deicist
8 Oct 2007, 12:14pm
***The site for E-phone, which is the subject of this thread is Here (http://ephone.dcpsearch.co.uk/)***
So, I was just randomly thinking of stuff to do with my free time and here's something I came up with..
E-Phone addresses!
basically, imagine if instead of giving out your phone number, which is just a string of random digits and therefore quite hard to remember for most people, you could give out an address like John.Doe@ephone.com which people could type into their handsets to dial your number.
I came up with a workable implementation for this... a client resides on your handset, you type the Ephone address into the client, it requests the actual number from the ephone server, the server sends back the 'phone number and the client dials it normally. Simple and easy to use.
There's a few benefits I thought of over and above normal phone numbers:
Easy to remember addresses that actually relate to the person you're ringing.
Addresses can be redirected to different numbers easily.
the addresses wouldn't even have to be of the form someone@ephone.com... there's no reason you couldn't have someone@company.com. It's just a matter of selecting a string from a database, that string could be whatever you wanted it to be.
You could easily make a profit from this by selling addresses to people / companies.
Any thoughts / comments?
So, I was just randomly thinking of stuff to do with my free time and here's something I came up with..
E-Phone addresses!
basically, imagine if instead of giving out your phone number, which is just a string of random digits and therefore quite hard to remember for most people, you could give out an address like John.Doe@ephone.com which people could type into their handsets to dial your number.
I came up with a workable implementation for this... a client resides on your handset, you type the Ephone address into the client, it requests the actual number from the ephone server, the server sends back the 'phone number and the client dials it normally. Simple and easy to use.
There's a few benefits I thought of over and above normal phone numbers:
Easy to remember addresses that actually relate to the person you're ringing.
Addresses can be redirected to different numbers easily.
the addresses wouldn't even have to be of the form someone@ephone.com... there's no reason you couldn't have someone@company.com. It's just a matter of selecting a string from a database, that string could be whatever you wanted it to be.
You could easily make a profit from this by selling addresses to people / companies.
Any thoughts / comments?