American Airlines has introduced a phone feature that lets it do a better job of automating calls that do not require human help.
On the iPhone, until the companion app is ready at the end of March, the Find Phone feature doesn't work; the only notifications are for text messages.
DO NOT DISTURB Here's another brilliant phone feature that began as a Motorola Smart Action and reached a much bigger audience in iOS 6, the latest iPhone software.
And there are blocking problems — as you demonstrate some phone feature for the camera, you can't help your hand getting in between the camera and the phone, blocking the very thing you're trying to film.
Maybe that is why Microsoft has made the phone feature less convenient than the other MSN Explorer features, hiding the command in an "icon menu" and forcing you to type out every phone number (instead of integrating the dialing feature with the MSN Explorer address book).
"In Europe, phones will soon have the capability to send and receive still images, while in Japan plans are now under way to make video a standard cellular phone feature," said Jean-Pierre Lusinchi, group vice president of the STMicroelectronics' consumer and microcontroller products division.
