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15 December 2008

A brilliant idea to thwart phone solicitors I want to make an iphone app that allows you to hand off a phone call off to it. →[More:]

When you pick up the phone, and it's a sales person, I want to start the applicaition When the apps running the sales call is now talking to it. The app will wait for pauses in the converstain and inject one of a few random phrases:

Sorry, can you repeat that?
This is really exciting, tell me more
What an offer!
go on....

During this whole process it will record and time the phone call and you can keep scores as to who stays on the line the longest. If you like you can review the call later for your amusement.

There could be a mode that slips a few random non-sequitors in there like:

I once had a dog named Bruce
My mother is very well, thank you
I don't understand French

What do you think?

post by: joelf at: 16:25 | 11 comments

argh! I forgot the MORE INSIDE! sorry internet!

posted by joelf 15 December | 16:28

it could be in the voice of an old man maybe? or a thick german accent? maybe different each time?

posted by joelf 15 December | 16:32

I absolutely LOVE this idea. please send me your paypal info ;-)(buying a iPhone for my daughter this xmas and would buy this!)

posted by Wilder 15 December | 16:44

joelf is goind to be a bazillionare. And we can all say that we knew joelf back in the days we only had useless bricks with buttons as phones.

posted by dabitch 15 December | 16:46

Thanks all!

I'll keep you up to date on how it pans out, and the whole bazillionaire thing.

posted by joelf 15 December | 16:49

I would love something like this. Especially if you can make it so that the caller's voice gets incorporated into the non-sequiturs so they end up talking to themselves.

posted by Lipstick Thespian 15 December | 19:21

That's hilarious!

posted by deborah 15 December | 20:25

I would totally buy an iPhone for no other reason than this app. It has teh awesome.

posted by ninazer0 16 December | 01:13

Oh also. It will be in mute. You have the choice to listen to it, or not while this is going on. In a perfect world, you could also use your phone to make other calls while the sales person is on the other line. It just beeps when the sales person hangs up.

Then you can listen to the recording if you like, or delete it.

posted by joelf 16 December | 02:39

I wouldn't waste the time. Just hang up, so you can both get on with your lives.

posted by Eideteker 16 December | 13:56

That's the beauty of this. All you have to do is push a button, and forget about it. It wouldn't waste your time, but it may slow them down from calling someone else, and you might get a funny recording later.

posted by joelf 16 December | 14:48

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