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If this hasn't been half-baked before (or
even if it has), it is a brilliant idea. |
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I have seen cordless landline phones (indeed, my parents' is like this) which allow a user to enter a number before pushing the "Talk" button; if this is done, the unit will go off-hook, wait for dial tone, and outpulse the appropriate numbers. The phone in question does have a backspace key. |
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Seems simpler just to make all dialing from temporary phone memory, just like cell phones. |
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Baked in cell phones, bun for suggesting it go into landlines. |
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EDIT: I'd give you an extra bun if I could for your "Change the world for a hard solution to a simple problem" mentality. |
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[riromero], don't forget phone cards, where you dial eleven digits for the number, twelve digits for the PIN, and ten more for the destination number. With my phone card, an error in the sequence could easily require having to re-type all thirthy three digits!! [+]! |
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But . . . what happens if you enter the last number incorrectly and then it starts ringing? |
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By the way, this same concept appears under a halfbakery idea entitled "!" [which dates from a time that Halfbakery's main page grouped ideas by initial character]. What's needed, though, is a way to apply it not only to the number you're dialing, but also to the last thing you said. |
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Well there are 4 extra tones in the DTMF spectrum that are not on most phones (A,B,C and D) but are used in some military applications. Perhaps the B could be installed on the phone as the backspace key. |
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.... it's a relatively easy thing to implement on a VoIP system because the number is not sent for processing until you actually finish entering it or hit # key for example. |
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