I’m sitting in big hall listening to overview on Samsung Bada operating system for developers.
Bada (Ocean in Korean) is Samsung try on making “Simple” standard mobile phones to a “Smartphone” by opening their proprietary operating system to the developers eco-system.
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I one of the previous companies I worked the IT department rolled out an internal phone router so they can save money on cell phone calls. The system required you to dial a 4 digit access number, wait for dial tone and then dial the number using DTMF tones. Beside the weird feeling of hearing a dial tone on a cell phone this required some drastic measures on my phonebook. Each entry in it had to be duplicate having one without the system access code for caller ID to work and any roaming calls and...
Over the year we collect a lot of contacts data, From business cards in meetings, in-coming phone calls and even the highly sophisticated piece of paper or restaurant napkin.
I guess most of you don’t have their address books organised in this way and switching a large address book to this format can and is a big pain in the a..
But from personal experience the pain worth it when looking at the gain. When I first done the switch it took me couple of hours for ~1200 contacts. ...