One of the things I love about product extendability is some of the great ideas people have. Today, I found out about a cool iPhone app called “Fake Calls“. The idea is this: You can make your iPhone simulate an incoming call. It’s great for socially awkward situations, like blind dates or bad party conversations, that you need to escape from. It works on a timer, and lets you customize the identity of the incoming caller.
It’s a free app until tomorrow.
Speaking of iPhone apps, it looks like Opera developed a version of Opera Mini for the iPhone and submitted it to the App Store. According to Opera Software CEO Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner, Apple blocked it due its competition with the built-in Safari browser. Shame on Apple. I hate monoplies. 🙁
hey, i am an iphone user as well, and i stumbled upon the fake calls app too, sadly this morning, just as it turned into an app i have to pay for.
can i request that you attach it to an email and send it to me? i would be grateful for it as i can see myself using it quite often.
can you please send it to my email which i have given? as i do not wish to pay for the app, im just 12 hours too late 🙁
kaisen, I don’t help people pirate software. I’m sure you have 99¢. 🙂
Re Opera Mini, Apple’s behaviour certainly is anti-competitive, but their policy is also fairly clear and well known. If Opera did the porting work in the expectation Apple would accept it, they don’t deserve to be in business.
Simon, on Robert Accettura’s blog, Daniel Glazman posted possible reasons why they bothered to create it.
I still don’t believe the Opera story. If they would really have this version, they could at least ship it for jailbroken iPhones.
ah im sorry but its not that i dont have 99c but its just that im only 14 years old and my mom allows me to make account but doesnt allow me to purchase anything. 🙁
kaisen; as I said, I don’t help people pirate software.
I like the idea of the Fake Calls app. Is this available for other phone makes/models?