It also supports incoming call notifications, as well as the opportunity to initiate outgoing ones.

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Incoming call notifications and a Live Tile will notify you of missed conversations.

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When an incoming call or message arrives, it can be received via voice command without even touching the phone.

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And when developing an application for the iPhone remember that the phone always comes first: an incoming call will interrupt any process.

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Male great tits respond to the calls of other males by calling back rapidly, and thus overlapping the incoming call with their own.

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Financial institution call center customer service representatives often rely on the Automatic Number Identification (ANI), a phone number that appears with each incoming call.

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Instead, they asked what might be possible if their routing systems were intelligent enough to match each incoming call with the optimally qualified service agent.

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Effectively, the machine is checking for news of an incoming call or message briefly once every 15 milliseconds before powering back down, rather than keeping connections to the user's peers constantly open.

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Call centres decide where to place an incoming call, based on things such as the customer's location, the length of queues that operators have to deal with and the reason for people calling.

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Nevertheless, for those who aren't out to garner new friends with their wrist attire, the revamped W700 does smooth a few of the awkward lines found in the original rendition, and aside from syncing with your Bluetooth handset, it offers up on-screen caller ID, an OLED display, a vibration feature to alert you of an incoming call, lockable contact list, and a privacy feature to set your outgoing information to unavailable.

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For example, walking into a meeting, SMARTACTIONS can turn the ringer to silent so an incoming phone call won't interrupt the meeting.

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The patent gets even more creative, suggesting customization options similar to how people assign a variety of ring tones for different contacts and whether the incoming signal is a call, text or alert.

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The Audible Pairing Assistance feature reveals the connection status when another device is connected, while Vibrating Call Alert notifies the user of incoming calls.

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Also on the call, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger addressed the connection between incoming Times Co.

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So expensive are outgoing call minutes that Beto would frequently use his phone only to receive incoming calls.

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