How Long Will the Phone Ring?

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13 points·molern··9 comments

"tawkon is a free application that will alert you when radiation from your phone spikes and suggest ways on how to minimize your exposure."

I want an app that will tell me when my phone's aura is no longer blue, because phones with blue auras are really good listeners and I want people to be able to hear me when I call them! /s

Why is an app that's supposed to be measuring radiation collecting and reporting stats on if my calls were answered or not?

How long does it typically take for a voicemail or answering machine/service to pick up? And what percentage of your long ring-time countries (e.g., Libya) have such a service?

Given that only 5% of calls go unanswered in Libya after ringing for so long, I think that's a huge confound that affects our behavior.

Interesting, but very little data. They seem to have lots more that they aren't showing. A list of countries (top 50) would be nice. And it would totally rock if we could get the full (anonymised) dataset in csv format or something.

I'm usually waiting till the phone recognize the caller :)

just wondering. Is there a difference between the different carriers?

Hi Oren,

While there is a difference between carriers, but it seems to be only slightly. What we found was that geographic location was the greatest indicator.

We were actually quite surprised by the results ourselves.

Did you measure both when the (remote, physical) phone of the called party began to ring, and when the caller began to hear a ring, or just the latter?

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