iPhone 101: Locate your callers

Here's a neat feature that almost works beautifully. If you've received a call from a number you don't recognize, go to "Recents" and touch its blue arrow. A window appears that lists the number as well as the geographic origin, based on area code. Pretty cool.

Of course, if a person purchased her phone in New York and them moved to Colorado, this information would be incorrect. Still, it could help you identify that "mystery caller."

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Here's a neat feature that almost works beautifully. If you've received a call from a number you don't recognize, go to "Recents" and touch...

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Rico

South Bend FTW.

GO IRISH!

July 25 2007 at 8:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

neildugal

Geez, someone goes to Notre Dame.

July 24 2007 at 7:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

spongebill

i don't get any geographic information at all. someone asked about blocking telemarketers. http://www.donotcall.gov
this is a government mandate. it's free it works on any number. it make take a few months. mine stopped in immediately.

July 24 2007 at 6:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Fernando

South Bend!

July 24 2007 at 5:46 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jim

@5 - I for one don't visit (and don't want to visit) that many Mac sites, so I appreciate this story being posted, even if it is "old news" to some people. If it's old to you, just skip it. How hard is that?

July 24 2007 at 4:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

John

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July 24 2007 at 3:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

beans

what's up south bend! Man I miss the sh*tty weather there...GO IRISH!

July 24 2007 at 3:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gene

Thank you, Bambino. I myself posted this tidbit (along with others) on my blog way back on June 30.
What's new is that "big" sites like 37 Signals or Daring Fireball are starting to post these stories, so the smaller sites are finally noticing. Another case of "follow the leader" even though the leader is way behind.

July 24 2007 at 3:06 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gary Brinkman

Genius Jones,

It would be wrong if they lived in NY, then moved to CO, but never changed there phone number. The caller ID would stil be a 212.XXX.XXXX number which would show up as being in NY, when the caller was in CO. So not really wrong, just not accurate.

July 24 2007 at 2:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

R to the C to the S

I'm sorry but why is TUAW recently posting stuff that has already been posted elsewhere in the past weeks? All the posts I read here are mostly old stuff... what's going on? This had already been covered elsewhere.

And what's up with dissecting a mouse that has a year and a half on the market? That's interesting when it's new!

July 24 2007 at 2:44 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply