Now if I really wanted to get nifty a map would either display automatically or I could push a button and make it display to show me a simple map of where the call is originating.

Does anyone know of a good, reliable program that does this? If you do, please let me know. I’d love to have it and play around with it on my phone.

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Area Code Identification on Mobile Calls