Ideas

Very good idea - serious refinement would be required, and it would only be truly viable in the case of telecoms operators themselves, but I like it!

Great idea, but how would the 2 phones know which one is supposed to wait and the other is supposed to call? Also, any idea how this would work across different service providers? Keep on refining! :)

I would definitely be interested in working on this, keep me in mind if it ends up happening.

This is definitely doable. Great idea. I happen to know a little about the ins and outs of cell phone networks and this should be easily integrated into the cell network infrastructure. This would mostly be a software issue on both sides, phones and towers/network. good luck with your idea. Cheers.

I think there is great need for this. Imagine if your browser stopped trying to get data for a webpage.

This would be kind of an Internet Protocol for mobile phone.

Good work!

Thank you all for the kind words and advice. To answer mcX's question I believe that the software should incorporate the ability for the phones to know which phone dropped the call. This would simply be done by each phone acessing how much reception it had immeadiately following the dropped call. If it had zero - extremely minimal reception (no bars) then it would initiate the call back. It would take some beta testing to handle situations where both phones would be in low reception at the same time, but I believe that this could be overcome as well. It wouldn't even be so bad for both phone to iniate the call back assuming that the first one to get pinged from the other could pick up while in its dialing protocol. As far as the different service providers, not sure how but all calling features work across different platforms like call waiting, caller ID, and the plain vanilla ability to make and answer calls. This software would need to be able to be written into a basic code that could be adapted by any service provider who would like to offer the service. It would behove other service providers to buy into the idea an offer it as a feature of their network as well. Each would have to buy the licencing of the code from us. For example Sprint could boast that all Sprint customers would never have to worry about dropped calls again. That would make TMoblie want the ability to do that as well. As long as the code could be cross compatiable like other options than we could sell to each party. Even just capturing one provider would mean $$$.

Would you / could you seek some form of patent protection? If not, this seems something the Telcos would rollout themselves.

Siddey, that is one of the two main things I hope to accomplish from working with folks here on the site. 1. Figure out the code and how to make it work smoothly 2. Get the intellectual property protected and package it for sale. That is what I need help from folks on here and am willing to share generously with the folks who can help me accompish those objectives. I am very good about sells and one of my key strengths will be in the presentation of what we can creat here.

Seems like a viable idea and I just love the fact that you've named it MADCRAP :D

The orginial name I was thinking about was SWIVEL, as in "do you Swivel?" But I liked the acronym better for visablity reasons in the competition ;-)
Vote MADCRAP!!

good idea, but it needs to be more layed out

nice idea.... be more innovative and enhance your idea more..

The idea is nice, but you are talking about mobile-mobile. What about fix telephones, and cabins? Will all the tel providers buy the license? There are many things that have to be cleared, but you have the most important tool: you are MOTIVATED and you BELIEVE what you say. Go ahead!

Great idea, I like this kind of thing that makes technology behave like it's supposed to: to make our lives easier!
Good luck.

An interesting idea, but it does sound a bit like an example of a well-known syndrome: Contrived Unsuitable Technical Names for Projects with the Acronym as Sole Target for the Effort, or CUTNPASTE naming... ;-)

Very cute PhilipH. ;-) I must admit that the name was designed for this medium. After all this is a contest and promotion is a nessisary component. First thoughts were to call it SWIVEL. As in "do you swivel?".

I'm pretty sure I like the concept...

I think MADCRAP phone should check as soon as the phone call is connected to see if the other phone is a MADCRAP enabled phone/service as well. If it is, I see no reason to bother trying to figure out which phone dropped the call. Why not right then and there have the phones arbitrarilly pick which one will do the calling if the phone is disconnected. Say... the person who dialed the call in the first place? If the other phone doesn't have MADCRAP, I suppose the program just wouldn't do anything.

Maybe when a call is dropped you should also display a confirmation about what's going on. "MADCRAP is reconnecting" so that users don't get frustrated, wondering whether or not the software is going to work to reconnect or not. Also... maybe it's not worth the reconnect. have a cancel reconnect feature. *shrugs*

Still, a good, simple idea.

Thank you for your help Simon. That is a very good suggestion. It helped me think of the landline problems solution when I read it. If the phone determined that it was reaching a landline or a mobile that doesn't have MADCRAP then it would always initate the call back sequence. I also like the part about the display function. Thanks.