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Because I'm a nice guy, here a some free ideas for the cell phone industry. Perhaps some of these ideas have already been implemented on phones and/or by specific providers I am not aware of - but here goes anyway:
Predictive dialing. Just like in your browser's location field. Start typing a phone number and you get a pop up list of numbers from your address book and history that match what you have typed so far. So 2122283 would get me car service (probably just 21222 would do it.)
Home area code. If I just dial 5551212 and press talk my phone should attach my user specified home area code to the number automatically.
Selective ring. I should be able to turn my phone off (well, turn ring and vibrate off sending everything to voice mail) except for certain specified numbers. I want my family and current clients to get through, say, but everybody else goes straight to voicemail. Or in the middle of the night I want my colo facility to get through but nobody else.
Individual voice mail greetings for different incoming numbers.
Multiple numbers. I'm sure you can do this already, but it should be much easier and cheaper. I want several different numbers. Really I want dozens of different numbers. And I want to be able to set different ring tones for different numbers, and to send some numbers straight to voice mail while letting other numbers through. Due to the restricted number space I'd settle for one regular 10 digit number and then a second 10 digit number that will accept any combination of additional numbers (like extensions) on the end of it. So if 2125551212 was my secondary number I can give out 2125551212777 and 21255512129 and 212555121277701 and all these numbers can be set up in different ways (different outgoing voicemail messages, different call routing, etc...)
More below as I remember them...