One of the most annoying things about owning a mobile phone is receiving unwanted phonecalls or SMS messages from either cold-calling marketers and spammers or even just acquaintances you would rather didn't have your number. One of the best things about having a Nokia mobile phone is the abundance of apps that can help you deal with this modern menace. Here are some of the best.
SMS Spam Manager for S60
Price: £8.00
Size: 0.167 MB
Available: Ovi Store
SMS Spam is particularly irritating on Symbian where you typically cannot see the sender of a message until you open it. Spam Manager lets you block incoming texts according to sender number (or even parts of a number - you can use wildcards) or key words in the text. If that is too liberal for you, just block everything bar a handful of trusted contacts.
Advanced Call Manager for S60
Price: £17.99
Size: 0.396 MB
Available: Ovi Store
Advanced Call Manager allows you to completely control your incoming calls to an obsessive degree. You can record specific messages for individual numbers (or groups - e.g. one message for work-related calls), send out 'I'm busy, call me at at...' SMS messages to callers, divert to busy tone and much more. You can filter by number, group contacts together to receive different responses and even filter according to the time of day and your current location.
Ultimate Voice Recorder
Price: £6.00
Size: 0.316 MB
Available: Ovi Store
If screening fails and you want some evidence of who is bothering you - or maybe just like to keep a record of important conversations - Ultimate Voice Recorder can help. This 'beepless' recorder (so the person on the other end of the call won't know it is activated) can be switched on at any point via a hotkey and will keep silently recording for as long as you have the memory capacity.
Best Blacklist
Price: £3.00
Size: 0.192 MB
Available: Ovi Store
Best Blacklist doesn't mess around with sending blocked callers an SMS or any of that nonsense. Anyone on your blacklist will just get a busytone. Multiple black and whitelists are supported and the app also supports a zero tolerance approach for when you want some peace and quiet - just set a start and end time and all calls will be blocked while you get some work done, or even just get some kip.