'Operation Bunbury', if anybody remembers their Wilde.

This news? So the "others" have had an app that does that for years, well done them for being around longer, shame on the iPhone for not having been released years ago!!

Reg, seriously, your getting VERY boring with your blatant iPhone baiting and bashing.

As you say, a fake incoming call- complete with ringtone, random "chatter" noise and even accurate pop-ups have been punted about for WM (and other) phones for years. There was, IIRC, even a service that let you do this.

This is clearly just in because it's iPhone related.

This is not news and I'm disappointed in El Reg for stooping to this level.

Where do you keep your phone?

"In a haaaaaaandbag?"

That it would the the other blind dater "making their excuses and leaving" to get away from an Apple fanboi who's entire conversation all evening would be how great their Apple products are.

Mine's the flameproof one.

.... about this nonsense, when I actually read more of the article. Specifically "This capability, as is so often the case, has been available to users of other smartphones for years." You clearly know that this is not news.

Why are you wasting our time with this nonsense! In what way is this especially newsworthy? Why do I only get to select 1 icon for this comment, when at least 5 of them are applicable!

Why am I wasting my breath posting this comment? Is my work really so depressing that I have to resort to such displacement activities to get out of it? Why have I only just realised how stupid and irrelevant the phrase "wasting my breath" is? Where is the nearest suicide booth?

Dear Reg,

I lovingly look forward to your daily jesus phone bash. please continue

Chris

a US Reg reader

Isn't it time phones came with a selection of background fx - station/office/traffic etc? Anybody tried this?

Now - did I leave my phone in my coat?

Friends :p