We all know of answering machines in phones that read out a specific message for any call when we do not pick up the receiver for a few rings. I suggest an option to have customised answering based on who is calling. Example, if any of your relatives are calling when you are out on a tour, the message can be "I'm off to India. Will be back on 10th" while for others, you could just say "Pls leave ur number and I'll call back"

A pay per use, water proof, bullet proof, hurricane, flood, plague of locusts proof, emergency phone. A life or death survival phone that will make your S.O.S be heard no matter where, no matter what. Free or cheap to have, but you pay out the wazzoo if you use it.

Touch Pad and Stylus writing on your cell phone would allow all your writing to be quick and the phone could either transfer writing to computer font or you could draw directions, or any other business diagrams, Etc. that you can't simply type with letters and numbers. A large host of application!

Design a cell phone with an in-built breathaliser which will bar the user from making potentially embarassing or abusive calls to unfortunate friends and family when under the influence of alchohol. The phone could be programmed to allow calls to, say, three numbers; taxi, police and pizza.

Have you seen those PC telephones, they're great, the only problem with them is that your PC must be turned on for you to answer calls. To solve this problem. Why not create a telephone hub, a small box that sits on your desk that is just a PC telephone, it stays on all the time instead of your computer and when theirs a call it rings to let you know. This is only really feasible with Cable, DSL etc permanent connections. Mind you PC phone calls cost $0, you can speak...

Why not incorporate a mini PIR into a phone. It could be enabled, for example, if you use your phone as an alarm to wake up. If you accidently press 'off' instead of 'snooze', the PIR would activate after a couple of minutes. If the PIR detected no activity (because you are asleep), the alarm could be activated again.. Then, you would never sleep through your alarm again! It could also be used for a proximity alarm, work through bluetooth etc etc

Children's flip cell phone, large keys. Capable of recording voice messages from family members such as grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, Mom & Dad, and storing pictures of same. Child pushes a key such as "1", picture of Grandpa and Grandma shows on screen while prerecorded messages from Grandpa and Grandma appear. Designed for children from 1-4 years of age.

Picture this; You work in a large organisation which has hundreds of offices scattered all over the place. Your work takes you off to various random locations around the building. The building has numerous swipe card access points for security. The building also has a large telephone system centrally connected to an exchange. Most of the day you are not at your desk and you miss most of your calls. Why not connect the security system to the phone system? The call...

I would like to see a charging cradle for my cell phone that would interface my cell phone with several cordless phones. I could get rid of my land based phone and still have the conveneince of answering and placing calls from cordless phones placed around my house. Even better would be a charging cradle that would accept more than one cell phone and give a distinctive ring so we would know which calls are on my line and which are on another family member's line.

Why don't they install line out jacks into every phone. It would make it easier to record phone calls. I have a small internet radio station and I have always wanted to have people phone in and make requests, but I am shocked at how long and complex the process for recording phone calls is with a normal phone. If we had a line out on the phone, one could just plug the phone into the line in on the computer and start recording.