Like most people these days, my cell phone is an indispensable link to my clients and staff. In our culture of immediate gratification, everyone expects to reach you the moment they call your cell phone. Or, at the very least, they assume that you will call them back right away. One feature I always took for granted on my old Motorola cell phones was the ‘Missed Call Alert.’ If a call was not answered, this feature would make the phone chirp periodically. It was handy to reminder to check your missed calls. Unfortunately, the feature must not have been very important to cell phone manufacturers. My last three phones haven’t had it. I didn’t realize how much I relied on it until it was gone. Well, last month I upgraded to Research In Motion’s (RIM) new BlackBerry Tour from Verizon. In addition to being a rock solid phone with a great interface for managing mail, it supports the ability to download apps to enhance the features of the device. I decided to search for the missed call alert feature, and was thrilled to find that someone had developed a BlackBerry plug-in for that very purpose. Believe it or not, they named it “Missed Call Alert.” I guess I wasn’t the only person who relied on that feature. I found it in the BlackBerry App World, and the $4.99 cost was worth every penny for me.
Now I just need to find an app that prevents me from getting sidetracked by time-wasting tangents in meetings. Maybe we could write something using speech recognition and shock therapy technologies…
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