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[Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Randall Ross wrote on 26/06/13 03:23:
> ...
> 
> With the Ubuntu Phone coming soon(ish), perhaps we have the 
> opportunity to do something to address this blight. From my 
> unscientific market scan, no competitor seems interested in giving 
> phone "users" control of when they can be interrupted and by whom
> and at what cost (to attention).
> 
> ...

The iOS "Do Not Disturb" mode does this. It silences alerts. It
optionally silences calls from everyone, or from everyone except
numbers in your Favorites. And it lets you make an exception for
anyone who calls twice within three minutes, on the grounds that
that's probably an emergency. <http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5463>

The Motorola Smartactions that Cyrille mentioned is apparently
similar.
<http://www.motorola.com/us/consumers/SMARTACTIONS%E2%84%A2/112638,en_US,pd.html>

The most sophisticated implementation I know of is the Silencify app
on Android. As well as the above features, it integrates with your
calendar to let you silence your phone during meetings. And it lets
you automatically silence the phone at locations you specify, such as
a movie theater or a dental surgery.
<https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mith.sleepez>

I've designed Sound settings that assume the existence of a Silent
Mode. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sound#phone-settings> However, nobody
is currently designing or implementing the actual Silent Mode -- how
you would enter or leave it, how you'd be notified, and the APIs for
playing an alarm sound even when in Silent Mode.

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