The device would be a clock, an alarm, a schedule manager, a notepad, an archive of phone numbers and records, and a library of music and books.
But now the increasingly widespread adoption of voice-over-IP technology (or Internet phone calling) could make the recording and archiving of phone calls much easier and more common.
If you have a phone book, school directory, or archive of coworker phone numbers, look up their number.
They span rock, pop, folk, gospel, jazz, blues, Broadway and spoken word recordings, and they run the gamut from No. 1 pop and rock hits to historically noteworthy audio documents such as President Lyndon B. Johnson's vast archive of recorded phone calls and staff meetings.
Dongguan's laborers assemble cellphones, but they purchase them as well, and with their speed-dial archives of acquaintances, the phones become a sort of lifeline, the only way to keep track of the breakneck comings and goings of friends.
The company has a huge archive of data on phone calls, both foreign and domestic, that were handled by its network equipment, not just those of its own customers.
At the inquiry, headed by Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson, Mr. Hunt faced intense questioning over an extensive archive of e-mails, phone calls, text messages and other communications with Mr. Murdoch, his son James and News Corporation executives that suggested he was sympathetic to the bid.
Using any type of phone and a computer, hosts can create free, live, call-in talk shows with unlimited participants that are automatically archived and made available as podcasts.
The idea was to produce vast archives of electronic records — like travel records, credit card transactions, phone calls and more — to search for patterns that might point to a hidden terrorist cell.
A search through the archives of The New York Times found mentions of dugout phones dating at least as far back as the mid-1950s.
