Ringtones, etc--

[Elizabeth Bear]

As we're working on S2, it occurs to us that we were never smart enough to make a definitive list of which characters use which ringtones for other characters.

I have a partial list of some of the ones mentioned in the stories, but I figured the smart thing to do would be to come ask you guys if you remembered any of them.

[Edmund Schweppe]

Oh, shoot. Something we haven't been dumping in the wiki.

Waitaminnit - this is an excuse to re-read the archives!

[Elizabeth Bear]

Hee hee hee. *g* And so we get you to do our work for us once more....

[glinda_w]

Hee hee hee. *g* And so we get you to do our work for us once more....

So the wiki eliminates the need for a concordance?

[Edmund Schweppe]

Well, here's a first cut:

http://wiki.shadowunit.org/index.php/Cellphone

[txanne]

Dude, you are the very incarnation of awesome.

[CapeCorey]

Chaz's laptop played the first few bars of the Looney Tunes theme music, and he spun back to it and tapped a key. "Hey, Hafs.
"Endgames"

Sorry for misplace... limited use of hands /= wikiness.

[Edmund Schweppe]

Dude, you are the very incarnation of awesome.

Thankyouverruhmuch.

[trinker]

Well, here's a first cut:

http://wiki.shadowunit.org/index.php/Cellphone

I suspect this is the wrong place to pick at either the wiki or the canon, but...every cellphone I've had, whether it's t-mobile or at&t/cingular or verizaon, has had '1' on the speeddial as "call voicemail". How likely is it that Lau reprogrammed her phone away from that?

[Mattador]

I've got a Verizon phone, and while 1 is voicemail, it's very easy to reset- and if you have new voicemail, you don't need to speed-dial it anyway.

Besides, Hafs is *way* more useful than voicemail.

[Elizabeth Bear]

Well, here's a first cut:

http://wiki.shadowunit.org/index.php/Cellphone

I suspect this is the wrong place to pick at either the wiki or the canon, but...every cellphone I've had, whether it's t-mobile or at&t/cingular or verizaon, has had '1' on the speeddial as "call voicemail". How likely is it that Lau reprogrammed her phone away from that?

Voicemail on my phone is, well, "Voicemail."

You navigate to the through the menus. *g*

[jimsmyth]

I suspect this is the wrong place to pick at either the wiki or the canon, but...every cellphone I've had, whether it's t-mobile or at&t/cingular or verizaon, has had '1' on the speeddial as "call voicemail". How likely is it that Lau reprogrammed her phone away from that?

No, it's a valid question.  Our job is to find a valid answer that doesn't damage the world as it's been told to us.

For instance, she might have told Hafs that all her other buttons were used, and  she never used the voicemail speed-dial anyway, and asked her to program it.

Hafidha on the team accounts for a number of answers.  Like how someone manages to set a three-digit speed dial.  (That bugs me each time it comes up.)  But (a) she could have been joking when she said that, (b) she could be using another rapid-dial feature and just referring to it as speed dial, and (c) she's Hafs!  (Or, I suppose, (d) there might be a multiple-button speed dial available on some carriers and I am woefully ignorant.  I don't like that one as much.)


Lau seems a fairly sophisticate phone user, though, from the ringtone thing.  I bet she could've done it herself.

[Jim T]

Hafidha on the team accounts for a number of answers.  Like how someone manages to set a three-digit speed dial.  (That bugs me each time it comes up.)  But (a) she could have been joking when she said that, (b) she could be using another rapid-dial feature and just referring to it as speed dial, and (c) she's Hafs!  (Or, I suppose, (d) there might be a multiple-button speed dial available on some carriers and I am woefully ignorant.  I don't like that one as much.)

I personally have had a phone that had three digit speed dial.  Sorry.  ;-)

I've also had phones where it was easy to reprogram #1 away from voice mail. My current phone allows neither, and that annoys me slightly.

[jimsmyth]

Hafidha on the team accounts for a number of answers.  Like how someone manages to set a three-digit speed dial.  (That bugs me each time it comes up.)  But (a) she could have been joking when she said that, (b) she could be using another rapid-dial feature and just referring to it as speed dial, and (c) she's Hafs!  (Or, I suppose, (d) there might be a multiple-button speed dial available on some carriers and I am woefully ignorant.  I don't like that one as much.)

I personally have had a phone that had three digit speed dial.  Sorry.  ;-)

I've also had phones where it was easy to reprogram #1 away from voice mail. My current phone allows neither, and that annoys me slightly.

Oh.  That's all right, then. 

My current phone (and the others I've checked into) defines "speed dial" as 1-number dialing, and restricts 1 to voicemail and 9 to 911.  Then again, I've stuck with Cingular (now AT&T) and Nokia for a while now. 

(And the first one to call me "old" and "stuck in my ways" gets beaten with my walker!  Young tech-punks!)

[oxlin]

Well, here's a first cut:

http://wiki.shadowunit.org/index.php/Cellphone

I suspect this is the wrong place to pick at either the wiki or the canon, but...every cellphone I've had, whether it's t-mobile or at&t/cingular or verizaon, has had '1' on the speeddial as "call voicemail". How likely is it that Lau reprogrammed her phone away from that?

Voicemail on my phone is, well, "Voicemail."

You navigate to the through the menus. *g*

Voicemail on my phone is supposedly voicemail but my phone thinks that it's phone number is xxx-xxx-xxxx when it is really xxx-xxx-xxxy. It gets the last digit wrong and this number has been /programmed/ into the phone. I have to dial my number to get voicemail.