Re:How Long Will the Phone Ring?
by kintamanimatt on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:20AM
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"tawkon is a free application that will alert you when radiation from your phone spikes and suggest ways on how to minimize your exposure."
I want an app that will tell me when my phone's aura is no longer blue, because phones with blue auras are really good listeners and I want people to be able to hear me when I call them! /s
Re:How Long Will the Phone Ring?
by 3JPLW on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:19AM
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How long does it typically take for a voicemail or answering machine/service to pick up? And what percentage of your long ring-time countries (e.g., Libya) have such a service?
Given that only 5% of calls go unanswered in Libya after ringing for so long, I think that's a huge confound that affects our behavior.
Re:How Long Will the Phone Ring?
by lucb1e on Thursday April 25, 2013 @10:20AM
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Interesting, but very little data. They seem to have lots more that they aren't showing. A list of countries (top 50) would be nice. And it would totally rock if we could get the full (anonymised) dataset in csv format or something.
Re:How Long Will the Phone Ring?
by dmckeon on Thursday April 25, 2013 @12:13PM
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Did you measure both when the (remote, physical) phone
of the called party began to ring, and when the caller
began to hear a ring, or just the latter?
I want an app that will tell me when my phone's aura is no longer blue, because phones with blue auras are really good listeners and I want people to be able to hear me when I call them! /s
Given that only 5% of calls go unanswered in Libya after ringing for so long, I think that's a huge confound that affects our behavior.
While there is a difference between carriers, but it seems to be only slightly. What we found was that geographic location was the greatest indicator.
We were actually quite surprised by the results ourselves.