Re: Does the following landline phone exist?

[David <ukha@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:04:05 -0000, "Andy"
<andywhitfield2002@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>Does the following landline phone exist?
>
>I get 5+ cold calls per week day.  Plus now they are ringing me
Saturday and Sunday!
>I'm registered with the telephone preference service.  And have been
for years.  But doesn't stop the buggers!
>
>So I'm looking for a landline phone that can do the following.......
>
>For INCOMING calls....
>1) If the incoming call has a caller ID and it is in the phone's
'address book' then the phone rings as normal.  I can either pick up or let
it go to answer phone.
>
>2) If the caller ID isn't in the 'address book' or is blank (as with
most cold calling) then the phone SILENTLY answers the call and plays a
pre-recorded message along the lines of "Your number has not been
recognised.  Please enter your 4 digit PIN".
>    For friends and relatives who are ex directory, I would give them
individual PINs (probably last 4 digits of their phone number).  The PINs
would be in the phone's 'address book'.  So when they enter their PIN, the
phone would then ring as normal.
>
>3) Where the caller doesn't have a PIN then a message would play giving
the caller an alternative method of contact.  E.G. a throw away email
address.
>    Or perhaps ask the caller to enter a default PIN and go straight to
answer phone.  Cold callers tend to hang straight up and not leave
messages.
>
>The idea is cold callers get answered silently (no rings, beeps clicks,
etc) and I don't get interrupted by them.  Only genuine callers will get
through.  And if a genuine caller doesn't have a PIN or isn't programmed in
the phone's address book' then they can either contact me by email (which I
get within 5 minutes on my mobile phone) or perhaps enter a default PIN and
leave a message on the answer phone (depending on how I've set up the
phone).
>
It's not a phone itself, but it sounds like the Truecall unit is
almost exactly what you are looking for. It lets through numbers on
your whitelist, but rather than requiring a PIN for other numbers the
caller is simply told something like "If you are not a cold caller,
press 5".

>Ideally the phone should have a USB port so I can set up the 'address
book' etc via my laptop.  Plus look at the logs of missed calls (which
hopefully will be all cold callers!).
>
Not sure if Truecall has USB setup. I think the idea is that you press
* when you receive a call if you want to whitelist that number, but
I'm fairly sure it also has a means of setting up an initial list.

HTH,
David


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