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Area Code Identification on Mobile Calls

by Jason Bean on April 14th, 2008

I may be a weird one when it comes to my cell phone etiquette but here it goes.

Just because my phone rings doesn’t mean I’m going to answer it.

This could normally be because of two things:

1. I don’t have time to talk to you right now
2. I don’t recognize your number

In either of those events the expected outcome is for you to leave me a message letting me know what you needed and I’ll call you back if I need to follow-up with you.

If I don’t recognize your number I really expect you to leave a message. However, what would help out is if my phone would at least give me a bit of a heads up on the originating location of the phone number by area code. There’s only about 700 currently in use, the database would be infinitesimal.

I wouldn’t think it would be too hard to include a tiny little database of all the area codes in the US and the largest city represented by each area code. Now if I really wanted to get nifty a map would either display automatically or I could push a button and make it display to show me a simple map of where the call is originating.

Does anyone know of a good, reliable program that does this? If you do, please let me know. I’d love to have it and play around with it on my phone.

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