iPhone users to get get-out call iPhone users can now escape blind dates and boring business meetings thanks to a faked incoming call that urgently summons them elsewhere. The application comes from Magic Tap, and costs 99 cents, but for that money the cornered iPhone user can appear to receive a call from anyone they wish complete with caller ID and …
As you say, a fake incoming call- complete with ringtone, random "chatter" noise and even accurate pop-ups have been punted about for WM (and other) phones for years. There was, IIRC, even a service that let you do this.
This is clearly just in because it's iPhone related.
This is not news and I'm disappointed in El Reg for stooping to this level.
.... about this nonsense, when I actually read more of the article. Specifically "This capability, as is so often the case, has been available to users of other smartphones for years." You clearly know that this is not news.
Why are you wasting our time with this nonsense! In what way is this especially newsworthy? Why do I only get to select 1 icon for this comment, when at least 5 of them are applicable!
Why am I wasting my breath posting this comment? Is my work really so depressing that I have to resort to such displacement activities to get out of it? Why have I only just realised how stupid and irrelevant the phrase "wasting my breath" is? Where is the nearest suicide booth?
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