Listening to a call before it's answered
I met a girl that has what appeared to be a Nokia 6010 from T Mobile that had a very strange feature. She was able to hear people calling her before she answered the phone. For example if I was calling her, while the phone rings if I said something like "pick up" she is able to hear me when all I hear is the ringing sound. Has anyone else heard of this? I'd like to have this feature on my phone.
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There is a feature called 'call screening' where you can leave a message asking the caller to state their name and you will pick up. And you can hear them and decide if you want to answer. I had this on my old Sanyo 8200, other phones have this as well.
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I know for sure the Sanyo 8200 does, although my current Samsung a700 doesn't. It may only be a Sanyo feature, I'm not sure. But jaynoh said that his friends phone was a Nokia, so I'm guessing that there are more phones than just the 82 that have it. But when a caller stated their name it would save as a mini message on the 'memo' recordings instead of the inbox.
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OMG! 😲 My old Nokia 3650 did that everytime someone called me. I thought my phone was broken but I didn't pay mind to it. I guess it's something that Nokia does or something.
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I can honestly say that I have never heard of it being a feature on any Nokia handsets, or with T-Mobile. Anyway, I've seen more than 1 phone broken or glitchy the same way. It's rare that I have a broken phone where I say "I have NEVER heard of a phone doing THAT." E715's, BTW, tend to break by having, just ONCE, usually, all the ringtones/addressbook delete. It's definitely not a feature of the handset, but it's happened to more than one. 🙄
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I just searched the user manuals for the 6010 and the 3650. It's not listed as a feature for either one. The user manuals do not provide any information on it, how to do it, where to access it in the menus, or that the phones are even capable of it. My old 6610 definitely did NOT do it. And I know it's not a feature of the T-Mobile service. I even checked the T-Mobile tech database for information and came up with nothing. SO, it's either broken (though admittedly a bug that benefits the user, those do happen) or an undisclosed feature that does not allow you to set or remove it unless you have some secret code not provided to T-Mobile tech.
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LilShorty said:
I just searched the user manuals for the 6010 and the 3650. It's not listed as a feature for either one. The user manuals do not provide any information on it, how to do it, where to access it in the menus, or that the phones are even capable of it. My old 6610 definitely did NOT do it. And I know it's not a feature of the T-Mobile service. I even checked the T-Mobile tech database for information and came up with nothing. SO, it's either broken (though admittedly a bug that benefits the user, those do happen) or an undisclosed feature that does not allow you to set or remove it unless you have some secret code not provided to T-Mobile tech.
Its not broken because over at howard forums...
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Hey, I did admit it's a bug that benefits the customer, but technically, since it's not working the way it was intended, it is "broken."
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