Polite Cell Phones

yEvb0 writes "Researchers at Motorola and Carnegie Mellon University are developing more polite cell phones. Strategies include programming the ringer to turn on and off according to the time of day, monitoring sound light levels to determine if the owner is a movie theater or talking to his boss, and even letting callers decide whether they'd like to interrupt based on this information."

Comments

Re:How about human politeness

[garcia]

It seems to me that most of the "rudeness" of phones stems from peoples strange addictions to ringtones.

It stems from people's strange addiction to using the phone, whenever and wherever they are. The previous poster's assertion that "vibrate" solves the issue is incorrect. It just lessens the initial shock of the phone ringing. It in no way stops them from answering that vibrating phone and then interrupting everyone when they take the call.

Yeah, there area always times when you "must take a call", just do it outside where no one has to hear you.

Common courteosy is the best option.