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Time Zone on .TEL Pages Hello, I often travel and change time zones. My business and personal contacts also travel and change time zones. It is often important to know where the person is currently located before making a phone call in relation to your own current location. You don't want to wake your friend up in the middle of a night, etc. First of all, I suggest adding a Furthermore, it should have an API, allowing the software developers to use this field to calculate time differences. Ideally, in thenear future I want to be able to see on my smart phone screen not only the different contact choices, but also to automatically see the what is the current date and time, day or night, at my friend's location. To complicate things even more, there should be a Now let me dream a little bit more... Perhaps in the not so distant future all the .tel telephone fields will have an And let's talk about the week days and calendars a little later |
Hello prokoshev and welcome to the forum. Thank you for your interesting suggestions. We'll certainly look into them further, as we do all suggestions made on the forum. In the meantime, have you seen the recently introduced "Note" contact type? This could be used to show your current time zone. Many people currently use their Profiles to show when they or their office is open. "out of hours" they set a profile that does not have a office phone number for example. Keep the ideas coming. Howard |
. I understand, that it is also about to be able to see, where the owner of the .tel name is located, at present time. And I could imagine to have the following feature, within .tel, some day: A pop-up-mindmap, with like three or five bubbles in different colors. Each bubble for a location (including time of the country). The place you would be, at present, is marked or highlighted. Etc., etc. . |
Hello Howard, I have utilised the Note type, as you suggested, thank you. This is a good enough solution (for the time being). Regarding Profiles, the current way of changing the profile via the Control Panel is rather cumbersome. Because of that, for me, for example, it is does not look like a suitable way to change my profile one or two times a day (as it should be!), so I limit my profile changes now only for the change of my geo-location (when I travel), and even then it is not ideal. I think there should be created a separate simplified way to change the profile, on the fly, without the need to connect to the Control Panel. And here is an idea for you: you can not only introduce a simplified profile changing routine, but also strengthen your ties with the telecom companies, and get an additional revenue source for yourselves---that is if .tel subscribers could change their profiles by a simple SMS message sent from their mobile phones, probably for a small premium-sms-rate. Of course, this can be a challenging project, but it is now a well known and widespread technology--many popular websites in fact get a large share of their revenues from the premium-sms commissions. |
With regards to changing profile prokoshev, this can actually be done using a number of the mobile applications. For example, using "Access .tel" (http://telnic.org/community-applications.html) on my Blackberry it's just a matter of pressing a button to change profile assuming I already have the profile set up.. I know this is also the case using My.tel on the iPhone. We're also currently working on Apps for Windows Mobile, Symbian and Android. |
Thanks, Howard! I am on Nokia E66, so I guess I still have to wait.... |
I like the time zone idea |
